Announcement: Symposium „Water in urban landscape“

Landscape comprises natural, rural, urban and suburban areas, including land, areas of inland waters and marine areas. Water, in addition to its existential, nutritional, economic importance, represents also an essential landscape component, it is an expression of the diversity of cultural and natural heritage, of the identity of an area, and an important factor of the quality of living in urban and rural settlements.

 

Enhanced risks of anthropogenic impacts due to urbanisation, economic activities, development of transport and other infrastructure on the one hand, and their absence on the other, have an impact on space and thereby also on urban landscape. In the context of current challenges faced by urban areas and arising from climate changes, environmental pollution and physical devastation of natural and cultural values, by this year’s topic efforts are made to raise the awareness of the professional and general public of the value and significance of water as a landscape component, its potential in seeking answers to contemporary challenges, as well as of the promotion of its protection and conservation in the context of the identity of space and its quality for everyday life.

 

Photo: archives of the Public Institution Maksimir

 

EXHIBITION OF ART WORKS of the kindergartens Bajka, Špansko and Zapruđe, and elementary schools Remete, Rugvica and Jure Kaštelan from Zagreb / Croatian Waters, Ul. Grada Vukovara 220

 

Attendance of the symposium and side events is free of charge, with obligatory registration.

 

The Symposium and site visit are evaluated in the context of the Professional training programme of the Croatian Chamber of Architects.

 

 

 

Within the framework of marking the Third International Landscape Day of the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the Public Institution Maksimir, also a site visit of the Savica significant landscape is organised. The Savica significant landscape consists of a complex of marshy habitats on the left Sava riverbank in the territory of the City of Zagreb. Savica is a natural backwater of the Sava, separated from the river by an embankment and partly filled up, and being of extreme value for nature protection. The landscape values of Savica are unique and significant at the level of the City of Zagreb. 

 

The site visit of the Savica significant landscape is planned to take place on 20 October 2019, commencing at 10.00 hrs in front of ŠRD “Pešćenica“, Miševečka bb, Zagreb, and ending at about 13.00 hrs. 

 

 

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The Symposium and site visit are evaluated in the context of the Professional training programme of the Croatian Chamber of Architects.