Second session - part a) nine questions to planners
Second Session - part a) nine questions put to planners
Chairing:
Juergen Eckhardt (architect) and Sue Tilden (planner)
- Does there exist urban planning? Who are the real decision makers?
- What evaluation methods are used to assess current affairs?
- What technical options are available?
- What constraints do decision making processes face?
- What unresolved problems exist in urban environments?
- Which values of the city are structured hierarchically? Set of priorities?
- How does the city compare itself to others within what networks?
- What conceptual solutions have been offered and tried out so far?
- Do people see in cities livable solutions, if any at all?
Introducing the nine questions - Hatto Fischer
Answers were given by
- Anna Arvanitaki
- Pavlos Delladetsimas
- Sue Tilden
Participants of the analytical group:
- Anna Arvanitaki (architect, regional planner; Ministry of the Environment and Public Works, Athens)
- Pavlos Delladetsimas (regional planner, Aegean University)
- Phil Cooke (director of Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Cardiff, Wales)
- Yannis Phillis (dean of the Technical University of Crete in Chania, prof., poet)
- Nikos Stavrolakis (historian, painter, former director Jewish museum in Athens)
- Bart Verschaffel (philosopher, University of Gent, Belgium)
- Jakovos Tsourounakis (director of Goethe institute in Chania)
- Thanos Contargyris (manager of DIALOGOS, Athens – Paris)
- Socrates Kabouropoulos (manager of ANETEK, Kissamos)
- Dimitri Stathakos (research director at DEMOKRITOS, Athens)
- Richard Meheux (art historian, Athens and London)
- Eleni Iliopoulou (urban / regional planner, Ministry of Environment, Athens)
This discussion wished to address officials, planners, architects etc. from the Municipality of Chania about matters of urban affairs linked to urban planning, economic development, tourism, culture etc.
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