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The Symposium explored how citizens and governments can creatively work together and apply co-operative principles and ideals to participate successfully in the regeneration of urban settlements and rise to the challenge of creating communities in cities of the future that are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable.

Keynote speech:  Professor Wulf Daseking, Head of Urban Planning - City of Freiburg, Germany

Partnership between housing co-operatives and governments in successful affordable housing development projects

David Rodgers, President - ICA Housing      

Vít Vaníček, President, Union of Czech and Moravian Housing Co-operatives (Czech), President of Cecodhas - the European Federation of social, co-operatives and public housing

Nicholas Gazzard, Vice-President - ICA Housing, Chief Executive - Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada

Housing co-operatives can influence and participate in urban regeneration and transformation for sustainable, participatory, democratic and affordable housing projects

Faruk Göksu, Urban Strategy Ltd - Urban Planner, İstanbul (Turkey)

Cristiano Picco, Architetto, PICCO architetti -Cooperativa Di Vittorio (Italy)

Behiye Gül Deliktaş, Head of Housing Credits Department, Housing Development Administration (Turkey)