Final presentation in Lyon (2007) during the URBAMECO fast track project in URBACT II initiative of E.U.

1. Urbact
URBAMECO
Fast Track Network
Kick-off meeting
Lyon
September 06th, 2007
Economic Development of Deprived Areas
Can So-called Deprived Areas Become Growth Poles?

2. Regenera Tour

3. Network and method

4. A EUROPEAN PROGRAMME
URBACT
REGENERA
Supported by
DGs Environment, Regio, Research
Central Governments, Regions, Local
Authorities and Private Sector
Resarchers
Experts
Policy-makers
Politicians Citizens
EUROPEAN NETWORKS
R
European network of researchers
European network of policy-makers
P-M
European network of politicians
and citizens
Town A1
Town A2
Town A3
Regional or national network of towns A
Town B1
Town B2
Regional or national network of towns
Town N1
Town N2
Town N3
Regional or national network of towns

5. Recommendations
• Diagnoses
• Policies, programmes and projects
• Patnerships and steering
• Local residents and co-production
• Resources
• Assessment

6. URBAMECO
Network

7. Deprived Areas and Urban Region

8. Unemployment
disparities
in
inner city areas

9. Economic spatial trickle down
Plugged and
unplugged
communities
within
an urban
region
CZ
DZ
DZ
CZ
CZ
DZ
CZ Connected Zones
Flows of resources
DZ Disconnected Zones
Potential flows

10. Fragmentation of urban communities:
from an attracting system of resources
to a selective dispersing one
Until the 70s
Since…
Gated communities
«rich ghettos»
Unhealthy areas
Old boundaries
Deprived areas
«poor ghettos»
New boundaries and limits
Suburbanisation

11. Local area and local community
Constituents
Place
(environment)
Place
(environment)
People
(social)
People
(social)
Institutions
(public and private,
economic and social)
Constituents
in unstable dynamic equilibrium
Institutions
(economy)

12. Possible evolution of constituents
Drifts
Each constituent
is inscribe
on a particular
evolution path
Place
(environment)
People
(social)
Resistances
Regressions
Institutions
(economy)
Break of coherences
Residential
motilities
Deteriorations
Devalorisations

13. Location
of communities
in the urban
hierarchy
A drift in space
and time
Urban
Value
S
p
a
c
e
Market
Public
and Social Intervention
Change
A3
A3
A0
A1 decline
A4
An
A2
A2 steady state
A3 gentrification
A1
A4 coherence
best practice
t0
tn
t x
Time

14. Can So-called Deprived Areas
Become Growth Poles?

15. GDP and disposable income per capita 2001
60000
Cities and
urban regions
are rich
with a GDP/cap
point of view…
50000
Bruxelles
Hambourg
40000
GDP per capita
… but less
considering
the
disposable
incomes
of there
inhabitants!
Inner London
Ile de france
Stockholm
Helsinki
Bremen
Uttrecht
30000
Praha
IE
DK
Berlin
NL
SE
FI
Bratislava Lisboa
20000
Madrid
BE
FR
DE
IT
UK
UE25
Budapest
PT
CZ
EE
LT
LV
PL
GR
Varsovie
Bucarest
10000
ES
HU
SK
RO
0
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
Disposable income per capita
16000
18000
20000

16. 2
Trap
1
4
Attractor
Redistributor
Community
3
Accumulator

17. Gender
economy
and
integrated
urban
policies
Market
economy
Emerged
economy
Men
Poaching
economy
Econom ie
ém ergée
Women
Immerged
economy
Domestic
economy
Welfare
economy
Social
economy
Gender and urban regeneration

18. The Central Role
of
Cities and Urban Regions

19. Integrated urban regeneration:
a construction of Brundtland… plus
Economy
Economically
viable
Socially just
Social
Ecologically
sustainable
Environment
The economy dominates
Separated management
of spheres
Governance
Politics,
Democracy

20. Regulating jointly
economic, social and environmental matters
Ec
on
o
m
y
1So
cia
l–
fai Eco
no
r
my
t
o
3- S
t
en
nm
iro
nv
– E le
my livab
no
co
So
ci
al
ro
nm
en
E
2-
En
vi
nt
le
viab vironme
En
ial c

21. Regulating economical and social spheres
Economy
Competitivness
Productivity
Richness
Unemployment
Exclusion
Social
Sphere
Contributions
Taxes
ss s
le cie
or li
e po
or c
M bli
pu
ty
ci
r
so
r
cu
Social
cohesion
policies

22. Regulating economical and environmental spheres
Economy
Competitivness
Productivity
Spatial
fragmentation.
Pollutions
Environment
Taxes
ss s
le &ie
or olç
e
or p
M lic
b
pu
ty
ci
r
so
r
cu
Spatial
cohesion
policies

23. Regulating social and environmental spheres
Social
Social
Cohesion
Policies
Taxes
city c u rso r
Environment
Taxes
Spatial
cohesion
policies

24. 5 - Project
7 - Community
Process
Procedure
Cooperation - Coproduction
From procedure to process
1 - Integrated project for sustainable
development
2 - Contracts, conventions, agreements
3 - Partnership and community
coproduction
4 - Savoir faire (professional talent)
and community organisation
(reformist conspirators)
6 – Atmosphere
The gardner’s algorithm
“community/project/atmosphere/savoir-faire”
Are these conditions of best practice an obstacle to
transferability ?

25. Integrated urban
regeneration project
Visited city
Place
5-Partnership
C
2-Atmosphere
People
A
3-Project
Conflictual
Cooperation
B
1- Community
4-Savoir-faire
6-Contracts
Visiting cities
V1
V2
V3
V4
Vn
Perceptions
Visit’s report
R1
R2
R3
R4
Rn
Transfert
Back home
T1
T2
T3
T4
Tn
Capitalisation
Dissemination

26. R’ tx
Evaluation of an integrated policy
A : Reality R : Perception
R tn
R t+1
(aimed transformation)
A’ tx
A
tn
(real evolution)
Ev
(expected evolution)
Evaluation which should be
carried out
Evaluation really carried out
A tx