Events

Learning from Freiburg Special Event

14 - 16 October 2010
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Expressions of interest now welcome!
The closing date for receiving expressions of interest is Friday 10 September 2010

Principal Sponsor Land Securities

As the highlight of its tenure as The European City of the Year for 2010, the City of Freiburg is hosting a special event with The Academy of Urbanism to explore and promote sustainable planning and development. It will culminate in the signing of The Freiburg Charter on sustainable urbanism with Green Party Mayor, Dr. Dieter Salomon.

Renowned for decades as one of Europe’s greenest cities, Freiburg has an important story to tell about post-war reconstruction, challenging conventions, innovating new directions in transport and energy, and maintaining its momentum to become an extremely liveable environment that combines tradition and modernity.

The Study Tour will include a historical presentation and visits to the substantially rebuilt old town around the impressive Minster, as well as to old and new suburbs beyond the medieval core, including Vauban and Reiselfeld. There will also be opportunities to visit the wider Black Forest regional setting.

The Freiburg Charter dimension will include a presentation of key principles of sustainable urbanism by city-planner Professor Wulf Daseking, carefully crafted into a wider approach for all towns and cities, yet drawing from the Freiburg experience. There will be participatory discussion of the charter content, before a formal signing of the Charter.

Learning from Freiburg is a unique opportunity for Academicians and their colleagues to engage with a place - effectively a living laboratory - that has done so much to pioneer urban policy and development practice, greatly influencing the European mainstream.