Deliverables
The website of the project LUDA (Improving the quality of life in large urban distressed areas) is designed by the LUDA team of the Leibniz-Institut fuer oekologische Raumentwicklung e.V. (responsible). It is available since the 23th September 2003. The contents of the website are constantly updated since this date.
The website informs the general public and the persons interested in the urban redevelopment processes about the project's progress, its main results, current affairs and interesting topics. It is structured around 7 chapters:
- Homepage, with the hard information about the project,
- LUDA project with a complete presentation of the research project,
- Network with a presentation of each partner and a possibility having exchanges about experiences and asking questions to the consortium,
- Resources which gathers the production of the project
- Links
- Search
- Contact, the platform to answer questions on the project
The project website gives furthermore the main access to the e-Compendium.
Summary of contents:
The LUDA website is composed by several sections. Their main contents are:
- Homepage: highlights of the project, minutes of the conference, medias events,&
- LUDA project: description of the project, timetable, events,e.Compendium etc.
- Network: short description of the 16 partners and the 12 reference cities
- Resources: This section gathers the publishable outcomes of the project : like the newsletter (also archive), description of the case studies in the Partner and Reference Cities, project position papers and the e-Compendium
- Links: websites of the European Community, research projects of the partners, links of the partners institutions, useful sites.
- Contact
Main innovative features/benefits:
The website, as well as the newsletter, is oriented towards practitioners as well as academics who are interested in the topics of urban distress and urban rehabilitation. Furthermore it is used to point out the specific needs of large urban distressed areas to decision-makers and multipliers on different levels. The website informs about the highlights of the LUDA project, offers space for articles and discussions, and provides useful links. The website is a main element of the dissemination of project results and information within a broader network, e.g. e.Compendium.
Current status and use as well as potential application and end-users:
The contents of the website are of course available by the internet.
As stated above, the website is a main element of the dissemination of project results and information within a broader network. It is oriented towards all major target groups of the project :
- Planning authorities on local, regional, national and EU level needing tools for development,
- Politicians on different levels needing policy recommendations and acting as decision-makers to transmit project results into policies,
- The scientific community demanding methodologies on how to find solutions for complex problems,
- Practitioners needing planning solutions for analysis and management of distressed areas,
- Local, national and international NGOs, civic groups and associations who can act as multipliers to transmit the project results,
- Citizens and students who are interested in LUDA subjects.
Description of the Result
The LUDA project formulated and widely disseminated 5 policy papers developed in different stages of the project. They contain recommendations addressed to different levels of decision-making. LUDA policy papers contribute therefore for change proposals expressed in the Commission s White Paper on European Governance which recommends a better stakeholders involvement, more openness, as well as better policies.
- Policy Paper 1: Sustainable Cities at the centre of the knowledge-based economy and cohesive European society. Thematic domains for future European Research within the 7th Framework Programme of the European Community for Research.
- Policy Paper 2: Improving the quality of life in large urban distressed areas (LUDA) - an issue of growing importance in Europe�s major cities (Proposal for the EUROCITIES Urban Regeneration Working Group)
- Policy Paper 3: Good Urban Governance: a Key Issue in Urban Rehabilitation is designed to increase understanding of LUDA. It recommends policy and actions to face urban regeneration.
- Policy Paper 4: Urban Integrated Intervention - How to make it better? Recommendations for a community-based and sustainable rehabilitation of the LUDA. This paper has the purpose to give a short guidance to cities, agencies, local authorities and their partners in tackling with urban distress. Urban regeneration has to be viewed holistically and be linked with quality of life issues. It presents the LUDA approach as a governance concept and management instrument.
- The Policy Paper 5: Improving the Quality of Life in LUDA as an executive summary gives a short overview about the developed LUDA approach.
Summary of scientific results:
LUDA project Policy Papers are designed to increase understanding of large urban distressed areas (LUDA) and recommend policy and actions to face them - they are prepared according to the different levels of decision takers.
Main innovative features/benefits:
The focus of the Policy Papers regards urban regeneration activities and gives advices to different decision makers levels backed on the premises that urban regeneration has to be viewed holistically and be linked with quality of life issues. LUDA project defined the 5 dimensions to describe quality of life (e.Compendium)
Current status and use:
The policy papers are being widely disseminated by all project partners
Potential application and End-users:
The policy papers are addressed to different levels of decision making from cities associations and decision-makers on higher levels, but they also are relevant for the local level as agencies tackling urban rehabilitation; once they point out important aspects of the project experience in terms of LUDA policy, participation, co-operation etc.
LUDA e-news is the free electronic newsletter of the project LUDA (Improving the quality of life in large urban distressed areas). It is edited by the LUDA team of the Institute of Ecological and Regional Development in Dresden (Germany). The newsletter is published every three months in English. Four editions have been published so far. LUDA e-news informs about the project's progress, current affairs and interesting topics. The newsletter is structured around the following sections: highlights (important events related to the project), worth knowing (interesting literature, web-sites, events etc.), essay (articles and discussions about issues relevant to the project), hints and upcoming events (next steps, events and the latest results of the project). LUDA e-news is publicly available via e-mail (to subscribers) and at the projects homepage.
Summary of contents:
As mentioned above LUDA e-news features several columns and sections. In the essay section at least one article per edition is published. Project partners as well as other practitioners and academics contribute to discussions by presenting their views on issues relevant to the project. The following articles have been published so far:
- John Ratcliffe and Lorcan Sirr (The Futures Academy at Dublin Institute of Technology): IMAGINEERING CITIES: A plea for more futures thinking in urban planning and development.
- Juliane Mathey, Birgit Kochan and Sylke Stutzriemer (Institute of Ecological and Regional Development, Dresden): Urban Wastelands of Today Ecological Recreation Areas of Tomorrow?
- Stefan Weber (Saxon Redevelopment Bank, Dresden): Presentation as Part of the International Conference ?Green Brownfields II on 18th June 2003 on the Topic of Financing.
- Lubomír Jamecný, Dagmar Petrikova and Maroa Finka (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava): Surveys, Analyses and Evaluation of LUDA Experiences from Slovak Republic.
- Julie Gannon (The Futures Academy at Dublin Institute of Technology): Healthy Cities.
- Ingrid Belcáková (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava): Methods and Tools of Revitalisation of Deteriorated Areas.
- Mario Moutinho (Universidade Lusofona de Humadidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa): A Quick View over an Urban Distressed Area in Rio de Janeiro.
Main innovative features/benefits:
The newsletter is oriented towards practitioners as well as academics who are interested in the topics of urban distress and urban rehabilitation. Furthermore it is used to point out the specific needs of large urban distressed areas to decision-makers and multipliers on different levels. The newsletter informs about the highlights of the LUDA project, offers space for articles and discussions, and provides useful links and other hints. Thus, the newsletter is a platform for discussions on LUDA issues within a broader network and a main element of information about the projects progress.
Current status and use as well as potential application and End-users:
LUDA e-news is the established newsletter of the LUDA project, published every three months. The newsletter is freely distributed via e-mail and available at the project s homepage. Currently there are about 150 subscribers from different countries, aside the project countries, e.g. Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Finland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.
As stated above, the newsletter is a main element of information about issues of urban distress in general and specifically about the subject of large urban distressed areas within the LUDA project. The newsletter LUDA e-news orients towards all major target groups of the project:
-The scientific community demanding methodologies on how to find solutions for complex problems (state of the art of current scientific discussion);
- Planning authorities on local, regional, national and EU level needing tools for development;
- Private planning businesses needing planning solutions for analysis and management of distressed areas;
- Local, national and international NGOs, civic groups and associations as well as individual citizens, who can act as multipliers to transmit the project results, needing information on the general framework of urban rehabilitation (e.g. ideas, good examples);
- Politicians on different levels needing policy recommendations and acting as decision-makers to transmit project results into policies;
- Private economy needing solutions for problems caused by the situation in distressed areas.
Representatives of most of these groups are already subscribers. The project encourages a wide dissemination and asks for more subscribers in all fields.
The LUDA Compendium, a web-based document, made up of six handbooks on the regeneration and sustainable development of large urban distressed areas throughout European cities.
The six handbooks include:
Handbook 1: LUDAs: The challenge they pose
Handbook 2: Understanding LUDAs
Handbook 3: A community-based approach to sustainable urban regeneration: the key role of participation and futures workshop
Handbook 4: Integrating Assessment into Sustainable Urban Regeneration
Handbook 5: The LUDA Assessment Decision Support System
Handbook 6: Good Practice Case Studies
Handbook 7: Monitoring Quality of Life in LUDA
The e-compendium is a summary of the scientific results of the LUDA Project in an integrated, cross-cutting strategy towards promoting sustainable urban regeneration.
The e-compendium provides:
- Framework for conceptualising LUDAs, defining their scale and quality of life they offer.
- Critique of previous policy initiatives on urban distress
- Presentation of alternative policy position on urban distress under the heading of a community-based approach to sustainable urban regeneration.
- Specification of this new approach. Grounding of new approach in collaborative platforms, consensus building and strategic alliances that coalesce around the use of more participative techniques and futures thinking - focusing in particular on the prospects of situational analysis, visioning, programming and implementation.
- A protocol for integrating assessment into such analysis, visioning and programming activities
- Set of assessment methods for evaluating the contribution of the above towards sustainable urban regeneration.
- A LUDA Assessment process supporting the policy shift towards sustainable urban regeneration.
- Good practice case studies of leading edge city authorities who are leading this shift towards sustainable urban regeneration
- A system for Monitoring Quality of Life in urban regeneration. This includes monitoring changes towards the alterations in quality of life for defined time periods and several spatial levels as well as monitoring the performance directed towards the results of implementation of programmes and projects - by using objective and subjective data
Main innovative features/benefits:
- The compendium is a web-based tool and takes the form of 7 electronic documents, with internal and external links, all cross-referenced to leading case studies. This is also supported with a glossary of terms employed used and search functions (key word and structured query language-based)
- The policy shift the compendium sets out in novel as it advocates a middling out strategy as the means to integrate top down and bottom up strategies previously employed.
- Focuses on how to make urban regeneration sustainable and what participative techniques coupled with futures thinking can contribute to the sustainability of the urban regeneration process at the take-off stage.
- Restructures many existing environmental assessment methods to support this in line with the requirements of Agenda 21 and terms of reference for the deployment of this agreement under the Aalborg principles.
- Supports technical experts in the used of these modified environmental assessment methods through the deployment of a decision support system.
- Shows middle managers and policy makers how this community-based approach is being developed by cities, what it can do and how it should be put into practice.
Current status and use:
Operational, been tried and tested by partner city authorities engaged in the LUDA project.
Potential application and End-users:
Potential for use by all cities embarking on urban regeneration and sustainable development of such programmes throughout Europe.
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