Transcript Creating Mediterranean Networks

Creating
Mediterranean
Networks
By:
Samir Gharieb;
Chairman of National Organization for Urban Harmony, Egypt
Session #8: Mediterranean Cities: Civilization and Development
City Networks. The Euro Mediterranean Area
Nov. 16-19, 2011
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City Networks
• A City Network is made of a number of cities that
are connected together because of some reason:
economic, political, cultural, etc.
• For example: Cities that have the best ballet
theaters create a network for those who want to
see the best performances, and cities that house
the strongest real estate markets create a network
for those interested in real estate investment.
• Any city can be part of more than one city
network if it has more than one attractive criterion
and have the capacity to join a network.
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Historic
Med Trade
Networks
Greek and
Phoenician Trade
Network
Roman Trade
Network
http://aulosinternet.wikispaces.com/Maps
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Global networks in the
Mediterranean Region
• A network is as strong as the reason behind its
creation and the number of cities that join it,
making some of the networks local, some regional
and the most sought after become global.
• Most of the global networks around the
Mediterranean do not treat it as one
• None of the global networks and regions identify
the Mediterranean as a region, but mostly as
components of : Africa, Western Europe, Eastern
Europe, Arab States, or the MENA region (the
Middle East and North Africa).
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Examples of Global
Networks
• UN regional commissions
• Stationed in five regions of the world,
• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
(UNECE),
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP),
• Economic Commission for Latin America
(ECLAC),
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
(ECA) and
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for Western Asia (UNESCWA)
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Mediterranean
Tourist Cruiser
Networks
• Cruises start from: Venice, Rome, Monte Carlo,
Barcelona and other European side locations
passing through few of the Southern and Eastern
Med cities such as Algiers, Tunisia, Tripoli, Alexandria,
Haifa. There are almost no cruise ships starting from
any southern city.
• Strengthening the south North direction of the
network is questionable for economic and political
reasons.
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Operational City Networks
• Successful city network in the Mediterranean region
should utilize the common cultural roots that had
been extending over centuries resulting in
comparable cultural values and cultural heritage.
• Economy is the second most important base of any
successful city network (culture then economy) City
networks would only continue when there is an
exchange of measurably visible economic benefits
to make networking desirable and sustainable.
• City networks need to encourage non
governmental relationships between the peoples of
the region who will directly feel the economic
benefits while enjoying their local heritage contexts.
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Heritage City Networks
• Creating heritage city networks around the
Mediterranean should respect the widely available
cultural heritage resulting from being the birthplace
of the major world religions and their resulting
tangible and intangible heritage
• Candidate cities for such networks might include:
Rome, Latakia, Alexandria, Nice, Barcelona, Athens,
Tunisia, and Casa Blanca.
• Art diversity because of the civilizations that were
born around the basin and richness in all areas of
art: drama, dance, music, theater, fine and visual
arts, etc.
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Mediterranean Heritage
City Network
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EXISTING EUROMED CITIES
NETWORK
• The Euromed Cities Network was created by the City
of Bordeaux in 2000 on the basis of the conclusions of
the third Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Ministers
for Foreign Affairs (Stuttgart – 15 & 16 April 1999)
• AREAS OF INTERVENTION:
o Governance, institutional support, local finances
o Urban development and planning
o Environment and risk management
o Society, health
o Culture and citizenship
http://www.commed-cglu.org/spip.php?rubrique146
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EUROMED CITIES’
NETWORK,
Below are the cities of the EUROMED Cities’ network:
•Germany: Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg
•Belgium: Antwerp, Brussels-Capital Region,
Charleroi
•Spain: Barcelona, Malaga, Saragossa,
Seville
•France: Bordeaux, Lille, Lyons, Marseilles,
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Nancy, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Strasbourg,
Toulouse, Cassis, Toulon, Saint Etienne, Gap
•Greece: Athens, Thessalonica
•Holland: Rotterdam
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•Italy: Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Lecce,
Palermo, Rome, Turin, Trieste, Venice
•Portugal: Porto
•Sweden: Stockholm
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•Cyprus: Nicosia
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Algeria: Sidi Abdellah, Tizi Ouzu,
Constantine
Egypt: Alexandria
Jordan: Amman, Grand Salt
Lebanon: Al Fayhaa, Amioun, Beirut,
Bourj Hammoud, El Mina, Jbeil Byblos,
Jdeide, Khreibe, Sin El Fil, Baalbek,
Mansoura, Mokhtara, Tyre, Haut
Chouf, Sidon, Brital, Zouk Mikaël, El
Kaa, Rahbe, Hammana.
Morocco: Salé, Al Hoceima,
Casablanca, Fès, Rabat, Marrakech,
Ouarzazate, Meknès
Syria: Bostra
Tunisia: Mahdia, Sfax, Tunis, Sousse
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Palestine: Ramallah
North EuroMed Cities Network
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Creating other
Mediterranean city networks
• The existing EUROMED city network has many
objectives making it difficult to sense its impacts on the
member cities and their population.
• It is clearly noticeable that countries of the North are
participating with more cities than countries in the
south, making the network unbalanced.
• Northern cities of the EUROMED city network are also
components of other EU city networks that are stronger
and more prominent across Europe. Consequently,
most networking capabilities of those cities are spent
on strengthening their EU and global connections;
rather than on strengthening their north south relations.
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One Complex Network or
several simpler city networks?
• Ambitious objectives of the existing EUROMED city
network might have spread its resources very thin
and made its impacts un-noticed,
• Simplifying the existing very large and multiobjective network into several networks with
specific objectives for each of them is the proposal
of this presentation.
• A new city network is difficult to create, maintain
and to steer to the right direction; consequently it is
easier to simplify the existing complex network
(EURO MED cities network) into several simpler city
networks, that are easier to manage for a specific
measurable objective: heritage, film and art,
business, exhibition,…etc.
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The Process for a
Heritage City Network,
• Heritage cities have the most plausible networking
capability as they all enjoy a global status and
national interest.
• Creating coordinated yearly or seasonal events in
the Mediterranean region can depend on their
heritage sources and natural legacies.
• ROME, Istanbul, Alexandria, Marseille , Barcelona,
Latakia , Algiers and Tunisia might be a good start
for this network that have common concerns in
scientific innovations in conservation, benefiting
from cultural tourism in the area, and supporting
each other in heritage site management.
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Proposed
Heritage Cities Network
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Another proposal is for: A
Med-City Festivity Network
• Cultural City Festivities is another proposal where
professionals will lead the way for networking cities
to create a year-round festivity calendar.
• Heritage expertise is available in the region with
complementary activities that can be developed
between academic and professional bodies;
universities, NGOs, Government bodies, …etc.
• Cities around the Mediterranean are already
competing to attract cultural tourism, it is time to
coordinate cultural events to complement each
other to attract more tourists to the whole region.
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Managing the city networks
• Who is going to manage the network between
south and north Mediterranean? Where, how and
what are the procedures are other important
questions that need to be answered.
• Such a network can bring professionals from the
south to the north within training and educational
programs.
• Network management will be responsible for
promoting city festivities from the south into the
north and coordinating city events.
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Creating
Mediterranean
Networks
Thank you
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