Transcript Workshop 2 - Integrated development in cities, rural and

ESPON Internal Seminar 2013
“Territorial Evidence for Cohesion Policy 2014-2020
and Territorial Agenda 2020”
Workshop 2 – Integrated development in cities, rural
and specific regions
Observations from TANGO
Lisa Van Well and Peter Schmitt, Nordregio
1) Challenges and opportunities for cities for smart, sustainable
inclusive development in next period?
Opportunity: A clear rational for development:
City of Stockholm has effectively packaged public policy around clear
goals based on its environmental rationale seen in promotion of the
image around Hammarby Sjöstad and Royal Seaport
Challenge: Involving all the relevant actors:
Lack of participation of big commercial actors in the working groups
(due to a clear political will) in South Loire Territorial Cohesion Plan.
Challenge: Finding spill-over mechanisims for urban growth to rural
development.
Defining the role of rural regions in globalised world
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2) Challenges and opportunities for inclusive growth in peripheral,
rural, sparsely populated areas?
Challenge: Difficult to mobilise all relevant stakeholders:
Difficulties of involving small businesses in the Greater Manchester
collaboration with 10 local administrations. Required resources needed
to involveg stakeholders in workshops or forums!
Opportunity: Building on cross-border cooperation
Tradition of cross-border cooperation important for governance of trilateral park -Goričko Nature Park in Slovenia, Örseg National Park in
Hungary and Naturpark Raab in Austria
Opportunity: Boosting institutional capacity:
North Shields Fish Quay governance is lead by residents and businesses
in the neighbourhood, help from experts for facilitation and guidance.
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3) How integrated are current governance practices in different
types of cities and regions? In general
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3) How integrated are current governance practices in different
types of cities and regions? More specific
Understanding planning in the Functional Economic Area in Greater
Manchester has allowed the development of an adaptable and flexible
governance structure facilitated by partnership arrangements, which
deliver cross-sector participation and public policy packing on a
range of issues.
National and sectoral strategies and policies are not very well linked to a
"place-based approach", due to the lack of complex regional spatial
plans and the lack of administrative regions in Slovenia….
…Can be overcome partly as in transport strategy of Ljubljana Urban
Region in a "soft" platform of cross-sectoral and multi-level actors at the
regional level.
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4) What territorial evidence to policy makers need in this context?
Knowledge from local-level : need for this to be better integrated into regional
and national strategies, programmes (Greater Manchester Combined Authority).
Lack of use of local territorial knowledge in implementation of plans and
strategies (Pécs European Capital of Culture).
More use of ex post evalautions: to break away from path dependency and
better nourish the feedback cycle (Stockholm resource efficiency…. Need to
break away from modernist approach)
Need special management skills and experience, precise operating rules and
independent, flexible project institutions (Pécs). Challenge: Finding
institutional ways to utilize local territorial knowledge
Knowledge about how local institutions can be made more flexible to new
incoming territorial knowledge (Baltic Sea Region cities)
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