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The PURE Guidebook to Multifunctionality

Introduction

PURE North Sea is a EU project, which started in 2002 and lasted for four years. Led by the Province of Groningen, partners from England, Sweden and the Netherlands set up and realised a great number of projects in those four years.

Description

This guidebook supports planners to contribute to the improvement of the spatial quality of the urban fringe zone. This zone has a lot of potential to become an attractive area for citizen to recreate, especially at the surroundings of the watercourses. Therefore, this guidebook elaborates the concept of multifunctionality to support planners in their actions to guide the use of the area towards spatial quality. The heart of this multifunctional approach is to achieve a shared understanding of the values stakeholders attach to the area. Subsequently, planners can take the lead to translate these values into ideas for multifunctionality. The implemented ideas contribute to the development of an attractive and sustainable – since valued – urban fringe zone.

EU involvement

The project is partially funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Conclusions

The concept of multifunctionality supports planners to increase the spatial quality of the urban fringe zone, on the condition they include the values of stakeholders into the guidance of multiple land use;
The guidebook contributes to attractive and sustainable urban fringe zones all over Europe.

Contact info

PURE Secretariat

Publication date

01/02/2006

Researcher

P. Lems

Cities

The North Sea area: Groningen, Deventer, Goteborg and the North East of the United Kingdom.

Links

The PURE North Sea project on EUKN The Province of Groningen, the lead partner (in Dutch)

The PURE Guidebook to multifunctionality (PDF, Eng, 4 MB)

Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy > Urban environment > Urban renewal

Keywords

Waterside development