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Towards More Attractive and Competitive Cites and Towns
The third VISP Newsletter focuses on presenting VISP activities and findings in the area of Life-Long Learning, Networking and Citizens Participation during the first half year 2006.
In a broader context it reflects the insight of VISP partners of the necessity to address the development of new integrated systems of governance, enabling their regions and cities to further develop their capabilities and be more pro-active in their own territorial development issues, with the overarching goal to become more competitive and to position themselves as credible alternatives to metropolitan 'winning' areas.
Having come 70% through the project VISP partners are convinced that the need of greater involvement of local and regional actors in spatial development policies is in itself not sufficient to achieve an integrated polycentric development. A renewal of the spatial planning tools that practitioners have at their disposal is also required. More and more emphasis is therefore laid on testing new ways of dealing with urban management.
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Download the current newsletter:
Newsletter_3-2006.pdf
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