METREX at 30: picture the past, imagine the future!
Help us connect thirty years of metropolitan exchange with the thirty years ahead. Share an image by 28 October 2026 and bring a piece of your region to Rome. When METREX was founded in Glasgow in 1996, many of the big challenges we face today were not unknown. The Brundtland Report had set out the…
30 Years of METREX: Milestones That Shaped the Network
Thirty years is long enough for a network to change substantially. Looking back at METREX through the decades shows how its membership, working methods and role in European metropolitan cooperation have developed over time. Since 1996, METREX has grown from a relatively small group of metropolitan authorities into a network bringing together more than 50…
METREX at 30: Three Decades of Metropolitan Cooperation
Daily life does not stop at administrative boundaries. People cross them every day to work, study, access services and move between different places. Economic activity, transport networks and many of the systems that shape metropolitan areas extend across them too. The institutions responsible for planning and governing these territories, however, often operate within boundaries that…
