The Handbook of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies aims to develop methodological support to augment knowledge on how to implement integrated and place-based urban strategies under cohesion policy. In particular, it refers to Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) as supported by the European...
The purpose of this study is to analyse the factors which influence the location of economic activities which are typically concentrated in the Copenhagen region. Although there has been a substantial growth in manufacturing employment in the underdeveloped regions, this development has almost e...
Analysis of hypothetical connectivity of wirelessly interconnected networks and infrastructures deployed over a one-square kilometre of the Brussels Metropolitan area is presented. Upper and lower margins of wireless transceiver range are considered with a view to characterise representative int...
Even if municipalities often claim a lack of funding, financial resources from many different sources are available. At the global level, the 2015 Paris Agreement set the objective to 'make all financial flows consistent with a pathway towards low‑emissions, climate‑resilient development'. Count...
This report is addressed to policy makers both inside and outside Europe. To help cities learn from each other, the report compares the performance of cities and provides examples of policies that have worked. Using a wealth of new data, it shows the latest demographic, economic, social and envi...
This report is addressed to the many different stakeholders concerned with urban adaptation. It gives an overview of action that can be taken to adapt cities in Europe and the progress made over the last couple of years, and it puts this in relation to the future challenges that the impacts of c...
This brochure covers the priorities of the Dutch Presidency from a regions and cities perspective. The Forewords by the CoR President, Markku Markkula and the Dutch Minister of the Interior, Ronald Plasterk, are complemented by interviews with the Dutch Delegation to the European Committee of th...
The Degree of Urbanisation Grid (GHS-DUG) Tool (– version 4) is an information system developed in the framework of the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) to produce geospatial grids to map settlement classes and extract related statistics. The settlement classes are derived from the “Degree o...
Les villes sont généralement définies à partir de critères, notamment administratifs, qui varient grandement d’un pays à un autre. Dans cette étude, nous utilisons le concept de taux d’urbanisation, tel que défini par le « Global Human Settlements Layer » (GHSSMOD), afin de proposer une définiti...
