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3RW has produced three thematic in-depth studies of Hillevåg’s urban future, as well as a “social sustainability” reference catalogue, which were delivered last week to the municipality of Stavanger. These various documents present detailed assessments and recommendations on current planning measures for the implementation of new housing and commerce in the targeted regulated area. A former industrial neighbourhood located at the city’s southern periphery, Hillevåg has been the site of many infrastructural (and so, socio-economic) changes in precedent years. What sort of desirable futures can we imagine for Hillevåg? And what are the architecture and planning tools available to attain such futures? 3RW’s thematic studies and catalogue identify possible answers to these interrogations.
The municipality of Stavanger created this specific assignment after being granted extra planning funds from Kommunal- og moderniseringsdepartementet, the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernization, in order to increase knowledge about sustainable planning solutions in dense cities; to identify planning measures that increase the social and physical qualities of living environments. Social sustainability and resource disparity are space-related phenomena that are receiving increasing attention, both inside and outside Norway. Most larger cities face important challenges relating to the accumulation of inequalities, as well as the increasingly poorer living conditions of certain urban (or semi-urban) residential areas.
The main purpose of our reports is to provide the municipal authorities with a professionally updated overview of the most relevant guidelines and planning solutions in dense Northern cities, with a focus on recommendations oriented toward increased social sustainability.


