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Client

Design Team

Awards

Area Characterisation

Objectives

Resilient growth of peripheral settlements.

 SUPPORT FOR CONCENTRATED DECONCENTRATION. Sofia General Master plan with timescale 2030 has as one of its major goals to alleviate the investors’ development pressure to the capital City. It creates spatial preconditions for transition to a polycentric municipal urban structure by allocating considerable terrains for extension of the settlements around Novi Iskar.

Actions

Potential impacts/benefitis

Transferability of the Results

Lessons learned

Publications & Reports

TURAS tools to help understand the system:

• Sprawl Monitor
• GIS 4 Public
• Sub-urban Infrastructure Payments
• Sub-urban Ecosystem Payments 

TURAS tools to help develop a shared vision:

• PSS Toolkit

TURAS tools to help develop a strategy:

• Urban Heat Atlas
• PSS Toolkit
• Urban Waste Management
• GIS 4 Public
• Environment Employment Alliance
• Pitching Green Infrastructure

TURAS tools to implement transition activities:

• Sprawl Monitor
• PSS Toolkit
• Sub-urban Infrastructure Payments
• Sub-urban Ecosystem Payments 

TURAS Intergrated Projects which can be implemented to initiate local transition:

• Balancing Urban Expansion
• Circular Economy

TURAS pilots which inspire local transition:

• Operation Phoshore - Brussels
• Studio Cureghem - Brussels
• Making Transport Public - Ljubljana

Financing

Organisations

TURAS (Expert: Boika Kadreva)

Partner: Municipality of Sofia

Contacts