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Rebalancing Urban Life Block by Block

Helle Søholt, Silvia Casorrán, Catherine Gall , Katrin Habenschaden, Charles Landry

2021 English Finance & Resourcing Health & Wellbeing Public Infrastructures & Space

Our urban environment disappoints too often. It does not feel human centered, it fractures social bonds, there is not enough nature, it is difficult to get around and to find easy access to facilities. It creates stress. What if we were to redesign our cities to truly meet our needs? Can we retrofit our existing fabric to change this? And might ‘Superblocks’ be one answer? Superblocks are ca. 400 by 400 metres containing a community around 5000–6000 inhabitants per block. Our panel summarises the key learnings from cities who have been experimenting with the concept. This includes Silvia Casorrán, a Barcelona councilor leading the city’s superblock work; Catherine Gall, colleague of scientist Carlos Moreno, whose ‘15-Minute City’ concept closely related to the superblock approach has been adopted by Paris (among many other metropolises); and global city design practitioner Helle Søholt, who leads Gehl Architects in Copenhagen.

This session is part of a 5-part series run by the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt’s ‘RISE Cities’ programme. RISE Cities explores the leadership required to enable our urban environments to be more resilient, intelligent, sustainable and equitable (RISE).

Helle Søholt

Founding Partner & CEO/ Gehl Architects

Helle Søholt is Founding Partner & CEO of Gehl Architects, the internationally acclaimed firm within the field of urban design and development recognised for major contributions to making cities more livable and sustainable around the world. Helle and her colleagues are acting as a sparring partner for the RISE City Lab Munich.

Silvia Casorrán

Deputy Chief Architect/ Barcelona City Council

Silvia Casorrán is Deputy Chief Architect at Barcelona City Council, and

Councilor for Mobility and Accessibility for the city’s Sant Martí District. She has spent the past twenty years working to advance the sustainable mobility planning and management agenda, for the last five years as a public servant. Since 2015 Silvia has also been responsible for the Metropolitan Bicycle Office and for coordinating the Spanish Cycling Cities Network, as well as having spent many years as an activist fighting for better civic spaces.

Catherine Gall

Executive Director/ ETI Research Laboratory

Catherine Gall is the Executive Director of the Sorbonne based ETI Research

Laboratory (Entrepreneurship Territory Innovation) created by Professors Carlos Moreno, Didier Chabaud and Florent Pratlong and specialized in challenging conventional city planning models. The ETI Lab is well known today for their “15-minute City Model”. Catherine is also an experienced creative design thinker, business leader and entrepreneur, as well as a member of the Responsible Leaders Network of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt.

Katrin Habenschaden

deputy mayor/ City of Munich

Katrin Habenschaden is the deputy mayor of Munich, a position she has held since May 2020. Prior to this she was an elected city councilor for the Green Party from 2014 to 2020. Katrin is chairwoman of the committees for construction, labor and economy, culture, climate and environment, and mobility. She has given her patronage to the RISE City Lab Munich in 2021.

Charles Landry

President / Creative Bureaucracy Festival

Charles Landry works with cities around the world to help them make the most of their potential and facilitates complex urban change projects. His aim is to connect the triad culture, creativity and city making. He is co-founder of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival.

He has published extensively – most recently The Civic City in a Nomadic World, The Creative Bureaucracy (with Margie Caust), An Advanced Introduction to the Creative City, Psychology & the City (with Chris Murray) and The Digitized City. You can download these books as PDF files via Charles’ website: www.charleslandry.com

Rebalancing Urban Life Block by Block
Helle Søholt, Silvia Casorrán, Catherine Gall , Katrin Habenschaden, Charles Landry

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