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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=22 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="040000d2egerdp.png"> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=145 BGCOLOR="#333399" TEXT="#080000" background="03fa2c00erkjzj.png"> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="04b82a30.jpg" border=0 width="130" height="163" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Rue de Laeken, Brussels</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Council for European</B><B> </B><B>Urbanism</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=458 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Council for European Urbanism</I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="04107040.png" border=0 width="263" height="4" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  New Urbanism in Europe</div> <bR> <div> A<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" > group of 75 European and American architects and urban designers spent a week</FONT></div> <div> of intensive discussion about New Urbanism, traditional design and the European</div> <div> particular context during the First EuroCouncil from April 1-6, 2003 in Brussels and</div> <div> Bruges.The sessions included presentations and criticism of built and unbuilt projects,</div> <div> and discussions on the progress of urban design.</div> <bR> <div> T<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >he result was the founding, in a cellar of Bruges on Sunday, April 6, 2003 of the</FONT></div> <div> <I>Council for European Urbanism</I> (CEU)  </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="04c2c320.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="306" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Street in Bruges, Flanders</div> <div> (Photo by Lucien Steil)</div> <bR> <div> T<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >he First EuroCouncil meeting  with leading New Urbanists from America and Europe was organized by Christian Lasserre and Joanna Alimanestianu from Brussels, and Lucien Steil from Luxembourg. It was jointly administered by the American Council (not the Congress) under John Massengale and Bill Dennis. Andrés Duany and Stefanos Polyzoides of the CNU board advised on the process.</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="04d90f10.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="241" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> First EuroCouncil Session in Bruges</div> <div> (Photo by Ben Bolgar)</div> <bR> <div> T<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >he Council included representatives from every Western European country except Denmark, Iceland and the Czech Republic. Those who attended were practising New Urbanists with considerable experience. As well as the CNU, institutions represented included INTBAU, the Prince's Foundation, Byens Fornyelse (the Norwegian Foundation for Urban Renewal), A Vision of Europe, the Institute of Classical Architecture, the Technische Universität Berlin, and the schools of architecture at the University of Viseu (Portugal), San Sebastian (Spain), Ferrara (Italy), Naples (Italy), Glasgow (Scotland), Miami and Notre Dame, as well as the Knight Program in Community Building.</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="04e5e080.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="264" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Maurice Culot presents the BEX (Best European Example) Award </div> <div> to Count Léopold Lippens, Mayor of Knokke </div> <div> (Photo by Lucien Steil)</div> <bR> <div> CEU Action Proposals</div> <bR> <div> T<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" >he CEU is operating as a committee and a network providing support and cooperation to national chapters as well as preparing further institutional actions. A Coordinating  Board  will be elected at the next EuroCouncil planned in Stockholm in Fall  2003.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> T<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" >he following items have been elaborated at the First EuroCouncil in Bruges and have been elaborated upon and refined for discussion and for publication:</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>1)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I> Each national chapter is entrusted to grow organically by selection of its own members. The chapters are authorized to incorporate officially if required and to collect membership dues and donations as they see fit.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>2)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I> Each national chapter will decide individually whether or not to apply for acceptance as an official chapter in the CNU. Individual CEU members are urged to become members of the CNU and to attend the North American Congresses.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>3) </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I>A North-American Chapter of the CEU will be formed to allow cross-membership.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>4</B><B>)</B><I> </I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I>The national Chapters will endeavour to arrange government sponsorship for a model project addressing the re-urbanization of a typical 1960's housing slab and tower area in a European country.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>5)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I> The German Chapter will endeavour to raise funds for a foundation book equivalent to Peter Katz's "New Urbanism". The material to be published will form the foundation of the presentations at the Second EuroCouncil in Stockholm.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>6)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I> The Swedish Chapter will endeavour to raise funds in support of the Second EuroCouncil to take place in Stockholm.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>7)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I> The American and Belgian Chapter will endeavour to raise funds for the publication of Council Report V as a record of this meeting.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>8)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I> There is to be an awards program to be instituted as soon as practicable according to the suggestions presented by Javier Cenicacelaya during the First EuroCouncil in Bruges. </I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>9)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I> A committee of the CEU headed by Harald Kegler and Duane Phillips (Germany), as well as Robert Adam (INTBAU) will customize the existing Charter of the New Urbanism to meet European conditions. This will be introduced for web discussion and then finalized. It is the intention that it be ratified by signature of its membership at the upcoming Stockholm Council. While it is desirable that there be a single European Charter, the possibility is left open for national versions and translations as necessary.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>10)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I> The existing website will be expanded by Lucien Steil to become a virtual network coordinating national chapters and affiliated associations.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>11)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I> A CEU listserv discussion forum will be set up to allow for wide debate among CEU members.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>12)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I> INTBAU will coordinate its website with those of associated institutions and provide any assistance it can in facilitating communication and publicity.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>13)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I> Matthew Hardy from INTBAU will coordinate with UDU (Urbanism Down Under) regarding  issues and synergies of New Urbanism in the Australasia area.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><IMG SRC="0515e060.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> Street in Bruges</div> <div> (Photo by Lucien Steil)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> CEU  Council Meetings </div> <bR> <div> <I>* The second EuroCouncil will be held in </I><I><U>Stockholm</U></I><I> in </I><I>October 2003</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>* An interim meeting will be held in</I><I><U> </U></I><I><U>Bologna</U></I><I> in September 2004</I></div> <div> <I>(Jointly hosted by "A Vision of Europe" and "INTBAU")</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>* A joint CNU-CEU world meeting will be held in </I><I><U>Berlin</U></I><I> in 2005</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>In addition, attention is drawn to the following events this year: </I></div> <bR> <div> <B>a)</B><I> One day conference on Typological Architecture in </I><I><U>Naples</U></I><I> (Italy), 6 June, 2003</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>b)</B><I> A Camillo Sitte conference in </I><I><U>Lutherstadt Wittenberg</U></I><I>, 15-16 November 2003 (Commemoration of  the 100th anniversary of Camillo Sitte's death)</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><IMG SRC="0505e060.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> 18th Century Complex in Bruges</div> <div> (Photo by Lucien Steil)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>European Cities, Towns and Countryside are under threat from:</I></div> <bR> <div> <I> </I><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I>W</I></FONT><I>aste of land and cultural resources</I></div> <bR> <div> <I> </I><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I>S</I></FONT><I>ocial Segregation and Isolation</I></div> <bR> <div> <I> </I><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I>M</I></FONT><I>onofunctional developments</I></div> <bR> <div> <I> </I><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I>L</I></FONT><I>oss of local, regional and national identity,</I></div> <div> <I> character and distinctiveness</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="0545e060.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> Urban Periphery in Northern Portugal</div> <div> (Photo by Lucien Steil)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> European Urbanism: 12 Challenges</div> <bR> <div> <I>Here below 12 Challenges formulated in the plenary meeting of the First EuroCouncil: these challenges which found a large consensus are to guide the transformation of the CNU Charter into the CEU Charter to be presented and to be ratified at the Second EuroCouncil in Stockholm in Fall 2003:</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> 1. Poorly integrated housing: slab and tower blocks and low density sprawl.</div> <bR> <div> 2. Unintegrated public and private functions: business parks and out-of-town shopping and entertainment centers.</div> <bR> <div> 3. Disposable buildings and short life-cycle developments.</div> <bR> <div> 4. Degradation of public places.</div> <bR> <div> 5. Public realm made of left-over space.</div> <bR> <div> 6. Car-dominated transport.</div> <bR> <div> 7. Inappropriate road and street types</div> <bR> <div> 8. Disconnected street networks </div> <bR> <div> 9. Autocratic and  planning methods and over-regulation.</div> <bR> <div> 10. Destruction of villages through  decay, abandonment or suburbanisation.</div> <bR> <div> 11. Disruptive infill and disfunctional zoning in historic urban areas.</div> <bR> <div> 12. Non-contextual architectural guidelines in historic city centres</div> <div> (Unesco Historic Preservation Charters of Venice and Krakow) </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0525e060.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Urban Infill in Bruges</div> <div> (Photo by Lucien Steil)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0535e060.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> New Museum in Luxembourg "Unesco World Heritage" Historic Centre</div> <div> (Photo by Lucien Steil)</div> <bR> <div>    </div> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Times New Roman" >  </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index_m.htm" TITLE="nucouncil"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>