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This foresight analysis identifies trends, uncertainties and potential disruptions around urban farming. Access to investment funding, careful risk management and a supportive regulatory and policy environment are critical to future development, especially at local or sub-national level.

Les villes sont inévitablement touchées par des chocs et des perturbations, la pandémie étant un exemple probant. Toutefois, l’étendue des répercussions dépend de l’état de préparation et de la capacité d’adaptation des villes. En pensant au futur, les villes peuvent envisager les évolutions émergentes ou plausibles afin de les anticiper et d’atténuer les éventuelles perturbations. En s’appuyant sur un rapport élaboré par le système européen d’analyse stratégique et politique (ESPAS), cette étude ...

Our towns and cities are home to nearly three quarters of the EU's population, and most EU policies concern them, be it directly or indirectly. While the revised 2014-2020 cohesion policy framework introduced a number of new instruments intended to enhance the urban dimension of cohesion funding, a shared vision of urban development has gradually taken shape at inter-governmental level, accompanied by increasing calls to give city authorities and stakeholders a greater say in policymaking. To help ...

This study examines experience of the mainstreaming of climate policy objectives into cohesion policy in the current (2014-2020) and earlier programming periods, including with respect to its urban dimension, and to territorial cooperation. It identifies the implications of the Paris Agreement on climate change, and makes recommendations for further development of climate mainstreaming in cohesion policy in future programming periods.

Ports have always been an important asset to Europe, serving as gateways to the rest of the world and as connection points to rivers across European territory. For centuries, ports and their cities developed hand in hand, the port generating prosperity for the city. This has changed with the industrial revolution, globalisation and the rapid development of containerisation. Most ports moved out of their cities and their mutual relationship began to suffer. Today, this relationship experiences a new ...

Our towns and cities are home to nearly three quarters of the EU's population and most EU policies concern them, be it directly or indirectly. Within the EU, a shared vision of urban development has gradually taken shape at inter-governmental level. At the same time there have been increasing calls for concrete action and the development of an EU Urban Agenda to give city authorities and stakeholders a greater say in the process. To help guide these discussions, the European Commission launched ...

Les zones urbaines jouent un rôle important dans le développement régional. Au cours de la période de programmation 2007-2013, la contribution principale des villes et des zones urbaines au développement régional s'effectuait essentiellement à travers des projets. Pour la période de programmation 2014-2020, la politique de cohésion renforce le rôle des zones urbaines. Toutefois, dans la pratique, l'ampleur de ce rôle semble être restée inchangée. Dans la mesure où la phase de programmation est presque ...

This report was commissioned to provide background information and advice on Smart Cities in the European Union (EU) and to explain how existing mechanisms perform. In exploring this, a working definition of a Smart City is established and the cities fitting this definition across the Member States are mapped. An analysis of the objectives and Europe 2020 targets of Smart City initiatives finds that despite their early stage of development, Smart City objectives should be more explicit, well defined ...