ÖIR e-letter Ausgabe 7/2009

RAUM 74: Ageing society: a challenge in urban, rural and regional context

Life expectancy is growing, and old age can be lived fitter and more actively today than ever before. Living longer still is not entirely a success story. In public opinion ageing society is linked to collapsing care systems, economic disequilibrium and rising intergeneration conflicts. The recent edition of RAUM, the Austrian journal for spatial planning and regional policy, looks at the challenges an ageing society is facing from an urban, rural and regioanl point of view. Plus: A portrait of the border region at the mythical alpine Brenner-corridor and a look at Graz and Linz as cultural capitals from an urban-development point of view. RAUM74

News from the SUME project

Mid of May the project partners met for the second partner workshop of the European Research project SUME - Sustainable Urban Metabolism for Europe. The partners discussed the city selection and data situation for the case studies. Additionally the project was presented May 15th at the CITTA conference „Planning in Times of Uncertainty" in Porto, Portugal and June 28th at the Urban Research Symposium 2009 in Marseille, France, that dealt with the topic "Cities and Climate Change: Responding to an Urgent Agenda". http://www.urs2009.net/, http://citta.fe.up.pt/

http://www.sume.at was launched! See our website for more information!

STRALE!K - New strategy for the spatial development of Carinthia

The newly developed strategy for the spatial development of Carinthia ("STRALE!K") was recently published (in German). (Contact: Amt der Kärntner Landesregierung Abt. 20, Landesplanung: post [dot] abt20 [at] ktn [dot] gv [dot] at). The strategy serves as guideline for political decisions for the next 10 15 years. It was elaborated in an interdisciplinary coordination process which was supported by OIR.