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IUPM
During 2000
The
IUPM project has reached a new step through the partners and
experts meeting in Vilnius, February 21-22, 2000 while discussing
participatory integrated urban revitalisation planning strategies.
It was based on the IUPM project findings in 1999 and developed
basics for approach, and gave the opportunity to all participants
to discover the area for pilot project in Vilnius. The following
Theme
session 1 in Copenhagen, March 16-17, concentrated on issues
of public governance and vision-setting.
Theme
session 2 in Tallinn, April 10-11, allowed the partners to explore
a very different situation for comparison, and discuss public-private
partnerships.
Theme
session 3, Copenhagen, May 8-9, concentrates on methods and
tools of communication between the stakeholders, monitoring
and evaluation of revitalisation programmes, and implementation
of innovation in revitalisation processes.
The
final Theme session 4 in Wismar, June 19-20, was devoted to
discussion on structure of deliverables: the network and the
"cookbook".
It
was followed by a two-day seminar hold in Helsingør, Denmark
on September 6-7 and devoted to exchange experience between
the pilot projects while focusing on their objectives, achieved
progress and way of measuring it, methods and tools used during
the implementation and potential recommendations for future
projects. Focusing on communication tools, the partners have
working on describing in details the methods and tools used
during the implementation phases and on analysing them.
Click
the link bellow to download document
Kgs.
Enghave – Methods and Tools
by Jette Esbjørn Hess, The Danish Town Planning Institute
The
next step for the IUPM partners will be to work in smaller groups
during two meetings (6-7 November and 11-12 December) to finalise
the contents of the "cookbook", e.g. attitudes, issues,
approaches and tools and open it for wider discussion.
The
IUPM project was represented at the Quality Forum on "Urban
system and urban networking", arranged by the Interreg
IIC BSR Secretariat in Oslo, 6-7 October 2000. This
one has been the first of a series of three workshops that mainly
aim at providing a forum for collecting information from all projects
and for exchanging experience between projects dealing with similar
themes. 
IUPM
During 1999
Swiss Transdisciplinary Award to IUPM
Partner News
The
Danish Town Planning Institute
In 2000, The
Danish Town Planning Institute initiated the project "Community
development in cities – methods and tools". The intention
is to gather, analyze and promote experiences about urban regeneration
from the 3 case areas in the IUPM project and 2 selected cases
in the United States in a Danish-language publication.
The goal is
to develop new planning tools and methods which are capable of
reversing the negative dynamics in decaying urban areas. The focus
is more on the process of urban regeneration than on the
actual results.
The project
is expected to support the urban politics of the Danish government
with concrete instructions and examples of urban politics in praxis.
It is supported by the Ministry of Urban Affairs and Housing and
is expected to end late summer 2001.
You can find
an extensive Danish presentation of the project on www.byplanlab.dk
under ’Byudvikling’.
Kongens
Enghave
The local
democratic experiments in Copenhagen have been voted down by the
inhabitants of Copenhagen at the 28 September 2000 election. As
a consequence, the IUPM Lead partner - the Local
Council of Kongens Enghave - will resign by the end
of 2001 and the Urban
Regeneration Experiment (Kvarterloeft) Secretariat is
currently working to find solutions to local democracy. What will
happen with the local administration is until now not settled,
but the Lead partner is working on making sure that the tradition
for cross-sectoral work will not be lost.
The IUPM Lead partner – Local Council of Kongens Enghave
in Copenhagen, and its Urban Regeneration Experiment (Kvarterloeft)
Secretariat has held two conferences in 1999.
Rostock
In 1994 the EU common initiative URBAN program was initiated by
the European Union. The aim was to revitalize deprived quarters
and areas in cities with more than 100.000 citizens and certain
problems like an antiquated infrastructure, broken economical
and industrial structures, social and ecological mismanagement.
In consequence the quality of life in those areas shall improve
deeply.
News
from Rostock
First of all, in the framework concerning the entire city of Rostock
there have been several exciting new developments.
Vilnius
After the completion of Vilnius Old Town Revitalisation strategy
in 1997, co-financed by the World Bank and supported by UNESCO,
the capital of Lithuania still needs to upgrade decaying areas and
is heavily working on it. In the old town, the area of Uzupis suffers
from physical deterioration, lack of utilities and social decay.
Vilnius Old Town Renewal Agency (OTRA), in charge of upgrading the
built fabric and social problems, closely works together with Uzupis
NGO organisation - Uzupis Fund (UF) on the site regeneration.
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