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INTA42 – Technical visit 3: Reducing spatial inequalities – inclusive neighbourhoods

Slideshow presentation Speakers: Thorsten Gebhards Rostock’s Company for urban renewal, urban development and housing construction with LtD (RGS) www.rgs-rostock.de Christian Hanke Neighbourhood manager Dierkow “Volkssolidarität“ district chapter city of Rostock registered association www.vs-hro.de/stadtteilarbeit-dierkow/stadtteil-und- begegnungszentrum-dierkow/ Barbara Genschow Institute of Economics for Market Research, Evaluation, Structure www.wimes.de Ellen Fiedelmeier & Maria Schulz Entrepreneur Association Rostock Mecklenburg-West Pomerania […]

INTA42 – Technical visit 2: Nurturing the hidden champions of medium-sized cities, case Regiopolis Rostock

How Regiopolis Rostock can become more successful in the competition for talents, experts and high potentials? First steps towards a strategy: Living close to the city center and working on “high potentials with entrepreneurial affinity” fare from usual “technology center approach” and the usual middle class´ individual solutions: Constitution and settlement of a metropolitan city […]

INTA42 – Technical visit 1: Creation of urban value: waterfront renewal

Regiopole Rostock is a growing and prosperous community. Rostock prepares its quantum leap: the city center of the polycentric city is to be extended. According to development studies Rostock and its catchment area serve about 550.000 inhabitants. The historic inner city center and its western outskirts have been renewed during last 28 years. To raise […]

INTA41 – Partnerships for sustainable cities and communities – Report

This Congress organised alongside the City of Malmö and the Nordic City Network, was an opportunity to share experience and good practice with city leaders and urban practitioners from around the globe – 23 countries were represented. The sessions featured thematic discussions on partnerships for sustainable cities and communities with technical visits and workshops demonstrating […]

INTA39 – GIVING THE CITY BACK TO ITS INHABITANT: Climate, Habitat, Development goals -Report

The challenges of sustainable development have never been as acute as now, with high risks of severe  fractures: environmental and energy transitions, brutal and massive migrations, social and territorial  inequalities, shortages of public fundingfor urban development… Between the recent conferences on the Millennium Development Goals in New York, the Climate  Conference in Paris and Habitat […]

INTA37 – Developing sustainable and resilient cities: new urban policy, new business agenda

Cities around the world are facing growing levels of social unrest over rising inequality, austerity, unemployment, political inefficiency and institutional failure. These social movements reflects the shift of power away from traditional institutions first towards communities and individuals, but also to businesses whose leaders understand and act on the big trends shaping our future. The […]

INTA34 – Rethinking your urban region – Final conclusions

Reinventing the Urban Region has been the main theme of the Congress and San Sebastian was the setting for this meeting which allowed to share successes and difficulties, doubts and hopes, but mostly provided INTA members and the gathered public a tremendous source of inspiration to reveal the potential of our urban areas. The territory […]

INTA 33 – Innovation and Urban Sustainability

Identifying problems and coming up with solutions are at the basis of human success . Crisis and innovation are thus closely interlinked.The feeding ground for innovation is most fertile in state of crisis. “The bigger the problem, the bigger the need for new, viable ideas and thus the likelier the success of innovation.” (Mart Grisel) […]