Gabrieli, Tommaso; (2022) Exploring formal and informal means of improving spatial quality in cities across Europe: the role of financial tools. Presented at: CHANGING CITIES V, Corfu, Greece.

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Urban Maestro is a major research initiative funded under Horizon 2020 that ran from December 2018 to February 2021 by a partnership between United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Bouwmeester Maître Architecte Brussels (BMA) and the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London (UCL). The research looked at the ways European cities are being designed and financed, focusing on innovative ways of generating and implementing urban spatial quality: the “soft power” modalities of urban design governance. Soft power modalities refer to those approaches where public authorities act in an informal capacity as enablers or brokers rather than through formal regulatory or direct investment powers. Examples include multi-stakeholder design platforms, bouwmeesters, city-architects, quality negotiation mechanisms and the like. The action focused on these processes and how they are being used to shape cities through means short of regulation, direct design or development. To explore these issues the work programme mapped out the design governance landscape in jurisdictions across Europe (hard and soft / formal and informal); burrowed down into their workings via a series of pan-European workshops; contrasted experiences in Europe to international practices elsewhere; used the initiative to build a long-term network for sharing best practice; and supported policy uptake focussed on the drive to urban quality across the continent, and globally. In this presentation, Tommaso Gabrieli (Co-Investigator at UCL) will present final findings on how different countries and cities across Europe have been intervening to shape the design and quality of the built environment, through which sorts of tools and how their choices relate to the political, economic and democratic systems and priorities of these countries. In particular, the emphasis will be on innovative policies and practices in urban design governance that relate to financial instruments.

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