Foreword

Abstract

One day in December 2009 I was sitting working on a book we produced after the International Urban Workshop, ‘Gardens of Art’… The morning was bright and a little bit misty and through the window I saw the tower of St George’s church in Kidderminster, in the UK. I was thinking that I was a little bit tired with urban workshops, summer schools and all these activities which cost a lot of efforts and I was wondering whether I should rather focus on something more quiet. That day I have got an email from Krzysztof Mularczyk, Head of UN Habitat Warsaw Office: