URBACT InfoDay Romania, 30 October 2014

Integrated Approach to Sustainable Urban Development

Peter Ramsden

URBACT Pole Manager 30th October 2014

The 500 URBACT city partners 2007-13

Title of presentation I Wednesday,

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Brundtland’s 3 interlocking circles of

sustainable development

Environment

Society

Economy



Urban challenges:

Economic: Globalisation, shrinking cities, more

and better jobs

Environment: resource productivity, waste

management, carbon production and climate

change

Social: ageing society, brain drain, integration of

migrants and Roma, poverty and social

exclusion

What is the opposite of integration?

Ghost towns in Ireland. Market led

development without adequate

control

The crisis makes policy integration

more difficult

Fewer resources (tax, government cuts)

Greater needs (unemployment, etc)

Weakening of political consensus around

helping those in difficulty

Integration: three different types

• Horizontal: between policy areas, aiming for

coordination between the policy fields

• Vertical: between different levels of

government, towards multi-level governance

• Territorial governance: coordination between

neighbouring municipalities in the same

functional urban area

HORIZONTAL: between policy areas

Horizontal: example of

Malaga - regeneration of

historic core

Participative leadership at all levels



Berlin’s Neighbourhood Councils

( ‘Urbact CONET)

In the Neighbourhood Council

the headmaster meets

the housing provider and the chairman of a migrant association discuss the neighbourhood’ (Reinhard Fischer)

Berlin: Quartiers management 34 deprived

neighbourhoods targeted by social city

programme



New examples of flatter hierarchies,

innovative and enabling leadership

Not a command and control model



Park Wonsoon,

the listening

Mayor of Seoul

Antonus Mockus – using humour to

change mindsets





Flat beats vertical: Mike

Bloomberg’s office when he

was mayor

VERTICAL: between government levels

REGGOV example

Neighbourhoods like Marxloh in Duisburg

Supported by city of Duisburg

Duisburg supported by State of North Rhine

Westphalia (80 deprived neighbourhoods improved

using this approach)

North Rhine Westphalia received funding from

Federal level under Federal Soziale Stadt

programme

EU supported through ERDF and ESF programmes

Horizontal network formed at State level to

exchange experience

A good example: the

French urban communities

TERRITORIAL: cooperation between

neighbouring municipalities

Cooperation is crucial to

• avoid the negative effects of competition

(investments, services, taxes,) between local

authorities

• help to integrate policies – economic,

environmental, transport and social challenges can

best be addressed on broader urban level

• Avoid externalities (environment, social

segregation)

• reach the economy of scale – size matters in

economic terms and in services

UDN Seminar WS1 Integrated approach 9 October 2014 Brussels



The 21st century

metropolis would be

more fractal with its

boundaries and

more agile with its

policies

Administrative cities

Central states

Provinces

European Union

Neighbourhoods

Metropolitan areas

Transborder & macro-regions

New: flexible action spaceOld: fixed action space

Adapted from Jacquier, 2010

The importance of functional urban areasand the new EU Cohesion Policy tools

Urban developmentNetwork

Urban innovative actions

(0,2% of ERDFat EU level)

Minimum 5% of ERDF of each

MS for urban article 7 actionsE.g. vertical axe, ITI, OP

Urban and territorial development

11 Thematic objectives, Urbanised investment priorities

Community-led local

development

ETCURBACTIntegrated

territorial

investments

The new urban landscape 2014-20

Programmes with

urban content

Urban Rural

partnerships

What is in the regulation?

The ERDF shall support, within operational

programmes, sustainable urban development

through strategies that set out integrated actions to

tackle the economic, environmental, climate,

demographic and social challenges affecting urban

areas, while taking into account the need to

promote urban-rural linkages.

At least 5 % of the ERDF resources allocated at

national level under the Investment for growth and

jobs goal shall be allocated to integrated actions,

Three delivery options under article 7

Vertical axis

City programme

Integrated Territorial investments

Rotterdam’s Article 7 example of

Structure

Questions

How do we keep the citizens involved?

How do we bring the strategy alive?

How do we measure the results of our

approaches?

How can we spread what we have learnt?

How can URBACT support the Romanian

Cities?



Thanks for

listening

Peterramsden2@

gmail.com



URBACT InfoDay Romania, 30 October 2014

Presentations & Public Speaking

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