Metropolitan areas within EU Multi-Level Governance

Cities of Tomorrow and the future urban dimension - 2014-2020

European CommissionDG for Regional PolicyStephen Duffy - Unit C2 - Urban Development, Territorial Cohesion (Milan, 8th June 2012)

Overview

• Cities of Tomorrow

• Flexible Governance

• Strengthening the Urban Dimension 2014-2020

• New Instruments

Cities of Tomorrowchallenges, visions ways forward

• The “Cities of tomorrow” reflection process was initiated upon the request of Commissioner Johannes Hahn

• What is the model of a European city? What are the challenges? How do we respond in term of governance etc.?

• 60 renowned European experts have directly contributed

Challenges

• Economic (recession, loss of manufacturing etc.)

• Social (Income disparity, spatial segregation etc.)

• Environmental (climate change, urban sprawl etc.)

• Demographic (aging, migration etc.)

Population Class (/density)

Number of cities Population

Rural population

Towns and suburbs

50.000 -100.000

100.000-250.000

250.000-500.000

500.000-1 M

> 1 M

387

224

62

36

23

53 %

31 %

8 %

5 %

3 %

154 125 040

156 398 720

26 690 068

35 708 402

21 213 956

27 041 874

59 292 080

32 %

33 %

6 %

7 %

4 %

6 %

12 %

Total 480 470 140 732 100 % 100 %

Key messages

1) There is a European model of cities2) The European model of sustainable urban development is

under threat3) There are opportunities to turn the threats

into positive challenges4) Integration, innovation and new forms of governance

(multi-level) are essential

Fixed and flexible boundaries - government and governance

Administrative cities

Central states

Provinces

European Union

Neighbourhoods

Metropolitan areas

Transborder & macro-regions

New flexible action spaceOld fixed action space

Adapted from Jacquier, 2010

Governance

• Need for governance at level of de facto city as well as de jure

• Good government/governance at metropolitan level essential for cities' competitiveness

• Regional and metropolitan interests are complementary

Recommendations of Cities of Tomorrow

• We need adopt an integrated territorial approach

• within new governance frameworks

• with new ways of working across sectoral boundaries

• with a wider set of partners, including citizens• focusing on long-term shared objectives

A qualitative shift is needed to exploit the full potential of our cities

Urban Dimension – 2014-2020

• Concentration on EU priorities – Europe 2020 strategy

• Keeping the urban dimension in the mainstream, but improving it:─ Enhancing the integrated approach─ Stronger and more flexible territorial dimension─ Reintroduction of an experimental strand

Integrated urban development

• Proposed regulations explicitly require the promotion of integrated urban strategies

• Different measures will need to be supported under different thematic objectives and priorities

• An instrument to combine the necessary resources for such integrated measures – Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI)

ITI – how does it work? Bundling funding from different priority axes and programmes

(ERDF and ESF)

For an integrated territorial/urban development strategy For a specific target area at the appropriate territorial scale

(sections of cities, entire cities, city-regions, metropolitan areas etc.)

Member States should earmark at least 5% of ERDF resources for ITI with management delegated to cities (level of delegation depends on administrative structure and capacity)

Urban Innovative Actions• Approx. €370m (2014-2020) to promote innovative and

experimental approaches and solutions in the field of sustainable urban development

• For example: forward-looking and cutting-edge studies, pilot projects and demonstration projects of EU interest (innovative character, transferability)

• Innovative approaches to governance could be a potential topic

• Metropolitan areas are able to bid

Further Information

• Cities of Tomorrow -http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/conferences/citiesoftomorrow/index_en.cfm

• Factsheets - http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/information/brochures/index_en.cfm#1

• Call for Experts - http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:88796-2012:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0

Thank you very much for your attention!