Rurbance: sustainable development model

self-handling

Programme

Alpine Space

Objectives and goals of the project

The main problem to be faced through the project is the poor efficiency and effectiveness of the policies to offset the relation among urban and rural areas and their development model. Such an inefficiency is due to the complexity to merge in an organic whole a lot of sectorial policies which have been carried out to tackle the critical situation in terms of loss of competitiveness, landscape degradation, lack of water and soil quality, loss of biodiversity, territorial fragmentation, abandonment of the territory, intense use of the resources, social problems, quality of life decay, etc.

The difficulty to concretely carry out an integration of sectorial policies is owing to the lack of a regulation of the decision making processes towards an inclusive governance of the territorial transformations for a real sustainable development. AS is made of a complex intersection of plains, valleys and mountains with different urban contexts.

Dynamic cities, essentially located in plains, and valley bottoms are engines for growth and competitiveness. Nearby, industrial and post-industrial cities, as well as rural and touristic territories ask the policy makers to “spread” the cities’ energies to define a new kind of co-development.

Project partners

Lombardy Region, Environment Energy and Grids Directorate, Italy (lead partner)
City of Graz, Austria
Regionalmanagement Graz & Graz Surrounding, Austria
Leibniz University Hannover, Chair for Regional Building and Urban Planning, Germany
Veneto Region, Urban and Landscape Planning Department, Italy
Piedmont Region, Department for Strategic Programming, Spatial Policies and Housing unit for Spatial and Landscape Planning, Italy
Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Slovenia
Town Planning Institute of Grenoble (University Pierre Mendes France), France
Grenoble Alpes Metropole, Department of Prospective & Territorial Strategy, France
Regional Council of Rhone Alpes; Mountain, Tourism and Natural Regional Park Direction, France
Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region, Slovenia
Urban Agency of the Grenoble Region, France
Allgäu Association for Dweeling and Tourism, Germany