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Governments of middle-sized cities and regions around the world
are facing the common  challenge to increase competitiveness, forge
excellence and benefit from the changing relationship between
traditional centres and periphery. Older divisions between centre and
periphery, home and work, manufacturing and service are becoming blurred
in many ways. These broad cultural and economic trends lead policy
makers and industrialists to define new development instruments, new
concepts for workspace, new synergies between living and working,
and fresh approaches to the attraction of talent, investment and
knowledge through sustainable infrastructure of urban regions.
With these new opportunities for middle-sized regions and
peripheral environments, which are the specific policies and instruments
that trigger growth and competitiveness?
Gipuzkoa Aurrera, the public-private partnership led by Provincial
Council of Gipuzkoa, is hosting INTA's 34th World Urban
Development Congress to discuss the latest trends in intelligent
regional development in the vibrant City of Donostia-San Sebastian.
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Sally introduces Gipuzkoa |
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Meet Sally who introduces you to Gipuzkoa |
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INTA President announces INTA34 Congress in San Sebastian |
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The future of urban territory – urban region, city, neighbourhood -
will be knowledge-based. The city is a space for creation and
dissemination of innovation facilitated by the concentration of
interactions between learning, research, innovation,
services, and production activities. Developed and developing countries
share the same vision: to make their urban territories a place of
constant innovation where new urban culture provides an "intelligent
access" to all who live and work there. This requires management tools
adapted to such a territorial construction, most important a system of
effective governance with a vision and projects making our urban
systems, processes and infrastructures more efficient, more productive
and responsive—that is smarter.The Province of Gipuzkoa, in the
Basque Region of Spain, which hosts together with Gipuzkoa Aurrera our
34th Congress, is one of those territories that have the ambition to
forge a region of excellence. Such a dynamic is shared globally and it
is the ambition of INTA34 to reconcile the diversity of these
experiences to build a sustainable urban region based on both innovation
and quality of life.
I look forward to seeing you in San Sebastian in October at INTA34.
Budiarsa Sastrawinata |
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