Open symposium on 28th-29th of January tackles the issue of "what is an Ecological City"

20 January 2010

Ecological City -Symposium 28.-29.1. 2010
Place: Kongressikeskus Felmanni, 
Address: Kirkkokatu 27, Lahti. 
Address on a map

The seminar is free and open to public. We would kindly encourage preliminary registrations by email to:
urban-studies@helsinki.fi. 

Welcome!

For more information go to: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/suomalainenkaupunki/

Programme:

Day 1. Thursday 28.1.
10.00-10.15 Opening of the Symposium
Professors Heikki Setälä and Jari Niemelä, University of Helsinki.

10.15-11.00 "What is an Ecological City?"
Philip James, School of Environment & Life Sciences, Univ. of Salford.

11.00-11.45 "What is an Ecological City from the Citys Point of View?´"
Pekka Kansanen, City of Helsinki
Comments: Timo Permanto, City of Lahti

11.45-12.15 Discussion

12.15-13.15 Lunch

13.15-14.00 "Ecosystem Services in Cities: What and Why?"
Thomas Elmqvist, Dept of Systems Ecology, and Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University.

14.00-14.30 ´"Ecosystem Services in Cities from the Citys Point of View" Stefan Skog, City of Vantaa.
Comments Kari Porra, City of Lahti.

14.30-15.00 Coffee

15.00-15.45 "Green Space and Human Health, Kalevi Korpela, Environmental psychologist.

15.45-16.30 "Planning for an Ecological City"
Stephan Pauleit, Professor in Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, Munich Technical University, Freising, Germany.

16.30- 17.00 General Discussion

Day 2. Friday 29.1.
09.00 - 09.45 Ecology, Architecture and Aesthetics in Cities
Santtu von Bruun, City of Lahti, Strategic Planning.

09.45 - 10.30 Planning for an Aesthetic City
Arto Haapala, Aesthetics; Department of Philosophy, History, Cultural Studies and Art Research.

10.30 -12.00 Group work on issues dealt with during day 1. Aim of the group work is crystallize ideas and views of
 a) how these issues should be tackled scientifically (i.e. what are the interesting and essential research questions), 
(b) what are planning implications of these issues. The goal is to produce a summary of the group works that could be published as part of the proceedings.

Groups (one of these may be held in Finnish):
1. Ecological City
2. Ecosystem Services in Cities
3. Ecology and Human Health
4. Planning for Ecology in Cities

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 14.30 Presentation of the Group Work and Discussion

14.30-15.00 Coffee

15.15-16.00 Invited Commentaries

End of the seminar

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