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Bologna Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons

I came across this today which I think will be of interest to PASCAL subscribers: Bologna Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons. The full text is featured below as is a summary of the most salient points.

A second visit to Cork Lifelong Learning Festival

For the second year running I had the pleasure of attending the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival. Because of a previous appointment, I had missed the UNESCO Growing Learning in Cork event and had only the Thursday and the Friday to enjoy the proceedings, being picked up at the airport on a wet and miserable Wednesday night by Willie McAuliffe (Chair of the Festival Organising Committee) after a 14 hour journey.

Cork Lifelong Learning Festival

A Visit to the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival

UN Sustainable Development Issues for Public Consultation

The UN Committee on Sustaianable Development has issued its draft report and invites feedback. The 10 challenges it suggests are:

The Growing Importance of Cities

Colleagues may be interested in this interview on the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) website. The discussion features Dr Benjamin Barber, the American political theorist whose forthcoming book - If Mayors Ruled The World - will argue that mayors are the people to get things done on an international scale, emphasising the growing importance of cities.

Networks synergetic with Learning Cities

I am continuously finding networks with synergies to the work we are doing in Learning Cities. The following two are of interest:

Liveable cities - a Singapore based network.

Fundacion Metropoli, Spanish foundation focussing on city networks.

These came from a paper by John Matthews about cities as leaders of green transformation.

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Sustainability Needs Cities

The Rio+20  Summit takes place in June. Pre-conference forums and papers are being distributed widely within a variety of subject categories. The entry below is right within  PASCAL's bailiwick and especially that of Peter Kearns's new initiative on cities of sustainable opportunity  within PIE. Anyone interested in responding directly to the Rio Forum within the Stakeholders group should go to this link

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Cities of Opportunity

Here is a useful website about Cities of Opportunity.  Here you can download the fourth edition of Cities of Opportunity, 2011. As the site says, this year the report covers 26 cities and presents in-depth results covering all 10 indicators and 66 variables, examines issues and adds insight from urban thinkers and influencers.

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The Changing Scope of Learning Cities and Regions

Traditionally Learning Cites and Regions concentrate on the first of the two words, often with the prefix ‘lifelong’ and it is generally acknowledged that the provenance of the term ‘Learning City’ lies within the context of the growth of interest in lifelong learning throughout the world. However, successive projects and interpretations since 1998 have enlarged the scope of a learning city to include concepts not normally associated with formal educational terminology and structures. This paper shows how the span of learning city and region understanding has, in the past 13 years, expanded into many other realms of place-making activity, referencing programmes and projects initiated by the European Commission.

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