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Cultural Planning

'Myth of the City' participants in Kissamos, Crete 1995

Further going ideas about living conditions in cities were discussed between poets and planners at the 'Myth of the City' conference held in Crete 1995. Many poets wrote about respective cities e.g. Anne Born not liking London, but needing the city for purpose of poetry readings and finding publishers. The poetess Paula Meehan took, however, the idea further by stressing the need for cities to retain wild or untamed places. As for planners Sue Tilden reflected in particular 'replica planning' as the possibility to reproduce the original idea in many further going, but smaller steps. At the same time, someone like Pavlos Delladetsima reflected about the rhetorics planners use and why good planning lacks in Greece any backing as there is the coalition of interests of developers, construction companies and property owners. Out of both the Fifth Seminar and the 'Myth of the City' followed the Article 10 ERDF project CIED which looked at culture as being a filter for planning interventions into a city.

 

‘City Planning’

• at the Fifth Seminar, 'Cultural Actions for Europe' (Athens 1994) a first effort was undertaken to link urban and regional planning by adding the cultural dimension
• during the 'Myth of the City' (Crete 1995) poets and planners talked about living conditions in cities and agreed how vital it is to get out of particular specialized viewpoints while 'untouched' places within cities are as crucial as being capable of countering forces of destruction of cities and its people.
• in CIED (Cultural Innovation and Economic Development), an Article 10 - ERDF project (1997 - 99) studies and actions were undertaken to further good practice in planning by including cultural tools (consensus, cultural impact studies, cultural calendar) to create 'innovative networks' so that the cultural sector has a voice; cultural sustainability was added to the criteria of sustainable development perceived in a differentiated way to include political, economical, environmental and institutional factors. The entire process complements Agenda 21. The aim of CIED has been to refine planning methodologies through culture. This can be attained by allowing far more participation of citizens in the planning process.
• POIEIN KAI PRATTEIN has in various EU Projects, including SISMA, prepared vulnerability studies for cultural heritage due to seismic related activities.
• within the framework of the Interreg III B CADSES HERMES project, Hatto Fischer completed a study for the City of Volos about 'successful cultural planning strategies'.
• Cultural planning was a special session at the ECCM Symposium "Productivity of Culture" held in Athens, 2007 (see www.productivityofculture.org)

• Anna Arvanitaki has furthermore experiences with the set-up of guidelines for Master Plans for Cities and worked on reviewing European spatial planning policy and tools used so far.

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