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Cultural Planning

'Myth of the City' participants in Kissamos, Crete 1995

Further going ideas about living conditions in cities were discussed between poets and planners at the 'Myth of the City' conference held in Crete 1995. Many poets wrote about respective cities e.g. Anne Born not liking London, but needing the city for purpose of poetry readings and finding publishers. The poetess Paula Meehan took, however, the idea further by stressing the need for cities to retain wild or untamed places. As for planners Sue Tilden reflected in particular 'replica planning' as the possibility to reproduce the original idea in many further going, but smaller steps. At the same time, someone like Pavlos Delladetsima reflected about the rhetorics planners use and why good planning lacks in Greece any backing as there is the coalition of interests of developers, construction companies and property owners. Out of both the Fifth Seminar and the 'Myth of the City' followed the Article 10 ERDF project CIED which looked at culture as being a filter for planning interventions into a city.

 

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