by admin2 | May 20, 2026 | Publications, Spatial Planning and Regional Development
The ICLRD research report, Strategic Spatial Planning and the Framework forCooperation: Strengthening Alignment on the Island of Ireland, launched on 29 April2026, provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of cross-border spatialplanning practice and...
by Anne HamiltonBlack | Apr 25, 2021 | Spatial Planning and Regional Development
In October 2020, the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) commissioned Maynooth University, in partnership with the International Centre for Local and Regional Development (ICLRD), the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) and LERO to develop a scoping paper on...
by Anne HamiltonBlack | Nov 25, 2020 | Spatial Planning and Regional Development
The International Centre for Local and Regional Development (ICLRD) were appointed to undertake a socio-economic and geo-spatial analysis of Buncrana, the second-largest town in County Donegal. The study, commissioned by Donegal County Council, considers the...
by admin2 | Feb 20, 2020 | Spatial Planning and Regional Development
The pending exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union has far-reaching consequences for the political geography of the island of Ireland. In the period since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA), the island of Ireland has emerged as a coherent functional...
by Anne HamiltonBlack | May 31, 2019 | Spatial Planning and Regional Development
Abstract The notion of ‘functional geographies’ has gained momentum across academic and policy communities in recent decades. In an EU context, the elevation of territoriality and functionality in policy-making has drawn attention to ‘spatial context and distribution’...
by admin2 | Oct 3, 2016 | Spatial Planning and Regional Development
This paper reviews the concept of functional territories and their application in drafting flexible development strategies that are not bound by administrative boundaries; highlighting that such strategies can often better capture the...
