Metropolitan Research Institute
Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest
MRI colleagues, researcher Andrea Tönkő and project coordinator Hanna Szemző participated in the Resilient Cultural Heritage and Communities in Europe conference on 10-11 May 2018, where they outlined the main goals of “OpenHeritage: Organizing, Promoting and Enabling Heritage Re-use through Inclusion,
Technology, Access, Governance, and Empowerment”, a 4-year Horizon2020 project to be launched in June 2018.
OpenHeritage concentrates a consortium of 16 partners: universities, SMEs, think tanks and NGOs, is led by Metropolitan Research Institute. The project will aim at creating a sustainable management model of heritage assets, working with an open definition of heritage, and involving sites that are not listed or incorporated into the official heritage discourse. Instead, the consortium chose to focus on buildings, complexes, and spaces which lie outside traditional and centrally located heritage spaces, and rather have a symbolic or practical significance for local and trans-local communities. Through community and stakeholder involvement, resource integration and territorial embeddedness, OpenHeritage will select, survey and analyse peripheral, often neglected heritage sites spread over sixteen Observatory Cases and six Cooperative Heritage Labs in 10 European countries.
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UN-HABITAT, Nairobi & Institute of Urban Development, Kraków
Metropolitan Research Institute prepared the study for the “Western Subregion” of Central and Eastern European transition countries: the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) the Visegrad Four countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia), and Slovenia. The detailed analysis of the cities in this region covered overviews on the central topics of Population and Urbanization; The Economic Role of Cities; Social and Housing Issues; Urban Environmental Challenges; Urban Governance Systems; and Emerging Issues.
Nearly the entire staff of MRI researchers participated in the production of the analysis; moreover, MRI actively participated in the preparation of the project’s Summary Report.
Title: Anti-segregation action plan developed for the municipality of district 21 of Budapest (Csepel)
Client: Municipality of Budapest Csepel
Period: 11/2008 – 05/2009
The municipality of Budapest Csepel (district 21) has prepared its Urban Development Plan by May 2008, in which the anti-segregation strategic plan of the district was included. The municipality wanted to turn this strategic plan into an action plan basing on detailed analysis of the potentially segregated neighbourhoods of the district.
MRI has carried out a detailed data set analysis (by breaking the municipal data into small neighbourhoods) and also made several interviews in the segregated areas and also interviews with the institutional actors.
The suggestions based on the analysis of the current situation are partly focused on each of the 4 segregated neighbourhoods (suggesting complete or partial demolition or slight development of the infrastructure, territorial concentration of social care services). The suggestions were also grouped to thematic topics like desegregation of education, cooperative model of social services, predictable public housing policy.)
Documents:
Study on Sustainable Regeneration in Suburbs (synthesis report)
ReBLOCK project
There have been many surveys and researches