IBA ALZETTE-BELVAL+ A MEMORANDUM

The report documents the involvement of the University of Luxembourg's Department of Geography & Spatial Planning in the pre-figuration of an International Building Exhibition (IBA) in the cross-border territory of Alzette-Belval (Luxembourg-France). As a memorandum, it sets out to address the main goals of this endeavour and embeds the case in the literature on related activities. Moreover, it reports on the field research activities undertaken in order to set the stage for a possible IBA. As a result of the rather contested findings and also in light of the uncertainty among the political institutions whether and how to bring this to practice, the process of pre-figuring the IBA was terminated without leading to full implementation.