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4. Rural-urban partnership requires vital networks and processes

The cooperation between towns and their surroundings can be enhanced through networking, the structuring of various processes , the definition of strategic bases and long-term objectives, awareness building, support from key personali-ties, as well as through legal and organizational framework conditions. → requires city-region/functional urban area approaches to strategic spatial planning, taking into account spatial interactions

Projects that address this Hypothesis: