NUDA is a non-profit organisation which aims to gather qualified urban designers from the Nordic countries as members for the purpose of stronger promoting urban design as a necessity within city planning.
Stavanger East is currently undergoing an extensive urban transformation. Nearly 600daa old
industrial sites are gradually turning its status from being the city backyard
to becoming a valuable resource supporting the urban growth and extension of the
City of Stavanger. The east part of Stavanger which was one of the selected projects
in the Ministry of Environment initiative generated a series of projects done
in a collaborative partnership between the property owners which was manifested
early in 2000 as a non-profit company called Urban Sjøfront.
The company has generated a progressive collaborative partnership between private and public
sector, producing constructive and resultoriented processes for how to realize
the structural transformation of a run down district. Such development takes time
and experiences frequently changes physically, judicially and mentally through
new challenges and developed guidelines. These tendencies are similar processes
found in other cities both nationally and internationally. Complex issues related
to such urban transformations requires exchange of knowledge and experiences as
a foundation for further strategies to be developed, processes and projects organized
and methods to be used.