RELOCAL team has published 9 papers on European Planning Studies Journal. These form one special issue edited on "Place-based Development and Spatial Justice". Within EU Cohesion Policy a place-based approach is expected to promote a strategic shift towards more place-sensitive,…
RELOCAL has studied several cases in order to assess place-based actions, territorial cohesion and spatial justice. This consultation aims at sharing some of the main messages from RELOCAL after 4 years of research. 5 questions related to project’s conclusions are…
"Top-down vs bottom-up approaches in promoting place-based and participatory action" As part of the RELOCAL webinar series “Policy Considerations”, the RELOCAL team organised a webinar on 19 May assembling RELOCAL researchers, colleagues from the H2020 partner project IMAJINE and policymakers…
"Two urban RELOCAL cases with governance innovation in the spotlight: Stockholm Commission and Lodz Participatory Budget" Two of the RELOCAL case studies have been presented on this webinar. 1)The Stockholm Commission (Thomas Borén, Stockholm University): Stockholm is an internationally successful…
Petri Kahila and James Scott introduced us to this conference about the RELOCAL project, which consists on empirical analyses of actions related with local development in order to formulate effective solutions for a more cohesive European territory. There is…
Simone Piras, Margaret Currie, Dominic Duckett, Andrew Copus (Hutton); Paulina Tobiasz-Lis, Karolina Dmochowska-Dudek (ULodz) This report presents the results of RELOCAL Work Package 8 ‘Coherence and scenarios’ in the form of a comparative analysis of mid-term (2030) spatial justice scenarios.…
Cyril Blondel and Estelle Evrard (UL). The notion of autonomy has become central for considering the articulation between democracy, public policies and local development. Adapted to the RELOCAL research interests, autonomy is the combination of the power of initiative and…
Sabine Weck, Viktoria Kamuf & Felix Matzke (ILS Dortmund) The aim of this report is to provide an overview of the characteristics of the total sample of 33 RELOCAL cases. The core component of the empirical research in this project…
This report provides empirical evidence on the relationship between local area income deprivation and individual socio-economic outcomes using a multi-scale approach. The main contribution of this work is its ability to define and measure neighbourhoods in a more precise or…
Thomas Borén, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University The present report is an empirical analyses of a number of key case studies in the RELOCAL project. Using a comparative perspective, the report analyses a) the forms, expressions and ways of…