Urban planning and governance: current practices and new challenges

Abstract

INSIGHT (Innovative Policy Modelling and Governance Tools for Sustainable Post-Crisis Urban Development) is a research project funded under the ICT Theme of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme. INSIGHT aims to investigate how ICT, with particular focus on data science and complexity theory, can help European cities formulate and evaluate policies to stimulate a balanced economic recovery and a sustainable urban development. The project is conducted by a Consortium composed by the Technical University of Madrid (Project Coordinator), Nommon Solutions and Technologies, the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London, the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) at the University of the Balearic Islands and the Barcelona City Council. The project started on 1 October 2013 and will run for 36 months.