Urban regeneration after the crisis: to what extent can innovation replace public money? Iván Tosics’s conference presentation held at the University of Barcelona is available online.
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Dense suburban New Towns – Ivan Tosics’s URBACT photoblog
Hong Kong is the ’dream’ of urban planners: the city has been consistently developed in the last decades according to the Transit Oriented Development (TOD) principles, creating strong link between urban density and efficient public transport. What are the pros and cons of such a system and to what extent can this become a model for European urban development in high-growth areas?
Habitat Housing Review 2015
Ivan Tosics on URBACT: deprived urban areas and European policy dilemmas
TENLAW closing conference: pictures and presentations
The closing conference of _EU FP7 funded project TENLAW – Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Multi-level Europe – took place in Budapest, Hungary on 17 and 18 September 2015, opened by project leader Christoph Schmid, and Mercator senior fellow / former EC Commissioner László Andor. The presentations held and photos taken at the conference are available here.
TENLAW closing conference venue
The venue of the conference will be Hotel ARCadia in downtown Budapest, located in Madách Imre Square, right in the city centre. Using public transport, the venue is accessible by Metro (lines 1, 2 and 3); tram (lines 47 and 49), and bus (line 9, 15, 115); please get off public transportation at “Deák Ferenc tér” stop.
The main conference room in which the event takes place is on the 5th floor of ARCadia’s building. The entrance to the lift and staircase is accessible under 4 Madách Imre Sqr., in the far left corner of the square when arriving from Deák square. If you have any trouble finding the place, do not hesitate to ask help at the receptions of Hotel ARCadia and/or Hotel Regency, also to be found on Madách Sqr.
Please note that the conference is open to the press as wll as to the general public. If you are interested in participating, please indicate via e-mail to the conference organizers Vera Horvath at vera.horvath@mri.hu; or Jason Dinse at jrdinse@yahoo.com.