Final Report on the LearningCitiesPlatform Event 2012 is out now!
Posted: November 29, 2012 Filed under: background information, Bordeaux, Cardiff, HafenCity Hamburg, LCP, Malmö, Tampere, Utrecht Leave a commentThe Final Report is printed this week and will be send out to all contributors.
The publication can be downloaded here as well as a spread: Final report LCP i-version
If you would like to order a hard copy with best resolution, please contact us at: info@LearningCitiesPlatform.eu
We have to charge € 30 for a hard copy and sending it.
Olympics also come to Cardiff !!
Posted: July 19, 2012 Filed under: background information, Cardiff, LCP, news Leave a commentvisit the site and see what’s going on in Cardiff for the Olympics 2012
Olympic.org Official website of the Olympic Movement
Join Summerschool at the University of the Neighbourhoods in Hafencity Hamburg
Posted: July 19, 2012 Filed under: background information, HafenCity Hamburg, LCP Leave a comment
Summer School
See the link what’s up this year:
And the results from last years Summer School:
Climate Cultures or: the Survey of the Everyday.
Due to various contributors from different countries the documentation is bilingual!
But most of the texts (or their abstracts) have been translated (see back of the document!)
iss2011hcuhamburg.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/iss-doku_website.pdf
International Summer School, University of the Neighbourhoods in Wilhelmsburg, HafenCity University Hamburg.
Malmö Swedish European
Posted: July 9, 2012 Filed under: background information, LCP, Malmö, Utrecht | Tags: academyofurbanism, AoU, inta, LearningCity, People, Place, Placemaking, Urban-imPulse Leave a commentMalmö is part of the Oresund region with Copenhagen as the main centre. Malmö is attracting people from all over Sweden because of its vincinity to Copenhagen, or rather to Europe, being linked by train now. Malmö is a UniverCity with approx. 25.000 students and cooperates with the Lund University. Next to that it has several Academies. Malmö has started the redevelopment of its harbor with the Bo01 exhibition in 2001 on only the seaside part of it. That this was only a start shows the recent ongoing developments of the area with better connections to the city centre. By doing so, Malmö is also almost doubling its heart, serving the growing (demands of its) population. Sustainability has become a ‘normal’ feature in the development. Making a resilient part of the city the real aim!
Link to the presentation given by Malmö at the LCP Event 2012:
Utrecht, Act Big – Behave Local
Posted: July 9, 2012 Filed under: LCP, Utrecht | Tags: lcp, utrecht Leave a commentUtrecht is part of the four big Dutch cities next to Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. This Region called ‘Randstad’ or ‘DeltaMetropool’ with approx. 8 million inhabitants is playing a significant role on the European level. Amsterdam is the capital and international ‘face’ of the Netherlands, Rotterdam is the harbor city, The Hague houses both the national government and the World Court and Utrecht is the centre of the Netherlands with its railway-hub and the big national ‘programs’ (shopping, Trade Fair and home for national companies).
Utrecht has addressed the need for housing areas (‘VINEX’) in the growing Randstad by developing a new city quarter at the west of the existing city. Doing so, Utrecht has grown with approximately 100.000 inhabitants within 15 years. Utrecht with its central position in the Randstad is the main rail interchange for the Netherlands. The rapid growth of the city, the increasing usage of the station and the poor east-west connections through and around the railway station was the trigger for restructuring the Station Area. The credo Think Global, Act Local has been a subject of debate in Utrecht politics for many years.
The Masterplan Scheme of 2004, based on the outcomes of a Referendum in 2002, gave answers how to deal with national developments and local needs: Act Big, Behave Small. The result was an agreed development framework and a leading role for the city in celebrating its local character, whilst accommodating major “national” programmes, for a public transport hub, shopping centre and exhibition ground.
Link to the presentation, given at LCP Event 2012
Bordeaux Metropole
Posted: July 9, 2012 Filed under: Bordeaux, LCP, news | Tags: AoU, bordeaux, inta, lcp, People, Placemaking, Urban-imPulse, utrecht Leave a commentBordeaux, being a proud trading centre from the past, is a city with a remote position in France during the last decades. It serviced a vast area in the Aquitaine region. And of course it is the capital of the Bordeaux wine industry. Over the last two decades Bordeaux has revitalized and given new identity to its fine historic centre through the construction of 47 km of tram network and associated public realm design. In 2017 the high-speed rail to Paris (2 hrs) will be completed, with a second phase to Madrid (3.5 hrs) in 2020. The construction of the tram system has given confidence in the role that transport investment can have in stimulating the economy and improving the quality of the environment.
Also for Bordeaux there are serious reason for growth. The migration from the countryside to the city has caused and still causes a growing demand for new dwellings in the Bordeaux metropolitan region. And to remain a player on the economic field Bordeaux has to express its assets and give way for businesses to settle in Bordeaux.
Therefore, the second phase reflecting the national connectivity of the city, is a station redevelopment site and regeneration of the surrounding markets and waterfront, combined with a plan for 50,000 homes associated with the expansion of the tram network, and used as a catalyst to re- envision and create identifiable places in the low density, car focussed, metropolitan hinterland. Amongst the big challenges that Bordeaux faces are ‘weaving in’ 50.000 dwellings into the scattered suburban structure surrounding the centre of Bordeaux addressing the growth, and connecting them to the city centre by new transport links. Higher density in these new nodes is necessary for a feasible public transport system but also for the making of meaningful places such as sub centers within the urban sprawl. Bringing in the TGV link from Paris helps putting Bordeaux on the map as a European regional centre. The final effort is to link the (inter)national connection with the local transport system.
Link to the presentation given at LCP Event 2012
Hamburg HafenCity, doubling the Heart of a Trading City
Posted: July 9, 2012 Filed under: background information, HafenCity Hamburg, LCP, Utrecht Leave a commentHafenCity Hamburg is a project of immense ambition, to integrate the 157 hectare, enclosed freeport site back into the fabric of the existing urban heart. Since 2004 with the establishment of HafenCity GmbH a 100% subsidiary of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the area has become a destination with 1,800 residents, 8,500 jobs and over 300 businesses. HafenCity is more than a building site; it is equally concerned with economic and social development. It is innovative in its approach, focused on quality, learning through evaluation, reflection and feed back. HafenCity is an exemplar of integrative, collaborative working, and a yardstick against which to measure other projects.
So HafenCity is a development that already has become reality. The first big parts are realized and express through their quality of meaningful urban places as if they have been there for ever. HafenCity has almost doubled the city centre heart of Hamburg not only with workspaces but also with cultural and housing spaces. Speicherstadt, the area in between, produces as a ‘growth disk’ known and unknown urban programs, which inflicts both the old centre and the new HafenCity. Hamburg being one of the biggest European ports also faces a demand for new dwellings for people migrating towards the big agglomerations. Jobs are driving them. HafenCity has focused on keeping the higher incomes within the city centre by providing ‘family’-apartments and an outstanding, surrounding urban space with high quality of living. HafenCity also provides in workspaces for harbor or trade related activities. Having the traditional harbor-like employment on the south bank of the river Elbe, Hafencity offers space for the new international trade demands like specialists in ICT, international law, etc. All these developments being underway, HafenCity challenges controlling the developments in the ever changing and demanding society.
Click on the link for the HafenCity presentation during the LCP Event 2012.
LCP HafenCity Hamburg june 2012s
Cardiff Caerdydd
Posted: July 5, 2012 Filed under: Cardiff, LCP, news | Tags: Cardiff Caerdydd LCP Leave a commentCardiff is the Capital of Wales. Cardiff modern city development dates back to the Industrial Revolution. After the decline of heavy industries is has set way to become an important regional centre, being part of the European sub regions. The Welsh language is linked to the Atlantic coast languages all the way to the west coast of Spain. Cardiff is a UniverCity with 60.000 students! Rediscovering its values and understanding its European position Cardiff works on urban restructuring of the City and the Bay and the 1+1=3 effect of them.
Link to their presentation during the LearningCitiesPlatform Event in June 2012 in Utrecht
Port Teigr European Learning Cities Platforms
And, in Cardiff there seems to be something with Rugby.
Tampere Strategic Developments
Posted: July 5, 2012 Filed under: LCP, Tampere Leave a commentTampere is part of the South Region of Finland with Helsinki as capital. The combination of city-life with fantastic natural surroundings, high educated people and a solid economic profile, Tampere is a hidden treasure with a high quality of living!
Tampere is a UniverCity with three universities and approx. 38.000 students.
Plans are made for further city (centre) developments. These were presented during the Learning Cities Platform Event 2012 in Utrecht. Below you’ll find links to the presentations!
LCP Olli Niemi Tampere june 2012
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