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The Baltic Urban Lab Final Conference took  place in Spikeri Concert Hall (Maskavas iela 4 k-1), Riga, Latvia, from September 6-7th, 2018. The conference presented the results of the project and discussed how cities around the Baltic Sea region can tackle better challenges related to brownfield redevelopment. Challenges in brownfield redevelopment are similar across borders: fragmented land ownership, large amount of stakeholders involved, lack of common vision or conflicting development visions, the technical, geological, and financial difficulties of remediating contaminated land as well as questions about responsibility. Close cooperation and partnerships between different actors from the beginning of the redevelopment process are key to tackle these challenges.

For project partners only! 

The three-day event gathered the project partners for: 

1) Joint City Pilot Review Meeting for Turku on 13.2.2018

2) Project Meeting 14.-15.2.2018 

Internal event meant for project partners only.

The day began with presentations, then continued with the site visit in the Riga Pilot Site and a case study workshop. The main idea behind the Peer Review day was for the other partners to give feedback to the City of Riga on brownfield site regeneration process.

Brownfield regeneration site planning improved with 3D visualization and interactive public participation tools

Baltic Urban Lab invited urban planners and other interested experts in Norrköping to learn how to benefit from the possibilities new interactive participation tools and especially the use of 3D visualization bring in urban planning. The event was open to anyone interested!

To be able to plan a good city for all users, involvement of public and different stakeholder has become more and more important in urban planning. This is a part of a wider transformation in the way our cities are planned and governed. In order to increase broad public participation and not just the few active individuals, the urban planning process should be made understandable to all and participation as easy as possible

Technical development and introduction of new digital tools has brought new possibilities to the development of interactive participation tools in the field of urban planning. However, city planners are still asking questions which tools to use and how they should be used.

The focus of the Baltic Urban Lab Workshop II is to showcase practical examples of how 3D models, visualization tools and other interactive participation tools can be used to support public participation especially in the context of brownfield site planning. In the workshop, the advantages, added value and challenges they bring in urban planning are discussed.

The second webinar's keynote speaker is Martin Westin. His introductory presentation's working title is Power and Conflict in Planning - Practical approaches to wicked problems. Many of today´s societal challenges can be understood as wicked problems, i.e. problems that are contested, complex and ill-defined. To approach such problems planners need to involve a multitude of stakeholders and deal with power and conflict. This presentation shares experiences from facilitating over twenty multi-stakeholder collaborations in Southern Africa, South-East Asia and Europe.

The webinar speaker is Juha Kostiainen. His introductory presentation topic will be “Urban development and renewl: trends and cases”. The cases are Tripla in Espoo Pasila (FI), and Tampella in Tampere (FI). Juha Kostiainen holds a position of SVP, Urban Development and Corporate Relationships in the YIT Corporation.

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