Debate on the new Urban Charter
Spring Session of the Congress
13-14 March 2008 - Malaga, Spain
Committee on
Sustainable Development approves new Urban Charter: Manifesto
for a new urbanity
Willy Borsus, Mayor of Somme-Leuze (Belgium), presented,
on behalf of Rapporteur Carlos Pinto, Mayor of Covilha (Portugal),
the advances and challenges of European Urban Charter II:
Manifesto for a new urbanity. The new text, which was approved
by the Committee on Sustainable Development, sets out a body of
common principles and concepts enabling towns and cities to meet
the current challenges facing urban society. It offers citizens
a new vision of towns and cities as places which celebrate
diversity, solidarity, sustainability and innovation.
Carlos Pinto: ''The new Urban Charter must pave the way
for the city of tomorrow''(more...)