Housing Minister says it will take a new urban model for a sustainable future
Defend regeneration of the existing city housing stock and energy self-sufficient and accessible
The Housing and Rehabilitation Plan design tools for integrated urban rehabilitation with special emphasis on neighborhoods disadvantaged
The Housing Ministry on Thursday carried a conference on the comprehensive rehabilitation of the suburbs
December 2, 2008 .- The Minister of Housing, Beatriz Corredor, said today that "a future more sustainable will necessarily be a model prime urban regeneration of the existing city and bet on some homes less polluting and more energy self-sufficient. " So, has advocated "a new way to make city more intensive and sustainable," where energy efficiency is consistent with the recovery of degraded environments and the existing housing stock.
Corridor has visited the booth of the Ministry of Housing in the Ninth National Congress of the Environment (CONAMA), which is a sponsor, and opened the eco-city journey. An alternative future, organized by the Public Enterprise Land (SEPES) and which has presented the English version of the two volumes ECOCITY Project. Manual for the design of eco-cities in Europe.
In his speech, the Minister of Housing pointed out that reaching this new model of sustainable and intensive city is the main objective of the Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities, which in turn inspired the Land Act and now the State Plan Housing and Rehabilitation 2009-2012.
In that sense, explained that the 2009-2012 PEVR promote urban renewal policies of completeness, that is, to consider the social, economic and ecological sustainability, and will place special emphasis on performance in deprived areas .
This has created new shapes for the rehabilitation of degraded neighborhoods, urban centers, urban centers and rural municipalities structural problems, the demolition, redevelopment and reconstruction of degraded districts or with serious structural problems that make feasible the rehabilitation and elimination of slum and shanty towns, attending the marginal settlements and socio-economic problems and public health and safety. These figures are increased by the aid of the renewed plan to promote energy rehabilitation and accessibility and livability of the park built.
However, Beatriz Corredor said that to achieve less polluting cities, "so important to adopt an urban model and take on new building techniques" that reduce household energy bills. For this reason, the Ministry of Housing held in 2010 in collaboration with the Government of the United States the European edition of Solar Decathlon competition, which seeks to encourage research and generalize, in the future, using techniques that reduce their environmental impact.
Conference on comprehensive rehabilitation suburbs
Under CONAMA, the Ministry of Housing developed the day Thursday comprehensive urban rehabilitation. The suburbs, which together with representatives of the Department intervene several experts in urban planning and sustainability, sociologists and architects. The aim of the conference is to open a broad debate on one of the biggest challenges they are facing the city: urban regeneration in the suburbs built in the second half of the century XX.
The presence of the Ministry of Housing, CONAMA meets its commitment to urban sustainability and the commitment made at the last informal meeting of Ministers of Housing and Urban Development of the European Union to promote political debate on how to integrate the principles and strategies Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities into national development policies, regional and local levels.
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