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The MOT partner in the GeRTrUD

January 2022

A large proportion of new urbanisation is concentrated in areas, more or less densely spread out, located on the edges of major urban conurbations. This phenomenon of "scattered" urbanisation encompasses scenarios as varied as the construction of periurban housing estates on the outskirts of big cities, the setting-up of economic activities far from urban centres and the development of small rural towns between two conurbations.

In this respect, cross-border situations constitute both a fertile framework for international comparisons of planning systems and means of studying the specific forms of regulation of scattered urbanisation that evolve within an urban region that straddles national borders.

The research project GeRTrUD (Gestion et régulation transfrontalière de l’urbanisation diffuse – Cross-border management and regulation of scattered urbanisation), coordinated by the Urban Planning Laboratory at Gustave Eiffel University (France), was launched in 2020-21 to study these phenomena in detail.

Given the issues that it is addressing, the MOT agreed to become a partner in it and assists the research team in its work as necessary. In particular, it actively participated in a webinar on "The limitation of land consumption by urbanisation in cross-border territories" on 6 December 2021.

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