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Award of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2006
European prize for urban public space 2006The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial competition that aims to highlight the importance of public space as a catalyst of urban life, and to recognise and foster investment by public administrations in its creation, conservation and improvement, while also understanding the state of public space as a clear indicator of the civic and collective health of our cities.
Given the reductionism and programmatic simplicity of some of the large-scale urban projects implemented in Europe in recent years, and the risks of homogenisation and impoverishment of the urban landscape, we believe that promoting public space and making known the diversity of functions it can embrace and its intense, rich and plural character, is an ideal way of stimulating urban projects that aim to reinvent and enhance the structural role that public space has always played in European cities.
- Themes
- The Present Continuous, The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Open Science, Psi Particle, Art Now, Eco Factor, Emerging Culture, Cybersphere, New Activism
- Space at the CCCB
- The Auditorium
- Links
- Urban
Credits
- Organizer
- Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Architekturzentrum Wien, Institut Français d’Architecture, Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, The Architecture Foundation, Museum of Finnish Architecture
- Sponsors
- COPCISA