ENTER.HUB_Baseline study PDF, 6 Mo - Urbact
ENTER.HUB_Baseline study PDF, 6 Mo - Urbact
ENTER.HUB_Baseline study PDF, 6 Mo - Urbact
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EUROPEAN<br />
UNION<br />
European Regional<br />
Development Fund<br />
DESCRIPTION OF THE 4 MACRO THEMES<br />
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2<br />
<strong>HUB</strong> AS A NODE/INTERFACE<br />
Hubs as nodes of different kind of transport and mobility (nodes of “hard” networks).<br />
Hubs as parts of infrastructural systems<br />
1.a. Interchange node (railway-railway networking)<br />
1.b. Intermodal node (railway-road networking)<br />
1.c. Public transport node (possibly integration about smart cities tools)<br />
1.d. Logistic node (potentialities on passenger-freight traffic integration)<br />
<strong>HUB</strong> AS A GATEWAY<br />
Hubs as points of access/exit of a city/a region, which make possible the establishment of<br />
new relations and networks (nodes of “soft” networks)<br />
Hubs as parts of relational networks.<br />
2.a. Tourism and cultural networks<br />
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4<br />
<strong>HUB</strong> AS A URBAN CENTRALITY<br />
Hubs as agglomerations of flows and people, hubs as public spaces, hubs as a urban places.<br />
Hubs as parts of a city/of a region<br />
3.a. urban and territorial insertion<br />
3.b. improvement of the hub image – improvement of the city/region image<br />
<strong>HUB</strong> AS A TURBINE<br />
Hubs as engines for the city development, cities as engines of the region development.<br />
Hubs as parts of a territory dynamics.<br />
4.a. synergy with the city: effects of the hub at a local scale<br />
4.b. synergy with the region/the catchment area: effects of the hub at a wider scale.<br />
<strong>ENTER</strong>.<strong>HUB</strong> <strong>Baseline</strong> <strong>study</strong> 2012.10.31<br />
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