Transcript Future Orientation of Cities

ESPON Workshop at the Open Days
Brussels, 5 October 2010
Cooperation: the benefits of cooperating across
internal and external borders
Cities as nodes of cooperation
Selected results from the FOCI project
Moritz Lennert, IGEAT-ULB
Scales of cooperation
Intra-metropolitan dynamics
Typology of intra-urban dynamics in European LUZ, in the years 2000
Cities decoupling from their hinterland ?
Change of disparities in the development level between the metropolis
and its regional hinterland in 1995-2004
Cities embedded in national systems
Share (%) of the total variance in total GDP (pps) growth between cities
in Europe
Cities as gateways of global cooperation
Continental gatekeepers and representatives for worldwide networks of
multinational firms
Potentials for cooperation
Cities in firm networks
FUA centralities in the network of multinational firms with a distance
below 100km
Cities as nodes in connectivity networks
City network daily return accessibility by rail between a selected list of
metropolitan areas between 5h and 23h (time-table based)
Cities in networks of research and innovation
Cooperation in selected Framework Programme research projects in
the Eastern Balkans
Enhancing cooperation
• Elements of difficulty for cooperation
– Hindering factors linked to the institutional framework
• heterogeneity of competences
• limits of competencies
• inadequacy of administrative boundaries in relation to the issues on
the ground
• limitations in financial resources of the respective administrative
levels of the partnership
– Hindering factors linked to the relationship between partners
• competition between partners of similar weight
• mistrust of small vs. bigger partners
• inadequacy between city links and firm links
• Elements favouring cooperation
– Identification of concrete and reasonable objectives that are attractive for
all partners
– Identification of objectives requiring the joint intervention of all partners
– Cross-border networks because of the particularly strong incoherences
across borders, in fields such as transport, infrastructure provision, etc
Thank you !
Moritz Lennert
IGEAT – ULB
[email protected]