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The Ruhr Regional Association (Regionalverband Ruhr - RVR) is the regional hub of 11 cities and four districts of the Ruhr area, with its five million inhabitants. One of the RVR's tasks is to observe and analyse spatial development. The data for spatial monitoring are documented and regularly ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected and changed almost every aspect of human life. Not only did the health risk increase sharply, but it also changed the way we manage, work, live, commute, move, learn, socialise, communicate, consume, spend leisure time and travel.
On a regional level, the ...
Interdependencies between European countries are well known and strongly documented, but this is not the case for the relations between European regions. This new ESPON project aims at providing a new understanding of the interrelations between Europe’s economies at the regional level. To achieve ...
The spatial observation system of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development in the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBSR) for Germany and Europe is to be supplemented in the medium term with ongoing reporting on neighbouring regions ...
The project "Spatial Monitoring Germany and Neighbouring Regions" funded by the Demonstration Projects of Spatial Planning (MORO) of the German government has the aim to develop recommendations for the implementation of a permanent spatial monitoring system for German border regions and ...
The ESPON Atlas 2014 is to present a comprehensive overview of key findings of ESPON 2013 projects about European territorial structures, trends and perspectives and policy impacts. The ESPON ATLAS project supports the mission of ESPON of supporting policy development by compiling an "ESPON Atlas ...
The objective of the ESPON project "Best Development Conditions in European Metropolises: Paris, Berlin and Warsaw" (BEST METROPOLISES) is to identify factors that determine the development of European metropolitan areas using Paris, Berlin and Warsaw as examples. The diagnosis is to provide data ...
The objective of the project "Spatial Impacts of Transport Infrastructure: Ex-post Analysis" was to assess spatial impacts of completed urban transport infrastructure projects, i.e. an ex-post analysis. In the project a GIS-based methodology for the analysis of the imapcts of transport ...
In the project for the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS) the results of the ESPON 2006 Programme were reviewed from a German perspective. The results of the project were communicated in a series of reports and workshops with politicians and scientists from Germany. ...
The ESPON project 1.4.4 "Preparatory Study on Feasibility of Flows Analysis" was a feasibility and pilot study preparing for more in-depth research on spatial interactions ("flows") in ESPON 2013. Its main objectives were, building on existing work in ESPON, to give an overview on existing ...
