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OPEN DIALOGUES IUC-LAC

The impact of COVID19 is pushing cities towards social and urban changes that will require recovery adapted to new needs. Decision-making will need to be proactive and incorporate experiences and lessons learned from those facing similar challenges.

With the aim of facilitating these exchanges, IUC-LAC is starting its Open Dialogues through a series of webinars organized during three thematic weeks to bring together European and Latin American and Caribbean cities in roundtable discussions and presentations, to rethink together cities for its opening to a “new normality”.

Lessons Learned from the Open Dialogues

Rethinking the city after Covid-19

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DIALOGUES

Session 7. Climate actions and solutions

9th of July 2020

The climate change and environmental deprivation are an existential threat to any territory in the world. To overcome these challenges, various political agreements have been carried out at regional and global level, such as the European Green Deal or the so-called Green New Deal promoted by local governments around the world.

The context of COVID-19 provides a special opportunity to reflect on what changes and opportunities can a local government promote to bring forward a climate agenda?

Session 6. Rethinking public services and natural resources

7th of July 2020

In recent years, cities have increasingly incorporated digital and smart innovations to improve citizens’ quality of life. With the emergence of COVID-19 and the establishment of quarantines, digital infrastructure has played a critical role in the local economy’s functioning and the population’s access to essential public goods and services. Is this trend of digital transition, accelerated by the pandemic, an opportunity for the economic recovery of cities?

Session 5. Smart Recovery

25th of June 2020

In recent years, cities have increasingly incorporated digital and smart innovations to improve citizens’ quality of life. With the emergence of COVID-19 and the establishment of quarantines, digital infrastructure has played a critical role in the local economy’s functioning and the population’s access to essential public goods and services. Is this trend of digital transition, accelerated by the pandemic, an opportunity for the economic recovery of cities?

Session 4. Green Recovery

23th of June 2020

The economic crisis, generated by the Coronavirus, is affecting the planet, with impacts on the national and city economies.This disruptive event comes at a time when in the EU, new environmental policies are underway that aim at the transition to a more sustainable economy. The Green Deal seeks to transform Europe and accelerate the transition to a “clean” and circular economy, climate neutral. Will economic recovery be an opportunity to rethink the prosperity model and build an economy around ecological principles?

Session 3. Urban Transport and Mobility

11th June 2020

At the seminar Transport and Urban Mobility, it was discussed how measures that had been introduced in many cities months before Covid-19, such as bicycle lanes, pedestrianisation of streets, widening of sidewalks or the extension of green areas, in favour of the sustainability of cities, are even more necessary at a time when public spaces must be reconfigured.

Session 2: Urban Planning and Public Spaces

9th June 2020

In the seminar Public Space and Urban Planning, major international speakers discussed the necessary reconversion of public space due to the measures of social distancing promoted by governments on the occasion of Covid-19.

Session 1: Rethinking the tourist city after COVID-19

13th May 2020

Over 150 people participated in the first IUC-LAC Open Dialogues webinar session, last May 13th. Titled Rethinking the post-COVID-19 tourist city, the meeting brought together representatives of the private tourism sector in Spain and Italy and the Spanish cities of Malaga and Madrid and the Italian cities of Rome and Genoa, to expose experiences that can contribute to the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias to conduct its own process of reopening tourism.

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