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Subido el 23 de julio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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Four out of five of all Europeans live in towns and cities and the European Commission wants to help make our urban areas better places to live. Which is why it has just launched a Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment. Filmed in january 2006, the report features efforts to improve the urban environment in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana and also in the Belgian capital Brussels. Car ownership has tripled in the past decade in Ljubljana. The film shows how the authorities are trying to break up this love affair with the car. They are also working to trying to woo shops back into the city centre after the opening of a huge out of town shopping mall in the 1990s. In Brussels we visit the Quartier Dansaert, a once run down area, which has been revitalized as a centre of Belgian fashion and design. We also see how involving local people in the design of a public park

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The Slovenian capital Ljubljana looks quiet and picturesque, 00:00:00
but just as in many other parts of Europe, this beautiful city is being taken over by traffic. 00:00:06
Car ownership has tripled in the past decade. 00:00:12
The car park of Ljubljana's huge out-of-town shopping center is packed, 00:00:16
while the recently introduced train link produces just a handful of passengers. 00:00:20
But the city authorities are determined to break up this love affair with the car 00:00:24
as part of a major plan to improve the urban environment. 00:00:28
We now have only a local bus, and we connect the region with Lako railway station. 00:00:58
Solving traffic problems is just one part of a carefully structured plan in Ljubljana, 00:01:06
which sees environmentalists working side by side with city planners, 00:01:11
the housing department, tourism and commercial divisions. 00:01:15
An integrated approach, in partnership with the national government, 00:01:19
to keep the city a good place to live in. 00:01:22
If we don't take a holistic approach, it means that we can solve some environmental problems, 00:01:25
but at the other end, we can solve others. 00:01:32
I can give an example. 00:01:36
For example, if the city or the local community decides to start subverting, 00:01:38
and also allows people to use public transport, 00:01:45
and at the same time urbanistically stops the construction of new garage houses in the city center, 00:01:50
of course, this will not solve the problem of traffic and emissions in the area. 00:01:58
Alenka Burja has been a regular visitor to Brussels recently 00:02:05
to help draw up a Europe-wide strategy to improve the urban environment 00:02:08
throughout the European Union. 00:02:12
That strategy is now in place. 00:02:14
It makes no new legal demands on cities, but provides guidelines for actions. 00:02:16
It highlights the need for national and regional governments to support local authorities, 00:02:21
to help them comply with European environmental law, 00:02:26
and to care for urban areas in an integrated way. 00:02:29
Four out of five of us Europeans now live in towns and cities, 00:02:34
so the state of the urban environment directly affects the quality of our life. 00:02:40
The European Union's thematic strategy on the urban environment 00:02:47
will help member states, regional authorities, local authorities, 00:02:52
to work together to improve the environment of the urban areas. 00:02:56
There's no one simple answer to improving Europe's towns and cities. 00:03:03
Today, Alenka is taking the time to see what's happening in Brussels, 00:03:06
where all sorts of regeneration projects have been carried out 00:03:09
to improve the environment in inner city districts. 00:03:12
It's this sort of exchange of ideas that the European Commission plans to promote, 00:03:15
the sharing of best practice between urban areas. 00:03:20
First stop is a once run-down neighborhood, 00:03:23
which has been revitalized as a center of Belgian fashion and design. 00:03:25
It's really those five last years where the quartier d'Anselm 00:03:30
has become really well-known and a really fashionable place, you see. 00:03:37
What had become a down-at-heel area is now a desirable place to live and work, 00:03:43
with its own distinctive character. 00:03:48
European funding plays a key role in many urban projects. 00:04:00
That was how this abandoned warehouse, rather than being demolished, 00:04:04
was reused and given a new life as an enterprise center. 00:04:08
It provides both premises as well as business backup 00:04:12
to fledgling companies such as this young Belgian fashion designer. 00:04:15
And what's important is that many of the businesses developed here 00:04:19
have stayed in the neighborhood, 00:04:22
and what's important is that many of the businesses developed here 00:04:24
have stayed in the neighborhood as they've grown. 00:04:27
The next part of the visit was to a public park, 00:04:55
created on derelict land in a nearby neighborhood, 00:04:58
an area of high immigration with 70% unemployed. 00:05:01
The local people were involved in the planning of this park at every step, 00:05:04
including the design of the play equipment and the painting of the murals. 00:05:08
It helped a lot because it helped to do other projects. 00:05:25
So there were other projects done by the neighborhood committee, 00:05:29
where they made frescoes and ceramics on the facades. 00:05:33
And this project was a bit of a motor for people to reappropriate the city. 00:05:38
To say to themselves, we belong, we exist, 00:05:42
we have the right to say things and do things. 00:05:44
Ljubljana doesn't have the same social problems as Brussels, 00:05:48
but it's still interesting for Elenka to see 00:05:51
how here improving the urban environment 00:05:53
has played a big role in developing a sense of integration. 00:05:55
It's extremely useful because many cities have common problems. 00:05:59
I don't mean that the problems are exactly the same 00:06:05
so that you can use the same approach, 00:06:08
but of course in urban areas 00:06:10
there are as well environmental as social and economic problems. 00:06:14
So when you go around and see how other cities tackle these problems, 00:06:19
you can learn a lot. 00:06:24
Back in Slovenia, Ljubljana is already well on track 00:06:27
with its integrated approach to developing the city. 00:06:30
Here the planners are already working with the environment in mind. 00:06:33
An old military barracks was demolished 00:06:36
to make way for a whole new neighborhood 00:06:38
with 600 apartments and its own school, 00:06:40
as well as art and music academies. 00:06:43
In this way, urban sprawl is contained. 00:06:45
It reduces the need for commuting 00:06:48
and protects the city's green spaces. 00:06:50
In the city we have a lot of industrial and military complexes 00:06:54
that have been abandoned lately 00:07:00
because the army has moved out 00:07:02
while the industry is reforming. 00:07:05
Our policy is mainly to improve the living and working conditions 00:07:08
for the inhabitants of Ljubljana. 00:07:14
This means, first of all, 00:07:16
increasing urban and local resources, 00:07:19
and this is a good example of how we are achieving this. 00:07:23
Good air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions 00:07:30
are vital in any city. 00:07:33
The district heating plant, 00:07:34
which supplies 90% of Ljubljana's homes, 00:07:36
has already reduced sulfur and dust emissions 00:07:38
to a fraction of former levels by switching to cleaner coal. 00:07:41
The plant is now planning to invest in natural gas and biomass. 00:07:44
Buses run on biodiesel made from oilseed rape 00:07:49
are operating on two of the city's bus routes, 00:07:52
a pilot project to promote the use of renewable fuels 00:07:55
as part of the EU-backed Civitas scheme, 00:07:58
one of several sources of European funding 00:08:01
to improve the urban environment. 00:08:03
Cities with clean air and water, 00:08:06
efficient transport and good housing 00:08:08
become good places to invest. 00:08:10
When Ljubljana built its out-of-town shopping centre, 00:08:12
some businesses moved out of the city centre. 00:08:15
The challenge is now to entice others in, 00:08:18
to keep the city centre alive and successful. 00:08:20
There are competitions for the most attractive shops. 00:08:23
The approach has been to encourage 00:08:26
a more distinctive feel to the centre 00:08:28
and promote a pride in the city. 00:08:30
We decided in Ljubljana 00:08:33
to renovate the old town centre, 00:08:35
to make it beautiful, 00:08:37
and we have renovated more than 250 houses 00:08:39
in the old town centre. 00:08:42
We are also stimulating them 00:08:45
by providing more comfortable accommodation 00:08:47
for the tenants. 00:08:49
We are planning to have fewer apartments 00:08:51
for the construction site, 00:08:53
so that the old town is filled again 00:08:55
with different personalities. 00:08:57
Ljubljana can't afford to leave 00:09:00
its future development to chance. 00:09:02
Half of Slovenia's wealth is generated in the capital. 00:09:04
The authorities are keeping a watchful eye 00:09:07
over the way the city grows, 00:09:09
and the environment is cared for, 00:09:11
which is just what the new European Urban Strategy 00:09:13
wants to promote. 00:09:15
We all want Europe's towns and cities 00:09:17
to be healthy and sustainable places 00:09:20
where citizens want to live and work 00:09:23
and where businesses want to invest. 00:09:27
The quality of the urban environment 00:09:31
has a key role to play in the success of a modern city. 00:09:33
The European Strategy can help cities face up 00:09:36
to their environmental challenges 00:09:38
to create urban areas where we all want to live. 00:09:40
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23 de julio de 2007 - 12:25
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