Presentation by Peter Ramsden, Urbact Thematic Pole Manager

1. Integrated Approach to Sustainable Urban Development
Peter Ramsden
URBACT Pole Manager 30th October 2014

2. The 500 URBACT city partners 2007-13
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3. Brundtland’s 3 interlocking circles of
sustainable development
Environment
Economy
Society
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5. 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?

8. Ghost towns in Ireland. Market led
development without adequate
control

9. 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

10. 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

11. HORIZONTAL: between policy areas
Horizontal: example of
Malaga - regeneration of
historic core

12. Participative leadership at all levels
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14. Berlin’s Neighbourhood Councils
(‘U rbact CONET)
In the Neighbourhood Council
the headmaster meets
the housing provider and the chairman of a migrant association
discuss the neighbourhood’ (Reinhard Fischer)

15. Berlin: Quartiers management 34 deprived
neighbourhoods targeted by social city
programme

16.  New examples of flatter hierarchies,
 innovative and enabling leadership
 Not a command and control model
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Park Wonsoon,
the listening
Mayor of Seoul

18. Antonus Mockus – using humour to
change mindsets
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19. Flat beats vertical: Mike
Bloomberg’s office when he
was mayor
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20. 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

21. A good example: the
French urban communities

22. 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

23. The 21st century
metropolis would be
more fractal with its
boundaries and
more agile with its
policies
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24. The importance of functional urban areas
and the new EU Cohesion Policy tools
Old: fixed action New: flexible action space
Central states
Provinces
Administrative
cities
European Union
Transborder &
macro-regions
Metropolitan areas
Neighbourhoods
space
Adapted from Jacquier, 2010

25. Programmes with
urban content
Urban development
Network
The new urban landscape 2014-20
Urban and territorial
development
Minimum 5% of ERDF of each
MS for urban article 7 actions
E.g. vertical axe, ITI, OP
Urban innovative
actions
(0,2% of ERDF
at EU level)
11 Thematic
objectives,
Urbanised
investment
priorities
Community-led local
development
ETC
Integrated URBACT
territorial
investments
Urban Rural
partnerships

26. 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,

27. Three delivery options under article 7
 Vertical axis
 City programme
 Integrated Territorial investments

28. Rotterdam’s Article 7 example of
Structure

29. 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?
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30. Thanks for
listening
Peterramsden2@
gmail.com
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