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One of the European Union's 2014-2020 cohesion policy's new aims is to promote integrated urban development strategies that enhance sustainable urban development. Following the emergence of the integrated urban development policy, city policies in EU show a trend in that direction but overall changes towards a sustainable integrated urban development are limited. One of the major problems for planners and implementing actors seems to be the management of complexity, which originates in three sources: the policy, the planning and implementation processes as well as the implementation place. The paper elaborates on the question: what is triple complexity and how can planning and implementing actors of the EU integrated sustainable urban development policy manage it? The paper suggests the use of a place-oriented theory and proposes a theory-guided ex-durante (ongoing) evaluation called Place Scan. I assume that the method can support planners and implementing actors to manage complexity and to improve quality of exdurante evaluations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainable economic development in the EU Member States and regions is an objective which the Community bodies give particular attention. This paper aims at reviewing the defining elements of smart specialization, as a mechanism to encourage national governments to adopt measures to reduce the effects of the economic crisis and to implement community innovative tools for sustainable innovative development. The presentation of the distribution of clusters in Romania in relation to other EU Member States highlights the development stage of this kind of collaborative model. The exploitation of the innovative potential available to each region, as well as and the implementation of specific elements of smart specialization strategies can result in maximizing the impact of the regional policies, in accordance with other EU policies aimed at using the public funds efficiently and at stimulating the private investment in the directions established as a priority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section presents abstracts of papers on city planning published from 2007 to 2008, including "Streets, Sounds and Identity in Inter-war Harlem," by Clare Corbould, "(Re)making the Other, Heterosexualising Everyday Space," by Kath Browne, and "Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds," by Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder.