OECD |
The Governance of Land Use
The aim of these recommendations is to ensure the sustainable development of regional transportation and infrastructure, affordable housing and quality public amenities.
IPR Prague participated in an OECD analysis on the topic of transport policy. OECD experts came to Prague in November 2018 to interview local stakeholders about urban and regional transport needs. Their analysis investigated into how better targeted investment and transport policies could improve access to jobs and services. The two days of interviews pinpointed some of the issues that Prague is facing, such as the high volumes of car traffic from the surrounding Central Bohemian Region entering Prague on a daily basis, a consequence of rapid suburbanization. On the other hand, Prague's system of public transport is an example of a good practice that it can share with other cities – both in the quality of its service and in the way it is operated through ROPID (Regional Organizer of Prague Integrated Transport). The other case studies being included in the analysis are Vancouver, Madrid, and parts of Romania. |
TRIANGULUM (Horizon 2020) |
Prague was a follower city in Triangulum, an interdisciplinary EU research project funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission, whose goal was to demonstrate, disseminate and replicate solutions and frameworks for Europe’s future Smart Cities. Throughout the project, three Lighthouse Cities-- Stavanger (NO), Eindhoven (NL) and Manchester (UK) served as testbeds for innovative projects which focused on the topics of sustainable mobility, energy, and ICT and business solutions. The Follower Cites, Prague (CZ), Sabadell (ES) and Leipzig (DE), aimed to develop and conduct smart solutions in order to replicate the Lighthouse Cities' solutions. You can learn more about the lessons learned and the specific deliverables produced by IPR Prague here. For more information about the project as a whole, please visit Triangulum's website. |
UNALAB (Horizon 2020) |
UNaLab is a project funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. The UNaLab consortium comprises 28 partners from 10 cities across Europe and beyond, including municipalities, research institutes, businesses and industry representatives. The UNaLab partner cities commit to addressing the challenges that cities around the world are facing today by focusing on climate and water related issues, within an innovative and citizen-driven paradigm. With three demonstration cities, seven replication cities and several observers, the UNaLab project aims to develop smarter, more inclusive, more resilient and increasingly sustainable societies through innovative nature-based solutions (NBS). IPR Prague coordinates the city's role as a follower city in the project, which was launched in June 2017 and will run until May 2022. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 730052 Topic: SCC-2-2016-2017: Smart Cities and Communities Nature based solutions. For more information, please visit UNALAB's website. |
SPIMA |
The SPIMA project (Spatial Dynamics and Strategic Planning in Metropolitan Areas) was part of a targeted analysis managed by ESPON (European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion). ESPON conducts comprehensive spatial observations to generate studies about spatial developments. Targeted analysis projects like SPIMA aim to capture and provide perspectives of European policies to national development policy levels. In addition to Prague, the cities of Oslo, Brussels, Lille, Lyon, Zürich, Brno, Vienna, Terrassa, and Turin participated in the SPIMA project. The main topic of the study was the functioning of spatial development in metropolitan areas. It examined how work in multi-level governance systems in metropolitan regions can be more collaborative, and how arrangements and agreements between participating stakeholders can best be made. The project included the collection of information about the current state of spatial planning and policies in metropolitan areas, and sought to identify strategies and methods which support best practices at the metropolitan scale. The outcome was a series of recommendations for successful metropolitan development and a sound policy structure. For more information, please visit this webpage. |