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Policy Drivers
Land Use
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| Policy Driver |
Aalborg Commitments |
| Policy Type |
Policy Statement |
| Venue |
Aalborg DK |
| Overall Objective |
The 4th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns, Aalborg+10, took place on 11 June 2004 where representatives of 110 local governments signed the Aalborg Commitments, devised to help cities and towns achieve sustainability.
The ten Aalborg Commitments must be viewed as a tool to help local governments set clear qualitative and quantitative targets for practical work to implement the urban sustainability principles of the Aalborg Charter. |
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5 PLANNING AND DESIGN
We are committed to a strategic role for urban planning and design in addressing environmental, social, economic, health and cultural issues for the benefit of all.
We will therefore work to:
1. re-use and regenerate derelict or disadvantaged areas.
2. avoid urban sprawl by achieving appropriate urban densities and prioritising brownfield site over greenfield site
development.
3. ensure the mixed use of buildings and developments with a good balance of jobs, housing and services, giving
priority to residential use in city centres.
4. ensure appropriate conservation, renovation and use/re-use of our urban cultural heritage.
5. apply requirements for sustainable design and construction and promote high quality architecture and building
technologies. |
| Action |
Signatories to the Aalborg Commitments:
1. endorse the Aalborg Charter.
2. endorse the Aalborg Commitments.
3. agree to produce an integrated Aalborg Commitments baseline review as a starting point for the target setting process within 12 months following the date of signature. This review will include a policy context, refer to existing political commitments and describe current challenges.
4. agree to enter into a local participatory target setting process that incorporates existing Local Agenda 21 or other local sustainability action planning and takes into consideration the results of the local baseline review.
5. agree to prioritise our tasks, aiming to address the ten Commitments
6. agree to set individual local targets within 24 months following the date of signature, taking into account the Aalborg Commitments Annex as an inspirational resource, and to set time frames related to the targets that are suitable to demonstrate progress on the Commitments.
7. agree to make a regular Aalborg Commitments monitoring review of achievements available to citizens.
8. agree to regularly provide information on targets and progress to the European Sustainable Cities & Towns Campaign and, through this cooperation, to review progress and learn from each other. A first European assessment is scheduled for the year 2010, with subsequent reviews scheduled in five-year cycles. |
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