CONSTITUTION OF THE IBERIAN-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF URBAN PLANNERS, (FIU), 14 October 2010
Since 25 years AETU, the Spanish Association of Planners, together with AUP, the Portuguese Association of Planners, has organized the biennial planning conferences between Latin American and Iberian, (Spanish-Portuguese) planners.
So far there have been 14 conferences, in Seville 1984, Tlaxcala 1986, Barcelona 1988, Santiago de Cuba 1990, Valencia 1992, Montevideo 1994, Pamplona 1996, Porto 1998, Recife, 2000, Zaragoza 2002, San Juan de Puerto Rico 2004, Salamanca 2006 and Monterrey 2008. The last one celebrated last October, from the 13th to 15th, in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, (Spain).
The next, the XVth Iberian-American planning conference will be held in 2012 in Medellin, Colombia.
From this background, AETU and AUP launched the initiative to create an association’s federation of spatial and town planners from the different countries of Latin America and from the Iberian Peninsula, (Spain and Portugal) on the objective to link Latin American and European professionals on planning.
In March this year, taking advantage of the large attendance of Latin American professionals to the 5th World Urban Forum, WUF5, organized by UN-HABITAT in Rio de Janeiro, planners from 19 Latin American countries plus Spain and Portugal signed the “Rio de Janeiro Protocol”.
On the basis of this document, on October 14th under the support of the local authorities, AETU, AUP and the ECTP-CEU, represented by President Joao Teixeira, was established in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands) in the frame of the XIVth Iberian-American Congress of Planning, the new Federation of IberianAmerican Urban Planners, (FIU), which brings together associations of city and spatial professionals from 21 countries from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.
The objective of the Federation is to encourage the relationship between town and spatial planners from Latin America and Europe on the principles of the right to the city and a decent habitat; the democratic participation, the sustainability and the cultural diversity; bridging the urban gap, the reduction of poverty, exclusion and spatial segregation.
You can contact the FIU at fed.ib.urbanistas@gmail.com .