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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE DEBATE
ON THE CITY, ITS ARCHITECTURE AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Towards a new policy to demolish obsolete sub-urban peripheries and develope compact walkable cities and neighborhoods

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1st CIVICARCH Workshop 2010
THE NEW GENERATION
 OF ECO-URBAN STADIA
Giving our Cities a chance of Urban Renaissance
2010, February 9 | University of Ferrara
Faculty of Engineering, via Saragat 1 | room N.2, h 15
A Workshop dedicated to a new concept of the stadium.
Not anymore a space-ship landed in the middle of the campaign, and surrounded by oversized parkings. Not anymore a generator of congestion and pollution, but a friendly urban place, at the scale of the city. An open placewhere you can shop, meet friends, practice sport, and attend sportevents. 		 


Click here to read the Press-release (ITA). More info concerning Bologna Uefa Stadium available at Bologna2020
BOLOGNA 2020
La Città che Vorrei
Discussion Forum:
AVOE PROPOSAL FOR THE NEW SPORT DISTRICT
AROUND THE UEFA STADIUM IN BOLOGNA
The Next Eco-City
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Avoe proposal for the New Entrance of Uefa Bologna Stadium		  
A Vision of Europe
TRIENNALE V
VISIT "Bologna2020" WEBPAGE, AND LOOK AT THE NEW MASTERPLAN! / Vai su Bologna2020 e guarda il Masterplan per il Nuovo Quartiere dello Stadio Uefa di Bologna e la Newsletter
ecocompactcity.org
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URBAN
RENAISSANCE
Selected Projects
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Bologna Triennale V .PUBLIC DEBATE
 October 14, 2009 - h18, Sala Museale del Baraccano, via S. Stefano 119, BO
FROM HIGHWAY TO BOULEVARD
BOLOGNA 2020 PROPOSAL
FOR A SMART GROWTH STRATEGY
As the Italian Government has decided to support the masterplan by the Province of Bologna to build a new Highway as a Northern By-pass around Bologna, the old 1950's East-West Freeway becomes obsolete and can be re-used as a resource to start a regeneration process.
Click HERE to read also the Italian Press-Release.

Avoe proposal for the New Eco-Compact extension
of the city including the Boulevard
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N E W
THE END
 OF MALL ERA
N E W
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A VISION OF EUROPE TRIENNALE V
International Exhibition: Sept. 24 => Octob.25
 
A Vision of Europe Triennale V
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
New Eco-Compact Cities
for a Sustainable Development
via S. Stefano 119 - 40125 BO
Sept. 26 => Octob. 25
h 16-19.30
www.avoe.org

THE GUIDE
OF ECO-EFFICIENT CITIES
edited by Gabriele Tagliaventi, Alessandro Bucci
Alinea Editrice | ISBN: 978-88-6055-367-6

Triennale V
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Strada Maggiore 23 - 40125 BO
via S. Stefano 119 - 40125 BO
September 24-25-26

www.avoe.org
Eco-Compact City Network
FOUNDING CONGRESS
via S. Stefano 119 - 40125 BO
September 26
www.ecocompactcity.org
SKYSCRAPERS

Photo by A.Bucci, A Vision of Europe: Sala Museale del Baraccano, Sept. 26 | Opening of the Exhibition
AN ICON
OF THE PAST
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Triennale V Opening Conference, Ascom Bologna

Triennale V Internaztional Conference, S.Stefano
URBAN
 RESISTANCE
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CITIZENS OF BOLOGNA PREFER
ECO-COMPACT CITIES

Via della Pietra Neighobourhood Center, included in the 88 finalists of Philippe Rotthier EU-Prize 2008, will be displayed at Triennale V International Exhibition from September 26 to October 26 in Bologna, Sala Museale del Baraccano
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Eco-Compact City Network breaks ground in Firenze
AVOE contribution to "Il Ritorno alla Città" Conference, 16/09/2009

Visit the Blog of the Conference dedicated on Urban Renaissance in Florence.
http://ritornoallacitta.blogspot.com
Archives of
THE OTHER
MODERN
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THE TREE
AND THE CITY
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AVOE'S Contribution
for Smart Growth
BOLOGNA 2020:
La Città che Vorrei
Avoe Projects for the City and its cultural and scientific know-how regarding critical questions on Bologna development, influence the next Mayor elections political-campaign. They are talking about "Efficient City", they organize "Workshop", their programs reconsider mall-dependence. This is right for the city, and funny! Avoe is promoting sustainable development according to the principles of New Urbanism and of the Eco-Compact City since 1992.
Visit Bologna 2020 page.
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THE TREE AND THE CITY
L'Albero e la Città
THE 3rd EDITION OF THE ROTARY PRIZE

with the Patronage of Municipality of Bologna - Deputy Mayor for the Environment, Bologna St. Stefano Neighborhood Administration

1000 drawings and maquettes done by students from the Elementary Schools of Bologna have been produced. The Awarding Ceremony was been on 29 May 2009 at Palazzo d'Accursio, Sala Farnese, Municipality of Bologna (visit ALBERI page)
L'Albero
e la Città
entra
(only italian language)
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Regional
Architecture
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A NEW LIFE FOR SLAB-URBIA IN BOLOGNA
Hope for a change appears in Bologna.		 NEW BOOK AVAILABLE !!

visit PUBLICATIONS homepage
Citizens can now choose betwwen SLAB-URBIA and the True ECO-COMPACT CITY.
The old 1960s peripheral slab-urbia can be finally RETROFIT and transformed into a WALKABLE MIXED-USE
ECO-URBAN
 NEIGHBOURHOOD:
good chances for the project.
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CLASSICAL
WORLD
under construction
The masterplan, designed under the direction of Gabriele Tagliaventi by A Vision of Europe with the support of Civicarch Staff working with Donatella Diolaiti and Alessandro Bucci, calls for a new 15.000 inhabitants eco-urban neighborhood with shops, sport and recreational facilities.
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E.C.C.N
 
Eco Compact City Network

©A Vision of Europe-Civicarch-FpA
The new masterplan is developed according with the TEN GOLDEN RULES TO BUILD AN ECO-COMPACT CITY IN BOLOGNA published by AVOE, included in Bologn2020 project. More Walkability, more Connectivity, Mixed-Use Neighborhood Structure & Diversity, Urban Design, more Density, Smart Transportation, more Sustainability, better Quality of Life !
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 Civicarch Students propose solution for italian cities, and win the
EUROPEAN COMPETITION for ARCHITECTURE
with a HIGH ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE
A Vision of Europe & Fondation pour l'Architecture launch the
ECO COMPACT CITY NETWORK
In the occasion of the Awarding Cerimony of the Philippe Rotthier European Prize of Architecture 2008, AVOE and FDP have jointly launched the ECCN.
The main goal of the new ECCN is to spread the culture of the ECC as the eco-alternative to the crisis of the contemporary city and society.
The ECCN aims at creating a forum for towns and city officials, public and private developers, architects, engineers, to share the best examples of new ECC and spread the culture of the ECC in order to create a better environment for the social, economical, and cultural life. The ECC will organize evey year:
- an international ECC Forum, every year in a different city;
- an international exhibition displaying the best examples of new ECC around the world;
- the publication of the ECC Year Book

Alessandro Bucci and the Ferrara Civicarch Team with José Baganha and Sefik Birkiye
GO TO ECCN PAGE !
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CITIZENS OF FOLIGNO (ITALY) REJECT THE MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE OF THE NEW CHURCH DESIGNED BY M. FUKSAS
visit CIVICARCH home page
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How to Save the Suburbs:
Solutions from the Man Who
Saw the Whole Thing Coming

The suburbs are really suffering. -What’s the short-form diagnosis?
-So where’s the bottom? Or, rather: Is there a bottom?
-How long will it take for supply and demand to get back into equilibrium?
-How can a suburb save itself?
(Posted by Jebediah Reed
http://www.infrastructurist.com)
The uncontrolled, fractured, frenetic growth of a city away from its core is a drive toward disaster. Researchers and Clinicians are leading the way in efforts to understand and deal with sprawl's unhealthy aftermath
Read the full article published by ARCHITETTO.INFO

Foligno, Italy: the NewChurch

Suggested links:
http://www.avoe.org/sacredspace.html
http://www.ilfoglio.it/soloqui/3715
http://www.libero-news.it/articles/view/589896
http://www.libero-news.it/articles/view/589886
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A MASTERPLAN TO REGENERATE BOLOGNA HISTORIC CENTER
Ascom-Bologna presents the new masterplan for the historic center in occasion of the International Conference "The Renaissance of The city" at Salone De' Carracci, Strada Maggiore 23, Bologna.
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The masterplan systematically analyzes the main features of commercial spaces in the metropolitan area from a typological and morphological point of view. This operation underlines their fundamental role in the actual process of both architectural re-qualification of historic edifices and urban redevelopment of ill-conceived sub-urban areas, and lead towards the design of an architectural strategy for interventions of re-urbanization based upon the use of the commercial spaces -markets buildings, squares, arcades, etc.- as key elements for the creation of a better urban environment.
Click HERE tio download the brochure, including full programme.
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Speakers: Valentino Di Pisa - Ascom Bologna; Ivano Ruscelli - Iscom Group; Gabriele Tagliaventi - A Vision of Europe; Albert Gonzalez and Joan Mateu - Municipality of Barcellona; Philippe Pemezec, Municipality of Plessis-Robinson; Enrico Postacchini - Ascom Bologna
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Bad News for Stararchitects
Good News for The City:
The Party is Over
Just in the same way that the excessive eclecticism of the 20's and 30's was identified with the financial excesses preceding the Great Depression, Stararchitects and Starchitecture are now clearly identified with the mad off of the last twenty years.
Even Nicolai Ouroussoff admits it in a well hidden article in the NY Times (2008, December 21): Arts and Leisure Section, page 27, "It was fun till the money run out".
There will be no more extravagant programs, extravagant budgets, extravagant forms or any other form of excess in architecture and urbanism for many years to come. The party is over. Good bye cynicism, irony, megalomania, egocentricity, arbitrariness, and chaos. […]
We must now focus on making clear to the world that what we have been advocating for two decades, a socially, economically and physically sustainable architecture and urbanism, is the way of the future.
Silence in the light of this immense opportunity is a betrayal of all that the new urbanism stands for. […] Paraphrasing Churchill in 1942, Ladies and Gentlemen, we are out of allies, territory, resources and hope. It is time to think! (and to act)
(Thank's to Stefanos Polyzoides)
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Rumors On Crisis of the Skyscrapers Projects in Milan

As it happend for Moscow towers, according to many real-estate agencies, the projects for the famous VIAGRA towers in Milan might be stopped because of the economical crisis.
More than 79% of the office space is still empty. More about skyscrapers.

Click on the images to read the articles
Top: Corriere della Sera, Bologna, 4/12/2008 - Right: Il Resto del Carlino, Bologna, 4/12/208
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OBAMA DECLARES END
TO SUBURBAN SPRAWL
The Presidential Proclamations

http://www.infrastructurist.com		 Days of Building Sprawl Are Over.
Urban planning is the most important step in reducing our energy consumption. This is what Obama said during a town hall forum in Ft. Myers, Florida.
Was one of the tipping points for the current financial crisis a combination of high oil prices and suburban sprawl leading to an implosion in housing at the suburban fringe?
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Journées Européennes de l'Architecture et du Paysage Urbain du Plessis Robinson

27/28 May 2009
Click HERE to read the programme and learn more about the event.
http://www.plessis-robinson.com
Did a combination of rising transportation costs coupled with adjustable rate mortgage resets become the perfect storm for household budgets at the outer limits of a daily commute? Peter Newman, author of Resilient Cities makes the case that sub-prime loans combined with our sprawling patterns of development are part of the toxic soup that helped to create our current economic crisis.
In the age of cheap oil, driving out from the city until you could afford the mortgage payment seduced families into the great suburban experiment of post WWII America. Fueled by cheap gas and government subsidized water, sewer, power, and highway infrastructure investments, the early promise of suburban home ownership devolved into mind-numbing commutes and complete auto dependency. In many suburban developments, household transportation costs came to exceed healthcare, food, and in some cases housing costs.
Just because Obama made some remark about sprawl doesn't mean its gonna be stopped. We hope that Obama Urban background will help us.
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CIVICARCH 2009 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
University of Ferrara

1) THE EFFICIENT CITY. PUBLIC TRANSIT AND SUSTAINABILITY
2009, February 11 (more)



2) SMARTGROWTH STRATEGY.
THE WAY TO GO FROM THE CONTEMPORARY CRISIS
2009, March 4 (more)


The International Workshops organized by CivicArch with the collaboration of A Vision of Europe and Fondation pour l'Architecture, aim at providing architects, engineers, urbanists, public and private administrators, public and private developers, real estate agencies with the most recent experiences of transformation of problematic sub-urban areas and historical centres into true livable communities according to the principles of New Urbanism.
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A VISION OF EUROPE
consulted for the new
 masterplan of Astana (KZ)
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Maurice Culot and Gabriele Tagliaventi have been appointed as experts from the Kazakhstan Government in order to evaluate a developement concept of the Masterplan of Astana, the Capital City of the Republic of Kazakhstan.


Gabriele Tagliaventi, Astana 2007
Workshop in Astana, 2007

The project is organized by the Astana Department of Architecture and City Planning.
Astana has been founded in 1996 and is expected to reach 1.3 million inhabitants in 2030.
( AVOE Press-Release )
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THE BEST EUROPEAN NEIGHBORHOOD
A PRIZE TO THE BEST NEW URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD BUILT IN EU
Opening Cerimony of the European Prize 2008 (Look at the PHOTOS)
October 18 - Brussels, Fondation Pour l'Architecture - October 21, Plessis Robinson, Paris
THE .BIG .CELEBRATION .OF .THE .ECO-URBAN .RENAISSANCE
Fondation Pour l'Architecture - Prix Rotthier pour la Reconstruction de La Ville 2008
in collaboration with
 A Vision of Europe & Civicarch-University of Ferrara
Among the 250 entries, the Scientific Committee of the Philippe Rotthier EUROPEAN PRIZE 2008 has selected the 88 new urban neighborhoods that have participated in the final stage of the Prize on June 13, 2008 at the FOUNDATION FOR THE ARCHITECTURE in Brussels.
The 88 selected neighborhoods come from 30 European countries and from big cities such as Lisbon, Bilbao, Paris, London, Glasgow, Bruxelles, Berlin, Dresden, Bologna, Palermo, Tirana, Istanbul, etc., as well as from beautiful medium-size cities such as Santiago de Compostela, Hammamet, Gladbeck, Alessandria, Hoje Tarstrup, Knokke, Dorchester, Brandevoort, etc.
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