second tier cities in age of austerity: why invest beyond the capitals? professor michael parkinson...
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Second Tier Cities in Age of Austerity: Why Invest Beyond the Capitals?
Professor Michael Parkinson CBEESPON Seminar Aalborg, June 2012
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Second Tier Cities - 4 Questions
1.Who are we?
2. What are we trying to do?
3. How are we doing it?
4. What messages?
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1. Who Are We?
Partners
• EIUA
• MRI Budapest
• University of Tampere
Advisers
• University College London
• University of Paris
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2. What Trying to Do?Answers to
• What contribution capital & second tier cities national, EU performance?
• Which punch weight nationally & Europe, how and why?
• What territorial impact & implications crisis?
• Who does what better, differently in future?
What are second tiers?
• Larger non-capital performance affects national economy. Agreed EU OECD metro region boundaries
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2. What Trying to Do?
Test key arguments:
• Decentralisation powers & resources, deconcentration investment higher performing economies
• Better second tiers - better national and European economies
• Relationship capital & second tiers win-win, not zero sum
• National policies for second tiers crucial
• Critical success factors – innovation, diversity, human capital, connectivity, place quality, strategic governance capacity
• Territorial governance & place matter more not less global economy
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2. What Trying to Do?
Reflect policy concerns DG Regio & 5th Cohesion Report
• What performance second tiers , what gap capitals, what direction change?
• What policy debate member states?
• How gap seen, competitiveness or cohesion, explicit or implicit, any concern territorial impact?
• What impact national policy for second tiers - greater targeting, increased capacity, more powers & resources, fewer constraints?
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3. How Doing It?
• Research & policy literature – performance, policies, prospects
• Quantitative data 124 second tiers , 31 capitals
• Interviews - European, national policy makers, private sector
• E-questionnaire
• 9 case studies – Tampere, Cork, Leeds, Lyon, Turin, Munich, Barcelona, Katowice, Timisoara
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4. What Messages?
• Performance cities crucial to competitiveness
• Economic contribution capital & second tier varies
• Capitals dominate - but size gap varies & some cases falling
• Capitals dominate national economy more in east than west
• Many second tiers growing contribution national prosperity
• Some second tiers outperform capital
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4. What Messages?
BaselineGap capitals & second tiers big
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Few Exceptions - Top Secondary Outperforms Capital:Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Ireland
Munich
Stuttga
rt
Nuremberg
Cologne-B
onn
Bremen
Bielefe
ld
Leipzig
Lin
z Graz
Bologna
Brescia
Turin
Bari
Palerm
o
Naples
Brusse
ls
Gent M
R
Charlero
i MR
Dublin0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
35,000
40,000
45,000
50,000
National Secondary CityGDP per capita PPS, 2007
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Top Secondary Lags Capital by 5-20%:Spain, UK, Netherlands, France
Madrid
Bilbao
Barcelo
na
Valencia
Coruna
Murcia
Sevilla
Cad
iz
Malaga
London
Edinburgh
Bristol
Belfast
Leices
ter
Glasgo
w
Manch
ester
Birmingh
am
Bradford-Le
eds
Nottingham
Newcas
tle upon Ty
ne
Cardiff
Sheffi
eld
Liverp
ool
Randsta
d North
Randsta
d South
Eindhoven
Heerlen
Arnhem
Ensch
ede
Paris Lyo
n
Toulouse Nice
Bordeaux
Nantes
Marseill
e
Rennes
Strasb
ourg
Rouen
Grenoble
Montpellier
Toulon
Lille
Metz
Lens -
Lievin
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
35,000
40,000
45,000
National Secondary CityGDP per capita PPS, 2007
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Top Secondary Lags Capital by 20-30%:Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Portugal
Copenhag
en
Aarhus
Aalborg
Odense
Wars
aw
Poznan
Wro
claw
Kraków
Gdansk
Bydgo
szcz
Katowice
-Zory
Szczec
inLó
dz
Lublin
Kielce
Wlocla
wek
Stockh
olm
Gothenburg
Malmö
Helsinki
Turku
Tampere
Lisbon
Porto
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
35,000
40,000
45,000
National Secondary CityGDP per capita PPS, 2007
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Top Secondary Lags Capital by 30-45%:Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, Greece, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia
Gyor
Pecs
Miskolc
Buchare
st
Cluj-Nap
oca
Craiova
Klaiped
a
Thess
alonica
Prague
Plzen
Ostrav
a
Ljublja
na Sp
lit 0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
35,000
National Secondary CityGDP per capita PPS, 2007
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Top Secondary Lags Capital by 50-65%: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia
Sofia
Varna
Plovdiv
Tallin
n Ta
rtu Riga
Dauga
vpils
Bratisla
va
Košice
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
35,000
40,000
45,000
National Secondary CityGDP per capita PPS, 2007
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4. What Messages?
Change during boomSome second tiers
outperformed capitals
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GDP per capita – average annual % change, 2000-7
-1.0
0.0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
%
Growth rate in leading second tier city over 2.5 times capital
Germany Italy France Norway Spain Austria
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GDP per capita – average annual % change, 2000-7
0.0
2.0
4.0
6.0
8.0
10.0
12.0
14.0
16.0
18.0
%
Growth rate in leading second tier city 1 to 2 times capital
Romania Netherlands Denmark Finland Belgium UK Sweden Ireland Latvia Czech Rep
Croatia
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GDP per capita – average annual % change, 2000-7
0.0
2.0
4.0
6.0
8.0
10.0
12.0
14.0
16.0
%
Estonia Poland Hungary Lithuania Bulgaria Slovakia Greece Portugal Slovenia
Growth rate in capital higher than in second tier cities
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4. What Messages?
Governance matters
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Productivity Capitals and Second Tiers 2007
Varna
Cluj-Napoca
Daugavpils
Klaipeda
Poznan
Tartu
Gyor Porto
OstravaKosice
Split Maribor Thessalonica
Odense
Bilbao Milan
Salzburg
Gothenburg
Turku
Edinburgh
Antwerp
Randstad South
Timisoara
Katowice-Zory
Barcelona
Munich
Turin Tampere
Bradford-Leeds
Lyon
Cork
Sofia
Bucharest
Riga
Vilnius
Warsaw
Tallinn
Budapest Lisbon
Prague
Bratislava
ZagrebLlubljana
Valletta Nicosia
Athens
CopenhagenMadrid
Berlin
Rome
Vienna Stockholm Helsinki
London
Paris
Brussels
Dublin
Randstad North
Luxembourg
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
60,000
70,000
80,000
90,000
100,000
110,000
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
60,000
70,000
80,000
90,000
100,000
110,000City Case study Country Capital
Unitary regionalised
Unitary regionalised
Federal Federal
Federal Unitary
Unitary
Unitary
Unitary
Unitary
Unitary Decentralised
Nordic
Unitary Decentralised
Nordic
Unitary Decentralised
Nordic
Unitary centralised
former socialist
Unitary centralised
former socialist
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4. What Messages?
Greater Decentralisation
Greater Productivity Second Tiers
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Decentralisation and Second Tier Cities’ Average Productivity 2007
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4. What Messages?
Capitals grow, regional inequality grows
Second tiers grow, regional inequality falls
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Growth Capital &Second Tier Cities &Trends in Regional Inequality 2000-7
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4. What Messages?
Crisis is hurting
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Change Unemployment Rates % NUTS 2 2007-10
Source: Bubbico & Dijkstra, 2011
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4. What Messages?
Significant risk
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4. What Messages?
RISK:
• Crisis undermine achievements second tiers
• Competition public & private investment widen gaps within second tiers
• Competition widen gap between second tiers & capitals
• Increased inequality across Europe & failure hit EU 2020 targets
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4. What Messages?
Policy matters
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4. What Messages?Policy impact:
• Countries concentrate attention resources capitals cost second tiers
• Little explicit policy debate on relationship - most focus cohesion
• But some beginning focus economic performance second tiers
• Some national policies promoted urban competiveness - innovation, diversity, skills, connectivity, place quality, governance.
• Some policies helped second tiers develop
• Cities better countries less political centralisation & economic concentration, & cities greater powers, resources & responsibilities.
• Some cities helped national economy perform better
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4. What Messages?
Policy implications and prospects:
• Relationship capital secondary not zero sum but win-win
• Diseconomies scale suggest governments encourage development second tier cities to complement capital
• Second tiers could absorb growth from capital when costs to it outweigh benefits
• Little demand artificially limit capitals contribution national prosperity
• Increase national economic pie - encouraging second tiers not kill golden goose capital
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4. What Messages?Policy implications & prospects – investment in age austerity:
• Number second tiers country sustain depends size, level development
• Smaller countries & East less scope develop second tier cities
• But policy aim should still be more high performing second tiers
• Government territorial investment decisions more explicit • Deconcentration, decentralisation, policy focus second tiers helps
• EU greater focus territory - economic place making
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4. What Messages?• More systematic national policies second tier cities
• EU continue investment new member states
• Maximise territorial impact national policies competitiveness
• Decentralise responsibilities & resources, deconcentrate investment.
• Territorial economic governance at scale
• Encourage financial innovation
• Greater transparency territorial investment strategies
• Mainstream money & policies matter most not urban initiatives
• Invest second tiers when (i) gap capital big, growing; (ii) weak business infrastructure because underinvestment (iii) negative externalities capital