Nodus

Nodus is a project for a working group focused on the links between urban regeneration and spatial planning elements that influence regional development and spatial segregation. The working group is studying how spatial planning reckons with urban regeneration policies and projects - when it does - considering that spatial planning, related sectorial policies and urban regeneration policies are often determined by different administrative agencies or levels.

The Working Group will have as its main objective to develop a series of recommendations for the improvement of the coordination of area-based urban  regeneration policies and regional or metropolitan planning. It will have to take into account two major elements. On the one hand the importance of the relationships between urban regeneration and these sectoral policies with a spatial impact designed at a regional or metropolitan level, such as housing or transport infrastru ...

Project launch :
22 April 2008
End of the project :
2010

Lead Partner

Generalitat de Catalunya - Departament de Política Territorial i Obres Públiques joan.lopez@ietcat.org

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The Institute of Territorial Studies (IET) is a public-public partnership, integrated by the Catalan Government - by means of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning and Public Works - and the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. Due to its academic and policy-making nature, the Institute has relevant story of cooperation with public bodies in Catalonia, from the government (different ministries), to local, supra-municipal and provincial authorities.

The Institute is a research centre on theory and the spatial, regional, country and urban planning practice.

We can find among its objectives:

• To promote and elaborate all sort of studies and to offer advice on spatial,  regional, country and urban planning issues.

• To encourage the cross disciplinary approach to environmental issues, transport topics, governance, spatial policy and community development as much from the technical, economic and social sides as from the fields of planning, regulation and management.

• To facilitate the exchange of ideas and methodologies.

Main research interests:

• Economic assessment of spatial, regional, country and urban planning. Spatial policy analysis.

• Planning and design of infrastructures and transport networks and its applications to spatial, regional, country and urban planning. Effects of transport policies in local and regional development.

 

Contact:

Institut d'Estudis Territorials
Passeig de Circumval·lació, 8
08003 Barcelona
http://www.ietcat.org

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Lead Expert

Iván Tosicstosics@mri.hu

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Iván Tosics, one of the principals of the Metropolitan Research Institute, is a sociologist and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in urban sociology, urban development and housing policy issues. Over the last 15 years he has expanded his activity to include international clients both in Hungary and abroad. He is Coordination Committee member of the European Network for Housing Research and co-organiser of its East European Working Group. Tosics carries out scientific research and consultancy in housing policy, urban development and municipal finance. He has worked on several technical assistance projects funded by USAID, Great Britain, The Netherlands and Germany. He was member of the UN ECE Working Group on Housing Renewal. Since 1998, Tosics has been a member of the Group of Specialists on Access to Housing (CS-LO), working for the Council of Europe. He also acts as an expert for the Council of Europe in the project "Making South-Eastern Europe a Region of Social Cohesion". In recent years he has been a special advisor to the Mayor of Budapest on international matters, with special regard to the European Union.