Sunday 13th April 2003
   
09.30 Registration
10.00 - 12.30 Technical Visit - Valletta
12.30 - 13.30 Boat tour of Grand Harbour with lunch
13.30 - 15.30 Technical Visit - Cottonera
17.00 - 19.00

Plenary 1:

  • Official opening by Maltese Senior Officials
  • Heritage and Tourism of Mediterranean Islands: Specificity and Common Issues
    The Mayor of Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • The UNESCO Heritage Label: Glory or Burden?
    Laurent Levistrausse, Director Division for Cultural Heritage, UNESCO
  • Urban Cores for Tourists or Local People?
    The Mayor of Firenze or Venice
  • Tourism as a Tool for European Integration: The Case of Countries in Accession
    Vojka Stular, Major of Piran, Slovenia
  • Regeneration Policies as an impetus for development
    Sonia Landin, Vice Major of Gotland, Sweden
  • Investing in Heritage
    Brian Smith, Secretary General, European Association Historic Towns and Regions, Norwich, UK
20.30-23.00

Civic reception -
Hosted by Parliamentary Secretary Ministry for Home Affairs and the Environment
 
Monday 14th April 2003
   
09.30 - 12.30

Workshop 1: Specific planning tools for regeneration in historic cores

  • The Regime of Historic Urban Cores in France: the case of Lyon
    Philippe Dhenein, Director National School of Public Engineering, Head Research Group on City Heritage, Lyon, France
  • The Integrated Policy Experiences: The Case of Baltic Cities Gedminias Rutkauskaus, Vilnius Old Town Renewal Agency, Lithuania
  • Bario Alto: Rehabilitation of Buildings while caring for the people
    Branca Neves, Advisor to the Mayor of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Housing, Historic Centres and Medinas: Lessons from International Partnership
    Union of Pact Arim, Paris, France
09.30 - 12.30

Workshop 2: The Effectiveness of Social and Economic Instruments for Regeneration in Historic Urban Cores

  • The English Heritage Experience
  • The Global Strategy of Andalusia
    Andalucia Regional Government
  • The Medina of Kairouan
    Director of Agence pour la Rehabilitation et la Renovation Urbaine, Tunisia
  • Lecce: How the Historic Core Regenerate the City
  Coffee break at 10.45
   
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 16.30

Workshop 3: The Architectural and Conservation Factors: Constraints and Opportunity

  • The Morrocon Medinas: The Balance between maintaining tradition and creating economic value
    Rima Fadili - Toutain, Ministere de l'Amenagement du Territoire, de l'Environment, de l'Urbanisme et de l'Habitat, Rabat, Morocco
  • The Montenegro Coastal Citites: Conserving or Regenerating the Venetian Heritage
  • Rehabilitation and conservation of Heritage Haifa
    Valeed Karkabi, Director of Building and Conservation Unit, Municipality of Haifa, Israel
  • Gates, Steeples and Step: Heritage Revial in Rostock
    Andreas Schubert, Head Economic Promotion City of Rostock, Germany
  • The Regeneration of Mdina
    Profs. Dennis De Lucca, Chairman Mdina Rehabilitation Committee
14.30 - 16.30

Workshop 4: Tourism and Leisure as a Stimulus for Regeneration

  • Activate the Waterfront as a Destination
    Ed Stone, Chairman EDSA, Fort Lauderdale, USA
  • Financing Heritage Regeneration for Economic Development
    Olivier Terry, Caisse des Depots et Consignation, Paris, France
  • Cultural Tourism as a stimulus for medium sized cities Development: The Case of Granollers
    Ramon Maspons, Regeneration Unit, City of Granollers, Spain
  Coffee break at 15.30
   
18:30 - 19.00 Welcome Drink for Experts and Public
19:00 - 20.30 Presentation and Public Debate on Urban Regeneration in Malta
20.30 - 22.30

Reception
   
  Tuesday 15th April 2003
   
09.30 - 12.30

Workshop 5: Management and Legal Instruments, The Appropriate Institutional Mechanisms and forms of Partnerships

  • Privatisation of Cultural Assets: The Art Museum of Turin
    Fiorenzo Alfieri, Deputy Major of Turin, Italy
  • Using the Private Property Market as a tool for Regeneration
  • The Tools available to Local Authorities: Lessons from Lyon
    Henry Chabert, President Heritage Vision, Lyon, France
  • Urban Revitilisation through Restoring Fine Arts in the City
    Kevin MacMahon, Head of Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, USA
  09.30 - 12.30

Workshop 6: Accessibility in the historic urban core

  • Cars and Pedetrians in Papal Avignon
    Representative of the City of Avignon, France
  • Historic Urban Cores without Cars: The Tuscany Cities
    Director of Planning, Tuscany Regional Government, Italy
  • Managing Accessibility in Austrian Historic Cores: The Case of Vienna
    Jozef Matousek, Director of the Department of Urban Design, City of Vienna, Austria
  Coffee break at 10.45
   
  12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

 

 

 14.30 - 18.00

Introduction by Parliamentary Secretary of Home Affairs
Debate : Reconciling the Requirements for New Uses with the Historic Value of Cities
Report and debate with the Workshops Leaders

Plenary :

  • Head of English Tourist Board / German Tourist Board
  • Stanley A. Lowe, Vice president, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC
  • Concluding remarks by Minister for Tourism
  Coffee break at 15.45
   
20.30-23.00 Farewell Reception Hosted by Minister for Tourism
   
 


Wednesday 16th April 2003
POST-SEMINAR