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The quality of construction in the light of the various new regulations: an interprofessional approach

dev — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 14:53:28 +0000

On Friday 30 June2023, ECTP-CEU had the opportunity to participate actively in an important event organised by Cobaty International -an ECTP-CEU partnership member- and Cobaty Italia in #Milan, Italy. The title was ‘#Quality in the #construction of the built environment in the light of the new #norm – an inter-professional approach’.

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

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Welcoming migrants: an urban planning issue

dev — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:15:22 +0000

As part of its monthly “rendez-vous”, the SFU (French Society of Urban Planners) organised on 29 November 2021 a zoom discussion on the theme of MIGRATION which brought together more than 35 participants; among them Damien Carême, Member of the European Parliament, President of the National Association of Welcoming Cities and Territories ANTIVA (today 37 French cities and territories).

The meeting was moderated by two planners who are members of the Executive Committee of the European Council of Spatial Planners; Chantal GUILLET, Secretary General of the CEU (and of the French Society of Spatial Planners) and Catherine VILQUIN, Administrator of the CEU and delegate of the CUB (Chamber of Spatial Planners of Belgium). Both are involved in the CEU’s “Migration and Inclusion” working group, with Catherine as co-chair. This presentation was based on a collection of data from our two countries: France and Belgium.

You can also find all the (long) debates that followed on the SFU YouTube channel.

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Giuseppe Campos Venuti

dev — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:28:40 +0000

Another sad news from Italy in less than one week. Giuseppe Campos Venuti died at age 93. “Bolognese from Rome”, as he liked to define himself, his contribution to the town planning debate in Italy was decisive. Generations of students and professionals studied on his books and analysed his work, as a town planner as well as a local administrator. His main work in terms of visibility also outside the planners community was the “change of Bologna” during the 1960s, when he managed it to combine protection of the historic town centre and the neighbouring landscape with the needs of a contemporary town, including high attention to social housing. His book “Amministrare l’urbanistica” (Management of urbanism), written in 1967, was actually trendsetting. The mayor of Bologna stated that Campos Venuti’s work of fifty years ago makes it a different town, a better town this very day.

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from RTPI: Place, Poverty and Inequality

dev — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:01:01 +0000

This research project argues that we need to look at place-based factors of poverty and inequality; ‘people-based’ approaches on their own are not enough to tackle these issues. Better built environments and stronger place-based initiatives can support and promote employment, educational achievement, better health and improved social mobility alongside conventional approaches which focus on welfare reform.

You can read the full paper here.

Background
Problems such as worklessness, low incomes, lack of aspiration and ill-health are not just individual – they are also social. The environment can shape people’s behaviour and limit or enhance their wellbeing and life chances, but this has largely been neglected in welfare policy. ‘Place poverty’ means that where people live affects people and their life chances. Inequality and poverty is a matter of income but also a matter of access to services, affordable housing or different transport options.

Project aims and recommendations
This paper shows the impact of ‘place’ on poverty and aims to develop an understanding of how better built environments and stronger place-based initiatives can support and promote employment, educational achievement, better health and improved social mobility. In an era of localism and devolution, increasing equality and opportunity should be a core part of local, city and sub-regional plans and strategies. Rather than relying solely on national welfare reform, governments across the UK should also promote and incentivise a new era of place-based initiatives to combat poverty and inequality.

Contact
If you would like to discuss this project please contact

Victoria Pinoncely, Research Officer

Royal Town Planning Institute
41 Botolph Lane, London EC3R 8DL
victoria.pinoncely@rtpi.org.uk

Article on RTPI website

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Mihai

dev — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:58:33 +0000

ECTP-CEU shares the sadness of the tragic news of the terrible fire accident in Bucarest.

Mihai Alexander died in this accident, as well as 26 other people.

Mihai, talented young planner, was with us in Dublin for the Biennial, where these photgraphs were made.

Our sincere condolences to all his family, friends and colleagues.

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International symposium / Enhancing spatial efficiency in urbanized areas

dev — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:39:51 +0000

October 6, 2017, Jointly organized by City of Leuven, VRP and ECTP-CEU
International symposium /Enhancing spatial efficiency in urbanized areas

Download the presentations here:

Welcoming words by Joris Scheers, president ECTP-CEU and Carl Devlies, First Elderman City of Leuven, responsible for Spatial Planning.
-> download the presentation

Leuven Urban redevelopment programs as strategic projects of the Spatial planning policy by Wiet Vandaele, head of the planning department, City of Leuven
-> download the presentation

Spatial efficiency as a central policy in Flanders by Geert Mertens, expert of the Department Omgeving, Flanders Region
-> download the presentation

Aiming for spatial efficiency and the importance of well managed planning processes by Vincent Goodstadt (RTPI, UK) Followed by public discussion.
-> download the presentation

Project driven approaches in enhancing spatial efficiency by Vladan Djokic, University of Belgrade
-> download the presentation

Book presentation ‘Spatial Planning in Flanders’
-> download the presentation (not yet available)

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Thinking Spatially: Why places need to be at the heart of policy-making in the twenty-first century

dev — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:14:57 +0000

Just out: The first of the Royal Town Planning Institute’s centenary papers in the Planning Horizons series. Thinking Spatially: Why places need to be at the heart of policy-making in the twenty-first century. Illustrated, closely-argued and fully referenced, the paper shows that by thinking spatially the connections and the solutions to the challenges become more apparent. The central message – a call to action for everyone involved in public policy – is that policy needs to be more integrated and strategic through a better understanding of the differences between places.

Download Thinking Spatially [pdf, 3MB]
Download Thinking Spatially A4 flyer [pdf, 2MB)
Short podcast on Thinking Spatially

If you are looking for something to explain planning to non-specialists, the Royal Town Planning Institute has two new resources you can use!

The RTPI Future Planners film Together, How Do We Plan Our World? is an entertaining 2½ minute film now on YouTube. Ideal for children, young people and schools.
‘Worldwide Value of Planning’ is an eight-page illustrated booklet showing the difference that planning can make, with examples drawn from all over the world Download [pdf, 7MB]

Royal Town Planning Institute

Website www.rtpi.org.uk including RTPI International pages

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Lluis Brau passes away

dev — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:42:13 +0000

It is with great sadness we received the news that our dear friend Lluis passed away. Lluis was for ECTP a tower of strength. He brought wisdom and integrity to all we engaged in. Qualities so much needed in our society which is being driven by those who have a disregard for truth, experience and expertise.

He represented not only Barcelona and Spain on the European and the global scale, he represented freedom of political thought that allowed us to advance collectively in our professional practice. Last autumn during the general assembly in Leuven, Lluis was acclaimed Honorary president of ECTP-CEU with applause. Unfortunately he could not attend, but his spirit and joy was surely present.

We all particularly remember his speech in Berlin a couple of years ago when debating the culture of spatial planning in Europe, when he told us that we were all remnants of social democracy. He urged us to open up to the contemporary society and to fight for European democracy through urbanism.

Our condolences to the family and all the friends, as the community of European Planners, but most of all as dear friends of this wonderful person.

Lluis will be remembered in our thoughts and prayers. The European spatial planners community will miss him

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Orbituary for Guus Franken April 2016

dev — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 14:02:41 +0000

EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF SPATIAL PLANNERS
President of ECTP 1985
Guus Franken
23 February 1933 – 21 April 2016

It was with great sadness that we learned that Guus died following a long period of ill health. With the support of his family and his wife Maud, he faced his health difficulty with great strength and forbearance. Despite the restraint of a need for regular treatment, was able to travel regularly to his family cottage, near the community of Taize, in Burgundy, and continue with his community work.

Guus worked for many years as an urban planner all over the Netherlands as one of the consultants at the RBOI firm, later known as Stad en Landschap in Rotterdam – one of the big city planning consultancy firms in the Netherlands. One of his colleagues remarked that “he taught me to look in a different way at cities and cityscapes, explaining the beautiful things”.

For the Dutch, Guus was the big translator, being fluent in French, having grown up in the French Congo and in Brussels.

Guus took office as President of the Liaison Committee for Planners in the Member Countries of the European Union at a time when there had been six years of ground work done to prepare the Committee to step up to the next level for formal recognition within the European Commission.

Guus saw the work through to the setting up of the European Council of Town Planners with a formal event in Amsterdam in 1985 at which the delegates of the member countries signed their support to what we now have as the ECTP.

Guus was a tireless worker for the cause of planning, and in his later years he continued a life of devotion to his family, his church and maintained his interest in his chosen profession. He continued almost to the end of his life in his service to others, in his keen support of the work and interests of the Sisters of Mother Teresa.

Guus was a much beloved man in Ouddorp where he lived the last twenty years of his life and has now been laid to rest there where we reflect on Guus saying, “Entre tes mains Seigneur, je remets mon esprit”.

Hugh Crawford
With supporting testimony from
Helena Heyning, who attended Guus funeral on 26 April

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Max Fabiani Award

dev — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:35:20 +0000

The Town and Spatial Planning Association of Slovenia (TSPAS), in collaboration with the Max Fabiani Foundation, Ministry of Culture and Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia, announces a call for the
International Max Fabiani Award for 2005–2015 achievements
for exceptional work in urban design, urban planning, regional planning, or spatial planning carried out in Slovenia and neighboring Austria, Italy, Croatia, and Hungary.

Individuals and groups may enter the following works into the competition (participation eligibility):
– Projects and studies in urban design, urban planning, regional planning, or spatial planning (architectural projects will not be accepted);
– Projects and studies that were carried out, planned, or created between 2005 and 2015;
– Projects and studies that were carried out, planned, or created in Slovenia or neighboring Austria, Italy, Croatia, and Hungary;
– Projects that were carried out or prepared in the form of urban/spatial plans;
– Studies published in research journals or volumes.

The International Max Fabiani Award is announced in honor of 150th anniversary of the birth of this prominent architect and urban planner from Slovenia’s Karst region.

Max Fabiani was not only an exceptional architect, urban planner, and researcher in architecture at the urban and regional levels, but also authored professional and philosophical texts. His work was exceptional and influential before and after the First World War in Austria-Hungary, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia, and other central European countries.

The roots of his artistic oeuvre are in the Austro-Hungarian Secession, followed by functionalistic orientations and concepts, especially in his urban plans. His visionary projects for regional plans are among the beginnings of regional studies at the global level. He was one of the few architects in the monarchy (and the first one) to be awarded an honorary doctorate.

We confer the Max Fabiani Award in commemoration of his exceptional work in urban design, urban planning, and regional planning. The award is intended particularly for these domains.

The award is already well known as a biennial award conferred since 2005, but to date it has been conferred only for projects in Slovenia.

On behalf of the Slovenian Association of Urban and Spatial Planners,
Prof. dr. Andrej Pogačnik,
President of the Slovenian National Jury for the International Max Fabiani Award

Dr. Mojca Šašek Divjak,
Organizing Secretary for the International Max Fabiani Award

Dr. Liljana Jankovič Grobelšek,
President of the Town and Spatial Planning Association of Slovenia

INFO:
drustvo.dupps@gmail.com

www.dupps.si

Info brochure pdf

info and technical instructions

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Edoardo Salzano

dev — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:22:17 +0000

We share the sad news from Italy.

Edoardo Salzano died at age 89, one of the most important town planners in Italy. Born in Naples, but based in Venice since 1974, over several decades he teached and made research in town planning at IUAV University.
He also worked out many plans across the country and he published a highly opinion-making website in Italy: www.eddyburg.it
He was and is a very important reference for many of the Italian urban, spatial and environmental planners.
During his activity — which continued until his dead — he had a crucial role in the development of generations of professionals, academics and in raising awareness among the population for planning-related themes. Lying in state will take place on 25 September in Venice in Venice Hospital.

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World Town Planning Day 2015

dev — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:21:52 +0000

Professional planners and allied professionals around the world will mark World Town Planning Day 2015 with an international online conference on:
Housing Regeneration: Strengthening Communities
See event info
See website

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2015 WTPD Online Conference Recordings

dev — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:09:10 +0000

2015 Conference Recordings

Thank you for registering for the World Town Planning Day Online Conference. We hope that you enjoyed the sessions this year. In reflecting on the past conference on Housing Regeneration, we recognize that it was the most technically challenging year we have had. However, the organizing committee has committed to learning from these challenges and addressing them for the 2016 conference.

You can find the recordings for all the sessions at www.planningtheworld.net under the 2015 Recordings page.

ACCESSING THE RECORDINGS:

Please note each recording is offered in “arf” format, which requires the Cisco Player. To Download please choose from the following:

Please note that due to technical difficulties, Session 8 and Session 9 are not offered. As inevitable with live sessions of this magnitude, there were unexpected events that took place and we respectfully ask the listener to please be patient with these sessions.

Enjoy!

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RIP Sir Peter Hall

dev — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:12:58 +0000

ECTP-CEU joins the world of planning to pay tribute to Sir Peter Hall, deceaced July 30th 2014

Tribute from the RTPI:

31 July 2014

The RTPI is sad to learn news of the death of Sir Peter Hall, who is considered by many to be one of the foremost planners and academics of his generation. Equally at home discussing geography, architecture, history, political science, welfare economics, social psychology as well as planning he combined a highly distinguished academic career with advising successive governments on planning policy.

Amazingly knowledgeable and erudite, he was theinternational expert in the theory and practice of planning – holding fourteen honorary doctorates from universities in the UK, Sweden and Canada. He wrote and edited over 50 books, many of which have been translated in other languages and which will influence planning and planners for generations to come.

He had a glittering career spanning decades and continents; he was recipient of the RTPI Gold Medal, the Founder’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, the Balzan Prize, winner of the Regional Studies Prize, and the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize. He was knighted in 1998 for services to the Town and Country Planning Association.

Always generous with his time to members of the Institute, he has made an enormous contribution to the RTPI over many years, no less so than in our centenary year when despite challenges to his health he provide the keynote speeches at RTPI events in Newcastle and London.

Cath Ranson, President of the RTPI, said: “My thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues. His death is a massive blow to the profession and to academia but above all else to those who knew and loved him most.

When we have a little more time to reflect on his achievements, I am sure that we will recognise that Sir Peter was truly a ‘national treasure’, equally cherished, loved and admired. An intellectual colossus, he straddled theory and practice, managing to make planning not only interesting and accessible to any audience he wanted to, but fun too. Yet the true mark of his influence is that he was one of the very few academics whose name is instantly recognisable by those outside his discipline. He will be very sadly missed by everyone in the planning family.”

Trudi Elliott CBE, Chief Executive of the RTPI, added: “Sir Peter was a remarkable man, a great planner and a true friend to the RTPI. He had an international reputation and has left a legacy across the globe. I had the pleasure of hearing him speak twice recently at our centenary events, and still he could spellbind and was so personally lovely with it.”

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Source RTPI Webpage

Speech given by Vincent Goodstadt when presenting Sir Peter with the RTPI Gold Medal in 2003

EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH AWARDING GOLD MEDAL TO SIR PETER HALL

As part of our commitment to planning the Royal Town Planning Institute seeks

a renaissance of planning thought
to recognise good practice, and
to enhance the public status of planning.

And this is why we are here today since the highest recognition that can be given to these goals is to award the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute to a handful of outstanding Planners who have left an indelible imprint on all of us, including some who were founding fathers of the Institute itself.

It is in the footsteps of these planners that Peter follows – in providing outstanding contribution in terms of planning thought, practice and service.

His contribution to planning thought is self evident – his list of publications is so extensive it is difficult to believe that anyone has the time to read them all never mind write them in the first place. But then, I have been told of so many stories of book reviews or interviews done in transit lounges of airports. Peter’s sheer energy would be extraordinary even in a young man.

However it is not only your output that is remarkable but

the range of subjects from the challenge of world urbanisation to the development of the Greenwich Peninsula
the span of historical analysis but most particularly
the overriding linkage of practice and theory.
Most recently as advisor for both John Prescott and Ken Livingstone;
before that as special advisor for Michael Heseltine and
even going back to 1967 for Harold Wilson he was looking into the East Thames Corridor (does it sound familiar).

In particular your contribution to the debate over the future of London has been monumental. The other day in addressing the Scottish Conference of the RTPI Peter suggested that he only really knew about London. Well it’s all relative I suppose.

The reality is that tackling the problems of the world’s mega cities will be the major challenge of the twenty first century; it is however a challenge which Peter is one of the few who seem capable of grappling with in terms of the scale of issues and their solutions.

By any measure his impact on the thinking about the future of our great cities, particularly London, has been significant, consistent and respected by all shades of government.

It is however not only in this country that you are held in special esteem. Throughout the world (from Adelaide to Berlin, and from Toronto to Tokyo) your advice has been sought, holding professorial chairs in planning in more than one continent. Even last week when I was speaking to planners in New York Regional Planning Association, they mentioned that you had just visited them. They are delighted that you are being honoured today and send their best wishes tonight.

In all you have done you have enhanced the public status of planning, raised standards of its practitioners, and improved professional relationships with the wider community.

This is no more clearly expressed than by the fact Peter was awarded his knighthood for services to the Town and Country Planning Association which itself has done so much to promote the art and science of planning and which you chaired for five years in the 1990s and are now its President.

Your personal commitment to planning, Peter, has been extraordinary. It is this personal commitment that I would like to stress most. Your academic colleagues talk about the time you give to students. This I can believe since I have benefited personally from your willingness, whether as a student forty years ago or more recently in your work on the Urban Renaissance task force, to listen and support, and to praise and encourage lesser mortals .

Well Peter if there is still room for the Renaissance man or woman in our society you can occupy it in the width of your learning , in your concern for fellow man and in your inspirational contribution to the planning over the last forty years

The Institute’s 1974 Gold Medallists, Professor Sir Robert Grieve called for us all to show the necessary knowledge and education, and to show the philosophical or ethical wisdom possessed by previous gold medallists.

You have met the challenge. It is therefore with great pleasure and an enormous honour that I ask you, Sir Peter Hall, to receive the Gold medal from the Royal Town Planning Institute which we give with our thanks and affection.

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