City and citizenship for the 21st Century
Ten years ago the fashion of the city as a “hell”, “crisis”, “problem”, was still in… The tendency today is to think of the city as a response, as a solution, as an engine or a scenery of the progress.
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Program of the Dialogue (PDF)
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This dialogue dealt with the problems and challenges arising from today's megacities, which will be accommodating 60% of the world population before 2025. There was consensus among the speakers that cities should have a greater presence in the international decision-making bodies, more competences should be transferred from the central governments to the municipalities and the collaboration between them must improve for planning the management and the future of the cities of the 21st Century.
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• Acebillo, chief architect of the City Council of Barcelona: "Architecture is a way of promoting new economic activities"
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• Experts from all around the world will analyze the challenges facing cities in the 21st century
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• Jaime Lerner (Architect): "The city is not a problem, rather it contains a solution for everything"
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• Joan Busquets (Architect): "The main reason for transforming cities has been the car"
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• Joan Muñoz (Urban geographer): "We should all be able to live in the city, but it's too expensive"
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• Jordi Borja: "The city is no longer a guarantee for accessing citizenship
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• Manuel de Solà-Morales (Architect): "The biggest danger faced by our cities is segregation"
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• Michael Cohen (Architect): "The challenge of local government will be managing resources between the center of the city and the marginal periphery"
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• Oriol Bohigas (Architect): “Cities have to be conflictive"
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• Raj Rewal: "We must build cities on a human scale. There is no reason to reproduce bad copies of Manhattan buildings in Asia
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