In the light of our current PerfectCity poll it is time to focus on another factor. When we are talking about “Social security” we mean protection against socially recognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment and others – including public insurances, pensions and child allowances.
To support this issue we would like to present an interesting report from ISSA to you. The ISSA, International Social Security Association, is an international organization bringing together government departments, social security administrations and agencies.
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General @ 14 Jul 2008 07:41 am by Robert Schmidl
FDi magazine, a news and foreign direct investment publication owned by The Financial Times Business Group, has a interesting section called “Locations of the future”. In this section they published future predictions for almost every region across the world.
The magazine’s "Cities, Regions and Countries of the Future" competition has been running for five years. Using a process similar to that used by the decision makers who decide the location of large-scale corporate investment projects, fDi magazine has created its own short list of the locations most suited for inward investment. These cities, regions and countries have the basics in place to flourish in the next few years by attracting high levels of inward investment. The magazine creates its short list by asking locations to provide key data and qualitative information in much the same way an investor might approach locations during the screening process used to decide which locations are suitable for new capital investment projects. fDi’s Locations of the Future competition covers each region once every two years.
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General @ 12 Jun 2008 10:41 am by Robert Schmidl
According to a study by Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) and private bank Berenberg Bank, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart have the best prospects of German major cities. In contrast, industrial cities like Gelsenkirchen, Wuppertal and Chemnitz come last in respect to future prospects.
In light of recent trends in urbanisation, the companies decided to analyse the 30 biggest cities in Germany. Another reason for focussing on these cities is, according to Dr. Hans-Walter Peters, Co-owner of Berenberg Bank, that these cities have a significant impact on economic success of the whole of Germany.
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General @ 05 Jun 2008 12:27 pm by Robert Schmidl
German Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) has observed the phenomenon of young and well-educated woman leaving their home regions (mainly rural regions) in East Germany in a report called “Women – men – spaces”.
The political change in Eastern Germany and in Eastern Europe 16 years ago was the beginning of dramatic social and economic transformations with impacts of demographic change in Eastern Germany. There has been a significant change in the population structure. The biggest labour migrant group included those between 18 and 35 years old, most of them women, and many well-educated. Besides the fact of a generally sinking birth rate in Germany as a whole (with the most severe decline experienced in the regions of the former GDR), labour migration impacts have narrowed the base of regional population pyramids - especially rural areas and in smaller towns. Not only are there greater numbers of older people than younger people but also fewer children today mean even fewer in the future. As a consequence, the population of eastern Germany is aging rapidly and cities are shrinking.
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While doing some research for our different factors in the current poll on “Economic Environment”, we found an interesting study on tourism. “City Tourism & Culture: The European Experience” is a report commissioned jointly by the World Tourism Organization (WTO) and European Travel Commission (ETC) and provides insights into the expansion of European cities as cultural tourism destinations.
The study provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of city tourism with a cultural motivation and aims to contribute to the marketing and product development of city tourism by throwing more light on the evolution of cultural tourism in Europe from ‘traditional’ to ‘innovative’. Based on the concepts of ’heritage’, ‘cultural’ and ‘creative’ cities, the study clusters destinations according to their predominant cultural product, and analyses the recent performance and positioning of each cluster - as well as their opportunities for future growth.
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To go along with our current poll on “Economic Environment” we want to focus on one factor: geographic advantages. What are geographic advantages and disadvantaged? How can and in what way do cities benefit from geographic advantages? We found answers to these questions in a study by Kathy Benson which deals with the development of cities and the geographic factors that influence them.
The development of cities throughout the world is influenced by geographic features. Each feature offers advantages and disadvantages to the settlement of large groups of people. Most cities are located where there are more geographic advantages than disadvantages. The boundary between two different features, for example where mountains meet the flat lands or where land meets the sea, may offer the advantages of both features. These locations offer opportunities for people to develop trade and industry.
Although there are other geographic features, some of the most important features that influence the growth of cities are the following:
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We found out that one of our blogroll partner A Vision of Europe has a new interesting campaign: The European prize 2008 for the best urban neighborhood in Europe. This prize is launched in occasion of the 25th anniversary of the European Prize for the Reconstruction of the City, the Philippe Rotthier Foundation for the Architecture in Bruxelles, together with A Vision of Europe and CivicArch Lab at the University of Ferrara.
The European Prize promotes the characters of excellence in the designing and building of new urban neighborhoods and aims at enhancing the European genius of building the fundamental matrix of the traditional city: the mixed-use urban neighborhood. It also aims at encouraging the creation of new mixed-use urban neighborhoods conceived and designed according to the principles of Sustainable Development and the EU Green Paper for the Urban Environment.
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These days everyone is talking about the current environment problems and how to solve them. Everyone is advised to behave in an earth friendly way. Actually you can find a “Combating Global Warming Mind Map” which outlines approaches to solving Global Warming. The focus is on doing something.
Map © Jane Genovese
This works well for every single one of us. It is easy to understand and more or less to implement these hints in everybody’s everyday life.
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General @ 18 Mar 2008 03:38 pm by Eurohypo
Finally the second part of the issue of the PerfectCity Charter "The City of The Future" is now online. It includes the results and the interpretation of these results of the latest poll, which was to find out the most important factors of city architecture. It also provides an overview on the discussions on city architecture.
The overall goal is the development of the PerfectCity Charter, which is being developed stepwise in and through discussion and represented by the corresponding dossiers of each issue. The next dossier is environmental conditions and sustainability.
Please leave your comments, annotations and your suggestion here under this post or at the end of the dossier in the sidebar..
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