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Planning for Urban Sustainability

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Planning for Urban Sustainability

The research group Planning for Urban Sustainability (PLUS) focuses on the planning of urbanization at all scales, related to infrastructures, everyday life, and the reciprocities between urban settlements and their rural hinterlands. This stands as an increasingly important research agenda, not least because of the increased urbanization and the climate crisis.

RESEARCH GROUP

Planning for Urban Sustainability

The research group Planning for Urban Sustainability (PLUS) focuses on the planning of urbanization at all scales, related to infrastructures, everyday life, and the reciprocities between urban settlements and their rural hinterlands. This stands as an increasingly important research agenda, not least because of the increased urbanization and the climate crisis.

It is expected that by 2030 there will be around 5 billion people living in urban settlements. Such settlements are hubs for innovation, trade, research, production and consumption and provide the best opportunity for transition towards sustainable development, not least because of the opportunity to create common sustainable systems and infrastructures.  

Building on an interdisciplinary approach to urbanization processes, the Planning for Urban Sustainability Group (PLUS) provides a common forum to develop thinking across silos pertaining to both research and planning practices. The fundamental aim of the group is to establish AAU as a knowledge hub for promoting new integrated urban planning practices for sustainable urban development. The rationale behind the group is founded on the following points: 

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PLAN NORD

PLANNORD is a platform for networking and exchange of knowledge concerning spatial planning. It is a forum that primarily operates in a Nordic context, however with an extensive international reach out. The platform is aimed at raising awareness of emerging planning challenges, trends and practices in connection with various development conditions and different scales of spatial governance activities.

DANISH CENTRE FOR SPATIAL PLANNING (DCSP) DANISH CENTRE FOR SPATIAL PLANNING (DCSP)

Societal development is continuously expressed in changes in the spatial environment. It can be noticed in changes in the built environment in cities and towns as well as in land use in rural areas. Spatial planning is concerned with attempts to understand and analyse such changes, and in particular to discuss activities and actions with the intention to influence changes in the spatial environment.

ESPON-DK

ESPON is an applied research programme and network aimed at supporting the formulation of territorial development policies in Europe. To this end, the programme produces wide-ranging and systematic data on territorial trends related to various economic, social and environmental aspects, with a view to identifying the potential of regions, cities and larger territories and the economic challenges they face.

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