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Benchmarking of Future City/Regions

The project Benchmarking Future City/Regions may be of interest to subscribers. The following is an extract from its website and describes its aims:

  1. To de-construct the term City-Region from different fields: Regional Comparative Studies, Urban/Territorial Studies, Social Innovation Studies and Politics/Governance Studies > Conceptual Approach.
  2. To provide and suggest an analytical and systemic framework for the diagnosis and intervention of the City-Regions: 5-System City-Region Framework > Analytical Approach.
  3. To identify 8 City-Regions case studies and carry out field work research. The 8 City-Regions are: Basque Country, Dublin, Portland, Oresund, Iceland, Scotland, Catalonia and Liverpool/Manchester > Empirical Approach.
  4. To contribute with a Comparative Territorial Benchmarking analysis of the aforementioned 8 case studies.
  5. To conclude with some recommendations for policy making territorial strategic tools such as Think Tanks, according to the results gathered throughout the project > Policy Approach.

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