Medium sized cities

Eurotowns is working to implement the European Lisbon-Gothenborg Strategy, through networking, the exchange of experiences and creating support groups in different thematic areas.

The Territorial Agenda and the Leipzip Charter have enlarged the scope and the perspectives of the Eurotowns Network. Nowadays, cities in Europe face the challenge of combining competitiveness and sustainable urban development simultaneously. Very evidently, this challenge is likely to have an impact on Urban Quality issues such as housing, economy, culture or social and environmental conditions.

Territorial Agenda 
Leipzip Charter

 Europe’s wealth, innovation potential, creativity and talent is largely located in a range of urban areas that are increasingly well-connected to each other and with the global economy at large - by air, fast rail connections, road and advanced information technology. This leads us to important questions about the potential of urban areas to act as engines of growth. To what extent are urban areas able to play a leading role in the development of their broader regions? This of course depends on a range of economic, social, political, and even historical factors.

Cities

Ulm

Submitted by editor on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 17:01.
Ulm

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Ulm, with a city population approaching 120,000 inhabitants, is a city in the southwest of the Land Baden-Württemberg in Germany. As a city on the river Danube has European connections with the cites alongside the river until the Black Sea with important trade routes crossing. Ulm was always the centre of this part of Baden-Württemberg, is also the cultural, logistic and technology centre of the region. Ulm is part of many clusters around the region: life science, bio, automotive, logistic and more. The backbone of Ulm’s economy are the small and middle sized enterprises. History:
Ulm is an old settlement. As early as 5000 B.C we find the first Stone Age settlements in Ulm. The area around Ulm is famous for Stone Age Art, found in caves of the Swabian Alb and which is older than 30. 000 years.

 
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