Smart, Green and Inclusive Urban Growth: Visualising Recent Developments in European Cities
Cities are expected to play a key role in delivering the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, green and inclusive growth. Concerning smart growth, cities are at the forefront of innovation. Moreover, the physical concentration of people, capital and business opportunities means that cities are more productive than other places.
In relation to green growth, healthy, compact and energy-efficient cities are key to achieving sustainability in Europe. Many European cities are currently developing or expanding their networks for walking, cycling, public transport, waste management, district heating and green infrastructures. Finally, cities can contribute to inclusive growth. For example, by combating social polarisation and poverty, by providing affordable housing and by integrating refugees and migrants.
Cities in Europe
In the context of the Urban Agenda for the EU and the Dutch EU presidency in the first half of 2016, the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency has recently published Cities in Europe, a publication that visualises facts and figures concerning recent urban developments in relationship to smart, green and inclusive growth in the European Union.
This paper summarises the main findings of the publication and presents a number of infographics that give insight into the scale, dimension and relationships of urban developments in Europe.
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- Publication title
- Smart, Green and Inclusive Urban Growth: Visualising Recent Developments in European Cities
- Publication date
- 22 June 2016
- Publication type
- Publication
- Magazine
- Smart me up! How to become and how to stay a smart city. And does this improve quality of life? Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society pp. 953-957. M. Schrenk, V. Popovich, P. Zeile, P. Elisei & C. Beyer (eds). Vienna: CORP 2016.
- Product number
- 2509