NCSG’s “InPLACE” study in Ireland covered in Local Authority Times
Over the past fifteen years, the International Centre for Local and Regional Development (ICLRD) has been supporting local authorities and other actors to enhance their capacity to understand and implement strategies focused on place-making. The ICLRD is a north-south-USA partnership that involves Maynooth University, Ulster University and the University of Maryland’s National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG). Its multidisciplinary team combines academic and practitioner expertise in spatial planning, geography, local and regional development and good governance. Together with University College Dublin and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, the ICLRD isleading a two-year action research programme investigating the impacts of pre- and post-COVID commuting on people and place. The study is titled ‘InPLACE: Investigating Place, Planning and Commuting.’