APPENDIX TO ITEM 11.8
Report for the 23rd General Assembly
FIG Working Week in Prague, 22-26 May 2000
Commission 8: Spatial Planning and Development
1. General
Commission 8 has been working since the Sun City Working week
according to the work plan. The planned technical session in Prague, the
participation of chair and vice-chair to the technical excursion and the annual
meeting 2000 as an informal session in Prague with present delegates of the
Commission 8 have been organised and information about these events are
exchanged via Newsletter and e-mails. Some changes in nominations of national
delegates have happened and are registered. A list of nominated delegates will
be actualised after the meeting in Prague.
2. Work plan
Commission 8 has followed the accepted workplan without
changes until now. At the annual meeting in Prague there will be discussions
about the final report of the working group „Urban Regeneration". It is
planned to publish a report as a guideline for national associations in this
field to have an overview what surveyors are doing in planning and
implementation processes in big cities. There will be practice material out of a
small number of cities which the commission members visited in the last years of
their work.
3. Annual meeting
Commission 8 organised an annual meeting during the Sun City
Working week on the 2nd of June. Main issue of the small number (8)
present in Sun City was the discussion about the 1998-2002 workplan of the
commission. Other items were the FIG Task force on sustainable development,
AGENDA 21 and the implementation of „HABITAT II Conference"-results in
the daily work of the Commission 8 events. The delegates emphasise the
participation of the commission 8 members in the FIG Special Task Force about
Surveyors Agenda 21 and Global Plan of Action.
4. Other meetings and events
On 23rd of July Commission 8 chair participated in
the 25 anniversary reception of the Institute of Land management in the
University of Munich with an opportunity to explain and comment the terms of
reference of FIG and especially the work of the commission 8.
22-25 September 1999 Commission 8 arranged a three-day
workshop in Rotterdam and the Ruhr District. 17 participants from seven
countries had very good discussions about the framework, social questions, cost
and benefit, environment issues and culture of landscape changing processes in
the big cities of the Netherlands and the Ruhr District of Germany. A special
report about the workshop results will be given in the Prague annual meeting.
Commission 8 has prepared actively the working week 2000 in
Prague presenting papers in a technical session about public private partnership
and local problems of City Regeneration in the Czech Republic.
5. Forthcoming events
The Rotterdam event in autumn 1999 was planned to include the
presentation of results of a world-wide questionnaire to receive projects in
addition to the presented examples of the working group „Urban
Regeneration". There has been only one answer to the questionnaire out of
Austria. Therefore chair and vice-chair plan to publish the discussion results
of the last years in a more reporting way about the involved cities world-wide.
The chair and vice-chair will meet in different places and
they will contact people involved by fax and e-mail. A special meeting
(Publishing conference) will be discussed in Prague with the aim to get
different professionals from cities to meet during the events during the URBAN
21 in July in Berlin or during the INTERGEO 2000 in Berlin in October.
6. Other matters
Commission 8 officers have requested in the Commission
newsletter the national delegates to participate into the discussion and
contribute to the daily activities of the commission for example by answering to
the newsletter. Unfortunately no feedback was received to the latest request in
June 1999 from any of the Commission delegates.
Helmut Brackmann
Chair, FIG Commission 8, Spatial Planning and Development
21 March 2000
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