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Workshop "Vital Public Spaces"

24 February 2015
Geneva Switzerland

10 am - Palais des Nations, Room VIII

Sustainable cities and human settlements, including public spaces, is one of the focus areas in the post-2015 development agenda.

The workshop discussed measures that governments, cities and stakeholders in the UNECE region undertake to promote access to safe, inclusive and accessible green and public spaces. A special focus of this workshop was on the planning, design, and management of public spaces.

The workshop was organized jointly by the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management; Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; and UN-Habitat, with the support of Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation as part of the Ax:son Johnson Foundation project “Future of Places”.

The workshop had simultaneous interpretation in English, French and Russian.

Agenda     ENG     FRE     RUS

Workshop programme

Presentations:

Title ENG

Public Space and Sustainable Urban Development
Frédéric Saliez, UN-HABITAT, Brussels Liaison Office

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Future of Places
Kyle Farrell, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
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Charter of Public Space/Biennial of Public Space
Pietro Garau and Alice Siragusa, Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (INU), Italy
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Public spaces, resilience and urban prosperity: an evolutionary approach to urban development
Sergio Porta, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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Mapping Green Spaces with EU GHSL
Matina Halkia, Joint Research Center, the European Commission
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The Role of Public Space in Compact Cities: Policy Implication to Fast-Growing Cities
Tadashi Matsumoto, OECD
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Places in the Making: How placemaking builds places and communities
Susan Silberberg, Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, USA
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Public Space in the City of Geneva
Sandra Piriz, Department of Urban Planning and Mobility, City of Geneva, Switzerland
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Green Open Space in the Historic Built Environment
Jurjen van der Tas, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva, Switzerland
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People-oriented City Planning
Jan Gehl, Architect, Founding Partner and Principal Gehl Architects, Denmark
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