Balancing urban redevelopment with urban expansion

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METROPOLITAN DIMENSION KEY METROPOLITAN ISSUES

• Balancing urban redevelopment with urban
  expansion
• Integrating transport, land use and
  infrastructure
• Sustaining the vitality and viability of city and
  town centres
• Enabling economic competitiveness
• Promoting social inclusion
• Assessing the environmental impact of development
• Safeguarding natural and heritage resources
• Achieving a carbon light future

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METROPOLITAN DIMENSION

• Such key issues can only be addressed effectively
  at the level of the Functional Urban Area (FUA)
  or Region or Metropolitan European Growth Area
  (MEGA)
• These are the key building blocks for any
  European spatial perspective or strategy
• They are recognised in the ESDP, by ESPON, by the
  CoR and in the Third Cohesion Report
• They need to be made operational through
  effective metropolitan governance

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METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE

• Subsidiarity in Europe will only become a reality
  if there is effective governance at the
  metropolitan level
• Without effective metropolitan governance the
  populations of metropolitan areas are unable to
  influence some of the key issues affecting their
  future and its sustainability
• Without effective metropolitan governance the EU
  will be without a key level of partnership to
  implement its wider strategies
• An integrated approach to key metropolitan issues
  requires effective governance

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METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE

• The mechanisms for governance may range from the
  statutory and comprehensive, through the
  selective, to the voluntary, depending on the
  range of key strategic issues that need to be
  addressed and their severity
• Effective metropolitan governance and economic
  competitiveness and sustainability are
  interrelated

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ELECTED METROPOLITAN AUTHORITY WITH CORE
PLANNING, OPERATING AND MANAGING POWERS 22
Primary stakeholders in the Metropolitan
strategic planning and development process
denotes privatised.
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COMPETENCE, CAPABILITY AND PROCESS

• Effective metropolitan governance requires the
  three key functions of competence, capability and
  process
• Competence means having the authority to adopt,
  implement and safeguard an Integrated
  Metropolitan Strategy
• Capability means having the knowledge and
  understanding to take informed decisions
• Process means having the means to regularly
  monitor, review and update the strategy

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An assessment process that can provide the basis
for informed decision making on those aspects of
the Metropolitan Spatial Plan that are market
related, that is, industry and business, offices,
retailing, housing and transportation.
The diagram summarises an approach to balancing
supply and demand for sectoral issues.
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THE INTERRELATED ACTION INVOLVED IN THE
PREPARATION OF AN INTEGRATED METROPOLITAN SPATIAL
PLANNING STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ON
A POLYCENTRIC BASIS
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STEPS TO A METROPOLITAN EUROPE

• Population mass and proximity/connectivity
• Identity
• 3 Definition of Functional Urban Region/Area or
  Metropolitan European Growth Area (MEGA)
• 4 Recognition
• Marketing
• Influence
• Support
• Governance
• Strategic issues and the longer term view
• Visions and strategies to engage stakeholders
• Competencies related to issues
• Capability for informed decision making on the
  issues
• Processes to implement strategies, policies,
  programmes and projects
• 14 Processes to regularly roll forward a longer
  term view

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TERRITORIAL COHESION WHAT MIGHT BETTER URBAN
BALANCE LOOK LIKE?

• Recognised inner core (GIZ) and related outer
  core bridging areas linking to the periphery
• Balance between the inner core and the
  Mediterranean and Danubian/Baltic transnational
  areas
• Improved East/West, North/South and peripheral
  connectivity
• Good connectivity from all areas to the core area
• Good connectivity to European gateways
• Recognition of Europes metropolitan regions and
  areas
• In consequence, strong polycentric relationships
  within European inter regional areas and between
  them

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INTERMETREX AND POLYMETREXPLUS

• InterMETREX seeks to enable them to become as
  individually strong as possible through effective
  spatial planning and development practice within
  metropolitan regions and areas
• PolyMETREXplus seeks to enable them to become as
  collectively strong as possible though the
  development of effective polycentric
  relationships between metropolitan regions and
  areas
• A polycentric Europe cannot be built without
  strong metropolitan regions and areas
• InterMETREX enables PolyMETREXplus

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METROPOLITAN

• Facilitate metropolitan recognition and
  definition
• (data collection and comparative indicators)
• Promote mechanisms for appropriate and effective
  metropolitan governance
• Promote the production of key issue based
  Integrated Metropolitan Strategies (with
  stakeholder involvement)
• Actively support the implementation of such
  Strategies through the Structural funds
• Actively support the exchange of practitioner
  knowledge on metropolitan affairs