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GerMAnyLeibniz universität Hannover, Chair for regional Building and urban Planning Allgäu Association for Dwelling and tourism

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sLoVeniAscientific research Centre of the slovenian Academy of sciences and Arts, Anton Melik Geographical institute regional Development Agency of Ljubljana urban region

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activating networks and structured relationships among the stakeholders, who are recognized as equal

players in the decision making process;

developing targeted rurbance cooperative and integrated governance models in the selected territorial systems;

conceiving a common territorial development vision where all the territories are creators of economic, social,

cultural and environmental value;

adopting, in each territorial system, a Joint Development strategy that overcomes the limits of policy vertica-

lisation and fragmentation to induce territorial requalification and improvement actions towards a new local

development process.

A co-development model for the competitivenessof the territories

ouR goals

the Alpine space is made of a complex intersection of plains, valleys

and mountains with different urban contexts. Dynamic cities, essentially

located in plains, and valley bottoms are engines for growth and compe-

titiveness. nearby, rural territories, as creators, providers and reserves of

resources, ask the policy makers to “spread” the cities’ energies to define

a new kind of co-development. Both areas are facing problems in terms

of landscape degradation, lack of water and soil quality, loss of biodiver-

sity, territorial fragmentation, abandonment of the territory, intense use of

the resources, social problems, quality of life decay.

the rurbance project considers rural and urban communities as equal

players in a win-win game where one each other they can exchange

knowledge, culture, development models, traditions, values, investments.

the balance among territories and the contamination between rural and

urban development models are a presumption for the competitiveness

of the whole areas towards a local sustainable development model that

involves cultural, social, economic and environmental aspects.

Integrated policies and inclusive governancein rural-urban areas

ouR pRoject

the teRRitoRial systems

In Rurbance project the territory is considered not only as a physical area but also as the place where different

actors operate and interact and where the policies have been applied and produce effects. Because of com-

bined growing, shrinking and transformation processes, rural and urban areas in the metropolitan regions of

the Alpine Space cannot be considered any more as separated territories but as part of the same “Territorial

System” where physical, environmental, functional, social and cultural factors set the territorial relations and

their potential balance.

Zurich Metropolitan Area and the Gottardo-line

Bavarian Prealpine Arc

Metropolitan Area of Styria

Turin, Ciriaceseand Lanzo valleys

Milan metropolitan region, the heart of the Lambro-Seveso-Olona basin

Verona and the prealpine valleys Ljubljana Urban Region

Grenoble Urban Region and the RegionalNatural Parks ofChartreuse and Vercors

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the rurbance project aims at: