By drawing up a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development (RPSD), the Brussels-Capital Region wants to create a new frame for the future of the metropolitan region of Brussels. The plan aims a vision for the year 2020 that determines strategies to meet the following five challenges: population growth; education, training and employment; sustainable development; urban duality as a result of poverty; internationalization. It is the very first time that a consistent vision will be developed for the entire metropolitan region of Brussels.
As part of the Project team BXL 10-20-40, BUUR has been asked to provide permanent assistance to the public administration’s steering group responsible for the RPSD. The project team consists of several experts with complementary expertise in strategic planning, mobility, economics, sustainability and environment. In addition, all the team members have an in-depth knowledge of the political and social economic aspects of Brussels.
The expert assignment carried out by the project team focuses on the concrete formulation of a city project, supported by the authorities and based on prior steps of inventory, workshops with key players and vision design. The Project Team BXL 10-20-40 is involved by providing four types of support: completion of the diagnostics drawn up by the Brussels administration and research institutes; organization of workshops during the studies revolving around the vision concept “Brussel 2040” proposed by three international planning teams; consolidation of the workable urban concepts resulting from the three “Brussel 2040” visions and translation of these concepts into a global project; participation in the layout of the RPSD project and writing parts of the project text.
The assignment also includes an integrated and thematic vision with regard to the Brussels’ REN zone. The project team is also responsible for the writing of the vision texts and the creation of the maps and graphics. At the beginning of 2013, the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region will adopt the plan after a first lecture, followed by a public inquiry.
