One of Germany’s most iconic buildings, the historic Cologne Cathedral, has been put on the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) List of World Heritage in Danger, due to the increasing development of the German city’s skyline. “The organization admitted concerns during its annual meeting that the construction of several highrise buildings on the […] Continue reading → A Synthesis: New Strategies for Education in Architecture and Urbanism Susan Parham © 2004 Introduction Synthesising discussion from three days that included so much interesting and useful dialogue has proved a very difficult task. This conference report attempts to summarise and structure participants’ contributions into a series of themes that it is hoped capture the […] Continue reading → Report by Susan Parham from the C.E.U. – INTBAU Conference 4 – 9 May 2004, Viseu, Portugal Globalisation is a long standing and well established process, as Elizabeth Plater Zyberk and Matthew Hardy pointed out. It would be presumptuous to assume this is purely a 20th and 21st Century phenomenon. As Javier Cenicacelaya and others […] Continue reading → This article by Peter Franz focuses on demographic changes in Germany and their impact on cities. Read more… Continue reading → The Guardian April 20: “John Prescott wants to re-educate planners and councillors so that they no longer allow housing estates or shopping centres to be dumped on the edge of towns or in the middle of the countryside. He also wants councillors to veto developments that lack the right mixture of houses, jobs, transport and […] Continue reading → One of most debated projects is the demolition of the DDR “Palace of the Republic, and the reconstruction of the Royal Palace on the site. According to Rem Koolhaas, the demolition “feels kind of insanely ahistorical.”. Read more… Continue reading → 
Model of the Järla Sjö development From industrial estate to small town The Järla Sjö district is developed on a site of industrial historical importance at the Lake Järla in Nacka, Stockholm, Sweden. The district plan is founded on a small town structure, scale and contents – a proper basis for attaining a human and […] Continue reading → 
Report from C.E.U.’s Founding Event 6 November 2003, Järla Sjö, Stockholm, Sweden Some 60 people from a wide range of backgrounds met in Stockholm in 2003 to sign The Charter of Stockholm as the grounding document of the Council for European Urbanism. The Council was created in Bruges early in 2003 and is a network […] Continue reading →