The PEGASUS Files - A practical guide to integrated area-based urban planning

PEGASUS has brought the experiences of the Dutch “ROM” approach to a greater European audience of urban planning specialists, including researchers and scientists. The PEGASUS Final Report brings together the experience gathered by this community of practice during 2 1/2 years analysing the different experiences of large European cities dealing with area-based approaches.

The challenge at the origin of the PEGASUS project was to develop an approach that would deliver the key pillars of sustainability, economic development, social inclusion and environmental protection, and that would create instruments and management systems through which the integrated objective of sustainability can be achieved in practice.

PEGASUS is an example of learning environment created between cities. The cities involved teamed up to form a community of practice. The project can be considered successful in that it has contributed to change the thinking in the partner cities about this form of area-specific integral process management and has made them consider the approach as a potential alternative or at least as a complementary approach to their current decision-making practices.

EUROCITIES
http://www.eurocities.org
Jordi Gomez 

PEGASUS Project Consortium