Competence Centre on Foresight

Scenario Exploration System that promotes collaboration for sustainable urban planning.

People in search of better opportunities - such as jobs, services and education - have been moving from rural, to urban areas across the world, and this accelerating trend...

In future cities, we will need to optimise the distribution and use of public space to ensure that it is safe, accessible and inclusive for all. Provision of services could be...

The recently adopted Degree of Urbanisation allows a consistent definition and comparison of urbanisation at a global scale. Based on this new definition, the world is already much more urbanised than previously...

Source: Arcadis Sustainable Cities Index

Source: United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects - The 2014 revision - highlights. Chapter: Trends in Urbanization

Policy papers Applicable models

Source: City Centres Database (interactive map), JRC European Commission

Source: United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects