Towards a regional urban agenda: approaches and tools

Isola, Federica; Leone, Frédéric; Pira, Cheti

doi:10.1080/21681376.2017.1356238

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“…Other policy incentives focusing on the local level and place-based incentives display similar findings, for example the Regional Operational Programmes and Integrated Territorial Investments (Isola, Leone & Pira, 2017).…”

Section: Development Policy Focus On Citiessupporting

confidence: 53%

Territorial Cohesion Cities: a policy recipe for achieving Territorial Cohesion?

Medeiros

Rauhut

2018

Regional Studies

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This article discusses the role of medium towns as crucial anchors in achieving the policy goal of Territorial Cohesion. It highlights the need to counterbalance market trends to favour the continuous channelling of investment and people into larger metropolitan areas, by way of pro-active measures focused on attracting investment into medium towns, and as an alternative to dispersing public and private investment in lagging territories. Iberian and Nordic cases are examined in order to illustrate the possibilities and challenges of using 'Territorial Cohesion Cities' as development hubs in lagging regions, in order to achieve Territorial Cohesion at a national level.

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Section: Development Policy Focus On Citiessupporting

confidence: 53%

Territorial Cohesion Cities: a policy recipe for achieving Territorial Cohesion?

Medeiros

Rauhut

2018

Regional Studies

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“…Despite the relatively recent revival of the EU's growing interest in supporting urban development policies [36], animated by the launching of the Urban Agenda for the EU (May 2016) [37], the EU competencies in urban policies is limited. In fact, "there is no formal Council formation dedicated to urban policy and the engagement of different Member States has varied over time, the impact of the intergovernmental cooperation on EU and national policies have also been varied" [27] (p. 6).…”

Section: The Eu Urban Policies In a Nutshellmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Planning Policies to the Renewal of Riverfront Areas: The Lisbon Metropolis Case

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Urban planning offers various design possibilities to solve fundamental challenges faced in urban areas. These include the need to physically renew old industrial and harbour riverside areas into liveable, inclusive and sustainable living spaces. This paper investigates the way urban planning policies have helped to renew the waterfront areas in the Lisbon metropolis in the past decades. For this purpose, the contribution of the European Union (EU) and national urban development plans over the past decades are analysed. The results demonstrate an intense renewal of the waterfront areas in the Lisbon metropolitan area (LMA), particularly in Lisbon over the past three decades into leisure, ecologic and touristic areas, vis-à-vis the previous industrial and harbour vocation.

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“…The EU Commission policy initiatives ITI and CLLD are partly designed to counteract increasing disparities between remote/peripheral and urban/metropolitan regions. In practice, the ITI is closely linked to the implementation of the urban agenda (Isola, Leone, & Pira, 2017). Recent research also questions the extent that implementation of CLLD can solve structural problems in less developed areas, as it is dependent on the present administrative order and governance in the single Member States (Servillo, 2019).…”

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EU Cohesion Policy and spatial economic growth: trajectories in economic thought

Rauhut

Humer

2020

European Planning Studies

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This paper aims at identifying the current main economic thought influencing the EU Cohesion Policy. Postulates and assumptions on how economic growth spreads spatially in key EU policy framework documents are discussed and compared to different economic theories. Strategic EU documents increasingly foster the urban dimension, and focus resources on cities at the expense of cohesive regional development. The findings indicate large overlaps with Perroux' 'growth pole theory'. However, several of the key assumptions of growth pole theory are not met in the new context of post-industrial globalized service economy, which is fundamentally different from its original use. This is a troublesome finding when seen from a strategic planning perspective. Current implications for regional policy and planning boil down to the cardinal question of supporting urban areas and/or peripheries. Taking the strategic EU policy documents and their trajectories in economic thought into consideration, this paper confirms that regional development focuses on cities. Yet, it suggests a new perspective on an urban-centred EU Cohesion Policy, one that normatively requests the 'responsibility' of cities towards their hinterland, instead of fostering a further dissociation of cities from their hinterland. This suggests a reorientation towards supporting the linkages between urban areas and peripheries.

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Towards a regional urban agenda: approaches and tools

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Territorial Cohesion Cities: a policy recipe for achieving Territorial Cohesion?

Territorial Cohesion Cities: a policy recipe for achieving Territorial Cohesion?

Urban Planning Policies to the Renewal of Riverfront Areas: The Lisbon Metropolis Case

EU Cohesion Policy and spatial economic growth: trajectories in economic thought

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