Nordic City Network
As our cities move from industrial to knowledge cities so must we change the way we plan our cities. Separating functions and sectorizing responsibilities and administrations is outdated – we now need to set out minds and efforts to structure, shape, organize and govern our cities as knowledge cities.
Nordic City Network is a network of cities dedicated to this challenge. It works as a platform, where theories are developed and ideas and experiences are exchanged. Read more about us
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Prekvalificering Kiruna
Kiruna is facing a major city transformation. LKAB's extraction of iron means that the central parts of the city are not going to habitable within a ten year period of time. The transformation is going to effect the entire city. The council is annoncing a competition on a new city centre. Deadline for the interest inquiry is the 21st of May 2012. The competition starts in August. In the jury are Knut Eirik Dahl, professor at the school of architecture and design in Oslo/Dahl&Uhre archtects and architect SAR/MSA Christer Larsson, director of city planning in Malmö. To access the entire prequalification material: http://www.kommun.kiruna.se/Naringsliv-och-arbete/Aktuella-upphandlingar/STRAKKS conference
The next Nordic City Network event will be the closing conference of the STRAKKS project – a collaborating EU project between Aalborg, Denmark and Lillestrøm, Norway. The conference will take place in Aalborg on the 22nd and 23rd of May, 2012.
We welcome all members of the Nordic City Network – planners, politicians, the business sector, the cultural sector, education and research and others – to take part in a discussion on the final results of the project. Important learning in terms of integrating business and urban development and how to anchor pilot projects in the daily planning process will be discussed at the conference. Please reserve the dates now!
White Paper Tromsø
NCN MATERIAL: In August 2011, Nordic City Network, gathered in Tromsø for a seminar regarding "The Network City" (Netværksbyen). Today solutions are not only found internally within organizations, but rather, people are, in different ways, interacting in networks with one another. The task in the modern knowledge city is not only to engage different sectors, but to strengthen the interaction between traditionally separated sectors such as business, education/research, culture and politics. Here is the White Paper from the seminar. Read more about the seminar here.