A university inside the City: Challenges and opportunities Maria Angela Cunha - Urban Division of the City of Aveiro

1. a university inside the city:
challenges and opportunities
• city profile
• university inside the city
what, how, who?
• which are the opportunities

2. a university inside the city: challenges and opportunities
city profile
• second most populous city in the
Center Region of Portugal. NUT II
• capital of
County. 78 500 inhabitants
Baixo Vouga. NUT III. 400 000 inhabitants
• medium-sized city. 40 000 inhabitants
Inhabitants. 2011

3. • strategic location, ease to access
due to the railway, seaport and
highways
Vigo
Porto
Madrid
Aveiro
• economic dynamism, focal point of
an industrially developed region
• growing centre of leisure and
culture
• tradition (eg fishing, salt production or
ceramic industry) along with innovation
Lisbon
(eg research in telecommunications)
Faro

4. • attractiveness of the landscape “Ria
de Aveiro”
• historic districts vs modern city
20th century- art nouveau, deco,
modernism and contemporary portuguese
architecture
• urban sprawl
most of the Portuguese coastline cities
• intense commuting movements link
the surrounding urban areas

5. a university inside the city: challenges and opportunities
what?

6. • university as another
city inside the city,
different worlds?

7. • close model of the
campus, private
space?
• in the city?
• into scientific
research, away from
real life?

8. • best waterfront of
the city?

9. • ghost space during
weekend and out of
school times?

10. train
station
city hall
city center
Santiago campus
Crasto campus
future science park
a university inside the city: challenges and opportunities
how?

11. • easy to get there
without a car?
• close to city center?

12. • connection paths
comfortable and
clear?

13. • different modes of
transportation
available- walking,
cycling and public
transportation?

14. • articulation with the
surrounding
territories- built and
natural?

15. • how inhabitants get
here?

16. train
station

17. train
station
a university inside the city: challenges and opportunities
who?

18. • campus has all the
necessary facilities
and amenities?

19. • many students live at
(or very near) the
campus

20. • students from the
surrounding areas
pass through the city
daily.

21. • which relationship do
they have with the
city?

22. • image of the studentnoisy, bohemian,
with different habits.
engagement with the
community?

23. • how are the urban
areas attracting the
students?
• how it can be
reshaped to receive
them?

25. a university inside the city: challenges and opportunities
strategy
strategy of city master plan:
• ensuring a territorial model that
reinforces the centrality of urban
areas and its valorization
• stimulate entrepreneurship
• promote a attractive territory from
the standpoint of environmental,
historical, and cultural
• strengthen the accessibility network
as a motor for cohesion
• strengthen the protection and
enhancement of environmental
components

26. a university inside the city: challenges and opportunities
strategy
urban
liveability
mobility
and
accessibility
Aveiro
branding
sea,
ria and salt
entrepreneurship and
knowledge
participation
and
citizenship
environmental
valorisation
energy
sustainability

27. a university inside the city: challenges and opportunities
opportunities
Aveiro is attractive,
welcoming and young
• open mind
• will to join new projects
• innovation, creativity, knowledge
youth rates. 2011
• social and cultural diversity
• integration and closer relationships
in the city center
• positive potential to create new
solutions
• overall education of the student
• student satisfaction
atractiveness rates. 2011

28. Aveiro can provide one of
the best quality living
environment
• easy to combine different modes of
transportation
• less resistance to change
• favorable characteristics
• large scale mobility
• combination with short distances
easy to access
• city size

29. Aveiro needs to use all the skills and resources to achieve its
goals
• living lab, testing sustainable city
• large range of cooperation areas, win-win
• human resources, equipment, spaces can
be used for both interests
• testing new solutions on voids with
growth opportunities
• important research not used can be
applied
• problem based learning, from local to
global
• testing quality markets, from and to
university