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Nineteen Saxon cities receive the City Award to City Barcelona FAD

18/07/2011

July 18, 2011

Nineteen German towns of the land Saxony-Anhalt have been collected in Barcelona II award City to City Barcelona FAD, which recognizes urban processes that have led to transformations in cities around the world.

The Minister of development and transport of Saxony-Anhalt, Tomas Webel, received the award, City to City in a ceremony that has taken place in the Gothic Salo de Cent of Barcelona City Council, advises the building of the decorative arts (FAD).

At the same ceremony, mentions have been delivered to the project of revitalization of the historic centre of Comayagua (Honduras), the draft of Microhuertos in Dakar (Senegal) and project The High Line Park in New York.

In its second edition, the award has been awarded project "Less is future", was born and 2002 and simultaneously developed nineteen cities in Saxony-Anhalt, which suffer from a strong process of population loss.

The jury of the second edition of City to City Barcelona FAD Awards highlighted as the winning bid values their ability to deal with the problem of population decline jointly in nineteen cities in the global scope of the economic region.

It has also valued commitment to seeking a new economic basis for each city to regain self-sufficiency from the scheme of the landscape, heritage, the educational base and structural heritage, on the basis of the approach that the city has no solution if it is not in a wider context.