INTA34: World Urban Development Congress
Governments of middle-sized cities and regions around the world are facing the common challenge to increase competitiveness, forge excellence and benefit from the changing relationship between traditional centres and periphery. Older divisions between centre and periphery, home and work, manufacturing and service are becoming blurred in many ways. These broad cultural and economic trends lead policy makers and industrialists to define new development instruments, new concepts for workspace, new synergies between living and working, and fresh approaches to the attraction of talent, investment and knowledge through sustainable infrastructure of urban regions.
