Urban regeneration is a high point of our cities politics. How to transform marginal neighborhoods into safe and attractive places where to live? How to achieve social cohesion? And which are the tools to be used to transform our cities? These are the questions that policy makers and social activists are facing daily. Beyond making new streets, new buildings, new facilities, our cities are also transformed by policies that attract new inhabitants, that create diversity or homogeneity, that are shifting the perception of entire parts of our urban environment.
The first live event Cool Media Hot Talk Show on the 2nd of March, 2008, as part of the Happening project at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, will investigate these topics. The fil rouge of the three debates will be "city-life", as a manifestation of moods, uses and passions that people rely on the city. Beyond the simple perception of the buildings and structures, our cities are mostly moulded by different uses, interpretations and cultures of their inhabitants. Cool Media Hot Talk Show will reveal possible ways of imagining and modifying our urban realm, starting with understanding potential and problems on the issue of the "creative city".
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WHEN: Sunday, March 2, 2008, 16.00-18.00 CET
WHERE: Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Gallery 1.
Follow and participate online during the live talk show event here: http://www.coolmediahottalk.net/livepage.jsp