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Green infrastructure in the Galicia–Northern Portugal Euroregion: who is included in territorial planning?

Green infrastructure in a transboundary context Green infrastructure is increasingly recognised as a key approach to addressing climate change across Southern Europe. By integrating a network of green spaces that provide ecosystem services and nature-based solutions into territorial planning, it is possible to enhance climate resilience, restore bi...

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Planning in Finland: current debates

Finland Campus square, Aalto University. Source: author's own.

Greetings from sunny Finland, the host country of this year's World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC). As a warm-up to the congress and its host country, in this post I'll provide an overview of current debates in Finnish planning. In Finland, we have a three-tier planning system: national, regional, and local. In this hierarchy, municipalities...

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Collaborative housing projects as neighbourhood micro-planners

Collaborative housing (CH) is a commonly used umbrella term for all housing projects with at least some degree of collaboration between residents. Collaboration may refer to common ownership, building and design, activities, shared spaces, and more. Every project is unique. Some have individual apartments but lots of common space on-site, such as c...

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