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Click to edit Master title styleEuropean Regeneration:Importance of knowledge networks
Ewan Willars
European Policy Officer
RICS Europe
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Click to edit Master title styleUrban Regeneration: a European challenge
Why is regeneration such a hot topic?• The problems are increasingly visible• Unequal social and economic development• Unequal opportunities – employment, housing, leisure• Negative economic impact
Highly complex causal relationships:• Local• Regional• National• International
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Click to edit Master title styleComplex problems = complex solutions
Case by case solutions
• Different mix of social / economic / environmental objectives• Different causes / influences• Different planning systems• Therefore difficult to develop a standard ‘top-down’ approach
However…• Huge range of local knowledge in each city• Shared principles of sustainable regeneration and urban
development• Acknowledgement of regeneration as a ‘European issue’
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Click to edit Master title styleRegeneration in the EU
Difficulties addressing regeneration at the EU level…• Lack of direct EU competence:
• No planning / development control / land-use responsibility• No housing competence
• Therefore requires a horizontal approach:• Environment, competition, regional, construction,
fiscal and transport policy
But also opportunities:• Multi-national approach – range of URBAN cities• Multi-disciplinary approach• Focus on knowledge networks
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Click to edit Master title styleCreating a knowledge network:the URBACT programme
What is URBACT?• Creating a flow / exchange of good practice between cities• Accumulating and disseminating the knowledge base• Improve the ‘action capacity’ of urban professionals
Thematic Network: PPPs• 30 month programme• Amsterdam, Brussels, Chemnitz, Copenhagen, Gera, Lille,
Nottingham, Porto, San Sebastian, Riga, Budapest,
Nicosia, Dublin, Liverpool• RICS, OPS – specialist partners
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Click to edit Master title styleURBACT thematic network: Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)
Purpose of the study• Examine the role that PPPs play in urban renewal• Explore and identify good and bad practice• To produce and disseminate “transferable knowledge” –
a framework to support private sector involvement
Rationale• Increasingly a pan-European methodology
for regeneration• Brings better commercial awareness to projects• Private ownership of land requiring regeneration• Transfer of risk to the private sector
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Click to edit Master title styleTopics
Topic areas:
• Different types / scale of PPPs and their impact at national,
regional, city, local, neighbourhood level• Structure of partnerships and the need for formalisation• Impact of national and EU policy and fiscal measures• The need and means to create viable local markets• Practical examples of cross funding via commercial
elements (housing, retail, commercial office space)• Importance of balanced (re)development – functional
diversity and a social mix.
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Click to edit Master title styleGet involved!
www.urbact.org
www.rics.org
Ewan Willars
ewillars@rics.org
+32 (0) 2733 1019
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