Thematic Workshop on Urban Planning and Mobility in Orebro (Sweden)

With the support of the Lead Expert Jean-Jacques Terrin, partners went deeper in these issues, especially focusing their exchange of experiences and their discussions on the following key issues, defined by the Lead Expert:

-being sustainable: In your city, is the development of high-speed networks integrated into sustainable planning strategies on both a global and local scale, and how?

-recalling: In your city, does the railway station, this new monument of modernity, keep the memory of a long history merged with the times of industrialisation, and how? 

-bringing closer – connecting: What kind of hub do your station constitutes and at which geographic scale: international, inter-regional, metropolitan and urban?

-attracting: What are the levers of your city’s attractiveness, and what are their connections with the railway station?

- producing value: What kind of (new) uses your railway station generates and as a consequence, what new services, linked or not to mobility.

Orebro, Lodz, Gdynia and Reggio Emilia presented their good practices on these issues. Afterwards, partners worked divided into 4 groups, each one specifically focusing on the role that a hub can have:

-         hub as a node-interface (hubs as parts of infrastructural systems), coordinated by Lodz

-      hub as a gateway (hubs as parts of relational networks), coordinated by Ciudad Real

-      hub as a urban centrality (hubs as crucial parts of a city/a region), coordinated by Ulm

-hub as a turbine (hubs as parts of a territory dynamics), coordinated by Preston.

 These 4 working groups will be maintained for the whole project duration.