Local Agenda 21 and ecological urban restructuring: An European model project in Leipzig

AGENDA 21 as one of the final resolutions of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in June 1992 in Rio de Janeiro stresses in chapter 28 the important role of cities, towns and communities in globally sustainable development. One of the most important European model projects in this respect was carried out in Leipzig from 1993 to 1997. The Leipzig Ostraum Project was supported through the LIFE support program of the European Union with the largest subsidy awarded till that time (4,3 mill. DM, with a total project budget of about 20 mill. DM). The central goal of this project is the use, testing and further development of present knowledge with regard to sustainable urban restructuring in combination with innovative strategies of economic and employment policies. The scope of traditional urban ecology is extended to comprise adjacent rural areas and to revitalize regional material flows. In the meantime, affiliated projects have won support by the THERMIE program of the European Union and the EXWOST-program of the German Federal Ministry of Construction. This paper reports on the most important results of the Leipzig Project to date. In particular, the authors show that the concept of ecological urban restructuring and the Local Agenda 21 are in harmony with one another and can play a decisive role in stimulating consensus on future urban development. All urban actors can be winners in this process. Difficulties arose, however, through dishonest use of financial support by the project agency. -- Die AGENDA 21, Abschlußdokument der UN-Konferenz über Umwelt und Entwicklung im Juni 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, betont in ihrem Kapitel 28 die Rolle der Kommunen, Städte und Gemeinden bei einer global zukunftsfähigen Entwickung (sustainable development). Eines der wichtigsten europäischen Modellprojekte zu diesem Thema wurde in den Jahren 1993 bis 1997 in Leipzig durchgeführt. Zentrale Zielstellung des mit der bisher höchsten Fördersumme aus dem LIFEProgramm der Europäischen Kommission (4,3 Mio DM bei einem Projektvolumen von knapp 20 Mio DM) geförderten Leipziger Ostraum-Projektes ist die Anwendung und Weiterentwicklung des Erkenntnisstandes zum Thema des zukunftsfähigen Städtebaus in Kombination mit innovativen Strategien einer ökologischen Wirtschafts- und Beschäftigungspolitik. Die traditionelle Stadtökologie wird erweitert durch die Einbeziehung der Umlandgemeinden und die Revitalisierung regionaler Stoffkreisläufe. Inzwischen sind ergänzende Tochterprojekte mit Förderung aus dem THERMIE-Programm der Europäischen Kommission und dem EXWOST-Programm des Bundesbauministeriums eingeworben werden. In dem Paper wird über die wichtigsten bisherigen Ergebnisse des Projektes berichtet. Insbesondere wird gezeigt, daß die Konzepte des Ökologischen Stadtumbaus und der Lokalen Agenda 21 miteinander harmonieren und eine konsensstiftende Funktion in der zukünftigen Stadtentwicklung übernehmen können. Alle städtischen Akteure können Winner in diesem Prozeß sein. Durch unredlichen Umgang des Projektträgers mit den Fördergeldern war das Leipziger Projekt in jüngster Zeit allerdings in Schwierigkeiten geraten.

Documents about World War I

In 1984 the PHOTO and SOUNDARCHIV of the museum in Graz I Styria organised an exhibition about the FIRST WORLD WAR, and therefore our collection of documentation material about this event is comparatively extensive. Though the collection is restricted to material from the region of Styria only, we have got an insight of the way ofW AR-DOKUMENT ATION at this time. I have brought some catalogues of this exhibition with me, in case that somebody should be interested in this.In 1984 the PHOTO and SOUNDARCHIV of the museum in Graz I Styria organised an exhibition about the FIRST WORLD WAR, and therefore our collection of documentation material about this event is comparatively extensive. Though the collection is restricted to material from the region of Styria only, we have got an insight of the way ofW AR-DOKUMENT ATION at this time. I have brought some catalogues of this exhibition with me, in case that somebody should be interested in this

Cloud computing architecture

Računarstvo u oblaku jedna je od usluga koja je zabilježila veliki rast u informacijskoj tehnologiji posljednjih godina. Zasniva se na principu da korisnik za svoje poslovanje iznajmi računalne resurse od pružatelja usluga umjesto kupnje. Korisnik ovisno o svojim potrebama može unajmiti tri osnova modela: Infrastrukturu kao uslugu, Platformu kao uslugu i/ili Softver kao uslugu. Prednost korištenja usluga je što korisnik plaća onoliko resursa koliko koristi. Računarstvo u oblaku donosi mnoštvo prednosti start-up tvrtkama jer ne moraju raditi vlastitu informacijsku tehnološku infrastrukturu već je unajmiti.Cloud computing is one of the services which recorded a growth in the field of information technology in the recent years. It is based on the principle that the user rents computing resources from the service provider instead of buying them. User dependent on his needs can rent three basic models: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and/or Software as a Service. The advantage of this kind of servise is the fact that user pays only resources that he uses. Cloud computing brings many advantages to start-up companies because they do not have to build their own information technology infrastructure – they can rent it