E-Urban Newsletter - [EN]E-Urban Newsletterhttp://e-urban.squarespace.com/site-management/2009-12-06T19:54:47ZSquarespaceWebsite Overhaul - E-Urban starts afresh [EN] 6/12/09http://e-urban.squarespace.com/site-management/2009/12/6/website-overhaul-e-urban-starts-afresh-en-61209.htmlHuib Riethof, editor2009-12-06T17:38:25Z2009-12-06T17:38:25Z1. A silence that lasted more than 2 years ended recently. The website presentation is being overhauled. Two new articles appeared: Anti-Islamische Agitatoren missbrauchen die Geographie des Armuts (Ulfkotte) in German, and France: La relégation des quartiers urbains "sensibles" s'approfondit in French.

2. E-Urban was created as a rallying point for urban redevelopment workers in the field. That remains unchanged. But our experience with city-twinning during the last two years, has learned, that the same kind of information and exchange between practicians is badly needed on the city level, too. Our mission statement will be adapted to these new priorities.

Huib Riethof (Brussels), editor.

]]>Announcements page updated 4.10.07 [EN]http://e-urban.squarespace.com/site-management/announcements-page-updated-41007-en.htmlHuib Riethof, editor2007-10-04T20:23:27Z2007-10-04T20:23:27ZAdded or Updated: 

  • The 3rd-party Announcements Page, with news from EUKN, URBACT and EUROCITIES, was updated today (October 4). Some upcoming European events will be commented upon in the Journal.
  • An interesting UK external link (FEED) is provided on the UK Urban Feeds Page: Kevin Harris on "Neighbourhoods, Neighbourliness, Social Capital and Life at Local level". Five most recent posts, updated continuously.
  • On the Workplaces Page a PictoBrowser linked to the Flickr E-Urban Workplaces Set, of pictures taken at meetings and offices of urban regeneration workers in Europe, that allows easy and large-format browsing of the workplaces-collection. (It is not functioning yet, but it will, within a few days...) 

Deleted or removed:

  • Generate!UrbLog
  • Urban Project Duration Poll
  • QEC-ERAN flyer (for May conference, go to Journal and to Images/Workplaces)
  • News Pages by Language (for News in English, see Home- or Start-page [EN] - Overview & Introduction) 
]]>NEW E-Urban Poll on Minimum urban integrated area-based urban development projects 22.05.07 [EN]http://e-urban.squarespace.com/site-management/2007/5/22/new-e-urban-poll-on-minimum-urban-integrated-area-based-urban-development-projects-220507-en.htmlHuib Riethof, editor2007-05-21T22:55:14Z2007-05-21T22:55:14ZAfter the EU/Turkey poll, we published today a NEW one on e-urban:


What should be the Minimum Duration of an integrated, area-based urban regeneration project?
1 year
2 years (60% of initial proposals)
4 years (European Average)
8 years (90% sustainable results recorded)
More, if necessary
I don't know
  
pollcode.com free polls
This poll is for experienced people who are, or have been, working in integrated urban neighbourhood projects, for researchers who work(ed) in that field and for urban officials and councillors, who organise and monitor this kind of projects.
Others, are kindly invited to vote for Nr. 6: "I don't know".
Please, note, that we are speaking about integrated projects, i.e. projects that comprise action on more than one policy department (f.i.: housing, jobs, education, culture). Objective of that kind of projects is attaining a sustainable, autonomous dynamic in the economy, the community and the interaction of people involved in the area. (For the measurability of those objectives, see upcoming article of Gabriel Chanan <link>.)
 It is our (e-urban) estimation, that, initially, about 60% of the projects in preparation, are limited to a duration of 1 or 2 years. (Answer 2).
This is often corrected after one or two years. The real average project duration in Europe is, (again, our estimation), about 4 years. (Answer 3).
But the often occurring insecurity about the near future of the project is having a negative effect on this kind of prolongated interventions.
It is our impression, that a project span of about 8 years is the most effective one. This doesn't mean, that the project should remain unchanged and un-updated during that entire duration. If it is successful, after some years, another kind of leadership, respecting the structures that have been put in place and run by the partners within and outside of the area, should be developed. Urban integrated area based projects are dynamic in structure but steadfast in their main goal: creating sustainable local dynamics, integrated in the greater body of the urban environment.
Creating a privileged audience within e-urban: The Members 
This might be our last professional poll that is open to all visitors. We are preparing for e-urban a membership-status. Urban practicians will be invited to propose themselves as such, filling out a simple form on this website. If accepted as such, they will have no obligations, only rights:
  • Access to contact and biographical information of colleagues who are also member,
  • Unmonitored commenting on journal- and other posts,
  • Other internal e-urban news, invisible to the general public.
Enjoy the Poll! And help preparing European quality standards for future urban integrated development projects!!
]]>Huibs'Urblog moves to: HUIBSLOG (@ huibs.net) 21.3.07 [EN]http://e-urban.squarespace.com/site-management/2007/3/22/huibsurblog-moves-to-huibslog-huibsnet-21307-en.htmlHuib Riethof, editor2007-03-21T23:15:00Z2007-03-21T23:15:00ZA lot of work. Huib's Urblog continues in: huibslog.

There will be no more new posts here, and, in time, huibs' urblog will disappear from our navigation section. 

Many of the existing posts have been copied to that new blog.
Other posts have been moved to this Newsletter. (See: e-urban Newsletter Archive)

huibslog 

is located at Huib's own Website: http://www.huibslog.huibs.net/ and is, like e-urban, hosted by the Squarespace Web Publishing System in a beautiful graphic environment, quite different from e-urban's.

Huib Riethof said last week:

"Now, that e-urban is on full steam, and more collaborators and members are coming in, I feel, that we should concentrate on our core business: Empowering urban practitioners all over Europe in a sustained dialogue on this website.

People who like my personal elucubrations on my UrbLog, will find much more to their taste on my new personal log. "huibslog" replaces a number of other places on the Web, where I used to drop texts about what happens to me, and what I think about it."

New dialogue platform: Generate!UrbLog

Huib will, of course, be one of the editors in the new Generate!Europe Group UrbLog (Generate!UrbLog for short) at e-urban, and contribute his personal opinions on urban development matters there. A separate announcement about this new section in e-urban will soon be published in the e-urban Newsletter.

By the way: The Generate!UrbLog replaces the Guestbook- and Forum sections of e-urban. We think, that more efficient dialogues, sharing, comments and communication will develop within the Generate!UrbLog framework.

(This article is posted on both Huibs UrbLog and The Newsletter Blog)

]]>Watch Claude Jacquier! 11.3.07 [EN]http://e-urban.squarespace.com/site-management/2007/3/13/watch-claude-jacquier-11307-en.htmlHuib Riethof, editor2007-03-13T00:00:41Z2007-03-13T00:00:41ZClaude Jacquier, monitoring team of URBACT-Regenera, concludes in Lyon (23.2.07) that URBACT should become the European University of urban practicians. Watch the video.

]]>Regera Finale: Conspiration & Inspiration 7.3.07 [EN]http://e-urban.squarespace.com/site-management/2007/3/8/regera-finale-conspiration-inspiration-7307-en.htmlHuib Riethof, editor2007-03-08T02:53:48Z2007-03-08T02:53:48ZThe Regenera Final Conference in Lyon (22/23.2.07) inspires to more practical studies about:

  1. the urban practitioners' role (between conspiracy and sustainability),
  2. the place of gender and feminine assets in the urban regeneration policy,
  3. the practicability of urban physical interventions,
  4. profit from the assets that ethnic minorities contribute to community life in urban neighbourhoods,
  5. the central role of education, documentation (libraries), and mobilisation of cultural competences,
  6. the configuration of NGO's in area-based urban policy and their role in delivering good evaluation, monitoring and sustainability,
  7. and how civil society participates in the project management.

For the moment, we publish:

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