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Modern cities, especially in Central Europe, face many challenges such as urban sprawl, soil sealing, brownfields or the necessity of protection of natural spontaneous species occurring on degraded areas. Additionally the cities’ administration borders do not reflect physical, social, environmental or cultural links in cities. Therefore functional urban areas are created (FUAs) which constitute spatially continuous settlement systems made up of separate administrative units, containing urban compact area with surroundings functionally connected with the urban core.
Solving of FUAs’ problems is challenging for the cities’ administration as functional urban areas do not constitute formal administrative units. Apart from the necessity for integrated planning and implementation of various activities they require also forming partnerships including subjects on various governance levels for implementation of these actions.
The final conference of LUMAT will focus on presenting and assessment of the project results. It will be also an opportunity for discussion on the present issues in land management with looking at the land as an environmental resource.
LUMAT is a transnational project, in which partners from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia have been working on environmental and planning tools and presenting practical solutions – so called action plans – supporting integrated management of land as an environmental resource in functional urban areas.
LUMAT project is financed by the INTERREG Programme for Central Europe and is co-ordinated by the Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas in Katowice.
More information: https://www.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/LUMAT.html
