Feb. 2019
Urban Maestro project launch
Jun. 2019
Urban Design Governance
Jan. 2020
Design Environment
Feb. 2020
Soft-power in the governance of urban design: a new approach for achieving quality in cities
Jun. 2020
Innovative Development Tools
Sep. 2020
Urban Maestro Masterclass
Nov. 2020
Actions for Future
Mar. 2021
Policy Dialogue and Forum on New Governance Strategies for Urban Design
The quality of urban environments derives from various projects, interventions, and policy decisions over time. They are the collective work of multiple stakeholders – public, private, and community – but are not always of a quality that we would aspire to see.
Urban Maestro examines how the soft (non-regulatory) powers of the state can shape the decisions that help to deliver better-designed places. These approaches often combine different, informal tools in order to guide, encourage, and enable better design.
European countries and cities apply these informal tools often in innovative ways; therefore, Urban Maestro aims to capture how these tools are put into practice, with what purpose, and what impact they have on real-life solutions.
