SUPERBS
Sustainable Urban Patterns around the Baltic Sea
NEWSLETTER

SUPERBS Newsletter, No 4. February 2001

Editor: Dorota Wlodarczyk
Technical University of Gdansk,
Ul. Narutowicza 11/12
80-952 Gdansk, Poland
Tel/fax +48 58 621 45 37
dwlod@pg.gda.pl

Content of this Issue:
1. News about the case study reports
2. Information about the venue of the III seminar
3. News about the TV series
4. BALTIC MEETING POINT conference reminder
5. Partners News

For an archive of previous newsletters click here.

1. Case Study Reports News

The first report “SUPERBS Case Studies I Sweden-Finland” was printed and already distributed among students participating in the Sustainable Development and Urban Planning courses. The authors are: Madeleine Granvik, Mia Forsberg, Per G.Berg, Gunnar Persson, Anders Bro, Tonni Tikkanen, Mikko Jokinen Matti Lankiniemi, Bjorn Gronholm and Wendelin Muller-Wille. The book is impressive, 183 pages, although in the first version illustrations are missing. The report covers the Uppsala, Hagaby, Hallefors, Turku/Abo, Enkoping and Norrtalje case studies. Lars Ryden is the editor. At present lacking illustrations are collected and a version with pictures will hopefully soon be ready. The next case study book to be prepared is “Case Studies II Poland – Germany”.

2. Superbs Seminar III

The next LATVIAN-ESTONIAN–RUSSIAN - seminar is scheduled for April 6-12, 2001. The hosts discuss the venue of it and in the draft version visits are planned to Riga, Jelgava, Livani, Tartu, Novgorod and to Sankt Petersburg in this order. The program of our travelling seminar looks very attractive. As visas are needed for all the participants of these seminar please register as soon as you can to help the hosts to organize it properly. A registration form is available here.

All non-Russians need Russian visa, while Russians need visa to Latvia and Estonia. Do not forget to include passport numbers and the date of birth!

3. News about the TV Series City 2000

The TV series City 2000 is planned to include eleven 30 min films. Up to now 10 contracts have been signed, 9 films delivered and 6 films made available in English. These are featuring Uppsala, Hagaby, Tartu, Jelgava Livani and Kaunas. It is a true pleasure to watch these films. They fill our cities with colourful, and interesting people living there. They talk about their situation, their hope for the future and how they understand and relate to the long-term goal of sustainable city life. They add flesh and blood to the case studies. We are grateful to the many TV producers for a very interesting result.

Magnus Lehman provided the films with English translation and subtitles. We are still waiting for the English versions of the Hallefors and Turku/Abo film and we are looking forward to seeing it. Students taking part in our SCD course - www.pg.gda.pl/cerso/scd - enjoy seminars based on the TV series, which together with the case studies reports constitute a perfect didactic material.

4. The Second Baltic Meeting Point Conference REMINDER

THE SECOND BALTIC MEETING POINT CONFERENCE on Sustainable Community Development is to be held in Uppsala on May 6-9, 2001. Superbs Projects participants prepares several workshops at the conference. All are invited to register at www.balticmeetingpoint.com where also the preliminary program is available.

5. Partners News

Mia Forsberg mia.ericsson@telia.com , who is editing the SUPERBS Book I, would like to get the opinion and ideas from all who had the chance to look at the draft of the book, SCD teachers and students are very welcome.

Linas Kliucininkas is informing about the FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ECOLOGY AND THE CITY. Papers are now invited for the web-based First International Conference on Ecology and the City, being organised through the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC, Barcelona, Spain). The conference seeks to provide an appropriate international forum for the exchange of ideas and experience between researchers and practitioners, whose interests lie in the relationship between ecology and the city. A Virtual Forum is also scheduled for the week of 26-30 March. For further information consult the web site http://www2.upc.es/ciec.

Walter Leal Filho is directing our attention to:
1. "SUSTAINABILITY AT UNIVERSITIES: REGIONAL APPROACHES AND ACTION PLANS" Conference planned for 15-18 March 2001 in Hamburg, Germany
www.beids.de/training/conference_sustainability/index.html
2. “BRIDGING THE GAP - SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH AND SECTOR INTEGRATION CONFERENCE, which will be held on 09. - 11. May 2001 in Stockholm, Sweden. www.bridging.environ.se

Saint Valentine, who is responsible for our Love Fortune, wishes everybody
Happiness and Beautiful Love Commitment

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Dorota Wlodarczyk

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