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The Technical Centre of City of Oulu has in cooperation with the municipalities of Umeå and Skanderborg prepared the project “InnoUrba – the Living and Working Environment for the Future” for increasing the Nordic cooperation in planning new residential and working areas. An Expression of Interest was submitted to Nordic Innovation Center (NICe) in the May 2007 Call for Proposals. The actual application was submitted to NICe according to the call schedule 21.8.2007.

The objective of the project is to develop land-use planning processes in the Nordic countries so that new innovative operating environments are created and simultaneously the land-use planning practices in the participating cities are evaluated and compared. The project will create a best-practice proposal for a Nordic planning procedure that would enable the use of planners and other consultants across the national borderlines.

The comparison of land-use planning processes and methods that will be carried out simultaneously in the partner cities is an efficient way for bringing together professionals from different Nordic countries and creating a forum that promotes innovation. In connection to the evaluation, the residents’ possibilities to participate and influence land-use planning will be compared, and new methods for the residents’ participation and tools for finding out about their wishes and needs will be innovated.

The partner cities will name an interesting planning task and define the planning programme and the cooperation model used in the planning process. The model can be an international architecture competition or other consultant selection procedure. In the first project workshop the different competition/tendering models, schedules and processes will be compared and evaluated. The actual ordering of the planning tasks and guidance will be carried out independently by each partner city. In the workshop organized after the planning task, the plans obtained by different methods will be evaluated and analysed and the practices will be described.

In addition to the Final Report, recommendations promoting the harmonization of land-use planning will be published. The recommendations will be presented to international experts working on land-use planning in the project’s Final Conference in Oulu. The project will be implemented 1.1.2008 - 30.6.2009.

Contact
Jere Klami, city planning architect, InnoUrba project manager

City of Oulu, Technical Centre, City Planning
Mail address: Uusikatu 26, 4. kerros, P.O.B 32, 90015 Oulun kaupunki
Tel. +358 44 703 2412, email: jere.klami (at) ouka.fi

   
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