Urbanism
Environment
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Fast growing cities like Montpellier in France, Copenhagen in Denmark, Amersfoort in the Netherlands, and Freiburg in Germany show how to combine a high quality of life and sustainable environment with superior economic performance. This is due to their being able to fund infrastructure locally and join it up with housing and economic development.Nicholas Falk uses a wide range of examples of good practice in Europe to argue that places with growth potential should make uses of strategic growth plans and concordats, public private development partnerships, infrastructure bonds and municipal banks, local charges and property taxes, quality charters and lifetime neighbourhoods, skills academies, and local development agencies.