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Urban Development and Mobility
Dialog project

Institutional Dynamics and Housing Actors: Observation and Cross-Border Governance


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Better governance of cross-border cooperation in the Greater Region!

The metropolisation of Luxembourg has triggered dynamics of interdependence and functional specialisation between the cross-border territories. The economic polarisation of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is accompanied by an intensification of residential flows towards the border regions. This has led to a surge in housing demand, rising property prices, migratory movements (both crossborder and within the territories), and an exacerbation of socio-spatial segregation. As a result, there is increasing pressure on land use and urban sprawl.

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Strengthening cross-border governance for sustainable spatial development

To address these challenges more effectively, the objective of this project is to enhance cross-border governance within the Luxembourg functional area, focusing on the following key areas: sustainable housing and urban planning, spatial planning, and access to housing.

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A multi-level co-creation approach

To achieve this, a co-creation approach that actively involves public authorities at the local, regional, and national levels, along with scientific partners from all five regions of the Greater Region, will be prioritized.

The consortium’s objectives are to:

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Collectively identify shared cross-border challenges within the three priority areas of the project

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Enhance mutual understanding of the cross-border impacts of national and local policies within these areas

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Co-create strategies for territorial action that address these challenges through authentic crossborder governance

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Outcomes

We aim to translate the results into a dedicated GIS platform that brings together harmonised spatial data, indicators, and analytical outputs across borders. The platform can supports public authorities and stakeholders in exploring housing dynamics, land use patterns, and spatial planning challenges in a consistent and comparable way. By making complex territorial processes visible and accessible, it would provides a common reference base to inform policy dialogue, support coordinated planning, and strengthen cross-border governance practices.

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The Urban Development and Mobility department (LISER) and the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research (VUB) have organised a one-day symposium titled "To pay or not to pay – The role of fares in public transport" on the 20th of March 2025 at the Black Box (Maison des Sciences). The symposium marks the end of the LiFT project, a bilateral project funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). The LiFT project focused on the policy of abolishing fares in public transport, otherwise known as fare-free public transport (FFPT).

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Préférences des résidents concernant les orientations de la politique du logement au Luxembourg