Subject: I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e

From: [email-masked] (Todor D. Mitev)
Date: 9 Aug 1995 03:40:14 GMT

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announcement:

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
THE EUROPEAN TOWNS AT THE DAWN OF THE 21st CENTURY

September 18-20, 1995
Santo Kiriko, BULGARIA

Organized by COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Congress of Local
and Regional Authorities
in collaboration with
The EUROPEAN FORUM
"Capital Cities of United Europe" Sofia
and
The  SOFIA GREATER MUNICIPALITY
Prof. Dr. Gottfried Boehm
a guest of honour, PRITZKER-winner

I N V I T A T I O N

        Dear Sir/Madam,

The Council of Europe, in collaboration with the European Forum "Capital
Cities of United Europe" and the Sofia Greater Municipality, will organize
in Santo Kiriko, near the town of Plovdiv a major Conference on European
Towns at the Dawn of the 21st Cent ury from 18 to 20 September 1995.

At the end of this century, filled with dramatic events, the towns of
Europe face a new challenge in their development.  Centres of public
activity in the formerly separated and now united Europe, they have to
embark upon the next century as centres for d emocratic social life,
political stability, harmonized interaction with nature, with architecture
and town planning quality.  Towns and cities are the places where the past
and the future have met, are opposed and reconciled.  Cities provide a
union between the centre and the periphery, the personal and the
collective, the transient to the everlasting.  At the dawn of the new
century, an authentic town culture is endangered by irreversible losses.
It is urgent to define clearly a strategy for its protection.  The
Conference is intended to stimulate an exchange of accumulated professional
experience on the management, financing and legislation of the complex
range of activities which secure the sustainable development of European
towns and cities and preserve their identity.

The Conference includes a Round table on the theme "Contemporary
Architecture in the Ancient Compounds" providing for an active dialogue on
town development issues, protection of the built heritage, town planning
questions and addressing the crisis of th e architectural design and
quality in the personality and character of a town.  In such a manner, all
of us will bring together our joint missions of architects, town planners
and citizens to preserve the specific image of the town in a new united
Europe, as a centre of high culture and harmonized interaction between the
natural envi ronment and town structures.  These towns will be the
landmarks of a new stage in the cultural development of the Europe of the
21st century.  I should like to invite you therefore to participate in this
Conference, organized in Santo Kiriko, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Yours faithfully,

Professor I. Papazchev

President of the Organizing Committee of the Conference and Chairman of the
European Forum "Capital Cities of United Europe"

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
September 17, 1995 - Sight-seeing of Sofia
September 18,  1995 - 10 a.m. Opening session
September 18-20, 1995 - Conference sessions,
posters, exhibition
September 19, 1995 - Bachkovo Monastery visit
Sept. 20, 1995 - Sight-seeing of ancient sites

GENERAL INFORMATION

Venue of the Conference-Santo Kiriko
        Congress Centre near the town of Plovdiv
Participation - The Conference will be
        opened for participation and attendance
        to all people interested in its main topics.
Official languages - Bulgarian, English, French
Deadline for submission of  papers, posters, films,
video cassettes before September 5, 1995

OFFICIAL BANK

SOFIABANK LTD-SWIFT CODE: COBEBGSF
325 421 300 3 $
Branch Batenberg - 25084218
Account Number 1110207705 in USD
12, Batenberg Str., Sofia 1000
 European Forum/ International Conference

REGISTRATION FEE

Before September 10, 1995
Participants            200 US $
Members of the
European Forum          100 US $
The registration fee will include:
Registration, the conference papers,
cocktail, coffee, tea,soft drinks,
Sofia sight-seeing,
visit to the Bachkovo Monastery,
excursion to the old town of Plovdiv.
Payment at the beginning of the seminar is acceptable.

SECRETARIAT OF THE CONFERENCE

European Forum "Capital Cities of United Europe"
1303 Sofia/ P. O. Box 3, BULGARIA
Tel.:(359-2) 70-87-94; Fax: (359-2) 65 68 63

PROGRAM

18 September 1995

10,00-10,30 OPENING SESSION. Welcome and addresses by:
Mr. Dontcho Konaktchiev - Vice-Prime Minister
of Bulgaria, Minister of Regional Development and
Construction
Dr. Josef Hofmann - President of the Chamber of
the Local Authorities to CLRAE
Ambassador Dr. Svetlozar Raev - Permanent
Representative of Bulgaria to the Council of Europe,
Member of the Committee of Ministers' Bureau
Professor Alexander Yantchulev - President of the
Town's Union in Bulgaria and Mayor of Sofia
Professor Ivan Papaztchev - Chairman of the
European Forum "Capital Cities of United Europe",
Rector of the University of Architecture,
Construction and Geodesy, Bulgaria

10,30-10,45 Coffee break
10,45-12,45 TOPIC 1: TOWARDS AN EUROPEAN TOWN'S
POLICY FOR PRESERVING THEIR IDENTITY AND
SECURING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Chairman:
Mrs. Magdalena Tovornik - Mayor of Maribor,
Slovenia, President of the Permanent Conference
of the Slovenian Municipalities

10,45-11,00 The European Urban Charter
Mrs.Cristiana Storelli - Reporter of CLRAE on the
European Urban Charter

11,00-11,15 New dimensions of territorial development in
Europe
Ambassador Jerzy Regulski - Permanent
Representative of Poland to the Council of Europe,
Chairman of the working group "Local and regional
authorities" to the Committee of Ministers

11,15-11,30 Local authonomy and town planning
Mr. David Fryer - Secretary General of the
European Council of Town Planners

11,30-11,45 Sustainable development of towns
Arch. Mitio Videlov - Deputy Minister of Regional
Development and Construction (Bulgaria)

11,45-12,45 Discussion
12,45-14,30 Lunch break
14,30-18,00 TOPIC 1 (to be continued)
Case studies
14,30-14,45 Town development in France
Mr. Robert Laffont - Confederation francaise de
l'habitat, de l'urbanisme et de l'amenagement du
territoire (COFHUAT)
14,45-15,00 The development of towns in the United Kingdom
Mr. John Harman - Vice-President of the
Association of the Metropolitan Authorities (AMA),
UK, Leader of "Kirklees Metropolitan Council"
Experience of countries in economic transition
15,00-15,15 The experience of Poland
The Mayor of Warsaw (to be confirmed)
15,15-15,30 The Bulgarian experience
Arch. Belin Mollov - Head of Department, Ministry
of Regional Development and Construction
15,30-16,00 Coffee break
16,00-17,30 Discussion
19 September 1995
9,30-12,45 TOPIC 2: PROTECTION AND EVALUATION OF THE
ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
Chairman:
Professor Todor Krastev - European Forum
"Capital Cities of United Europe",
Representative of Bulgaria in ICOMOS
9,30-9,45 Local legislative and financial tools for the protection
of the architectural heritage
Mr. Jose Luis  Alvarez - Notary, Ex-mayor of
Madrid - Spain (to be confirmed)
9,45-10,00 Methods and techniques for the conservation of
the architectural heritage
Arch. Vassil Kitov - European  forum "Capital Cities
of United Europe" (Bulgaria)
10,00-10,30 Coffee break
10,30-10,45 Motivation and awareness of the public and its
engagement in the conservation of the architectural
heritage
Mrs. Linda Branchesi, Rome (Italy)
Case studies
10,45-11,00 The experience of Strasbourg (France)
Mr. Jean Dick - Permanent Representative to the
International Society of City and Regional Planners
11,00-11,15 The Bulgarian experience
Professor Todor Krastev - European Forum "Capital
Cities of United Europe"
11,15-12,45 Discussion
12,45-14,30 Lunch break
14,30-18,00 TOPIC 3: SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND
IMPROVEMENT OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN
PROBLEM RESIDENTIAL QUARTERS
Chairman:
Professor Ivan Nikiforov - European Forum
"Capital Cities of United  Europe",
University  of  Architecture, Construction  and
Geodesy, Bulgaria
14,30-14,45 Presentation of the problems:
Assoc. Prof. Alexander Alexandrov - European
Forum "Capital Cities of United Europe", Vice-Dean
of the University of Architecture, Construction and
Geodesy, Bulgaria
14,45- 15,00 Lion - the experience of a big city
Mr. Pierre Michaux, Head of Urban Department
of the Lion Municipality (France)
15,00-15,15 Charleroi: an experience of Belgium
Mr.Jean-Claude van Cauwenberghe - Mayor of
Charleroi
15,15-15,30 The experience of the Netherlands
Mr. Tjeerd Deelstra - International Institute
for Urban Environment, Delft
15,30-16,15 Discussion
16,15-16,45 Coffee break
16,45-17,00 Improvement of town's aesthetics and education
Ambassador Dr. S. Raev - Permanent
Representative of Bulgaria to the Council of
Europe
17,00-18,00 Discussion
20 September 1995
9,00-11,45 TOPIC 4: CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE IN
THE ANCIENT TOWN'S COMPOUNDS:
RESPONSIBILITIES OF ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS
AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES
9,00-9,15 Chairman and presentation of the themes:
Ambassador Dr. Svetlozar Raev, Permanent
Representative of  Bulgaria to the Council of Europe
9,15-10,15 Round table
Participants:
Professor Arch. G. Boehm, Pritzker-winner,
a guest of honour, Germany
The reporters on the three main topics of the
conference, prominent urbanists, architects and
engineers
Professor Wolfgang  Pehnt, Cologne-Germany,
special guest (to be confirmed)
10,15-10,45 Coffee break
10,45-11,45 Round table with the attendance of all participants
11,45-13,00 CLOSING SESSION
Chairman:
Dr. Josef Hofmann - President of the
Chamber of the Local Authorities to CLRAE
11,45-12,45 Adoption of the final declaration
12,45-13,00 Closing addresses by the hosts and the Council of
Europe
13,00-14,30 Lunch break
14,30-18,00 Visit to ancient sites

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