Spatial Deconcentration of Economic Land Use and Quality of Life in European Metropolitan Areas (SELMA)

The primary goal of SELMA is to design urban planning and management strategies to ensure the maintenance of quality of life in European metropolitan areas. The evaluation of these spatial configurations will be based on quality of life, socio-economic and environmental dimensions. Two of the main deliverables will be a policy analysis and decision makers handbook of best practices and a taxonomy of forms of economic land use deconcentration that can be used for ranking and bench-marking in urban planning and management. In order to design and evaluate planning strategies a land use simulation model will developed.