What does a modern open city mean?

13:29, October 28, 2015

“Open City is always in some kind of danger”, - thinks Friedrich Vollner

Experts from Austria, Serbia, Ukraine, Tajikistan and Russia discussed the concept of an open city in the plenary sessions and roundtables during the scientific-practical conference "Open City: approaches, criteria, practices", held on October 23 at UrFU.

Professor of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Belgrade) Darko Vukovic treats openness as attracting international community to modern cities, ensuring its development in the future.

"Openness is something, that cannot exist without rules, without a clear understanding of the limits, - believes the Professor of University of Vienna, Friedrich Vollner. - In this sense, an open city is always in some kind of danger, which can be eliminated by practical-oriented mind."

The conference also covered historical, socio-cultural, theoretical and philosophical grounds of the idea of an open city, criteria and model of openness and tools to achieve it, and other topics.