Energieffektivisering och revitalisering av historiska miljöer – America Saves i samverkan med Oklahoma Main Street Center

Inom programmet America Saves uppmuntras småföretagare att delta i energieffektivisering av verksamheter och byggnader i historiska miljöer www.americasavesenergy.org  

Almedalen 2016-07-06 12.00: Business Improvement Districts – går det att arbeta på motsvarande sätt i Sverige?

Medverkande: Fastighetsutvecklingschef Anna Nyberg (Vasakronan), VD Per Eriksson (City i Samverkan), Stadsutvecklings- och samhällschef Helena Olsson (Fastighetsägarna Stockholm), Kultur- och stadsbyggnadsborgarråd Roger Mogert (Stockholm Stad, S), Oppositionsborgarråd Cecilia Brinck (Stockholm Stad, M)

National Trust for Canada – Regeneration on Main Street


I Nordamerika arbetar kulturmiljövården med orts- och platsutveckling via fokuserade satsningar på viktiga stråk och noder.

Utbildning och konst – Lisa Bergström möter filantropen Eli Broad

Eli and Edythe Broad pose during a media preview of The Broad Museum in Los Angeles


”Muséet The Broad visar Eli och Edyth Broads konstsamling som de arbetat på sedan 70-talet. …runt den tidigare ganska skumma gatan Grand Avenue i Downtown Los Angeles har det vuxit fram flera kulturinstitutioner… (som) …Eli Broad har varit med och finansierat.” Studio Ett, SR P1

Disappearing Glasgow – Chris Leslie fångar stadsdelar i förfall

“They were only supposed to last 40 years anyway” said Andy, demolition contractor and Sighthill resident, as we viewed the city from the rooftop of the Fountainwell Terrace block. “It was a great place to grow up, as a child but now it’s a wee bit different.” Disappearing Glasgow


”When I started documenting Dalmarnock, much of it was a ghost town. Deindustrialization in the 1960s and 1970s had left the area in ruins. Once a thriving community, and the engine room of Glasgow’s industrial might, its population decreased from 50,000 in the 1950s to around 2000.” Chris LeslieDisappearing Glasgow

English Heritage and London School of Economics: Conservation areas have had stronger house price appreciation than other areas

A statistical analysis of over 1 million property transactions between 1995 and 2010 from the Nationwide building society, and data on the characteristics of over 8000 English conservation areas. This is the first rigorous, large-scale, analysis of the effects of conservation areas on house prices in England.

An assessment of people’s perceptions of conservation areas, and how these relate to house prices. This involved a survey of residents in 10 conservation areas in and around London, supplemented by interviews with local planning officers.

What the analysis of house prices found

  • People value living in conservation areas
    Houses in conservation areas sell for a premium of 23% on average. A premium of around 9% exists even after adjusting for other factors that affect house prices such as location and type of property. This adjusted premium was lower for conservation areas deemed to be ”at risk”, being approximately 5%.
  • Conservation areas have had stronger house price appreciation than other areas
    On average, property prices inside conservation areas have grown at a rate that exceeded comparable properties elsewhere by 0.2% a year.
  • Properties closer to the centre of conservation areas sell for more
    The premium for living towards the centre is approximately double that at the edge controlling for other factors, suggesting that people value being surrounded by a greater density of heritage.
  • People value living near to conservation areas
    There is also a premium (albeit less) for properties outside conservation areas being more closely located to a conservation area. This premium is found to decline from the boundary of the areas and becomes 0 at around 500-700m distance. English Heritage

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Grattis Varberg – Årets stadskärna 2016!


Varberg har vunnit utmärkelsen Årets stadskärna 2016.
”- Från Internationell Fredsforum Varberg Calling for Peace till att vara Bästa landsbygdskommun för tredje året i rad samt den kommun i Hallands län som visat den bästa tillväxten under 2015 är bara några exempel på deras målmedvetna arbete, berättar Lena Lindström, juryns och Svenska Stadskärnors ordförande.” varberg.se 

Great American Main Street Award | Montclair

GAMSA | Montclair from NOTICE PICTURES on Vimeo.

” Montclair received the 2015 Great American Main Street Award from the National Main Street CenterSince 1995, the National Main Street Center has been recognizing communities exemplyfing the use of the Main Street Approach to revitalization of their traditional downtowns and/or neighborhood business districts with the Great American Main Street Award (GAMSA).”