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Mayor participates in working groups with the former mayors of cities such as Athens, Helsinki, Vienna, Livorno, Malmo and Lisbon, among others.
The municipality uses the European event to publicize the situation after the earthquake: http://prezi.com/0ke2p30cepld/lorca/
March 22, 2012.
The city of Lorca shows this week its draft recovery municipality after the earthquake last May 11, inside the "V Summit of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union", which takes place in Copenhagen with the theme "The European urban fabric in the XXI century ".
Note that the reconstruction model falls under the heading "Beautiful cities", which also includes cities such as Athens, Helsinki, North Rhine Westphalia (Germany), Gdynia (Poland) and Vienna.
The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, has been invited to this summit, stressed that it is a chance that our city is using to explain the situation of the municipality after the earthquake of last May, and the recovery model integral term is taking and its objectives.
Thus, Lorca is still leading in the European theater.
These days Europe is to know first hand the potential of our town.
In Copenhagen, Lorca is spreading the project of a people is being raised through the efforts of all its citizens after suffering the worst catastrophe in its history, which has also led to the further destruction of infrastructure in Spain since the civil war.
The summit of European cities is chaired by the Chairperson of the Committee of the EU Regions, Mercedes Bresso, and has the participation of European Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso.
Lorca Mayor will participate in the working sessions of the summit, in particular within the working group "Dynamic urban and European government."
In this framework will discuss the impact of the European Union urban development.
Along with the Mayor of Lorca involved the former mayors of Lisbon, Antonio Costa, Livorno, Allessandro Cosimi, Leipzig Burkhard Jung, and the President of the Region WIELOPOLSKA (Poland), Marek Wozniak.
Francisco Jodar will also participate actively in the working group on "Urban development as an opportunity to improve the environment: what objectives we set ourselves in the maintenance of natural areas, urban and rural areas?".
In this block, Jódar share work with the Mayor of Warsaw, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, the mayor of Malmo, Ilmar Reepalu, Stockholm, Sten Nordin, and the President of the Region of Rhone-Alpes, Jean-Jack Queyranne.
The summit sessions are taking place in Tivoli Congress Centre in Copenhagen.
The example project of the church of San Pedro
The European Union has chosen for this summit the existing intervention project for the recovery of the church of San Pedro, which is presented in Copenhagen in the exhibition "Colourful Cities" as one of the initiatives that are emerging and developing in our city recovery of the normal rhythm of life in the town, after the earthquake last May 11.
The Church of San Pedro is one of the three small (in this case, with an area of ​​400 m2) churches nestled in the districts of Lorca, this space has a medieval structure with Gothic decoration subsequent interventions, as a result of War Civil and recently lost the cover, the earthquake has caused, inter alia, damages in a single tower of 19.50 meters.
Their use, in recent times has been very varied and always away from that for which it was built.
Even sometimes been used as a warehouse or barn.
This action reflects well the lines of "Beautiful City", as an example of good practice in intervention architectural and urban areas, improving the landscape aspects and facilitating social recovery of the area.
Stresses in this regard, its innovative architectural intervention, since it is a conceptual space recovery primitive covers.
Within the proposal also includes treatment of the environment, particularly interesting because it was an isolated piece in the urban fabric.
This is a neighborhood, to promote, which acts on a monumental element.
The intervention, facilitate recovery and improvement of surrounding urban space, creating opportunities for our relationship to enhance the social life of the neighborhood and creating economic potential.
The church is part of one of the most characteristic of Lorca, the high district of San Pedro.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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