L’article 40^th Anniversary of the ECTP-CEU est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

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L’article The role of the Urban Planner: State of the art and future perspectives est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

At the generous invitation of the Gdansk City Architect, Professor Piotr Lorens and the TUP President, Tomasz Majda, the ECTP-CEU Autumn General Assembly 2023 is going to be held in Gdansk (Poland) from 4^th November – 8^th November 2023, alongside their conference on ‘Transforming Cities’. The City Architect is inviting contributions from planners across Europe to contribute to the conference.  The ECTP-CEU Young Planners’ Workshop will be incorporated into the conference.  More details will follow soon.

We can also announce that the combined event of the ECTP-CEU’s 14^th Bienniale of European Towns and Town Planners and the 13^th European Urban and Regional Planning Awards will be held in Naples, Italy in May 2024. All are welcome to this special conference on ‘Inclusive Cities and Regions – Territoires Inclusifs’. Calls for the awards and for projects for presentation at the biennale will be made this year on the ECTP-CEU website and social media platforms. 

L’article IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

On 22th May, the conference which was organised together with the Malta Chamber of Planners and the Department of Spatial Planning & Infrastructure (University of Malta) was entitled – SPATIAL PLANNING GOVERNANCE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. 

Here are the report and the video

L’article Spatial Planning Governance for 21st Century est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

ECTP-CEU vice president Markus Hedorfer participated representing the European #spatial #planners. Other professions who spoke at the conference were architects, engineers, builders, developers, legal experts, notaries, economists, EU decision makers ; it was a brilliant opportunity to work on vertical expertise integration around the construction sector, where spatial #planning must increase its role and become more proactive.

Special thanks go of course to Giovanni M. Bottini, president of Cobaty International and Laura Rocca, president of Cobaty Italia.

Read also the post published by Cobaty International: https://lnkd.in/dWx5CKup

Photo 1, from left to right: Chiara Panigatta, president of ASSURB – Urbanisti italiani; Markus Hedorfer; Tatiana Negurita, Fondazione Transform Transport, Milan; Giovanni Bottini; Jean Huvelin, director of Cobaty International.

Photo 2: Carlo Ezechieli, Cobaty Italia and session chair; Emilio Pizzi, architect, Milan; Federico Aldini, president of the Milan Chamber of architects, planners, landscapers and conservationists.

Photo 3: Jean Huvelin, Giovanni Bottini, Martine Coets-Gaibili (ECTP-CEU and Cobaty International secretariat), Philippe ESTINGOY, director general of AQC Agence Qualité Construction, Paris, Chiara Panigatta and Markus Hedorfer.

credits: group photos Martine Coets-Gaibili; panel photo Chiara Panigatta

L’article The quality of construction in the light of the various new regulations: an interprofessional approach est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

We feel privileged to have amongst our members a diversity of countries across the whole of Europe –east, west, north and for this Spring Conference we were meeting in one of our most southernly states. We feel that we can enlighten ourselves as planners, by discussing our most pressing problems and exchanging our most inspirational ideas for good planning.

At this conference, Janet Askew, our President held an interesting speech centered around the question, why governance? In this speech she explained the importance of good ethical planning and laid out the three most important points to ensure this.

Below is an excerpt of her speech

The ECTP-CEU has been discussing different systems and methods of governance a lot recently. Reform in the governance of planning – legal and regulatory – is very much on the agenda in many countries.

The issue for planners is that we believe that we can help to address today’s major problems through good planning –that is- sustainability, climate change, social justice and conserving our history and culture. But It could be argued that our main failure is the inability of planners to persuade politicians and communities that planning is a desirable activity to be carried out in the public interest.

The public have simply not engaged favourably with planning; politicians have long misunderstood its achievements and benefits, who since 1980, with the rise of market economics, have been torn between powerful interests of landowners and developers, communities and local government.

So, as we struggle to convince our politicians and our communities of the purpose and value of planning, what must we do?

1. We support the education of planners to high standards, working alongside universities to ensure that planning is based on good quality research with sound evidence that the solutions will work. Furthermore, we want to achieve mutual recognition across Europe so that planners can work in different countries. This is a vital demand for our Young Planners.

2. In bringing together all the associations of professional planners, we abide by a code of ethics, which tells us that we must act professionally without bias or corruption in all we do. A good planner is an ethical planner. A good planner adheres to the international code of professional conduct. An ethical planner is trusted by the community.

3. We believe in our Charter of European planning, which lays down some basic principles –at all scales– national, regional and local. This is accompanied by our charter of participatory democracy, which recognises that we must involve communities in planning, to engage with local people who feel that their own ideas are ignored by powerful interests in society.

Other thought-provoking ideas and speeches discussed at the next conference to be posted soon.

L’article ECTP-CEU Conference : Spatial Planning Governance for the 21st Century est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

The Times of Malta wrote up a report on the conference – see: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/planners-urged-focus-common-good-chamber-pushes-warrants.1033175

In addition the Royal Town Planning Institute’s report on the conference can be found at: https://www.rtpi.org.uk/blog/2023/may/richard-blyth-european-council-of-spatial-planners-spring-general-assembly/

A fuller report on this succcessful conference will be on the website soon.

L’article Successful conference on Spatial Planning Governance for the 21st Century held in historic World Heritage city of Valletta, Malta est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

The ECTP-CEU found itself in esteemed company to discuss vital issues so important to spatial planners. Ministers of 31 countries, along with civil society organisations (NGOs and IGOs) and major construction and real estate companies met in Davos on the eve of the World Economic Forum. The ECTP-CEU sat alongside other IGOs, including ACE (architects), ICOMOS (ancient monuments), Europa Nostra (historic environments), IFLA (landscape architects), ICCROM (cultural heritage), INGO (group of all IGOs who are members of the Council of Europe), UN-Habitat and more. The president was able to liaise with European-wide organisations at the meeting and we were certainly promoting similar agendas.

What is the Davos Baukultur Alliance?

In 2018, the Swiss Government initiated the Davos Baukultur Alliance, to promote the (German) concept of Baukultur. The first meeting as held in 2018 in Davos alongside the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) when a declaration was made to ncourage politicians, businesses, and civil society to work together to meet the objectives of Baukultur. The 2018 Declaration conforms to our own ECTP-CEU Charters of European Planning and Participatory Democracy. In short, it demands that culture in its widest possible definition, enables and drives economic, social, and environmental sustainability. It emphasises the common good; it embraces all human activity; it adopts an adaptive approach which builds on social cohesion and health and well-being; it requires high quality design of cities, rural areas, infrastructure as well as individual buildings and spaces; and it promotes an inclusive and cohesive society, counteracts discrimination, and promotes civic awareness. Fundamentally, it is about ensuring high quality in the built and rural environments.

Whilst Baukultur is largely a German concept, one aim of the Davos Baukultur Alliance is to adopt this term for all European countries. Its objectives are fully compliant with the planners of Europe, represented by the ECTP-CEU.

The aim in meeting in Davos was to influence the WEF to adopt the principles of the new Alliance, and to this end, the Chair of the WEF, Mr Klaus Schwab attended the conference to hear of our ambitions. The participants signed the Founding Act of the Alliance which refers to the eight criteria for high quality Baukultur: 1. Governance; 2. Functionality; 3. Environment; 4. Economy; 5. Diversity; 6. Context; 7. Sense of Place; and 8. Beauty.

For more information about the history and most recent decisions see the Davos Declaration

The meeting was also honoured to welcome the Minister of Culture of Ukraine amongst its participants.  Miss Anastasia Bondar assisted the group in signing a statement condemning the military aggression by Russia against Ukraine.  It also urged ministers of all countries to adopt the principles of Baukultur in the re-building of Ukraine after the war.

The ECTP-CEU will continue to represent the planners of Europe in the future activities of the Davos Baukultur Alliance.

‘Speech of ECTP-CEU President at meeting of Davos Baukultur Alliance’

Janet Askew, President of ECTP-CEU gave the following speech at the meeting of the Davos Baukultur Alliance in Switzerland in January 2023.

The European Council of Spatial Planners (ECTP-CEU) represents planners across Europe. We are an umbrella organisation to which professional planners from the 46 countries of the Council of Europe are eligible to belong. We promote spatial planning as a distinct profession, and our Charter of European Planning distinguishes planners by our commitment to, and empowerment of citizens in the planning of their own communities.  

Despite differences in our laws, planning systems and approaches, the principles of good planning, like good governance, are universal. Many of the greatest issues we face are ubiquitous to all countries, and planning is crucial to their resolution. We recognise that we must work in multi-disciplinary teams to achieve the aims of something as ambitious as the Davos Baukultur Alliance. It is of utmost importance that the signatories to the Davos Alliance Founding Act unite behind its goals to persuade and influence all stakeholders of the benefits of high quality Baukultur in its widest definition. 

We recognise that culture is the fourth pillar of sustainability. If culture is to embrace all human activity, our Charter of Participatory Democracy in Spatial Planning must be given priority in policy-making and its implementation, building, and in the conservation of heritage. The European Council of Spatial Planners advocates protection of our European democratic aspirations and the participation of communities in public life at all levels – national, regional, and local – which is crucial to the legitimacy of decision-making. This assumes even greater importance with the war in Ukraine. We express our solidarity with all our Ukrainian colleagues, and we wholeheartedly support the joint statement on Ukraine from this conference.

The ECTP-CEU endorses the principles and objectives of the Founding Act of the Davos Baukultur Alliance and congratulates the Alliance for its efforts in producing this impressive document. By participating in the Davos Baukultur Alliance, we are calling upon the public and private sectors and civil society to work together to respond and adapt to the needs of all people to create an inclusive society in which everyone can expect a decent way of life in high quality built and natural environments.

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