Samara is located on the river Volga, one of the Russian symbols. The river has been actively used during the industrialization period, and that opens unending discussion on its future.
The city should provide an environment that stimulates creativity and innovation for its residents.
Talking about Social Integration, with the Social Scientist Sergio Mukherjee
The center of the city of Guimarães is today a living room of the city, explains the architect Manuel Roque.
The brazilian architect Carolina Nunes and her talk “The fluid ‘nature’ of modernity: just like a river” showed how public space are intertwining with preservation, and how the interaction of cities with nature is positively influencing the quality of life of people and sustainability.
Brazil can take full advantage of the rivers to create interconnected parks along them, bringing more leisure, active mobility and valuing the landscape.
The Blue and Green Infrastructure proposes to solve the functional problems of a city in a more economic way, privileging the environmental preservation and benefiting the people.
Every year in early spring, the cherry trees turn the streets of Bonn into a sea of pink flowers.
The city of Essen has reinvented itself, and the Emscher River is a key point of this new approach.