Areas of Action

INTA members are experienced practitioners in the following thematic fields. INTA activities combine their expertise in these different fields to create synergies,  contributing to the deepening of understanding of integrated urban development.

CULTURE, CREATIVITY, CITIES
Creative Cities 3.0

• Creating the City: Top Down or Bottom Up?
• Arts as Urban Incubators
• Innovation in the Cultural Economy
  

INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE, ECONOMY

• Development of new workspaces
• Innovation Services and New Technologies
• Urbanisation of Knowledge Environments
• Business Districts

URBAN FORMS, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Sprawl and Density

• The New ‘New Towns’
• Architecture and Urbanism: Connecting Scales
• Green and Blue Urban Spaces
• Public Space

HOUSING

• High-Rise Development
• Popular Housing
• Housing the Public Sector
• Intensive, Multi-Occupancy Housing
• Real Estate and Land Use

URBAN RENEWAL

• Developing Greenfield Areas
• Brownfield Regeneration
• City Centre Regeneration

INCLUSIVE CITIES
Inclusion and Integration

• Contemporary Geography of Multicultural Cities
• Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods
• Cosmopolitanism and Transnational Cities
• Global Cities
• Poverty Alleviation
• Citizen’s Participation

NEW MOBILITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Innovation, Mobility, Public Transport

• Soft Mobility
• Regeneration of transport infrastructure
• Urbanism of Mobility
  

TOURISM AND HERITAGE

• Heritage for urban development
• Sport & Leisure development  
• Coastal development
• Waterfront and Harbour Regeneration
• Identity and Marketing
  

SUSTAINABILITY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY

• Architectural Form for Environmental Performance
• Sustainability and Public Utilities
• Energy Efficiency: the Green City Deal

STRATEGIC REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC PLANNING
Territorial Cohesion

• Urban Decentralization
• Zoning and Fragmentation
• Suburbanisation and Transformation of the Agglomeration
• Relation Centre-Periphery
• Capital City

Metropolitan Development

• Attractiveness, Competitiveness & City Performance
• Second and Medium-sized cities
• Governance and Management of Urban Territories
• Shrinking cities

Complex and multi-levelled Institutional Development

• Financing Urban Development
• Public Private Partnerships