European urban policy: The Eurocities initiative

Sampaio, Jorge

doi:10.1080/02690949408726243

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“…According to Sampaio [60]: "The overriding vision of these cities is collectively to improve their in Europe through redressing the imbalances in EU policy and through increasing the daily cooperation between cities in sharing experience, ideas and best practice".…”

Section: Eurocities-a Brief Theoretical Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In fact, the "need" for sharing efforts through a Eurocity project becomes more evident in Modern Cities. According to Sampaio [60]: "The Modern City requires an active economic base which make it competitive and attractive to the investor, and which provides employment for its citizens. It needs a sound infrastructure which is well maintained and functions with the minimum of intervention and the minimum disruption.…”

Section: Eurocities-a Brief Theoretical Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this regard, the city leaders (main-actors) realize that if they fosters to meet the social, economic, and environmental challenges that they have in common, they need to apart from some past methods and approaches and develop a mentality to think and act commonly (internationally) [61]. Therefore, cities have been drawn into stronger collaborative relationships through which they can be more efficient, mainly in the development of policies to face common issues, promote joint ventures, promote research programmes, share technical and information skills and good practices, amplifying the positive impacts from the CBC project and mitigate the negative ones [6,7,21,60,61].…”

Section: Eurocities-a Brief Theoretical Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How to Reach the Eurocities? A Retrospective Review of the Evolution Dynamics of Urban Planning and Management on the Iberian Peninsula Territories

2019

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Cities have been designed according to their needs and challenges—i.e., structural, social, and technological advances. The city can be understood as a centre where our past, present, and future coexist. Furthermore, cities reflect the actual tendencies and directions, as exemplified by globalization and cross-border cooperation. Similarly, the creation of Eurocities in Iberian Peninsula territories can be an example how these processes can be implement and use the territories’ development, based on shared resources of neighbouring cities. Contextually, the paper addresses not only urban planning models as well as Eurocities case studies, but also projects of planning and territorial management within Iberian Territories—i.e., of the cross-border cooperation projects and strategies. Throughout the present research it was possible to understand the creation and genesis of Eurocities projects and strategies. Furthermore, the research was able to define a timeline of the process of urban and common planning carried out on the Iberian Peninsula, from the past to the present. Moreover, the study reveals the disadvantages or obstacles present during the Eurocities creation, as well as some interactions among planning methodologies, tools, and public policies and the Eurocities conception on the Iberian Peninsula.

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Section: Eurocities-a Brief Theoretical Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Eurocities-a Brief Theoretical Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Eurocities-a Brief Theoretical Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How to Reach the Eurocities? A Retrospective Review of the Evolution Dynamics of Urban Planning and Management on the Iberian Peninsula Territories

2019

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“…The first is the network of secondary or non-capital European cities named Eurocities, initiated in 1986 in Rotterdam with a formal agreement between six cities. This network, which now includes 140 cities, has become a key actor and a powerful lobby in the design of European urban policy [5][6][7][8]. Secondly, there are many cross-border intercity networks of different forms, such as the Eurometropolises, Eurodistricts, twin or sister cities, and those titled cross-border Eurocities, which, through European Territorial Cooperation policies have increased and consolidated their transnational cooperation networks.…”

Section: Intercity Cross-border Network As a Keystone For Sustainablmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eurocity: From Political Construction to Local Demand… Or Vice-Versa?

Gómez

Pinto

2019

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This study presents a diagnostic analysis of the concept of the Eurocity. It aims to compare the initial intentions of the concept with its actual results from the perspective of a sustainable local development approach, particularly assessing the attention given to local governance and its potential for boosting this development paradigm. To this end, a range of internal documents and press reports of the Guadiana Eurocity were analyzed, and 15 in-depth interviews and one focus group were conducted with the main stakeholders involved in implementing local development policy in order to uncover the cognitive structure of their collective discourse and the potentials and expectations of the Eurocity. The results showed that the Guadiana Eurocity seemed to be the cross-border and European integration entity with the most legitimacy among these municipalities for carrying out sustainable local development strategies. Its structure and closeness to residents’ daily lives, however, were not sufficient guarantees of its success.

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“…A number of networks whose membership comprised of SNAs were founded, such as Eurocities (Griffiths, 1995;Sampaio, 1994) and the Four Motors (Borrás, 1993). Cross-border cooperation between SNAs also emerged (Perkmann, 2003).…”

Section: In This Way Tn Revealsmentioning

confidence: 99%