PAYS.MED.URBAN Project

PAYS.MED.URBAN understands high landscape quality as a key factor of sustainability and competitiveness of urban areas. High landscape quality is not only important for the identity, ecological health and the quality of life of urban areas but is also a key factor in the attractiveness and distinctiveness of these areas. For this reason, it is a territorial capital and a location factor important for tourism and for attracting enterprises in the new economy sectors (knowledge industry business), qualified and creative workforce (“talents”). Therefore, PAYS.MED.URBAN is directly linked with the general objectives for the Med programme (to make the whole Med space a territory able to match international concurrence and active intervention in the logic of sustainable development).

Among priority axes the project belongs to axis 4, centred on the promotion of polycentric development with emphasis on the question that a polycentric spatial approach can only be sustainable when it is combined with the idea of a compact city in order to prevent a dispersed polycentric settlement pattern characterized by urban sprawl and the subsequent negative impacts or costs. The aim to create polycentric and at the same time compact urban regions requires great attention to be given to landscape, especially the preservation of open public spaces in periurban areas, but also other important landscape issues treated by PAYS.MED.URBAN.

Partners:
Andalucia Region (Spain) - Lead Partner - General Secretary of Planning and Territorial Development
Umbria Region (Italy) - Division for protected areas and valorisation of natural heritage and landscape
Lombardy Region (Italy) - General Directorate of Territory and Urbanistic
Council of Mallorca (Spain) - Territory Department
Murcia Region (Spain) - General Directorate for Town and Spatial Development
Anem S.A. (Greece) - Development Company of Magnesia S.A.
Catalonia Region (Spain) - Regional Ministry of Town and Country Planning and Public Works
Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy) - General Directorate of Spatial Programmation
Basilicata Region (Italy) - Department of Environment, Territory and Sustainability Politics
Veneto Region (Italy) - Regional Directorate of Spatial Planning
Lazio Region (Italy) - Regional Directorate for Spatial and Urban Planning
Valencia Region (Spain)- General Directorate of Landscape
Regional Development and Coordinating Commission for the Algarve (Portugal)
Tuscany Region (Italy)- General Directorate of Spatial and Environmental Politics
European network of local and regional authorities for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention (RECEP-ENELC) - Associated Partner.

Further information and contents will be available on a specific website, managed by the Region of Umbria (Italy): www.paysmed.net

For any further information, contact the Lead Partner:
Comunidad autonoma de Andalucía - Consejería de Obras Públicas y Vivienda
Secretaría General de Planificación y Desarrollo Territorial
Avda. Diego Martínez Barrios, 10 41071 SEVILLE (Spain)
www.juntadeandalucia.es/obraspublicasyvivienda

The official wesite of the Med Programme is: www.programmemed.eu

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