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Tools and data for no net land take

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  • 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'

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'

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

Projets urbains

Canal open space plan

Vue du canal de Bruxelles (Quai des péniches)
Description Public and open spaces should enhance the quality of life in the canal area. They can connect different neighbourhoods, actors, and citizens. Open spaces allow for breathing space in this rapidly developing urban area, cultivating social connectedness, and offering ample leisure...

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No net land take: a series of webinars

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...

Urban issues

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

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...

Urban issues

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...

Urban issues

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 » 
    • ...

Urban issues

Urban dimension of global issues

Parckfarm

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...

Urban issues

European agendas

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...

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Global agendas

Global agendas in relation to urban development

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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...

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Perspective is taking part in the ASSET project in the Interreg programme

  • Urban issues
  • 10 June 2024
Perspective and Brussels environment join forces in a new Interreg project on the circular economy of construction materials on a Eurodelta scale. Working together across Eurodelta Harbour cities and regions within the Eurodelta, a historically strong economically-related area that covers the Rhine...

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Perspective organises the first European seminar for planning agencies

  • Urban issues
  • 4 June 2024
As part of the Belgian presidency of the EU, Perspective took the initiative of organising the first European seminar bringing together urban planning agencies and administrations. Some fifty participants from planning agencies, city networks and the European Commission met in Brussels on 29 and 30...

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Opening | Should I stay or should I go?

  • 23 May 2024
Join us at Perspective on Thursday 13 June from 18:00 for the opening of the exhibition Should I stay or Should I go? This exhibition is being organised in the framework of the Belgian Presidency of the European Union and focuses on good urban practice in Europe.

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Exhibition | Should I stay or should I go?

Urban sprawl, density management and a new urban planning mindset

Exhibition
  • 23 May 2024
The Belgian Presidency of the European Union goes ahead. This is an opportunity to organise an exhibition looking at our European neighbours.
Should I stay or should I go? takes us on a journey from city to city to discover inspiring and innovative projects. The strategies may be different, but the challenges are the same.

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Belgian Presidency of the EU: a study into the impact of European regulations on land use

  • Urban issues
  • 22 May 2024
In the context of the Belgian Presidency of the European Union, Perspective wanted to bring the issue of urban planning to the forefront in European discussions. An observation ... Although urban development is not one of the EU's areas of competence, European regulations in other fields have a...

Urban issues

European seminar of urban planning agencies

Seminar of urban planning agencies

Description

Description

When faced with crises and challenges, urban planners must adapt and rethink concepts and amend models:

  • How can we move from a quantitative density to a qualitative density, which would take into account natural
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Actualité

Perspective brings together 40 European cities to sign the Declaration of European Mayors.

  • Urban issues
  • 30 January 2024
Perspective organised a high-level political event on 24 January as part of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The meeting was crowned by the signing of a joint declaration by the mayors addressing the European institutions with concrete priorities and recommendations for...

Urban issues

Events dedicated to mayors

Programme

To achieve this objective, the three Belgian regions have developed a full programme of events dedicated to European mayors with the aim to:

  • Give mayors the possibility to express their messages and priorities towards the
    • ...

Urban issues

Declaration of European mayors

Presentation

This Declaration has been developed within the framework of the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union and as a result of a co-creation process involving many European cities and urban stakeholders....