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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 />

1<br />

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 />

3<br />

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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