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ESPON Blog | 12 April 2021
What is needed for Szentes and its environment is simply better governance through enhanced planning capacities with new thoughts and inspirations, more attention paid to the voice of people, willingness to empower the young, and capability to mobilise local resources for the benefit of the area and for those who live here.
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ESPON Blog | 9 April 2021
In Spain 80% of municipalities have lost population since 2011. Alt Maestrat is an interesting case due to its location (about an hour from the main urban centres), resulting in moderate remoteness but being not close enough for daily commuting. Furthermore, the area is located in a NUTS3 unit with above-average GDP growth and overall population increase.
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ESPON Blog | 31 March 2021
A balanced demographic structure and thriving community is the success factor, and although some rural regions are growing and others are shrinking, there are some socio-economic common denominators that predetermine the success rate: such as good governance, access to high-paid jobs within a diversified economic environment, access to good public services and so on.
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ESPON Blog | 9 February 2021
Should future urban development be concentrated in and around big cities, in well-connected towns or along country roads? The SUPER project drew up three scenarios, presenting different modes of urbanization.
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ESPON Blog | 2 February 2021
The SUPER project compiled a database of interventions in Europe that affect, or try to affect, urbanization and land use. The database was analysed to distil factors for success and sustainability.
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ESPON Blog | 29 January 2021
The European roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe
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ESPON Blog | 12 November 2020
ESPON IMAGINE - Focus Group “Milan-Bologna: the territorial functions”
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ESPON Blog | 10 November 2020
Population ageing raises common challenges for cities.
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ESPON Blog | 5 November 2020
ESPON IMAGINE - Focus Group “Milan-Bologna: the economic functions”
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ESPON Blog | 20 October 2020
Community-led local development (CLLD) helps local people to design, plan and decide themselves how to best develop the territories they live in, either under usual conditions or emergency situatio