Project URBACHINA – China’s urbanisation trends
On Friday June 1st Jan Olbrycht, President of the URBAN Intergroup, met in Brussels the delegation of European and Chinese academics working on the project URBACHINA “Sustainable Urbanisation in China: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050”.
URBACHINA is a four-year project funded under the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme with a budget of about 3,3 M Euros. It is implemented by a consortium of 11 leading European and Chinese research institutions and coordinated by the CNRS (Franc’s National Centre for Scientific Research).
The project is focused on the analysis of China’s urbanisation trends and on the definition of possible future scenarios with reference to concepts of sustainability, with a special focus on the following areas: institutional foundations and policies, land property and the urban rural divide, infrastructure and services for sustainable urbanisation, and traditions and modern lifestyles in cities.
More information about the project
URBAN Intergroup meeting in Strasbourg – 24.05.2012
The URBAN Intergroup meeting took place on the 24th of May. The main topic of the meeting was the presentation by Barbara Steenbergen, International Union of Tenants (IUT), Head of EU office on “Affordable housing for all – policy implications of shrinking budget”. Members and organisations present during the meeting discussed the housing situation inEuropeand different EU policy instruments supporting social housing.
