Key lessons from the WaVE project and a manifesto for the future of water-linked heritage

Water and its related heritage play a very special role in cities and regions in Europe. Historic water infrastructures such as bridges, quays and riverfronts, port facilities, sluices, dams, or water mills, specific water-based urban and rural landscapes, but also intangible aspects of water-linked heritage, such as water management knowledge,...

Interregional Knowledge Exchange Sessions methodology

This document presents the methodology for organising, preparing for and running knowledge transfer activities at the Interregional Knowledge Exchange Sessions (IKES), which are the WaVE project’s milestones and moments where partners meet and exchange knowledge. The methodology also outlines guidelines for choosing and adapting foreign good...

Transnational learning in Creative City Challenge

Report written in the context of the INTERREG IVB project Creative City Challenge. Based on a series of international expert meetings the report discusses various themes in relation to creative city policy, and analyses the process of transnational learning itself.

Street-level desires, Discovering the city on foot: Pedestrian mobility and the regeneration of the European city centre

Pedestrian mobility and the regeneration of the European city centre. Cities can be chaotic and confusing places at the best of times – even for local people! Spatial Metro, a project largely funded by the EU, aims to make city visits more enjoyable for pedestrians by making cities easier to navigate, easier to walk around and easier to...

The institutionalisation of European spatial planning

This book questions whether and how European spatial planning is becoming institutionalised. Since the first steps towards creating spatial planning at the European level were taken some twenty years ago, it seems appropriate to look back at what has been achieved over this period. Notable achievements have been the adoption of the European...

De Polder Breebaart: De ontwikkelingen in de polder Breebaart resultaten van de monitoring in 2003 en 2004 en een vergelijking met 2001 en 2002

Eén van de proefgebieden waar binnen het Europese INTERREG-project ComCoast informatie wordt verzameld over de gevolgen van de blootstelling van binnendijkse gebieden aan zeewater, is de Breebaartpolder, een ca 60 ha grote polder in het noordoostelijk kustgebied van de provincie Groningen. De polder is geheel omsloten door dijken en is mede...

Megacorridors in North West Europe: Investigating a new transnational planning concept