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Global City Regions – Towards a Shareholder City
Essen / Metropolitan
Area Rhine-Ruhr
June 29 to July
5 2006
Programme (draft)
Thursday, June 29th
Evening:Introduction to the conference and the the metropolitan area Rhine-Ruhr.
Official commercial films of the cities in the area
Friday, June 30th
8 teams visit different cities in the metropolitan area rhine-ruhr.Topics: Wuppertal:
German city- and regional Planning / Cologne: Queer City / Düsseldorf:
Change of old-industrial areas to a Global city / Oberhausen or Bottrop: Change
of old-industrial areas to an ecologic and cultural area / Duisburg: Transport
and logistic
Duisburg or Essen: Immigration / Essen or Gelsenkirchen: Shrinking cities /
Dortmund: Housing
Saturday, 1st July
10 – 17 h: Public conference „Fundisation of Urban Space” with
academic guests and activists from different parts of the world. Essen, Regionalverband
Ruhr, Kronprinzenstr. Central Hall.
Sunday, July 2nd
Presentations and discussion of the visited sites. Together with representatives
and activists.
Evening: Film festival - INURA and other filmmakers in a cinema in Essen.
Monday to Wednesday, July
3rd to 5th
INURA retreat - Presentations, Discussions, AGM etc.
This 16th Annual Meeting of INURA will be accommodated at Heinrich-Rabbich-Haus, Essen-Werden, Germany. Essen is connected to the international transport system through national and international railway, and the airports of Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Cologne-Bonn and Dortmund. Further details will be provided soon.
