The conference “Urban Challenges in a Complex World” will be organised in August 2019 in Luxembourg. Iván Tosics, managing director of MRI, will give a keynote speech at the event.
Urban and territorial sociology
HSCO Conference, October 2018: Medium Sized Towns in European Spatial Structure
CATCH_MR (Interreg): Cooperative approaches to transport challenges in Metropolitan Regions (2010-2012)
INTERREG IVC. Lead partner: Berlin-Brandenburg
CATH_MR explored sustainable transport solutions in seven European Metropolitan Regions: Oslo/Akershus in Norway; Gothenburg in Sweden; Berlin-Brandenburg in Germany; Vienna-Lower Austria; Budapest-Central Hungarian Region in Hungary; Ljubljana Urban Region in Slovenia; and Rome-Lazio Region in Italy. MRI staff was involved as experts on the Budapest research tranche.
The State of European Cities in Transition (2010-2012)
UN-HABITAT, Nairobi & Institute of Urban Development, Kraków
Metropolitan Research Institute prepared the study for the “Western Subregion” of Central and Eastern European transition countries: the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) the Visegrad Four countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia), and Slovenia. The detailed analysis of the cities in this region covered overviews on the central topics of Population and Urbanization; The Economic Role of Cities; Social and Housing Issues; Urban Environmental Challenges; Urban Governance Systems; and Emerging Issues.
Nearly the entire staff of MRI researchers participated in the production of the analysis; moreover, MRI actively participated in the preparation of the project’s Summary Report.