The Future of Cities

This report is an initiative of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the science and knowledge service of the European Commission (EC), and supported by the Commission's Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). It highlights drivers shaping the urban future, identifying both the key challenges cities will have to address and the strengths they can capitalise on to proactively build their desired futures. The main aim of this report is to raise open questions and steer discussions on what the future of cities can, and should be, both within the science and policymaker communities. While addressing mainly European cities, examples from other world regions are also given since many challenges and solutions have a global relevance. The report is particularly novel in two ways. First, it was developed in an inclusive manner – close collaboration with the EC’s Community of Practice on Cities (CoP-CITIES) provided insights from the broader research community and city networks, including individual municipalities, as well as Commission services and international organisations. It was also extensively reviewed by an Editorial Board. Secondly, the report is supported by an online ‘living’ platform which will host future updates, including additional analyses, discussions, case studies, comments and interactive maps that go beyond the scope of the current version of the report. Steered by the JRC, the platform will offer a permanent virtual space to the research, practice and policymaking community for sharing and accumulating knowledge on the future of cities. This report is produced in the framework of the EC Knowledge Centre for Territorial Policies and is part of a wider series of flagship Science for Policy reports by the JRC, investigating future perspectives concerning Artificial Intelligence, the Future of Road Transport, Resilience, Cybersecurity and Fairness Interactive online platform : https://urban.jrc.ec.europa.eu/thefutureofcitiesJRC.B.3-Territorial Developmen

Considerations for Harmonising Cross-Border Geospatial Datasets

International audienceThis abstract has presented some of the considerations applicable during harmonisation of different datasets from adjacent countries or different levels of jurisdiction in the same county. Although some of the considerations are built-into current commercial-of-the-shelf GIS, other considerations depend on a user making an informed decision on the appropriate rule to apply to a given data integration scenario; it is envisioned that this abstract will assist organisations in making such an informed decision. Future work within GIS4EU will involve aggregation of supplied datasets using Intergraph Geomedia Fusion software and also development of a geoportal to assist the data harmonisation process

Considerations for Harmonising Cross-Border Geospatial Datasets

International audienceThis abstract has presented some of the considerations applicable during harmonisation of different datasets from adjacent countries or different levels of jurisdiction in the same county. Although some of the considerations are built-into current commercial-of-the-shelf GIS, other considerations depend on a user making an informed decision on the appropriate rule to apply to a given data integration scenario; it is envisioned that this abstract will assist organisations in making such an informed decision. Future work within GIS4EU will involve aggregation of supplied datasets using Intergraph Geomedia Fusion software and also development of a geoportal to assist the data harmonisation process