My contribution to the 7th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Town, Geneva 17 April 2013. Slides do not say much, they are mostly evocative. Unfortunately Slideshare does not have a soundtrack. ;-)

1. Wednesday 17 April 2013
Session A5 – Planning the Urban Transition
Emilio D'Alessio
Architect, Town Planner, former President of Agende 21 Locali Italiane

9. URBAN AGENDA

12. Cities have to build
on their own past
to prepare the future.
The specific attractiveness of a
given city has to be seen in the
context of a forward-looking scenario
as an element of broader urban
transition.

13. Make sure that the heritage and
architectural value of historic
buildings and public spaces is
exploited together with the
developmemnt and improvement of
the urban scene, landscape and
place, and where local residents
identify themselves with the urban
environment.

14. URBAN TRANSITION

15. REGENERATION

17. In Europe historical
building are 10% of
building stock

19. In Europe 1/3 of
buildings are traditional
(built before 1945)

21. Social housing accounts
to 12% of the EU27
total housing stock

23. 90% of social housing
consists of buildings in
need of refurbishment

26. RESILIENCY

31. emilio@dalessio.eu