urban planning | city planning | town planning | community planning | urbanism

Sustainable Community Planning and Development: Design Charrette Planning Guide

Cabinet Committee on Housing and Community Development

Ryder Lake Urban Village : Development Plan for a Sustainable Community: District of Chilliwack, Chilliwack, British Columbia [ Ryder Lake Urban Village : Development Plan for a Sustainable Community ]

State Secretary for Local Administration and Town and Country Planning

Territorial Authorities, Transfrontier Cooperation and Regional Planning Division

Med-Migration programme | Programme for cooperation among local communities in the European Union, local communities in Mediterranean non-member countries and organisations involving migrants and supported by these communities, constituted in networks on the theme of migration

regional and local authorities [ regional subdivision | subnational governments | Regional government(STW) ]

contract furniture

ecosystem-based forest management | ecosystem-based management

Local authorities have a key role to play in their planning for rural areas and to ensure positive action within rural communities to help their continued future to be encouraged and supported.

* Promote more balanced regional development by reducing disparities in economic activity and maintaining the viability of rural and urban communities, as recommended by the European Spatial Development Perspective.

For its part, EDF was to contribute to spatial planning and national solidarity through an ambitious policy to support economic activity and employment by helping local authorities to create jobs and by improving the situation of its poorest customers (Title I).

9. Calls on the regional authorities concerned to implement a more multimodal transport policy to ensure that, in addition to motorways, more traffic goes by rail and internal waterways, to connect port areas effectively with the trans-European transport networks and to give ports more effective hinterland connections, in particular through the use of railways and inland waterways; calls, furthermore, on the Commission to make use of the 2010 mid-term review to release more resources to enable greater use to be made of intermediate ports by unloading cargoes in one or more feedering steps so as to reduce congestion in the main ports and ...[+++] their environs and bring the cargo as close as possible to the recipients; stresses, therefore, that it would be useful to diversify unloading points with a view to significantly reducing road traffic and addressing a recurrent congestion problem in the environs of the port zone; calls at the same time, during the planning of port facilities, for an in-depth evaluation of whether these unloading points, which are smaller and closer to the recipient, are nevertheless capable of handling a larger number of unloadings, partly in the light of their infrastructure and road network, so that the problem is not simply shifted to other port areas;