Title: City ranking of European medium-sized cities
1City ranking of European medium-sized cities
- Paper presentation at the IFHP world congress in
Copenhagen, 24 September 2007 - Presentation by Christian Fertner
- Authors
- Rudolf Giffinger, Vienna UT
- Christian Fertner, Vienna UT
- Hans Kramar, Vienna UT
- Evert Meijers, Delft UT
Medium-sized cities in Europe - City rankings to
position medium-sized cities Characteristics of
city rankings - Attempt of a sample ranking -
Conclusions
2Medium-sized cities in Europe
- 270 million Europeans (EU27NOCH) live incity
regions gt 100,000 residents - 120 million live in city regions with 100,000 -
500,000 residents
Source of dataNordregio (2004),Espon project
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3City rankings to position medium-sized cities
- Little knowledge of efficient positioning of
medium-sized cities - Competition requires specialisation/positioning,e
specially in medium-sized cities - Positioning Learning from others (policy
transfer, lesson-drawing)one approach to
develop own strategies - Ranking as basis to to identify best practices
and comparative characteristics
4Characteristics of city rankings
- Central instrument for assessing the
attractiveness of urban regionsover the last 20
years but mainly focusing on large cities - Literature research and comparison
ofcharacteristics of 7 rankings as starting
point - Aspects and elements of rankings
- Objective
- Aim target audience
- Spatial scope
- Factors and indicators
- Methodology
- Limitation and selection of the cities
- Way of data collection
- Aggregation method
- Weighting of factors or indicators
- Dissemination
- Evaluation, interpretation and presentation of
results
5Attempt of a sample rankingQuality of health
conditions in European medium-sized cities
- Objective
- Ranking with focus on health conditions of
European medium-sized cities - Methodology
- Limitation to sample of 66 cities by objective
selection criteria - 3 indicators providing statistical key numbers
- 2 indicators providing perceptions of the
inhabitants - Standardization, weighting and aggregation of
indicators - Dissemination
- Final ranking grouped in classes
- Correspondence of statistical key numbers with
perceptional indicators
6Attempt of a sample rankingQuality of health
conditions in European medium-sized cities
7Conclusionsfor the design of city rankings of
medium-sized cities
- Big part of European citizens live in
medium-sized cities - Need for definition of medium-sized cities
- Poor data availability makes inclusion of data
from different spatial levels and limited sample
necessary - Transparent and well structured approach
necessary for serious examination - Focused rankings provide more applicable results
- Differentiation through relevant factors allows
information on strategic specialisation
8Conclusionsfor the use of city rankings of
medium-sized cities
- City rankings as instrument to improve the
competitiveness and positioning by - evaluating economic, social and environmental
conditions - Risks
- Public attention focuses on the bare rank
- Threat of long-term strategies strengthening of
stereotypes - Badly ranked cities tend to ignore the results
- Chances
- Identification of specific strengths and
weaknesses (endogenous potentials) and
translation into applicable strategies - Enabling lesson-drawing through best practice
strategies
9City ranking of European medium-sized cities
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- Paper presentation at the IFHP world congress in
Copenhagen, 24 September 2007 - Presentation by Christian Fertner
- Authors
- Rudolf Giffinger, Vienna UT
- Christian Fertner, Vienna UT
- Hans Kramar, Vienna UT
- Evert Meijers, Delft UT
10AppendixQuality of health conditions in European
medium-sized cities
Selection of the city sample Indicators