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European Architectural Competition EUROPAN:
NEW SESSION - Welcome in Europan 9 on the theme:"EUROPEAN URBANITY-SUSTAINABLE CITY AND NEW PUBLIC SPACES"
INFORMATION: www.europan-europe.com
Next Monday 5 February will be launched the ninth session of Europan. You will then find on the website www.europan-europe.com information on the theme, the sites, the calendar and the rules and will be able to register and download the full site’s files of the competition.
The generic theme of Europan 9 – European urbanity, sustainable city and new public spaces - specifically involves collaboration with the cities and urban developers in the organising countries. Indeed, the ultimate aim of the European vision of the city is to make society, in other words to bring together people of all conditions and origins. However, the dominant trend towards individualisation, the quest for autonomy, cannot be ignored. This is precisely the contradiction that Europan addresses: on the one hand wanting the city – i.e animation, communal life, people – and on the other side wanting intimacy, privacy, home and the immediate circle.
Once again, the generic topic of European urbanity lends itself to the multiple variations suggested by the sites proposed by the cities to entrants in the EUROPAN 9 competition. They are divided into four "families", differentiated by the problems they raise: possibilities for extension of the sustainable city, mobility networks and interconnections, local mutations and densification, opportunities for public spaces in an urban context...
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