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Programme schedulelast update: 10.07.2025 Congress ThemeDefinite space – fuzzy responsibility While many of the initiatives and powers moved outside public control, the sense of responsibility for spatial change and sustainable development of cities and regions hardly overstepped the domain of city halls and ministries, and planners as their experts. The gap between sprawled powers / potency and blurred sense of responsibility should be the focus of the Congress debates. Our cities are spreading, the distances that most of us have to travel for jobs, shopping, entertainment, etc. are steadily increasing, and money available for maintenance and improvement of roads, utilities and public services is shrinking. Rich people are retiring to gated communities while some others may remain trapped in social and ethnic ghettoes. All these problems are expected to be tackled by planning as an instrument for urban and regional management. But planning itself was affected by drift from hierarchic control by state and local governments, through public-private partnership projects, to governance where the actual field of municipalities´ and states´ action is dissolved and shared with business. Also many services formerly provided by public domain have been outsourced. Who should take responsibility for how the cities and regions are being changed? |
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Citizen Initiatives: Are we ready?How can we take advantage of the energy and momentum created by local initiatives to make our cities more livable, prosperous and sustainable? What is the role of the government and planners in shaping these conditions? Prague, similarly to other post-communist cities of Central Europea, experiences a dynamic growth of citizen initiatives that engage with the built environment. The traditional roles of governance, private actors and civil society is changing, questioning the traditional dominance of public sector. The on-going trend is particularly evident in the field of urban planning where it is apparent we need to adapt to a more people-centered ways of working. /facebook webpage in Czech langauge/ Following speakers will be discussing the topic:ERIC SWYNGEDOUW
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