INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS CONCLUSIONS ON MANAGEMENT GREAT URBAN PARKS, " the parks and the promotion of the coexistence "

Terrassa (Spain), April of 2003

The urban parks must stop being merely ornamental elements, to become spaces of citizen interrelation.

• the potential of the urban Parks like integrating spaces and of cultural diffusion, is very superior to which at the moment they have.

• the parks are the best urban elements, to break barriers between diverse cultures, races, sexes, ages, beliefs and religions, by their possibility much more of welcoming diverse activities, that the streets or the seats were it long ago, when the parks did not exist

• to offer this potential, the parks must of being managed integrally. Everything what it happens in a park, from the maintenance to the contemplation, the stroll, the use like cultural or sport space, must of being observed from a same optics and criterion of management.

• the citizen participation in its multiple forms; during the projectual phase, the execution and the future management, must have a high-priority paper. The parks are of the citizen and for the citizen, reason why its implication is essential.

• the coexistence between the people must be seen reflected in the new urbanism. Much more multicultural the present society, demands other models of parks.

• Is desirable and necessary the implication of the private associations and foundations in the design the management and financing Urban Parks.

• the Great Urban Parks must attract people, this will be obtained designing them so that they fulfill this objective, considering the uses and activities, the comfort and the image, the accessibility and the bonds external and finally the sociability.

• We like managers and/or creators of open spaces, must have like pounding basic the social factor at the time of taking to the practice the projects of a coherent and satisfactory way.

Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain), april' 03