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Title: City ranking of European medium-sized cities


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City 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
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Medium-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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City 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

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Characteristics 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

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Attempt 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

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Attempt of a sample rankingQuality of health
conditions in European medium-sized cities
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Conclusionsfor 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

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Conclusionsfor 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

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City ranking of European medium-sized cities
fertner_at_srf.tuwien.ac.at www.srf.tuwien.ac.at
  • 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

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AppendixQuality of health conditions in European
medium-sized cities
Selection of the city sample Indicators
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