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Place of Birth: Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
About Pierre Laconte
- Pierre Laconte (born 17 May 1934, Brussels), is a Belgian urbanist.
- He specialises in urban transport and architectural planning and environmental issues.
- He has a Doctorate in Law and a Doctorate in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain and is Dr.
- honoris causa of the Napier University, Edinburgh.
- Laconte is one of the three planners in charge of the Groupe Urbanisme & Architecture.
- This Group was responsible for the master plan and the architectural co-ordination of Louvain-la-Neuve, a pedestrian new university town developed from 1968 on by the University on agricultural land, around a new railway station, 25 km South of Brussels.
- Louvain-la-Neuve has a day/night population of ca 40.000.
- It won the UIA Abercrombie Award. He received the UN Habitat Scroll of Honour Award in 1999 and was the Belgian Government Representative at UN Habitat I in 1976, at Habitat II in 1996, and at the UN Kyoto Conference of Parties on Climate (1997). Laconte was the president of ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners between 2006-2009 and the Foundation for the Urban Environment.He is Council member of Europa Nostra and chairman of Europa Nostra’s Industrial and Engineering Heritage Committee. He has been a member (2004-11) and Vice-Chairman (2008-11) of the Scientific Committee of the European Environmental Agency (www.eea.europa.eu), member of the Lee Kwan Yew World City Prize Council for 2010 and for 2012 - www.leekuanyewworldcityprize.com.sg & M., member of the Advisory Group of Singapore World Cities Summit 2012 member of the Evaluation team for the European Green Capital Award 2012 and 2013.He is regularly organizing lunch-debates at the Fondation Universitaire, devoted to urban themes.
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