MILUnet - Multifunctional Intensive Land Use Network

What is MILU?
The concept of MILU was formulated to tackle the twin problems of urban sprawl and the development dysfunctions of urban, suburban and rural areas.  Its purpose is to promote and encourage the combination of land uses in time and space with the objective of obtaining the best quality possible from the built environment and to improve the social ecology, and to reduce the ecological footprint of cities

What is MILUnet?
MILUnet is a network dedicated to the generation, collection, exchange and transfer of knowledge on the subject of Multifunctional Intensive Land Use as a means to realise more sustainable (urban) development in Europe. MILUnet is the successor of the working party on MILU of the IFHP (International Federation for Housing and Planning). The members of MILUnet are European cities and leading European research institutions.

The lead partner in the network is HABIFORUM, a public organisation in the Netherlands focusing on innovative multifunctional intensive land use. The International Institute for the Urban Environment (IIUE) assists Habiforum as secretariat to the network.

MILUnet is a European network, co-funded by the INTERREG IIIC programme of the European Union.

Principles, Practices, Projects and Policies
The overarching purpose of the MILUnet operation was the search for basic principles which, having been contemplated and tested in practise, could be used to help advance new projects. To this end MILUnet developed a particular working formula, the so-called ‘Implementation Laboratory’ or ‘Implementation Lab, IL’. The MILUnet experiences provided those who were involved in the IFHP Working Party and in the MILUnet operation with valuable knew knowledge and ideas.