PANEL DISCUSSION AT THE CONFERENCE ‘MARKET TOWNS AS LIVING PLACES”
‘From solo player to ensemble player’. Hans Engell presides over the final round of debates on the mutual positioning, distribution of roles and collaboration among Danish market towns. The debate panel included Mayor John Brædder, Professor Ove Kaj Pedersen and Boris Borman Jensen, among others. .
The conference ‘Market towns as living places’ is part of a series of urban policy initiatives to be announced by the minister of Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs, Carsten Hansen, over the summer. These initiatives target the challenges faced by cities and their surrounding rural areas as a result of demographic shifts and urban centralization and the changes that this development necessitates.