Environmental Engineering Reference
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Changes in Vision
In the last tenyears, it appears that people dealing with urban and territorial
planning and design are putting much effort into ensuring the future of the
city:
•
Starting with the
tenth edition of the International Architecture
Exhibition
in Venice in 2006, when
Richard Burdett
updated us with
qualitative and quantitative assessments on the health of major world
cities, and therefore on the health of the planet.
•
Through national competitions and European announcements that decided-
ly move in the direction of experimenting with new and more sustainable
ways of living and producing in cities, combating waste, and creating new
settlement forms
and
technological solutions
.
•
Carrying out important experiments in urban design, in which natural com-
ponents enter the city, relate with artificial components, and originate stim-
ulating unions between the transformative actions of humans and natural
spaces, in agreement with the reminders of
Landscape Urbanism
[1].
•
With the support of the Council of Europe, which, in 2000, through the
launch of the European Landscape Convention, indissolubly connected the
landscape to quality of life and therefore to ordinary and/or degraded areas
of the city and peri-urban areas. In reality, however, already in 1992,
European institutions within the framework of sustainable development
showed an awareness of the decisive significance of policies for urban
areas with the European Urban Charter. The Aalborg Charter (1994), the
Urban Acquis of Rotterdam (2004), the Bristol Accord (2005), the Leipzig
Charter (2007), and the
Manifesto for a new urbanity
-
European Urban
Charter II
in 2008 would all follow. The great objectives established in the
treaties of Maastricht and Lisbon—social cohesion, economic competitive-
ness, and environmental sustainability—find confirmation in ever more
precise and recurring terms in themes linked to urban projects and manage-
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