Urban Audit City Meeting

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Urban Audit City Meeting

• European Urban actions and
• the Urban Audit
• Lewis Dijkstra, PhD
• lewis.dijkstra_at_cec.eu.int

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Structure of my presentation

• How the Urban Audit has contributed to the
  discussion on the urban dimension of Cohesion
  Policy
• 3rd Cohesion Report
• City Summit and the Bristol Conference
• Cities and the Lisbon Agenda
• Cohesion Policy and Cities
• Actions within the Urban Audit framework
• Urban Audit Perception Survey
• Urban Audit Analysis

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3rd Cohesion Report

• Published in February 2004
• Included a box on Urban Audit focussed on issues
  such as high concentrations of unemployment,
  crime and pollution in cities.
• Included a more general analysis of urban regions
  and the concentration of economic activity in the
  "pentagon" between London, Paris, Milan, Hamburg
  and Berlin.

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City Summit

• City Summit in Noordwijk/Leiden in October 2004
• Official opening of the urban audit website and
  the Urban Audit 2004 book covering 189 cities in
  the EU15
• Presentation of a first analysis of the urban
  audit
• Bristol Conference December 2005
• Publication of the data for the 69 cities outside
  the EU15 on the official website and updating of
  the book
• Presentation of "Cohesion Policy and Cities"
  paper and the "Cities and the Lisbon Agenda"
  report

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Cities and the Lisbon Agenda

• Focus both on urban problems and potential in
  relation to the Lisbon Agenda of Growth and Jobs.
• Main Questions are
• Are European cities attractive places to work and
  invest?
• Are European cities innovative and
  entrepreneurial?
• Who works in the city?
• How big are the disparities in cities?
• It includes examples of good practices for a wide
  range of cities

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Population Growth Decline
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Lagging Employment rates
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Knowledge Workers
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Neighbourhood Disparities
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Unemployment in Berlin
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Cohesion Policy and Cities

• The goal of this document is to strengthen the
  urban dimension of the Community Strategic
  Guidelines
• It serves as a practical guide for cities and
  regions preparing their Structural Fund
  Programmes
• It is currently a Commission Staff Working Paper
  will adopted as a Commission Communication before
  this summer

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Main Issues

• Making cities attractive
• Supporting innovation, entrepreneurship and the
  knowledge economy
• Create more and better jobs
• Addressing disparities
• Governance and Partnership
• Financing urban renewal

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Cohesion Policy and Cities

• Includes 50 concrete recommendations for actions
  in the 3 main themes for urban development
  covering issues such as
• accessibility and mobility
• culture
• innovation and RD
• employment
• social cohesion
• governance
• financial engineering

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The National Strategic Reference Frameworks

• Building on the strengths of the URBAN
  initiative, the Commission intends to reinforce
  the place of urban issues by fully integrating
  actions in this field into the regional
  programmes. (Gen. Reg. Expl. Mem. 3)
• The national strategic reference frameworks
  should include priorities related to sustainable
  urban development among the thematic and
  territorial priorities, where appropriate (Gen.
  Reg. Article 25.4.b)
• Ongoing discussions between Member States, the
  Commission and the Council may make the inclusion
  of urban development required instead of
  encouraged.

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Operational Programmes

• OP should include an integrated plan for
  sustainable urban development, where appropriate
  (Gen. Reg. Article 36.4 and 5)
• An integrated plan should include a clear
  description of urban development priorities
• OP can also contain a priority dedicated to urban
  issues, which includes a list of cities/urban
  areas and a description of the sub-delegation
  procedure

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The 'URBAN method'

• Continuation of the 'URBAN method' to deprived
  urban areas through an integrated and
  participative approach is supported (ERDF. Reg
  article 8)
• Up to 15 of funds set aside for sustainable
  urban development can be used to support ESF type
  projects
• Urban dimension could include actions such as
• improving physical environment, including
  brown-field
• preserving historical and cultural heritage
• promoting entrepreneurship and local employment
• community development,
• providing services to specific demographic groups

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Urban Audit Perception Survey

• Perception data is an important complement to the
  "objective" data collected by the Urban Audit
  (safety ? small number of recorded crimes)
• How citizens feel is important to politicians
• Show the differences in citizen opinions in
  different cities

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31 Cities in the EU 15 in 2004

• Bruxelles/ Brussel
• Antwerpen
• Liège
• København
• Berlin
• München
• Leipzig
• Dortmund
• Athina
• Irakleio

• Amsterdam
• Rotterdam
• Wien
• Lisboa
• Braga
• Helsinki
• Stockholm
• London
• Glasgow
• Manchester

• Madrid
• Barcelona
• Malaga
• Paris
• Marseille
• Rennes
• Dublin
• Roma
• Napoli
• Torino
• Luxembourg

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Cities to be added in 2006

• Sofia
• Burgas
• Lefkosia
• Praha
• Ostrava
• Tallinn
• Budapest
• Miskolc
• Vilnius

• Riga
• Valletta
• Warszawa
• Gdansk
• Opole
• Bucuresti
• Cluj-Napoca
• Ljubljana
• Bratislava

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Perceptions of Safety
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Employment Opportunities
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Urban Audit Analysis

• Started in January this year, completed by
  December
• Goals
• The State of European Cities Report.This report
  will describe European cities and analyse the
  trends at the urban level. It will serve as
  template for future reports.
• Propose typologies of cities, which can help
  cities to select good cities to compare
  themselves with
• Case Studies which will show how cities can use
  the Urban Audit

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Questions?

• Thank you for your attention!

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More Information

• www.urbanaudit.org
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/regional_policy/
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/regional_policy/funds/20
  07/index_en.htm