Innovative Practices and Emerging Concepts for Sustainable Urban Management in Developing Countries: A European Contribution (URBAN)

Summary

The rapid urbanisation of the developing countries has been a major feature of development and change in the second half of the twentieth Century. The aim of this network will be to bring the individual efforts of European researchers into a co-ordinated and complementary focus, to improve the quality of communication between academic researchers, experts in other kind of body, and policy makers in government organisations. Its objectives are to encourage the formulation of quality programmes of comparative urban research in less developed countries and to help improve the quality of aid programmes in the field of urban development and management. more

Duration

Three years, from June 1998