Welcome to "Alfa Aurora"

Mostly all major metropolitan cities in the developing Americas as well as in the developed Europe have been facing tremendous problems of an unplanned and uncontrollable growth. Processes of suburbanisation, social segregation, substantial decline of life, lacking or insufficient infrastructure and catastrophic deterioration of natural resources and environmental standards are among the well known consequences.

Therefore, the project acts within the Agenda 21 for a sustainable urban development which has been implemented first as a convention of the Rio-conference in 1992, a global strategy continued by a range of follow-up conferences, i.e. Agenda 21 for sustainable city construction in Sweden.

Whereas in the European countries agglomerations primarily need to be re-planned and re-structured in order to enhance quality of life, revitalize natural resources and remedy the envionmental dammages, (design and changing land use, urban space, conversion of industrial sites etc), the Latin American cities require the implementation and development of effective and modern  planning procedures and instruments, coordinated departmental plannings for comprehensive regional areas, (subject based reasons for the importance of the objective). Moreover, the cities are facing huge, no more payable infrastructure problems (traffic, potable water supply, sewage water provisions treatment, waste disposal and recycling opportunities.

Environmental protection of the natural life resources: noise, soil, water, biodiversity, clean air) Cultural development, violency and security.

Backing a democratic undertanding of planning and designing urban development, it is also vital to integrate the citizens, economic and civil institutions into the procedures and cooperate with and relevant people concerned.

Interdisciplinary collaboration of diferent professions concerned like Architects, Civil Engineers, Urban Planners, Cartographists etc.

The network is composed of a selection of professors and lecturers who are experts in one or several of the a.m. fields with a special focus on interdisciplinary, result-oriented collaboration.

The network proposed  shall work towards educating a new generation of Architects and Urban Planners to meet the needs of the challenging urban development in Latin America and in Europe and shall create a new way of thinking and design of interdisciplinary courses/approaches in thies field.