As part of the Roadmap, meetings are being organized in the OWHC Collaborative Networks in order to build the concept and material for the Cordoba Symposium which will be held in September!
OWHC members, take note of this week's meetings:
- August 12, 2024, 2nd meeting of the Cuenca Collaborative Network
Over the past year, 12 Collaborative Networks engaged in the Roadmap have held nearly 40 webinars and 5 international workshops. A total of 51 cities have exchanged practices and perspectives on topics ranging the greening of public spaces, the pedestrianization of streets and the promotion of intangible heritage in urban projects.
On the eve of the Symposium of Cordoba, the Networks are ready to share the fruits of their reflections in the form of Progress Reports. The problematics, statements, courses of action and perspectives they outline will serve as the basis to feed the Symposium's discussions and clarify the work that remains to be done to provide the OWHC with a common framework, the New Urban Project, enabling OWHC member cities to work towards making their historic city centers more liveable.
You can consult the Progress Reports in the Collaborative Networks library.
The Municipal President of Puebla, Mr. Adan Domingues Sanchez, and Ms. María Fernanda Huerta López, City Councillor of Infrastructure, Mobility and Public Services Committee, open the two days international workshop held in Puebla, 25-26 July 2024.
The international workshop was the last activity foreseen in the Action Plan for the Collaborative Network on the thematic “Rejuvenating the historic center through an active mobility model”. Municipal experts of Puebla, and representatives form the cities of Cidade Velha, Mexico City, Xochimilco, as well as Bordeaux and Cordoba, gathered for two days to discuss and elaborate courses of action to enhance urban mobility, pedestrianization, universal accessibility, social involvement and acceptability, revitalisation of residential and commercial activities within the historic center, and more.
The outcomes of the workshop will nurture the discussion to be presented at the 17th World Congress of the OWHC, from September 24 to 27 in Cordoba.