Sustainable Spatial Development in Luxembourg - SUSTAINLUX
Institution
Université du Luxembourg
Partenaire(s) :
Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Leipzig (D)
Autres partenaire(s)
Conseil Supérieur de l'Aménagement du Territoire ,
Conseil Supérieur pour un Développement Durable
Du : 01/04/2010
Au : 31/03/2013
Budget : 313 000,00€
Contact(s) :
Hesse Markus
,
Schulz Christian
Summary
The project aims at assessing the current efforts and policy instruments in Luxembourg with regard to their contribution to sustainability goals in spatial development. Given the recent demographic and economic dynamics, Luxembourg’s comparably young spatial development and sustainability policy are challenged by a variety of developments such as the increasing number of cross-border commuters and related transport problems, the rise of real estate prices, rapid land use changes in and fast growth of previously rural communities, etc.
These evolutions have had a strong impact at the local level in terms of urban development, by exerting a high pressure on housing and infrastructure provision. The latter is hitherto insufficiently embedded into binding planning ordinances or development schemes at the regional or national level. The fields of housing policy and mobility in an urban context seem thus most promising as case studies appropriate to inquire into a more thorough analysis of significance, policy relevance, barriers and shortcomings of sustainable spatial development strategies.