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First session: planners' remarks and poetic observations about life in cities

First Session: Presentation of problems of cities as perceived by poets differently from planners

Chairpersons: Bart Verschaffel (University of Gent) and Hatto Fischer (Touch Stone / Dialogos)

Aim of this discussion between urban experts, including regional / urban planners and poets was to seek an understanding and dialogue between the two groups. The aim was to examine whether or not poets are stuck to a negative myth about life in cities as exemplified by recent trends in poetry while urban planners are facing questions of sustainability.

a) for the analytical group: urban planning and urban concepts

Juergen Eckhardt: Key concepts for a discussion about the possibilities of city planning to resolve the problems of the city.

Pavlos Delladetsima: The rhetoric of urban planners

b) poetic observations about life in cities

Introduction:

Anne Borne: The city – ‘gemme of all joy or the place where Houses thick and sewers annoy the air – with Reference to the Reith Lectures

Poetic observations about cities - taken from poems

Katerina Anghelaki Rooke

Paula Meehan

c) first attempt at a cultural synthesis between planners and poets

Voula Mega: The wish for visionary poetry and planners about future life in cities

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