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Innovative models for affordable and sustainable housing

Planning meets Housing: episode 4

Conference
  • 15 September 2026
Des logements à Amsterdam
The 4th episode of Planning meets housing will discuss the innovative solutions for delivering affordable and sustainable housing. With the City of Amsterdam we will explore their innovative housing models that place collaboration, collective governance, and new land and financing mechanisms at the...

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Planning at the heart of Europe: takeaways from the PlanningMatters Directors Meeting

Conference
  • 22 July 2026
On 11 and 12 June 2026, representatives from planning agencies and urban networks across Europe gathered in Brussels for the first PlanningMatters Directors & Senior Managers Meeting , hosted by Perspective. Over two days, members met with EU institutions and exchanged on the shared challenges...

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Housing observatories

Episode 3 of PlanningMatters

Conference
  • 2 June 2026
This third session of the PlanningMatters series on planning and housing is dedicated to the Housing Observatories . These are spatial planning tools that enable the centralisation and analysis of data relating to housing and the built environment. How many homes are necessary in the coming years...

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The Compact Cities Partnership

Launch of a new Urban Agenda for the EU Partnership

  • 15 April 2026
Perspective (in samenwerking met urban.brussels) vertegenwoordigt het Brussels Gewest binnen het partnerschap « Compact Cities – Sustainable Urban Planning and Sprawl Mitigation ». Dit partnerschap, met 26 andere Europese deelnemers, gaat over een duurzame stedelijke ontwikkeling. Het werd gelanceerd begin 2026 en zal 3 jaar duren.

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Short-term rentals

Episode 2 - PlanningMatters

  • Urban issues
Conference
  • 8 April 2026
In this second season of the PlanningMatters webinar series, we explore the role of spatial planning in addressing the housing crisis. The second episode will focus on short-term rentals. The Institute for Planning and Development in Prague, is our host and will present the study ‘Prague for One...

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Planning meets housing: a new PlanningMatters webinar series for 2026

Join us for the first episode on 4 March (new date)

Conference
  • 6 February 2026
In 2026, PlanningMatters will focus on the links between housing policy and spatial planning across European cities and regions with a new series of five webinars.

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Mini-Bru 2026

  • Statistics and analyses
Publication
  • 28 January 2026
Photo by Studio Labonheure on Unsplash
The Mini-Bru presents all the key figures needed to understand how the Brussels Region has developed over the years. It covers 13 topics, such as population, transport and the labour market.

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The territorial and spatial dimension: a prerequisite for a successful transition to a circular economy?

Contribution on the future Circular Economy Act

  • 15 December 2025
Strengthening the European market for waste and secondary raw materials in order to accelerate the transition to a less dependent, more competitive and more decarbonised economy: this is the objective of the European Union's Circular Economy Act , expected in 2026. Before drafting this future text...

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Towards No Net Land Take in cities: insights from the PlanningMatters 2025 webinar series

  • Urban issues
  • 27 October 2025
Kalasatama
In 2024, following the Belgian presidency of the European Union, Perspective launched a new European platform for urban planning agencies, called PlanningMatters . In 2024, within the framework of this platform, five webinars were organised, dedicated to the implementation of “no net land take” (...

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Projects

Projects in progress

Projects in progress :

Interregional Forum ...

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Metropolisation

Description

Over 50% of the world’s population now lives in urban areas. This trend towards urbanisation continues to intensify. The OECD predicts that by 2100, 85% of the planet’s population will live in cities  (source: The Metropolitan century, 2015, OECD)....

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Tools and data for no net land take

Join the webinar on 25 June

  • Urban issues
Conference
  • 10 June 2025
In the framework of the European platform of exchanges PlanningMatters, perspective.brussels is organising a series of webinars in 2025 on how European cities, metropolitan areas and regions are implementing no net land take. A webinar is organised every month on a specific topic. The guest(s) of...

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Urban recycling

EP 4 of the series 'A journey to no net land take'

  • Urban issues
Conference
  • 16 May 2025
In the framework of the European discussion platform PlanningMatters , perspective.brussels is organising a series of webinars in 2025 on how European cities, metropolitan areas and regions are implementing no net land take A webinar is organised every month on a specific topic. The guest(s) of the...

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Participation Service

The Service The Participation Service In line with the General Policy Statement 2019-2024, and with the aim of strengthening participatory democracy in the Brussels Region, the decision was made to establish a new Regional Service for Citizen Participation. In 2022, this service became part of the...

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Greening strategies to prevent land take

EP 3 of the series 'A journey to no net land take'

  • Urban issues
Conference
  • 3 April 2025
Parckfarm
In the framework of the European discussion platform PlanningMatters , perspective.brussels is organising a series of webinars in 2025 on how European cities, metropolitan areas and regions are implementing no net land take A webinar is organised every month on a specific topic. The guest(s) of the...

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Canal open space plan

  • 2 April 2025
Beeldkwaliteitsplan
To boost the cohesion and to improve open space quality in the canal area, perspective.brussels made available a landscape and urban planning quality plan – the canal open space plan – to relevant parties. Check it out

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No net land take: a series of webinars

  • Urban issues
Conference
  • 12 March 2025
In the framework of the European discussion platform PlanningMatters , perspective.brussels is organising a series of webinars in 2025 on how European cities, metropolitan areas and regions are implementing no net land take. The first episode is already behind us, the programme for the rest of the...

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PlanningMatters

European platform

European platform for urban planning agencies in Europe

Faced with crises and challenges, urban planners have to adapt, rethink concepts and amend models. As cities continue to grow and environmental issues become ever more important,...

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No net land take trajectories: policies and practices in Europe

PlanningMatters: first episode of a new webinar series

  • Urban issues
Conference
  • 3 February 2025
In the framework of the newly created European platform of exchanges PlanningMatters , perspective.brussels is launching a free series of inspiring talks and presentations on how European cities, metropolitan areas and regions implement No Net Land Take. “A journey to no net land take” will be...

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Boosting circular construction in Brussels

Insights from the ASSET workshop

  • Urban issues
  • 22 January 2025
Vue sur le canal depuis le pont de Buda
Last November perspective.brussels and Brussels Environment, partners in the ASSET project, hosted a workshop exploring how inter-regional cooperation can tackle challenges of the circular economy in the built environment. ASSET (A Spatial Strategy for the Eurodelta, Boosting a Circular Built...

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Belgian context

Belgian context

Belgian institutional context

Since Belgium is a Federal State, the Regions have a great deal of autonomy in managing their own competences such as territorial planning. They are called upon to cooperate with each other and with the Federal...

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Presidency's conclusions

Urban Agenda

Continuing the implementation of the Urban Agenda for the EU


Under this presidency, the Directors-General for Urban Matters (DGUM) agreed to launch two new partnerships on the following topics:

  • « Water sensitive city » 
    • ...

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European context

European Union and urban development

Regional policy

European regional policy

European regional policy, also known as cohesion policy is the European Union’s main investment policy. It aims to...

Urban issues

International context

Description

Urbanisation and metropolisation

Over 50% of the world’s population now lives in urban areas. This trend towards urbanisation continues to intensify. The OECD predicts that by 2100, 85% of the planet’s population will...

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Belgian presidency of the EU: Meeting of the Directors General on Urban Matters

  • Urban issues
  • 15 July 2024
On June 26, Perspective gathered the Directors-General for Urban Matters of each member state, Partner States, EU Institutions and partners organisations to exchange on policies related to urban matters.
This intergovernmental meeting is held every six months and aims to take decisions...