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PHILIP STEIN – LEAD EXPERT COMUSTBILISI SEPTEMBER 18TH 2015
Community – led Urban Strategies in Historic TownsTHE COMUS PROJECT
EU Eastern Partnership Culture Programme II
COMUS OBJECTIVES- To enhance social, economic, urban
development practices capitalizing on cultural heritage resources
• Raising the importance of heritage• Fostering an integrated approach• Managing the urban dynamic (constraints and
pressures), and making best use of the urban fabric to support a new modernity
• Introducing stakeholder and citizen participation in the decision-making process
Pilot Project for the Rehabilitation of Cultural heritage in Historic Towns – Kyiv Initiative Regional Programme 2007
WHY INTEGRATED and PARTICIPATIVE?- Evolution in urban management
processes- Leipzig Charter 2007- Europe 2020: smart, green inclusive
growth = smart, green, inclusive towns and cities
- Recognition of the importance of small and medium-sized cities “Cities of Tomorrow” 2011
- Heritage is a player - Increasingly Accepted Good Practice
EXPANDING VOCABULARY- Identity- Authenticity- Preservation- Conservation- Rehabilitation- Monuments & Sites- Specialism- Protection- Heritage at Risk- World Heritage
Cities- Change of Use
- Historic Urban Landscape- Brownfields- Asset, Opportunity- Regeneration- Growth, Resource- Integrated & Sustainable- Partnership- Smart Cities, Green Cities- Socially Inclusive- Low Emission Zones- Community-Led
TERMINOLOGIES – REALITIES INEXTRICABLY LINKED
COMPONENTS OF THE INTEGRATED APPROACH: POLICY AREAS
- Physical Dimension: planning, housing, public open space, infrastructure
- Social Dimension: social services, health, cohesion and neighbourhoods
- Economic Dimension: local economy, employment, budgets and investment capacity
- Environmental Dimension: sustainability, energetics, sensibilisation
- Cultural Dimension: communities, heritage, arts
PROJECT MECHANICS (FORM AND CONTENT)INSPIRATION/INPUT
- Ljubljana Process: Rehabilitating our Common Heritage
- HeRO: Heritage as Opportunity
- URBACT- Pilot Project PP2:
Rehabilitation of Cultural Heritage in Historic Towns – Preliminary Technical Files
4 PHASES
• Inception Phase
• Planning Phase
• Project Phase
• Consolidation Phase
ACTIVITIES
• Local Stakeholder Group / PIU
• Pilot Town Reference Plan (Analysis/Vision and Objectives/ Identification of Actions)
• Concrete Heritage Rehabilitation Projects
THE PILOT TOWNS Armenia- Gyumri, Goris
Belarus- Mstislavi
Georgia- Dusheti
Moldova- Soroca
Ukraine- Lutsk, Zhovka
PHILIP STEINLEAD EXPERT COMUS PROJECT
PHILIP STEIN – LEAD EXPERT COMUSDUSHETI SEPTEMBER 18TH 2015
Community – led Urban Strategies in Historic TownsTHE COMUS PROJECT
EU Eastern Partnership Culture Programme II
PILOT TOWNS AND THE COMUS PLANNING PHASE
4 PHASES • Inception PhaseSetting agreements and protocols – Understanding
objectives – Building project teams
• Planning Phase
• Project PhaseInitiating specific, priority heritage-led rehabilitation
projects - Seeking to secure funding
• Consolidation PhaseTaking stock, evaluation as key to design/adapt process
and practice
PILOT TOWNS AND THE COMUS PLANNING PHASE
PLANNING PHASE• Revisiting the evidence base – Preliminary
Technical Files (PP2 – Kyiv Initiative)• Building a Local Stakeholder Group and project
management structure – Project Implementation Unit
• Producing a Pilot Town Reference Plan (Framework document and Road Map)- Analysis of key urban issues- Establishing a shared vision and operational objectives- Drawing up a catalogue of actions designed to tackle priority issues and achieve operational objectives
INTEGRATED APPROACH - ADDED VALUEANALYSIS AND INTERACTION OF KEY ISSUES AND
URBAN THEMES
• Level of Influence of Pilot Town• Relationship between project area and
functional urban area• Position of local heritage in urban development
context• Urban Functions• Housing• Capacity for intervention
TRAINING SESSION FOR PROJECT OFFICERS AND MANAGERS – MOBILISING LOCAL STAKEHOLDER GROUPS AND PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION UNITS
WORKSHOPS
• Heritage as cross-cutting theme – integrated approach
• What is a Local Stakeholder Group and who should participate
• Moderating skills • Methods to capitalise on stakeholder
collaboration
PHILIP STEINLEAD EXPERT COMUS PROJECT