EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - LUDA Final Conference

LUDA Final Conference – Brussels, 22 June 2006

22-06-2006

Introduction

The project Improving the Quality of Life in Large Urban Distressed Areas ( LUDA ), developed tools, methods and approaches that aim to assist decision-makers in challenging the problems of improving the quality of life in large urban distressed areas. At this conference, the results of the LUDA Project - a novel ‘community-based’ approach providing a holistic vision of the ‘quality of life’ as well as the leading edge e-document of the LUDA project - the e-Compendium will be presented and discussed.

Description

LUDA promoted the exchange of information and experiences between six project partner cities (Bratislava, Dresden, Edinburgh, Florence, Lisbon and Valenciennes). In Brussels, representatives of the project partner cities of Dresden, Florence and Lisbon will refer to the improvements made in the cities’ case areas as well as the future prospects for establishing sustainable urban regeneration.

The project partners worked from a basic principle that urban regeneration must be viewed holistically and be directly linked with the quality-of-life that is relative to the people that populate such areas. In addition, the LUDA approach identified the key aspects of improving environmental sustainability, economic prosperity and social inclusion.

LUDA is a research project of Key Action 4 „City of Tomorrow & Cultural Heritage“ of the programme „Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development“ within the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Union. The project was funded by the EC for the period February 2003 to May 2006.

To register, please contact the LUDA project team.

Programme

Location

Brussels, Belgium

Links

For more information, please visit the LUDA website.
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