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Urban Safety in Practice, Youth Experience

U-SAFE, Urban Laboratory Göteborg,

Young Urban Network.


Monday, June 19 th, 14:00 -16:00

Key Highlights

1. Estimated no of participants: 90 people aprox.

2. Stakeholder group representation at the event: U-SAFE, Urban Laboratory Göteborg and Urban Laboratory Network. Paola Abatto, young architect from Chile, who is writing a project about Rehabilitation of Economical Social Buildings in Peñalolen. Pernilla Lindstrom, young urban planner from Stockholm, who carried out here thesis in one of the Safer Cities projects in Dar es Salaam. Kevin Pheko, young architect from South Africa, who wrote his thesis on hip hop architecture as it related to public spaces/streets in Johannesburg.

3. What were the expected objectives: Showed examples about how the Youth is addressing issues of safety in cities. the contribution of youths in developing urban spaces around the world

4. What did the networking event achieve: The concept of U-safe illustrated tangible examples of models produced by young professionals and therefore offered new tools to deal with cities. Raised Awareness of lack of youth participation in urban development. Raised awareness of the need to forge new urban development dialogues.

5. What were the core issues identified in your event as they relate to the theme and sub-themes of WUFIII?

Need for participatory design schemes, need to create communication channels between youths and governments, and need to avoid simplified gentrification.

6. What were the main points raised by panellists and participants in relation to these different issues? What new ideas have been generated as a result of the discussion?

The three young professionals presented the following ideas:

--Paola Abatto: Her presentation shows how the rehabilitation of economic social buildings in the city generate a new connection between this blocks and life in the zone, and as consequence, improve the potential of the neighbourhoods where this buildings are, creating a clear identity to this part of the city.

-- Pernilla Lindstrom: Her presentation shows young people's use of public space in a market place called Buguruni, from a safety perspective and how youth can be engaged in the planning and development of Buguruni market so that the space becomes youth friendly.

-- Kevin Pheko : The relevance and its contribution of his project is based on the idea that through hiphop marginalized communities can be reached and included in urban reform, helping create safer cities. The conclusion is a building that borrows from the ideas of hiphop, which are often criminalized within urban spaces.

The main ideas to emerge from the discusion are to incorporate more interaction between authorities and the youth, using U-SAFE webpage in the beginning, and youth representatives after, to search better practices, look for new ones and exchange them.

7. What process steps have been identified in your event that could help turn ideas into operational reality?

-Make U-SAFE a platform of exchange, and also a connection with real authorities that could turn "ideas into action".

- Use U-SAFE website to this purpose.

-Create in the future a Youth Professional Forum, (YPF) that will attend necessities of Youth in the Security theme, and will be the Research Engine to UN-HABITAT.

-Create a website where people can exchange and share ideas, select them by themes, comment and publish what is happening beside youth, their interaction with their cities and security.

-Incorporate communitary design to improve the capacity of Youth in making real projects in the cities, and also, maintain the connection between authorities and youth through UN-HABITAT support.