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The Global Toolkit on Public Space
The Toolkit will be a practical reference for cities to implement principles, policy recommendations and development initiatives on public space. It will also serve the purpose of stimulating the involvement of the citizenry and civil society in securing, developing and managing public space in the city.
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The Expert Group Meeting on Public Space
- Angelo Larocca/Dipartimento Programmazione e Attuazione Urbanistica – Roma Capitale.
The Expert Group Meeting was held from January 12-14, 2014 in Rome. The topic of the meeting was Public Space in the Global Agenda for Sustainable Urban Development.
The overall objective of the meeting was to contribute to the development of policy and the direction of public space, also to meet the challenges of the rapidly urbanizing world. In specific the Expert Group Meeting wanted to update the content for the “Global Public Space Toolkit”, that was designed to help city efforts to access and improve the quality, supply and equitable distribution of public spaces, since features of the toolkit will be the guidelines for citywide public space surveys and public space performance indicators.
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The Charter of Public Space
The need for a shared definition of public space emerged during the last years and the Biennial of Public Space accepted this challenge, adopting the Charter in 2013.
A strong debate and a specific roadmap led to draft the Charter of Public Space (2013) presented during the Second Biennial of Public Space in Rome: a dedicated workshop took place, and the Charter was adopted. Specifically, the drafting process was developed by the editorial group (1) in several steps, which included: a framework for the first draft; national and international literature reviews (references, case studies, analysis of other documents, etc.); a 1.0 draft version; sharing of this version with the Second Biennial’s coordinators (Biennial Work Groups, Scientific Committee, competitions, calls, and workshops coordinators), including UN-Habitat; review of the draft version on the basis of the feedback and comments from the 2013 Biennial’s collaborators; finally the publication on the Biennial web site to get more feedback to be added to the version presented during the workshop at the final event of the 2013 Biennial of Public Space.
The workshop has been realized using the “Habitat Method” of “real-time editing”, selected for its utility in international contexts in building participated and shared documents.
The preliminary version of the “Charter of Public Space”, in English and Italian, has been projected on a screen to allow to everyone to be part of real-time editing.
Everybody was invited to propose and present amendments to single paragraphs, emerged prior or during the real time reading process.
The amendments generally approved by the assembly were inserted in the final version, that has been printed and published in both languages and finally presented during the plenary session of the Biennial, during which the Charter has been adopted by acclamation.
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