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City Living -Living City
Living cities are as important as ever in the global competition
to attract creative people and international investments.The
6th European Biennial of Towns and Town Planners explores
the changing terms and targets for planners in a global-networked-and
reassembled Europe.
The Biennial is a forum for meeting old and new colleagues
from all of Europe.Youwill meet planners, politicians, architects,
management consultants, academics and other makers of the
cities. Mayors from both Eastern and Western Europe willdiscuss
core issues in contemporary planning.The Biennial embraces
the young initiatives by launching Urban Stories of Europe.Urban
Stories of Europe is an alternative and pioneer approach
to cityliving and the living of city across the borders
of Europe.
Urban Border-Crossing
The Øresund Region has been chosen to host the 6th
Biennial of Towns and Town Planners in Europe.The region
represents a unique example of new border-crossing regional
and urban collaboration networks.The Biennial will take
place at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts,School of Architecture
in Copenhagen, and will be held as a large conference with
exhibitions, lectures, multimedia presentations and events.
Workshops and excursions will take place in a variety of
interesting urban locations in Copenhagen, Malmö and
Lund. The workshop holders are all professionals and play
an important role in the development of the Øresund
region.
Planners meet Politicians
The Biennial will present a wide range of well known,insightful,and
charismatic keynote speakers,including Professor of Sociology,
Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago, in a panel debate
with the mayors on Ancona,Vilnius and Frederiksberg.
Professor of Geography, Meric S.Gertler, University of Toronto,
Professor Anne Power, London School of Economics, and Professor
François Ascher, Institut Francais d ’Urbanisme,
will highlight the current challenges of the European city
from various perspectives. At the farewell reception in
the Copenhagen Opera House architect Henning Larsen and
Louis Becker will give a presentation of the Opera building.
The Biennial is held every second year in a major European
city.The first Biennial was held in Lyon in 1995. Since,
the Biennial has been held in Rome, Herne, Rotterdam, Barcelona
and now in the Øresund Region.
For further information please send an e-mail to: info@cityliving-livingcity.org
or visit:
www.cityliving-livingcity.org
Registration
deadline 1st of May 2005
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