Welcome

MP4 is a European partnership project that focuses on innovative approaches for planning and designing, maintaining and using private and public open spaces.

MP4 stands for ‘Making Places Profitable, Public and Private Open Spaces.’  It is funded through the European Union Interreg IVB programme for the North Sea Region. The 9 project partners in 6 countries are demonstrating how ‘place making’, which is improving open spaces, can offer positive social and economic benefits.

A key challenge facing communities throughout the North Sea Region is to offer a high quality of life in order to attract skilled employees in the global knowledge economy. This is a concern shared by areas in economic decline and in post-industrial communities, where the threat of market-failure is most acutely felt.  Demographic change and the needs of migrant populations add to the challenges of creating and maintaining well-designed and well-managed open spaces in the region’s cities.  MP4 aims to address these challenges through research and demonstrations of good practice.                                                           

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International Conference: Making Places Profitable (MP4) 

‘Place Matters! - The Management of Public Spaces’

Event:December 9th-10th 2010

For MP4 project partners and associates