V - European Urban Summer School

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    City centre regeneration : Оld town east
    (AESOP, 2010) Barranco, Ricardo; Egyud, Reka; Maeiyat, Mohammad; Murseli, Rizah; Swistun, Deborah; Triantis, Loukas
    The area is located in Wrocław’s historic city centre, close to the central market, in the most touristic part of the city near the Odra river. Replacing second world war destruction the area was regenerated mainly with blocks of flats and public open spaces following the principles of modern urban planning and architecture. Not well connected with its adjacent historic core, the main city market, commercial activities and educationalcultural buildings on the river bank, it has valuable permeable internal spaces between buildings. We have identified several problems which impede the material value of the area and needs redressing. The immaterial value is represented by the modernist style of the housing blocks, their layout and the associated open spaces, together with historic events still present in the collective memory. Interaction with local inhabitants informed our SWOT analysis.
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    Ring road (WZ) : from busy road to sustainable boulevard
    (AESOP, 2010) Barranco, Ricardo; Egyud, Reka; Maeiyat, Mohammad; Murseli, Rizah; Swistun, Deborah; Triantis, Loukas
    VISION The inner ring road Kazimirza Wielkiego is curtailing people’s mobility and disrupting communication and exchange between the affected adjacent areas. It needs to be given a public space profile. All the intersecting roads can work as bridges between commercial, cultural, recreational and residential areas on either side, connecting to, and reinforcing the grid which constitutes Wrocław’s fabric. The main focus is on walking mobility, turning Kazimirza Wielkiego street into a pleasant public space, with activities happening alongside to favour human presence on it. The desired vision aims to unify what has been divided till now. It is important to bring together the diverse areas which form the city centre, so that all their distinct functions can be fully expressed and interact with each other, converting the city centre into a kind of ‘organic being’ capable of adapting itself to people’s wills and daily needs. TRANSFORMATION PLAN Our vision can be expressed in the physical realm through the following measures: • creating connections between important spaces, • eliminating cross traffic, allowing only endtraffic, • reducing traffic (2x1 lane), • keeping the tram lines (optimise the current line system, and following distance), • accommodating bicycle lanes, • designing more pedestrian friendly streets, • renovating facades, • incentives for development of additional activities at the ground level to attract people, • recuperating the existing actual water channel as an alternative aquatic transportation mode.
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    Wrocław : Culture for Wrocław
    (AESOP, 2010) Barranco, Ricardo; Egyud, Reka; Maeiyat, Mohammad; Murseli, Rizah; Swistun, Deborah; Triantis, Loukas
    This presentation deals with building local capacity along social, economic, environmental and cultural layers. It focuses on metropolitan governance to show how boundaries can be overcome through cooperation. It promotes environmental awareness, attention to heritage and importance for Wrocław to become a compact city as part of the ‘new Wrocław city culture’. It discusses strategic development opportunities which could contribute to Wrocław’s new image. Wrocław is sprawling, in part due to strong urbanrural migration. However the city has a low density on average compared with other European cities with the same population. The high number of universities is a very big opportunity for the city, and its knowledge base could serve as platform for city development.