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Volgograd and Ostrava urban planners met at an online conference

05.04.2022

Volgograd and Ostrava urban planners met at an online conference

​On March 22, 2022, the Head of the Department for Architecture and Urban Planning of Volgograd administration, Mr. Edwin Petrov at the invitation of the municipality of the sister-city of Ostrava (Czech Republic), took part in the "Livable and Climate Resilient European Cities" online conference.

The event was held within the frame of the CLAIRO research project (its name standing for CLear AIR and CLimate Adaptation in Ostrava) aimed at studying the impact that green spaces have on air quality in cities. The City of Ostrava acted as it's the project's main partner.

- How to improve air quality through the smart use of green spaces?

- How to transform a city of short distances into a city of comfortable distances?

- How to plant trees so that they intercept the maximum amount of polluting agents?

- What is the Blue-Green-Grey system and how does it help fight drought and floods?

The answers and opinions on these and other questions were shared at the conference by urban planning professionals from 5 countries.

All presentations and video recordings of the reports by the conference experts can be viewed and on the project's official website: https://clairo.ostrava.cz/konference/



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