SAFE THE DATE! CIVITAS CATALIST Workshop on Soft Mobility II
People’s mobility is becoming an increasingly important basic need in the modern world. Therefore, an increased interest of people to participate in the planning of urban mobility policies and measures as well as in the implementation of concrete measures is understandable.
This workshop, subtitled Street Design: Reorganisation & Public Participation, will take place on 26 April in Graz, Austria, will focus on public participation and Shared Space.People’s mobility is becoming an increasingly important basic need in the modern world. Therefore, an increased interest of people to participate in the planning of urban mobility policies and measures aswell as in the implementation of concrete measures is understandable. Besides, citizens of the European Union are increasingly aware that involvement and co-decision making are also enabled byEuropean Union policies and legislation, although legislation provisions are implemented very differently in different Member States – from deliberative to centralized and closed approaches. As faras good practice is concerned, it has been on the rapid increase and is expanding in cities and states of the European Union. Namely, public participation incorporates needs, values, interests and knowledge of the traffic participants into decision-making processes, which improves the quality of the decisions.Interested? Don't hesitate to register here by 18 April 2012 the latest! And if you need further information, please download here the draft programme!