I was asked to be here on the stage because of the camera and I would
like then those who will answer the question from the auditorium
to follow me here on the stage.
Today afternoon, we will again travel around the world, collecting
the experiences from the practices in the implementation of
different approaches and measures, the urban transformation.
We will start in London and finish on the other side of the Europe,
in Turkey, in Turkey now.
So please, we will start with the first presentation with this,
which is about climate change and social cohesion is catalyzed
for changes in development plans and special order.
And this voice will be from London, been presented in person
here by the colleague Anushka Zimnitska.
So please, the floor is yours.
Can you hear me?
Good afternoon.
I'm Anushka Zimnitska and I came to you from London.
I work at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and my responsibility
and capacities there is that show manager.
But owing to the invitation of our colleagues from here, I also
teach at the Glance University of Technology at the Faculty
of Architecture, and I would like to guide you through the topic
of climate change and first and foremost, its impact on social
cohesion.
I will illustrate it with my neighborhood that is Tower Hamlets.
This is the plan of London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and you can
see it in the middle that's been adopted in twenty twenty one
You can see the growth areas, those colorful ones, mostly going
along the transportation corridors.
And they are of course related to infrastructural projects
that are in the pipeline.
And I'm going to boast because a few months ago the biggest infrastructural
investment of the last decade in London came to a successful
fruition.
That's the so called elizabeth 's line that is a railway line
that cuts through london and that connects also the adjacent
neighbourhoods on both sides This investment was initiated
in terms of its physical, physical.
It's a starting point.
It started in Tower Hamlets within the new station at Canary
Wharf was built.
You can see the image of it on the right hand side.
That's a new station, multifunctional one not just with a commercial
function but also with the one of a public park.
And this investment, it used to be called Crossrail, contributed
to the changes in the structure of central London infrastructure.
Mostly because forty two kilometers of this line are situated
underground, ten new stations were built, but also old stations
underwent modernizing.
For example, Tottenham Court Road is in an instance here an example.
It's was endowed with a new image.
It has become far more ergonomic.
But also this investment was connected with the regeneration
and RE construction of the whole neighborhood of the station
Hamlets.
Hamlets is a lucky owner now of three such stations of this
railway that is highly efficient.
In the Liverpool Street you've got one such stations.
There are two other locations where Chapel and Canary Wharf.
This is why we have the three stations that play a major role related
to social integration and building the the social inequalities.
Now at the top left and corner you can see White Chapel station
in the social and economic infrastructure.
We are dealing here with a patchwork area area in which affluent
areas interwoven into the Tashia.
Very poor ones, very often, they knew replaces the traditional
for example, the market, white Chapel, the local community,
mostly coming from Bangladesh, trades and everything.
That's one of the most colourful spots on the map of London.
On the other hand, we've got the Canary Wharf station.
It is located in the northern part of this district and as you
can see, there is a chance for investment activities after Elizabeth
Lyon has been completed to bring about positive changes that
the inhabitants of the northern part can benefit from South.
These differences are not just the differences between poverty,
new opportunities and the rich ones, but it's also about actually
ability to survive.
What you can see here is a juxtaposition of the map poverty.
The darker the colour, the more issues a given area suffers.
And the right hand side map shows the deaths I need to the COVID
pandemic.
So it's not just about well being but it's also about the ability
to survive In what way can this kind of an investment be tarnished
and returned into something really beneficial?
When the spatial restructuring took place around the stations.
Also, a number of new public spaces were created, available
to everybody.
They also enrich the urban developments around it.
You can see the Exchange Square next to Liverpool Street, but
even more importantly, owing to those fast rail connections
with various parts of the city, the neighborhood, that White
Chapel district itself also got a bank investment bust.
We as the office changed our seat.
We are now located in a renovated hospital from the nineteenth
century.
We carry out a number of tasks whose goal is to improve the public
space.
There is a medical cluster of the hospital that I mentioned and
also medical and research faculty of the Queen Mary University
at Whitechapel.
And on this basis the Center of Life Sciences is now being built.
What is also planned and actually the first common stone was
already placed in the ground for further developments around
so as to increase the educational opportunities and giving
access to the opportunities and education to the children of
the migrants.
They can now be hopeful of having an easy life of their parents.
So this is Elizabeth line actually all the investors around
London chipped in.
There was a financing instrument that was called Community
Infrastructure Levy.
The Mayor of London taxed all the investments everyday.
Local tax and it's height depended on the location, so on how
far away you are from Crosswale impact, so from Elizabeth Lane.
But also the tax depended on on the size, the curvature of those
new investments is how they're going to be used.
Another example is a different infrastructure investment,
one that was completed two years ago and it was an extension of
the Northern Line underground line.
two new stations were added.
These stations were American Embassy is located at one of them
and also the very famous Battersea Palace station building
was also renovated.
So they became the drivers for the regeneration of post industrial
areas in Vauxhall, Nanos and Battersea areas due to the high
costs of rejuvenation of historic buildings and over two hundred
and fifty million of developers contribution into the extension
of the new underground line The entire area and it's magnitude
of twenty thousand new residential spacious twenty thousand
new jobs and new cultural centres and so on and so forth ensures
now just nine percent of the so called accessible flats So those
potentially accessible to an average Londoner.
So they come together with their sold or leased out in the market
at the price that is lower than the market one and that's owing
to the governmental grants.
nine percent is relatively little very little which makes this
area a rather posh one as is exclusive And you can see that, well,
it can be painfully exclusive.
As I mentioned the luxury and actually excessive luxury.
You can see a swimming pool suspended between two skyscrapers.
As for the public areas, this developer is doing a lot to activate
them and to make them available to any inhabitant.
But actually this is an area that is completely new in the structure
of the city, both in terms of the new buildings and and socially.
This is an area that is isolated, socially isolated.
In other words, the properties here belong to millionaires only.
The areas that London has not recognized as those of intensive
development are those of modernist housing estates, Of course,
following the raids of London, or they experienced a housing
boom.
And in tan Hamlets we've got one of the biggest, greatest density
of such housing estates that were built with social residents
in mind.
So we've got social flats there.
Some of them were bought out after Mother Touches revolution
in the eighties of the twentieth century and these housing estates
are coming to an end of their existence.
Of course, activities and measures are taken to modernize the
infrastructure of some insulation extensions filling the
the gaps and so on.
But undoubtedly some of these housing estates are awaiting
a big decision on them being built anew.
Actually, there is a painful regeneration lesson and that is
the one of Hager estate that regeneration was supposed to be
supported with the invisible hand of the market.
As a result of that, actually none of the families that had spot
out their floods found another flat, even in the vicinity of
the Suffolk district where it all happened.
As for the tenants or local governments will need to find
social flats for the inhabitants, but well, so here the situation
is slightly better.
But again, I've heard that really there are a few people who moved
back, so they moved out and never returned.
And actually this regeneration process wasn't a way, a way to
actually will gentrify the area and that was a cleansing in a
in a way.
And the first stage of this regeneration at the in the area, one
hundred percent of private flats were sold not for to londoners
but to those living in the far east So oftentimes the
completely different continent.
The first phase, sixteen percent of the flats built were social
ones That was increased by Suffolk local government that draw
a lesson from the first phase.
That was quite a painful lesson.
So further generation stages were carried out with a greater
emphasis on social benefits.
Benefits for social for for local communities and the share
of accessible flats was increased, now reaching twenty five
percent That was the very first experience.
It had a broad coverage and it was pretty shocking for Londoners.
So town Hamlets definitely drew conclusions, and when we're
generating the first housing estate, attempts were made to
have it listed.
I'm talking about Robin Hood Gardens, the Bridge list monument.
So to be found, those attempts to have it listed failed.
So it's visually attractive, but still it did not work as a social
unit, so to speak.
And hear the local government decided to run an investment.
A developer has been appointed and every owner flat owner has
a right for the value of their apartment to be counted as the
initial payment for the modernized flat.
And they get a a bonus for every year of actually staying in the
flat, which means that after ten years they can become owners.
And so these conditions are really favourable and any regeneration
of households is related to an increasing density of the developments.
There is also a big revolution in approaching regeneration
of housing estates that resulted from an ordinance of a Mayor
of London who said that without a referendum covering all the
inhabitants with owners or tenants of flats in such households,
and without their consent to such a total regeneration, no measures
can be taken and first they should be given an offer that they
could vote on.
So it became clear that otherwise the such regeneration programmes
would not be supported from public resources.
So the Hamlets, unfortunately again the microphone is dead
as it appears, so we cannot hear the speaker in the booth.
The mic is on again.
So we're back.
Over the last five years we've had five such referendums carried
out and these requirements are stipulated by the Mayor and his
ordinance mean that all the examples you can see by the way, all
being those from Tower Hamlet are related with to Co designing.
So even prior to the referendum, the inhabitants are invited
to have their say to say and what they get as an offer is actually
a result of common work with them that precedes the referendum.
Those new programs finish on three five or ten fold increase
in the density so even ten times as many inhabitants live in the
area which means that of course high story buildings have to
be erected in our hamlets We've had a longer record of of building
and living in such buildings.
So we prepared an additional planning document concerning
the designing of the residential high raised buildings and
we've prepared it on the basis of a two year process of exploring
and serving the opinion of the long term inhabitants of the buildings
of this kind.
Another thing, and I'm getting to an end, are publicly available
spaces.
Spaces for everybody where people can join and integrate within.
And the forerunner here was the City of London, that in its plan
in I believe two thousand and fifteen introduced a requirement
to all non residential investors and there are the majority
in the city of london The ground floors and roofs should be open
to the general public, so they should be made generally available.
Consume more and more buildings really offer some services
in the ground, for there are more and more terraces.
Actually, practically speaking, any new building has a terrace
that is then made available to anybody and the pandemic has shown
how important those public spaces were and how important this
activity our outdoors is.
So all of a sudden our East End shabby Sheikh, that is this kind
of artistic chaos related with colour and temporary establishments
have become commonplace.
You see there is a drawing lesson outdoors.
We've got colours closing the streets with with some artifacts
that are maybe not top dodge but well they're handmade and this
is something that has spread over London.
And then finally on climate changes, well obviously in such
a big city we talk about overheating and we talk about managing
rainwater, we talk about counteracting floods.
There are measures envisaged in plans, but our Hamlets is one
of the pilot districts for integrated programs of water management
infrastructure extension in the spirit of net zero.
So how to get to us becoming like carbon neutral commune and regaining
the areas for nature has become maybe not something that is
really frequent, but there are some examples where we have a
river that used to be managed in human control.
It has become open that resulted in a greater biodiversity.
It is also possible to retain possible floods.
And here are Olympic areas.
This is also partially an area belonging to Tower Hamlets.
It's also Olympic areas.
Investments related to the Olympic Games have created an opportunity
for some of the area to be regained for nature.
It used to be heavily industrialized.
You can see those green air, green pictures and well they they
they show London and there's not provincial London and some
up.
I'd say that well a lot is being said about what we've been doing
in terms of new investments.
So we are planning what they should be like, but the climatic
goals cannot be obtained by means of new investments only There,
there have to be measures that will entice or even force the existing
owners, property owners, to modernize their properties and
to reintroduce nature in their areas.
Now we are trying to implement that terms two thousand and one
hundred program that focuses on anti flood measures in the
terms estuary and this is something that is voluntary And as
you can imagine, we are still not ready to take what the future
holds in terms of water in the city.
Thank you very much, Chenko.
Embarazonishka, thank you very much.
Ground in London and the second underground in Europe was in Budapest.
So I am very happy to continue with the second presentation from
Budapest and Zoltan is here.
So Tashik Baranchal, thank you very much for being here and I
am very glad that we have professional friends and professional
audience here.
I try to explain few facts and a few stories about Budapest brownfield
areas.
Normally we think that the brownfield areas are the gold reserve
of a city.
They are the gold reserve of a a strongly built in and densely
built in area when we are looking for new places.
Now I have to show the map of Budapest and I have to refer some figures.
Budapest is was two millions in the eighties now it is one point
eight millions two hundred thousand people were lost from the
city from from inside the city but they appeared in the outskirts
So let's say that the agglomeration of Budapest has a figure
of two and a half million, and it is a stable one.
But in the future we are thinking that we have to fight against
the communication and the and the the everyday congestion on
the roads and on the trains approaching the city.
So we try to offer some so called dense structure with
the provision of new land for developments within the city On
the picture you see the brownfield areas around that we have
got from the so called socialism In nineteen ninety a lot of these
industrial areas and railway areas were run down Not only railway
but we had two army barrack system, the Hungarian and the Russian,
that were left after nineteen ninety So we have got a series of
brownfields, but only those who had better positions.
For example at the Danube Bank, for example, on the Buddha side
where we have historically more prestigious residential RS
They have developed, They had the force, they had the the engine
to go on and to develop themselves and to provide high quality
RS For example, this is a a park area in the middle of Buddha.
This is an office area, but very, very high tech office series
we had at the gas factory of UDA.
This is a newly built area and this is a ladder factory renewed
in the positive way.
So these are the success stories, but I don't want to speak about
them.
I am interested much more about those who are not running, who
are stalled a little bit and who are or future task.
For example, one of our gold reserve number one is called Rakash
and there's a marshalling yard.
Originally that was a huge marshalling yard for the state railways
on this area.
They have already got the tracks.
We have these tracks but they are empty.
One track is only working over there or or two tracks and it is
quite close to the city centre.
So we hope that it is a very well operable development area.
At the moment it is in the state, it is in the hand of the state,
so fortunately it is not privatised yet.
What we need to have a kind of master plan.
What we need to have a common knowledge about the future of this era.
What do we want to do with this?
First of all, we have to to to develop the public transport system.
This is the elongation of the second underground underworld,
this metro number one of Budapest.
But we have a news railway station over this point which is going
to be the heart of a new town.
Whether it will look like this or not, I don't know, because at
the moment nobody plans it.
This is a plan of a state agency that owned the area, so it is
only a proposition.
The question is who will do what?
What will be made before the the new railway lines, the new tram
lines and the new infrastructure?
Or we shall go ahead with a certain project?
We have another interesting and very close area to the city centre.
That's the so called cubano street which is originally a railway
factory on this area railway workshop on this area and the railway
station on this area The story is that this part of the site is
in the hand of the Hungarian state.
So we can do something with this because because it is quite obviously
can be used on this area which was the so called gunsmart factory
Perhaps some of them knows the products on the railway tracks.
That was a very famous and A and a fantastic factory not working
today.
It has more than three hundred owners most of them chinese who
owns this area and used as a commercial area The railway station
itself was altered to be a memorial for the Jewish Holocaust.
So this is a a kind of museum building.
On this area the state agency proposed a residential area, while
along the street we have offices and here we have a so called football
academy which is a very popular thing at the moment in hungary
Although the result of the education is not always visible on
the matches, but but that that, that can be a nice final product
of the development.
Perhaps we we don't like this green colouring because it is only
plastic so it has no biological value this area, but in general
that can be a good future vision for the area if we want it is
it is this master plan is designed with blue and green infrastructure
and I think that they are on a high level what we have already done
and it is on the other part of the of the road at the railway workshop.
This is one of the original buildings kept as a cultural centre,
so called workshop house of the national opera with some stage
and and auditorium with workshops for for ropes and sceneries
and everything that is needed in the opera and even even with
some remembrance of the of the railway industry But in the neighbourhood
it is a new proposition.
The so called diesel hall which can be seen here will be the new
place for the museum of transport because the museum of transport
was a small one in a in the city park and we are very happy that it
wants to come over here There was an international competition
won by the New York Builders, Scofidio and Renfro Company and
Davis.
The Hungarian team have made projects for the new place, but
on the other side that I have shown you about the railway factory,
we have still these conditions.
You can imagine this was made in the years two thousand which
is quite a strange picture.
There's the Chinese market on the street, Chinese market everywhere
in the in the buildings and the white truck is the the phenomenon
that there's no, no signage, no inscription.
What is this?
They are bringing and taking different goods.
You can buy everything and everything a lot.
So if you have buy two pairs of socks, it is a lot and it is it is cheaper.
The third very interesting and positive area is at the South
gate of the city.
This is Chapel Island and this is a branch of the Danube which
is fortunately logged by guarded by two locks here and on the
South.
So this water level doesn't take the the tide and the and the flood
of the Danube.
So quite a new so called students district can be constructed
here And this was made the master plan by Snohatad in Norwegian
Austrian company together with Hungarian France.
And I think that at the very moment this is one of the most contemporary
and and the best ideal urban pattern which is planned to Budapest.
But I have to tell you that I don't know who will work on here because
it was once again a state project and the state project at the
very moment is abandoned because because of lack of of financial
sources.
We were just discussing about the fracturing of the government
levels in Budapest.
It works like this that I am responsible for the Budapest structural
plan.
This is the general plan for the whole city.
I have twenty three colleagues in the district who are responsible
for the district building code, absolutely independent from
me.
But of course they have to to be in the framework of the general
structural plan.
So what I feel that it is quite a good system that the top down ideas
are coming from the central municipality of Budapest, but they
are always filled up with bottom up ideas and bottom up opportunities
and the presence of the colleagues on the field.
Unfortunately, sometimes we have exceptional decrees.
The government decrease is is born in in two days and you read
in the in the official paper that it is not necessary to take into
consideration the the local governments plans and development
ideas because it will work on a on a special road So that's why
we are afraid a little bit to lose our beloved city scape into
something different.
But there is a lot to speak about all the system and that's why
I was interested in the morning to hear about the fragmentation
of Europe or not.
What we have that we have the new stadium for the that was the athletic
World championship in the summer, the Budapest.
So that's what what has has been made on the side of the Brownfield
RS Thank you very much for your attention.
I simply wanted to summarise a little bit the possibilities
of these areas and to show out that they are in the pipeline.
But we still need ideas and still need important decisions to
have a proper approach towards them.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much, Sultan.
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Because we looked at some examples of how competitions
are organized this is one example from.
Union of international architects and practically there are
two main basis or grounds where one is about the essential principles
and the other one is the guidelines there are different models
another model is from manus and Ron again architectural quality
is highly relying on design criterias.
But different models develop different parameters emphasizing
their role another model was the model of Anderson and others
following here for example the role of the client becomes quintessential
but also putting forwards architectural grammar as a new parameter
like.
Providing the concept of authenticity or readability or materiality
and time and other things another model again here client requirements
are also important in fact we provide also another model which
is Chopin ET al but practically we operationalized a bit so we
looked a bit at our context and we said OK let us establish one
model in our.
Not on our own practically but we try to utilize those elements
that would be that we could use so certain elements which would
be very important for us would be design context econicities
surprise experience feasibility and sustainability in both
physical and social aspects but on the other side elements especially
regarding the budget are also important.
In fact turning back to our context this competition culture
in Albania is pretty new because in the socialist.
period like many countries so but probably we are the most radical
one we are highly centralized governed countries so everything
was decided by the politburo members architects in fact were
actually run by the architects were controlled very strictly
by them But starting from two thousand and three there were a
series of we have to say competitions starting from the city
standard master plan in tirana and it continues like that we
are going to actually focus on northern boulevard a special
menu of this actually buildings in fact are consequences of
two thousand and three plan which in fact foresaw by french studio
it foresaw Emphasizing of main square of Tirana with high rise
towers and also the main Boulevard of the city spine similarly
in fact they also so this is actually their vision and this is
the north Boulevard practically and the the river there are
two rivers in fact in Tehran this is Lana river or probably a sort
of Creek and this is Tirana river and.
The focus of this presentation that we will see in fact in these
two zones so as a consequence of this French plan we have a lot
of skyscrapers which in fact emphasize in brackets the city
line of the main Boulevard and also you can also see these renders.
It is it have been subject of a lot of discussions debates criticism
I've also written some papers about issues of identity and etcetera
in Tirana however it will take a lot of time so I need to turn back
to our main discussion but practically the project or the competition
area is this zone here already this part is foreseen from the
French plan but this is the north Boulevard extension beyond
the LA tiana river and this is the river.
So in fact Tirana in the peripheral zones is highly actually
characterized by informal developments from one of the hidden
in fact intentions of this project was also formalization of
the zones by providing and sending new functions which actually
would be both at local but also national level.
So practically we have the north Boulevard extension beyond
the river and the revitalization and regeneration of the potentials
of Tirana river here all competition briefing requirements
are are given in a detailed way but very in broad aspects innovative
and sustainable solutions regenerations of certain areas
in development of intervention zones.
So to create a new urban plan that would improve the lifestyle
of Tirana citizens sustainable growth of the neighbourhoods
produce working and living spaces that seed would benefit in
long term the connection between southern and northern part
but also between two rivers this was quite serious area fourteen
kilometres which is quite one fourth fourth of the city size
fourteen kilometres square and It this project would foresee
a new downtown area with the cultural and public units and also
it could work as a generator for a modern city new national buildings
like National Library concert told modern art Galleria convention
centres palace of justice new City Hall were foreseen on the
other side it could also give ground for.
New infrastructure road construction landscape and also they
had some sort of budgetary limitations like it should not exceed
the cost of one hundred one hundred thirty euro meter square
according to the albanian standards of the period there were
a lot of actually companies international companies who entered
in the competition however they were selected as finalists
only dar which was Company which was based in Lebanon and another
and Grimshaw which is a well known international English company
so I'm just going to very briefly explain because I know the presentation
is very long I am limited in terms of time although I'm not very
bad so far as much as I can realize but it's subjective so this
is actually the final alternative of dar so.
It's called dar El handasa the the company their headquarters
in Beirut in Lebanon so they provide in fact a linear Boulevard
practically but in fact they want this part of the city to work
as a new economy for the city so they would develop mixed use units
and creation of sixteen thousand new homes and twenty thousand
new jobs They also recognized or they actually put give a name
to this park called Tirana PLA park plus and they foresee different
civic and recreational activities and mixed use units at the
same time and practically this would work as a sort of culture
heart of the tirana and also connection between two lakes in
south and north So this is actually the extension so this is the
existing Boulevard that means the from the city center and this
is their vision about so as you see in fact it strongly aims also
to formalize quite informal zones of the city providing dynamic
geometric paths and also.
On the other side if you look at the Tirana river it also try to
revitalize the river and provide new actually recreational
qualities added to the zone so they also focus especially
in the the youth and especially the.
Role of young people because we have a young population as well
and especially they foresaw proposals which actually could
prevent at some extent they also undertook some sort of social
responsibility by because we have also high level of migration
to Western Europe so they could combine.
Certain solutions which would have close to new university
campus functions or new jobs which actually could work together
and in some extent providing some contributions to the economy
so they also foresaw different creative economy retail economy.
About the transport and road network in fact they in majority
focus on sustainable solutions like usage of public transport
and cycling and pedestrian paths also the other project aim
to limit the usage of private automobiles.
Here you see their proposal for the river in fact they try to fragment
yet in different functions and areas the whole river and also
the most interesting part is also the connection between the
river and the sorry and the and the Boulevard where they provide
this campus which at the same time would provide.
Would give role to the new generations and different hubs I would
say recreation park technologies terraces campus already
technopol so a lot of proposals are relying on research and innovation
potentials ecology park also benefiting?
From the river they propose also as recreational functions
some pools here we see in an analysis actually which see different
functions which are combined with one so you see retail functions
civic functions park and they are all combined in the Boulevard.
And also this extension at the same time is also foresee in five
we can say hubs so the campus the stage the gardens each of these
hubs provide this potentials and try to.
Elaborate and emphasize the role of gathering and public spaces
and this mixed use functions on the other side they also try to
provide solutions for this national scale buildings like town
hall or we had the main train stations for our palace of justice
Here we see also primary movement corridors including tram
road pedestrian streets vehicular road principal landscape
features with linear tree lines important especially this
City Hall building which work as a sort of iconic building and
also other.
Different land use proposals in the upper levels these are some
section perspective we passed faster to Grimshaw so so Grimshaw
actually focused their presentation because they were strike
from the high level of sense of community and the.
I I'll finalize thank you so of Tirana citizens and they actually
propose certain neighbourhoods which would be provided functions
within a distance of six hundred meters like this diagram they
also in the boulevard provided Those that they called urban
living rooms which were retail justice civic governance and
culture and especially one of their intention because as you
see their proposal is highly formalistic so they tend to formalize
this informal zone of Tirana especially through densification
and provision of new recreational spaces.
Similarly also for the trans transport the net net transport
solution they also try to benefit from the large ring of the the
crater ring of the city and also this sorry communication with
this between these two lakes.
And also they propose at the same time new light rail tramways
and but these are already foreseen in previous National Transportation
master plans I guess and also probably this is the strongest
image that we need to so you see that also they put a lot of emphasis
especially in the river competition and they consider it as.
four hubs it's also highly liberated at the same time so this
is Expo and technology hub sport and recreation hub so it foresee
a national Olympic centre with separate and elaborated different
sportive facilities like new national stadium and et cetera.
And also they try to formalize all this highly informal zone
of Tirana and also at the same time provide a scenario how to develop
especially this we I have to say the valley of the river by providing
different green and greenery solutions and also the extension
of the Boulevard is.
Considered through density as a major component for example
here there are commercial civic and cultural creational spaces
and this is the golden tower the iconic building according to
them in the city core in the CTH the density yes I'm I'm finalizing
yes OK sorry sorry it looks that I'm speaking for myself.
And in the city edge as you see the building heights are lower.
Practically, they also are very concerned, especially on inclusion
and participation of people in not only the planning processes,
but at the same time by providing buildings which would give
this kind of feature.
So this is actually sort of very fast comparison, but I don't
think that we have time for that.
So this is DAR and this is actually Grimshaw.
So from the economicity point of view, this is the Gateway tower,
which is proposed by DAR and also regional Expo buildings and
also new national building.
This is from Grimshaw.
Grimshaw proposals also Tower of Knowledge, which works also
a sort of iconic building.
Gateway Tower from DAR providing this surprise effect because
it in fact divide the boulevard and you cannot see what happens
beyond.
Yes, yes, I'm finishing, I know it.
So I'm going very fast.
But we generated also sort of comparative table by the end, but
and probably I will not have time to explain one by one.
But as a result, we can say that in the proposal of DAR, we conducted
one, we concluded that that's high qualitative build environment
and good ratio between green and built.
On the other side in the case of Grimshaw, it's, it's lower the
expense from the implementation, but DAR was more expensive
and practically Grimshaw was a little bit more economic.
Now there are a lot of details that we have to go, but I don't think
that we have time for that.
I leave the floor to you to make a comparison, but if somebody
would request also the presentation, they could go through
the presentation and see.
Thank you for your thank you very much.
I hope that as well the last presenter who will lead us to Sunny
Turkey will be disciplined and then we will have some minutes
to come back to the presentation with our question and comments.
And this Sunny is bringing Sedal, it was from Amashiya University
from Turkia.
Please the floor reserves be close to the microphone because of.
OK so, OK Hello, hello everyone.
I'm from Turkey.
I'm a young planner and I will I will share this presentation
about for local development and strategic plan.
And Tokat is located in the central Black Sea region and total
land area about ten thousand square kilometres and Vision vision
tokat were sustainable development is achieved by effectively
authorizing local resources and striving to meet their own
needs The purpose achieve sustainable development throughout
the realization of development both quantitatively and quantitatively
throughout central local collaboration, social, economic
and cultural means.
The mobilizing local resources throughout Public private
sector and collaboration and civil social organization to
enable social party participation and here planning principles
and this first one balance distribution and second one equality
source one Cooperation and last one sustainability.
Sorry.
And this table is showing to us population projects of Tokat.
And this the first map twenty twenty twenty two years about for
population and second one so twenty fifteen years about population
and current population now about six hundred K so natural population
incurs a negative about sixty sixty seven K but current and and
employment and created employment For this I'm going agriculture,
industry and services sectoral and total population brought
by employment is sixty five K so population the change actually
twenty twenty two years and twenty fifteen years after employment
just just negative about three three thousand And the strategic
plan has some goal and strategic.
This natural environment the the use and creation of renewable
energy sources.
The strategy strategy solar energy power plant will will be
established taking into account protected this area and social
environment meeting the needs of the community in the context
of Commission the migration and strategy increasing employment,
employment activists for migration, population and unemployment
and creating new employment so opportunities this economic
environment balancing balancing rural, rural and Urban Development.
So strategy by addressing transportation and infrastructure
deficiencies is rural areas so increasing in investment and
truly areas so physical environment, physical environment
addressing in for a structure for a structure the deficient
sense they provide a cool services and reduce the pressure on
rural areas in settlements.
Strategy increasing and employment social and cultural infrastructure
facialities particularly particularly in distribute here
sub approach for natural environment sub approach here we are
seeing two maps, so two different maps.
The first one we know we know the Turkey as an earthquake country
and also in Tokat this light red line active fault line.
So for about tokat has a special after strategy plan has this
master plan so about air kick and also for this area special has
protected this building system and the soil pollution, water
pollution and ground pollution, ground pollution.
So it's coming to actually from agriculture and this, this Polish
agriculture and this strategic plant sink protected to area
especially natural park forest and also the farm area.
So that's why we this project sink this product also from pollution.
And second one, second one, the renewable energy.
There is important renewable energy and solar, solar energy,
wind energy and biogas energy.
But this biogas energy will be more just a livestock district.
Yes, this physical physical approach.
There is again two two maps, the first one proposed and second
one available for current maps and this especially here.
So train train road is going just for for the street and after
after this strategic plan it will go, it will go city centre and
also logistic area, a social approach.
The social approach has healthy healthy services and social
services, cultural services, services and will develop before,
before just this developed just in city centre but rural areas,
so not much, not much develop that's why before that's why so
suburbia area will have to, will have some services, social
services and will stop migration and economic, economic approach.
Agriculture and industry side will balance and will balance
and so they will use resources, resources and also there is and
and resources.
This is ecotourism and thermal tourism.
It will be more using and will develop and also for economics,
economic approach before nothing and after plan will be logistics
centre and focus area.
The main approach here important thing so sectoral corridor
and so sectoral corridor and especially here agriculture and
industry will be will be will will continue together so about
this corridor and cope with cooperation and some cooperation
about social, education and cultural like with with some community
and strategic plan.
The last one is important to relieve the city centre and it will
reduce traffic and quality of life increase will go up So with
balanced rural area, suburbia area and city central and especially
for young people better quality of life.
So rural area with cultural, social and economic standard will go up.
So by meeting its own needs sustainable will continue.
Thank you.
So with with this presentation we we finished the program concerning
the presentation, but we want some ten minutes for the questions.
So I I will step here on the side because I cannot see you are welcome
to formulate your remarks or questions to the presenters.
Please, we have, we have microphones by it.
But I was asked that everyone who is speaking should should come here.
Well, I have a question or you can say comment.
I have a question for my Albania colleague.
I had an honour to meet with you.
Yeah, you can until the time the question is going on.
So you can let's go together there.
I'm not important.
So I mean I'm.
I'm always behind the camera.
We can make a compromise.
Yeah, I'm good.
I think it's easier to be on the camera.
It's harder to be here.
Well, since you mentioned about behind, I mean on the camera
or behind camera, I curated one TV show with your Prime Minister
Adi Rama and there we had an interaction and he's a very good painter,
which which he claims I'm not sure about.
So he was saying and and he was also mayor, three time mayor of
Tirana.
Yes.
So he mentioned that, you know, maybe because of, you know, the
bringing the life in the city of Tirana, he painted the whole
city.
You you're speaking about the lecture that he had at Tate Modern?
No, no.
I had my personal interaction with him.
So he had this lecture.
Solid.
Tate Modern, Yes.
But we have this light and it's very highly disturbing.
Yes.
So how it was taken by public I just wanted to know this is in fact
one hundred million dollar question author you're asking so
practically but he have been as you explained for three mandates
as mayor of tirana and now is at the same time should be his third
mandate as prime minister So he's guy.
He has a lot of power practically because it have been gaining
power time by time.
He's very good in public communication, you can say very good,
also public manipulation.
So but he's also a very colourful guy.
That means that he's able to transmit artistical tools and means
in the public and I find him quite successful in this aspect.
Initially this initiative that he had at the beginning, it was
called it.
In fact it's the commencement or department point For my PHD thesis.
I wrote a P H D C thesis on the issue of urban identity of tirana
because i felt as an architect that the realm of architecture
was stolen by artists Artists started to paint our facades and
etcetera, etcetera.
And and actually the medium of architects is tectonics is not,
is not colored practically.
So there was a little bit of difference that it was in some aspect
it was positive, the initial, the initial or the initiative
of the beginning to paint the building facades, because it brought
a sort of sense of hope.
But they were very superficial.
So they did not consider holistic approach.
So they did not consider thermal comfort.
They did not consider other aspects of considering, I don't
know, common outdoor spaces or greeners.
And it said it was just a sort of makeup, a superficial intervention
which in my opinion in majority aimed political attention.
But as the time have passed and he have been in power for approximately
twenty more than twenty years and he have more and more in his
sense to to do.
But one thing is positive, which I evaluate is that he brought
Albania into the centre of probably European debates and discussions
even with this kind of controversial ideas about the subject
of urban regeneration, renovations and etcetera.
And maybe sometimes it's a sort of, you know, Marcel Duchamp.
So the Fontaine thing with Dada and the dais and groups and etcetera,
everything that if you are able to provoke actually you, you
take attention even what you promote and propose is not the best.
So that would be probably a sort of reaction, replies some at
some some extent, I think.
Thank you very much some some some other questions to the presenters.
I can see the auditorium over there.
Please share the microphone.
And then queer name Petania and Thomas Dorakovsky and Petania
the Thomas Dorakovsky.
I have a question to the London part of the presentation.
If I may.
I wanted to focus on the London part and in particular the one
in which you describe the process, which I think is far from being
but now.
And it concerns London.
But not only London, probably many cities that have desired
expensive areas in them.
You describe the process that starts off with a substance back
in the fifties Then there is certain evaluation of whether there
is well it has worn out aesthetically or economically or maybe
in thermal terms, I'm not sure.
Or maybe socially.
It's been used up because the social group that inhibits this
part does is not liked by by by by others.
I'm not sure.
Or what kind of how is this evaluation performed?
I need an answer to this question, but I'm more interested in
the motto itself if we have a hectare.
Of of of an area of ground with one thousand flats there And
then a decision is made to replace this structure with something
that is twice as dense.
Well, at least three times or even better.
OK let's stick to three times as dense.
So we had one thousand We are supposed to have three thousand flats.
This one hectare.
Regardless of the rationality of the ratio, let's say that this
community that lives there, well, it has to, it has to move right
or it has to be made less dense.
I suppose that their economic power is poor.
They make ends, meet, ends meet, because over those forty or
sixty years, the process has been intense enough.
So the let's say the value of the ground has exceeded their expectations
and assumptions.
I'm talking here about the planning aspect.
Let's stick to twenty five percent not nine percent But let's
say the twenty five percent is supposed to be the social flat
So we have a new structure.
If we have three times and then twenty five south twenty five
percent of the inhabitants will actually had to leave right
So it all boils down to the community being well decimated in
a way.
So who Who gains who?
Whose benefit are we talking about here?
Well, as you can imagine, the answer is going to be complex.
First of all, it is not a city that is responsible for the execution
of that, but a giving housing cooperative.
It can belong to the city on or not.
It can be.
It can be independent of the city.
That's one thing.
Secondly, the ratio is at least thirty five percent to fifty
percent In the case of investments, it's public ground.
So those that were obtained from the public resources.
Now those ratio thirty five to fifty that concerns the surplus,
which means that it is an obligation of a given housing cooperative
that usually gets in touch with the developer to first of all
recreate the number of flats that are available
at present and then on top of that additionally provide thirty
five percent more So that means that this well this community
is in the minority.
But via referendum each of them has a chance to have a say and each
of them gets an offer from the housing cooperative.
And they have a choice.
They can either stay.
When there is a referendum, clear conditions are defined.
Every housing cooperative tries now to guarantee a minor, only
a minor increase in the rent costs, the basic rent and
quite favorable conditions for the inhabitants that already
live there.
So they get an incentive to stay.
But as a result of this heightened density, of course, this original
community then turns into a minority.
These kinds of endeavours are carried out by housing cooperatives,
so by the units that not only are developers, but that also later
manage those housing estates.
And so it is in their interest to ensure the coexistence
of the old and the new community and their cooperation.
Well, the assumption is that there is always an influx of the
new community that is the non privileged one and that
inhibits the new flats.
Of course this is very difficult but well we've we've been struggling
to to make it happen.
The our time was already very useful spent for this session
and we can continue our discussions during the break, the coffee
break.
So please be disciplined and return back at four o'clock Thank
you very much for your attention.