UrbactURBAMECO

Fast Track NetworkKick-off meeting

Lyon September 06th, 2007

Economic Development of Deprived AreasCan So-called Deprived Areas Become Growth Poles?

Regenera Tour

Network and method

Town A1

European network of researchers

European network of policy-makers

European network of politicians and citizens

Town A2 Town A3 Town B1 Town B2 Town N1 Town N2 Town N3

Regional or national network of towns A Regional or national network of towns B Regional or national network of towns N

EUROPEAN NETWORKS

A EUROPEAN PROGRAMMEURBACT

REGENERA

Supported by DGs Environment, Regio, Research

Central Governments, Regions, Local Authorities and Private Sector

R

Resarchers Experts

P-M

Policy-makers

Politicians Citizens

Recommendations

• Diagnoses

• Policies, programmes and projects

• Patnerships and steering

• Local residents and co-production

• Resources

• Assessment

URBAMECONetwork

Deprived Areas and Urban Region

Unemployment disparities

in inner city areas

CZ

CZ

CZ

DZ

DZ

DZ

Flows of resources

CZ Connected Zones

Potential flows

DZ Disconnected Zones

Economic spatial trickle down

Plugged and unplugged

communities within

an urban region

Fragmentation of urban communities: from an attracting system of resources to a selective dispersing one

Until the 70s Since…

Deprived areas«poor ghettos»

Suburbanisation

Old boundaries New boundaries and limits

Gated communities«rich ghettos»

Unhealthy areas

Local area and local community

Place(environment)

Place(environment)

People(social)

Institutions (public and private, economic and social)

People(social)

Constituents

Institutions(economy)

Constituentsin unstable dynamic equilibrium

Possible evolution of constituents

Place(environment)

DeteriorationsDevalorisations

Residentialmotilities

Drifts

Institutions(economy)

Each constituent is inscribe on a particular evolution path

Break of coherences

ResistancesRegressions

People(social)

A drift in space and time

t 0 t n t x

Location of communities in the urban hierarchy

A1 decline

A2 steady state

A3 gentrification

A4 coherencebest practice

UrbanValue

Space

Time

A 3

Market and Social

Change

PublicIntervention

A 0 A 4

A n A 2

A 1

A 3

Can So-called Deprived Areas Become Growth Poles?

Cities and urban regions are rich with a GDP/cappoint of view…

GDP and disposable income per capita 2001

HU

SKPL

EELTLV

RO

Bucarest

CZVarsovie

Budapest

PT GR

Bratislava

ES

UE25

ITUK

BEFR

LisboaFI

SE MadridNL

IE DKPraha

DE

Berlin

UttrechtHelsinki

Stockholm

Bremen

Ile de france

Hambourg

Bruxelles

Inner London

0

10000

20000

30000

40000

50000

60000

0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000 16000 18000 20000

Disposable income per capita

GD

P p

er c

apit

a

… but less considering the disposable incomes of there inhabitants!

1Attractor

4Redistributor

Community

2Trap

3Accumulator

Economieémergée

Economieimmergée

Market economy

Men Poachingeconomy

Women

Immerged economy

Domesticeconomy

Welfareeconomy

Emergedeconomy

Social economy

Gendereconomy

andintegrated

urban policies

Gender and urban regeneration

The Central Role of

Cities and Urban Regions

Economy

SocialEnvironment

Economically

viable

Ecologically sustainable

Socially just

The economy dominatesSeparated management

of spheres

Governance

Integrated urban regeneration: a construction of Brundtland… plus

Politics,Democracy

Regulating jointly economic, social and environmental matters

1- S

ocia

l – E

cono

my

fair

Social

Economy

Environment

viable

3- Social - Environment

2- Econom

y – Environm

ent

livable

city c

ursor

Regulating economical and social spheres

Economy

SocialSphere

CompetitivnessProductivity

Richness

UnemploymentExclusion

ContributionsTaxes

Socialcohesionpolicies

More or less

public policies

city c

ursor

Regulating economical and environmental spheres

Economy

Environment

CompetitivnessProductivity

Spatialfragmentation.

Pollutions

TaxesSpatial

cohesion policies

More or less

public polç&ies

city cursor

Regulating social and environmental spheres

Social

Environment

TaxesSocial

Cohesion Policies

TaxesSpatial

cohesionpolicies

Cooperation - Coproduction From procedure to process1 - Integrated project for sustainable

development

3 - Partnership and community coproduction

7 - Community

5 - Project

2 - Contracts, conventions, agreements

6 – Atmosphere

The gardner’s algorithm“community/project/atmosphere/savoir-faire”Are these conditions of best practice an obstacle to transferability ?

4 - Savoir faire (professional talent)and community organisation (reformist conspirators)

Pro

cedu

re Pro

cess

Place

People 3-ProjectConflictual

Cooperation

Institutions1- Community

6-Contracts

4-Savoir-faire

2-Atmosphere

5-Partnership

A

B

C

V 1 V 2 V 3 V 4 V n

R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R n

Visiting cities

PerceptionsVisit’s report

TransfertBack home

Integrated urbanregeneration projectVisited city

T1 T2 T3 T4 Tn

CapitalisationDissemination

Evaluation of an integrated policy

A tn

A tx

(aimed transformation)

(expected evolution)

R tn R t+1

A’ tx

R’ tx

Ev(real evolution)

A : Reality R : Perception

Evaluation which should be carried out

Evaluation really carried out