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

Girona

Submitted by gemma on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 11:56.
Girona

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www.girona.cat The city of Girona enjoys a privileged location close to the Pyrenees mountains, the Mediterranean sea -the Costa Brava- and the city of Barcelona, the capital of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, Spain. This location provides Girona of along the great communications axis linking Barcelona and the Spanish Mediterranean coast with the rest of Europe and has good road, rail and aerial (Girona and Barcelona airports) connections. Also, the city has good connections with the industrial sector, through joint activities developping R&TI. In addition, medium and small sized industrial firms of the sector have a strong export vocation. 

 

The city of Girona has 84.000 inhabitants, and the town offers strong service sector which constitutes 75% of the local economy, it makes strong a tourism sector what has becoming one very important factor for local development.
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