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Title Urban conflict resolution through planning and design Day / Time Friday, June 23rd / 08:30 - 10:30 Room MR18 Event Description A 30 minutes PowerPoint presentation will focus on urban design and planning cases in Brazil, Cuba, India, Kenya, Kosovo, Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The presentation, followed by comments by invited respondents, will stimulate an open debate on the potential of space as a resource, register, negotiating mechanism and generator of development. This presentation will highlight the importance of properly designed and projected space in relation to post-disaster and conflict reconstruction, poverty reduction and sustainable development. Questions to be debated include: How is space a major resource in urban contexts? How does the shape of the city contribute to urban sustainability? Can natural and/or human disasters be seen as an opportunity for urban redevelopment? How does the way cities are planned influence the local economy? What is the role of urban planners in a context of slum upgrading? And how can urban projects mobilize urban stakeholders around a common objective? Session Language English Speakers (information as provided by host organization) Prof. André Loeckx, Bruno De Meulder, Kelly Shannon Respondents: Raquel Rolnik (Ministry of Cities, Brazil); Arif Hasan (Karachi, Pakistan) Respondents: Anna Rubbo (University of Sydney); Modjeh Baratloo (Columbia University)   Contact Need more information about this event? Please fill the contact form Related Documents (in English and / or French) Host Organization Department of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning , Catholic University of Leuven Host Organization Description The Post Graduate Center for Human Settlements, Urbanism and Strategic Planning is within the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Regional Planning of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Within the scope of education, the center offers a one-year Master of Human Settlements) which addresses rapid urbanization in the developing world and contemporary urban transformation within the scope of sustainable development and a two-year Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning) which focuses on a critical understanding of contemporary conditions of cities and urban regions. Both programs develop innovative concepts and strategies for qualitative interventions through design, planning and policy-making. In terms of research, through projects such as LA21 with UN-Habitat(work in Essaouira, Morocco; Nakuru, Kenya; Vinh, Vietnam; Bayamo, Cuba)and EU Asia-Urbs/Link (work in Matara, Sri Lanka and Karachi, Pakistan), the center develops its unremitting interest in processes of development and modernization and the specific conditions and cultures that foster them. Its research centers upon how urbanism and urbanization affect one another. The exploration is always design-oriented - design as a tool of analysis and of sustainable development. Website (Organizer and partners) www.asro.kuleuven.be www.unhabitat.org

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