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Integrated Urban Development

The integrated approach to urban development encourages growth and jobs throughout Europe, and at the same time promotes a more cohesive society and better environment.

It is a core approach of the Europe 2020 strategy in which European cities act as the motors for regional growth, innovation and employment creation. It is crucial that towns and cities of all sizes improve the quality of life for citizens and at the same time reduce the environmental footprint. 

Economic development can only be sustainable when it is accompanied by measures designed to reduce poverty, social exclusion and environmental problems. The new economy needs to be more circular, more inclusive and more just.

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All the basic documents, achievements, interviews and thematic dossiers in the framework of the EU presidencies.
Regional policy and transport policy are at the heart of concern for local and regional authorities throughout Europe.
This Eurocities working group works to improve integrated urban development, planning and governance through peer review exchanges
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How can cities build alternative community-led housing models?
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746 documents Library
URBACT III Programme Manual - Factsheet 2D
06/12/2017
URBACT Writing Guidelines
22/06/2017
URBACT Good Practice Call - General presentation
05/12/2016
URBACT supporting the re-use of good practice across EU cities: 6 successful transfer stories
05/12/2016
RetaiLink - State of the art.pdf
26/05/2016
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Shared from the web

Dilemmas of Integrated Area-Based Urban Renewal Programmes
Iván Tosics, 2009. ‘Dilemmas of Integrated Area-Based Urban Renewal Programmes’ Tosics’ argues that there have been three generations of area based urban renewal programmes. In the 70s there was ‘rough urban renewal.’ This was followed in the 80s by effor
Socially integrative city in North Rhine-Westphalia
This report on the socially integrative city in North Rhine-Westphalia describes how the integrated approach to disadvantaged neighbourhoods has been applied in the region.
Pruitt Igoe - number 21 in Guardian history of cities in 50 buildings series
The demolition of Pruitt Igoe in St Louis is widely regarded as the moment when modernism in urban planning died. This article explores some of the forces of racial segregation, discrimination and design that led to this happening.