Scenario methods are part of a qualitative approach used by researchers representing various disciplines and practitioners to present key drivers for a certain phenomenon or process; for RELOCAL the key spheres are spatial inequalities and spatial injustice. At the local…
Social group identities, the definition and salience of social issues, political systems and issues are context-dependent, and vary according to historical, cultural and institutional differences. This poses a well-known challenge to the task of comparing developments across places and deriving…
This research topics will be worked through potential case studies. Case studies can be seen as the nexus between research questions addressed and developed in the review work packages, scenario-focused and spatially flexible methodological approaches and scientific and policy impact.…
Metropolitan urban area, rescaling the policies designated for territorial desegregation of marginalized neighborhoods. Type of location: North-West Romanian region. Medium town, characterized by de-industrialization and out-migration, with disadvantaged neighborhoods. Intermediate type of location: South-East Romanian region. Small town in a…
Integrated approach to local development in a dynamically and coherently developing functional urban area. Type of location: The Region of Wielkopolska with a very strong, dynamically and coherently developing functional urban area of Poznan (Potential Reference Case). Region struggling with…
Declining urban area within rural or intermediate NUTS3 unit hit by structural (industrial) crisis with segregated neighbourhoods and governance crisis. High representation of low-skilled, young, Roma population. Urban type of location: Northern Hungarian crisis zone. Traditionally disadvantaged agricultural area from…
Metropolitan urban area characterized by unbalanced economic structure, high unemployment and inequalities with the need for strategic planning and decision making of city-region issues. Type of location: Metropolitan Area of Athens. Metropolitan urban area with high unemployment and only moderate…
Metropolitan urban area, characterized by inequalities, as a case for coordinated cross-boundary management, strategic planning and decision making of city-region issues. Urban type of location. Centrally located (city-)region with low economic profile hit by economic crisis. Intermediate type of location.…
Urban region where the industrial base has undergone several upheavals, and the specific challenge in spatial development concerns the city itself; with segregation of housing areas and persistently high unemployment being key challenges. Type of location: Tampere. Inner periphery region…
Most distressed urban areas in a city region; the municipal comprehensive plan as well as the regional development plan are being revised and the issues of social sustainability and spatial justice are being the key topics of the process. Type…
