Júlia A. Nagy

Babeş-Bolyai University | UBB · Faculty of Geography

One of the economic sectors most affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic has been the cultural and creative industries, turning cultural workers into a financially vulnerable group. The purpose of this study was to identify some early forms of the resilience of cultural activity during the emergency period of the COVID-19 crisis. The engagement in...

Over the last three decades partnership development among various groups has been increasingly encouraged as means to stimulate development in rural areas. Nevertheless, despite the support given to partnerships between organizations, critics question their effectiveness and the economic endeavours to stimulate local development are contested. Cons...

n the event of any crisis, such as, in this case, the COVID-19 pandemic, new challenges arise, ranging from social and environmental phenomena to economic issues. One of the most affected economic sectors was the cultural one, especially independent artists, whose financial stability is usually inconsistent. The aim of this article was to test the...

"Participative Planning in the Context of Metropolitan Governance. A Case of Cluj Metropolitan Area. Public participation became an essential element of the modern governance practice and a norm in the contemporary spatial planning. It is also endorsed as an important component in creating sustainable development and an efficient tool in strengthen...

"Sustainable Metropolitan Development – Governance Challenges in Cluj Metropolitan Area. Nowadays the success of the urban management is largely dependent on the capacity to adopt efficient instruments that are able to deal with and adjust the complexity of urban systems to the necessities demanded under the ethos of sustainable development. Despit...

The urban focus of the current Cohesion Policy aims to address challenges of what and how metropolitan governance and spatial planning can be synchronized. However, in various cases the territorial reality is that urban areas are beneficiaries of the cohesion policy funds while the adjacent rural communities become peripheralized. Therefore, the qu...

Metropolitan areas became the breeding ground for economic, political, and cultural concentration as well as for creativity and innovation. Therefore, sustainability within the urban dimension plays a crucial role in the overall success to attain the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and their targets under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Develo...

The main results of the study bring evidence for the peripheralization of rural areas situated in the second ring of the metropolitan area.

Initiated as a specialty practical training for the undergraduate students in Territorial Planning at the Faculty of Geography, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, the present book is a result of the projects developed by students. All areas of study were chosen from the Land of Haţeg region, each area addressing a current challenge, be it demo...

The book contains the results of the projects developed by undergraduate students during their practical training in the District of Ciceu and the Land of Năsăud between 21 March and 31 May 2017. Now at its second edition, the book follows the pattern of territorial planning studies and analyses how some territorial resources can be best valorised...

From an ethical perspective, the biggest difficulty for planners is to take the best approach in responding to the decision makers and in acting in the public interest because it always becomes subject of pressures arising with the governmental change, on the one hand, and the societal change on the other hand. Even though many debates arise regard...