Topics ICOUL Barcelona 2023

PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION FOR CITY IMPROVEMENT

By proclaiming the need for collaboration between the public and private sectors for the management of the urban landscape, it alludes to the fact that the public cannot limit itself to intervening in the private through administrative regulations supported by coercion. To be effective, it needs the private sector, both companies and individuals, to actively participate in the actions, thus consolidating the social and common value of the landscape.

URBAN LANDSCAPE IN THE NEW URBAN AGENDA

Investing in the urban landscape is investing in sustainable urban development, and it means exercising true social responsibility. The New Urban Agenda calls for the promotion of human settlements and attractive and habitable urban landscapes that contribute to the improvement of well-being, and the need to adopt strategic development policies that protect, among other assets, urban landscapes.

RESILIENCE AND URBAN LANDSCAPES AFTER THE PANDEMIC

As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, our cities, which seemed so alive, have been revealed to us as imperfect, incomplete and fragile.

An experience as exceptional as the one we have gone through has allowed us to verify that without people the urban landscape disappears, fades, transforms into something like the scenery of a great play, just after the last actor leaves the stage. and the lights in the room are turned off.

URBAN LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT. CHALLENGES AND TOOLS

Planning systems are essential for the application of urban sustainable development policies, which must undoubtedly also include the urban landscape, which claims its own management space based on its notion of a resource that can be used and is capable of function with a model of self-sufficiency, almost circular, which ensures its improvement, protection and maintenance.

IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGIES ON THE USE OF THE URBAN LANDSCAPE

The marked sensitivity regarding interventions on the landscape demands an integrated and integral management of its possible uses, which reconciles the maintenance of its balance with the development of its social, economic and cultural functions.

An open, planned, transversal and collaborative management is required that follows the natural evolution of each city, contributing to recognize, integrate, establish or consolidate new signs of identity.

LANDSCAPES OF EVERYONE AND FOR EVERYONE

If something characterizes urban landscapes, it is their quality of lived spaces, produced from social relations, places with value for the daily life of the people who inhabit the cities.

People who have different ways of using and experiencing the landscape according to their gender or their social condition.

URBAN LANDSCAPE FOR SMART CITIES AND FOR SMART CITIZENS

Cities with greener spaces, sustainable mobility, renewable and intelligently connected energies will save resources and generate employment and health, achieving greater resilience to the health, economic, social and environmental impacts that may result from climate change and pollution.