Peer-to-peer panels

An INTA Panel is an international voluntary advisory service in support to public authorities or private sector stakeholders, providing a coherent and specific urban development vision, based on highly intensive exploration of all issues and opportunities. This unique development problem-solving process provides policy-makers with an external vision and new operational plans as well as recommendations for its implementation. 



The INTA Advisory Service is developed to assist urban policy makers to make justified policy choices and provide them with support for strategic debate.



A worldwide flexible resource with top-level hands-on experience. 
Due to the generosity of its members INTA is able to bring together, from its wide membership' expertise, international panels of up to 15 urban practitioners including public and private developers, local and regional development officials, members of the financial community, architects, planners, engineers and academics, with extensive experience in the issues to be reviewed.



Advantages of the Panel Process

• Mobilize a broad range of international talents to provide solutions to specific urban development on issues that might not generally receive this level of attention
• Facilitate development of creative solutions that involve both public and private sectors
• Bring public attention and enhanced credibility to the projects of local authorities
• Address complex issues and make recommendations that might be difficult for an involved party to suggest
• Attract private sector interest and involvement
• An integrated approach that covers a wide range of urban and local or territorial development issues
• A foresight vision linked to a pragmatic and operational approach
• Practitioners, who are not consultants but Peers, sharing, in a voluntary way, their experience, expertise and strategic vision.

INTA's value

• 35 years promoting the exchange of experiences between urban practitioners from over 50 countries
• Extensive practice in all areas of urban development
• Mastering the processes of integrated urban production
• Advice fit to the needs of implementation
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A Panel in practice
• One week of work comprising field visits, audit of urban project by interviewing local players and a working group offering an uncommon space for debate
• A new and stimulating vision of urban development
• Setting monitoring instruments to support the implementation of urban strategies

2013 New Taipei city

Activity of INTA Community of Competence Metropolisation and and Workspace Urbanism

INTA International Panel
Conception and Design of a new neighbourhood at Xin Zhuang
24-27 March 2013, Taipei, Taiwan

In response to the investment change of New Taipei industrial policies, Xinzhuang New Urban Center now faces the need to adjust its positioning. INTA has been consulted to run a 3-day technical workshop with the management team of the main developer and the University to develop a strategy for an Intelligent Urban Centre in support to the Economy. A spatial response to technological and economic challenges.

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2013 Andahuaylas

International peer-to-peer Panel to develop a territorial strategic vision for the provincial municipality of Andahuaylas, Apurimac region, Peru. 2-9 March 2013

The strong urban growth that the city of Andahuaylas has known in recent years has updated the dynamic contradictions between urban and rural territory.
High migration flows created by the expansion of mining areas are mainly directed towards the outward districts of the city and rural villages which become new poles of development.

The rural-urban ecosystem faces a situation of uncontrolled growth. The watershed of the Chumbao river includes 3 districts (Andahuaylas, Talavera and San Jerónimo), and the fragility of this area requires the to set up a planning system that meets the current and future issues of this area.

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2013 Metropolitan Lyon/Givors

Repositionning of the South-West sector of the Lyon Metropolitan Area
Givors, France. 20-26 January 2013

Cities and agglomerations are at a crossroads - they need to accommodate future growth in either furthering urban sprawl or becoming denser, as more concentrated territories offer more efficiency in infrastructure provision, transport usage, economic, commercial and social functions.

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Panel La Defense Seine Arche

Because the smart-cities movement is being held back by a lack of clarity and consensus around what a smart city is and what the components of a smart city actually are, INTA approached the Urban Development Corporation of La Défense Seine Arche (Epadesa is a public agency in charge of the development of the business district of La Défense in the West of Paris) on how to apply the notions of “Smart City” to the existing business district (La Défense), to a future development area on a very constrained zone (les Groues) and a renewal project on the Seine waterfront where a former paperworks factory just closed (Bords de Seine).

Questions raised included what will be the Smart city of tomorrow? Is the Smart City only a digital city? How to conceive an integrated sustainable city where people, economy, mobility, environment, living and governance are smart?

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