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Urbanisation and its impact on Quality of Place in Europe
Judith Borsboom, Stefan Berghuis, Jos Diederiks, Rob Folkert, Henk Ottens
Judith Borsboom, EURBANIS 2
The EURBANIS Project
• Gain more insight into European spatial processes and their impact on
environment, ecology and Quality of Life/Place
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Judith Borsboom, EURBANIS 6
Case Study Cities
Cluster 1 Stagnating: ReimsCluster 2 Compact: AarhusCluster 3 Leisure: SüdburgenlandCluster 4 Shrinking: VilniusCluster 5 Sprawling: ErfurtCluster 6 Average: Rotterdam, BolognaCluster 7 Booming: Madrid
Link to Quality of Life/Quality of Place on base ofUrban Audit data on a local level: economic, social,environmental, housing, land use variables
• archetypical characteristics of urbanisation cluster• presence in Urban Audit database • representation of European regions
Economic Social Environment
•Income•Employment
•Demographics•Education•Health and -care•Crime•Culture
•Air pollution•Noise•Green spaces•Land-use•Transport•Housing
Environmentalperspective• Characteristics of environment
Sustainability•Elsewhere and later perspective
Human perspective•Satisfaction with environment
•Here and now
Judith Borsboom, EURBANIS 8
Case study Erfurt• Urban land use:
– high increase built-up area on farmland due to economic growth and transition and residential preferences
• Urban densities: – large decrease because of single-familiy housing and
depopulation/migration
• Urban green: – older inner city districts low rates of green areas, new residential
development in lower densities with more urban green
• Air quality:– new road infrastructure, decrease of noise and air pollution in inner
city,
• Social Cohesion: – more polarisation due to suburbanisation, accumulation of problems in
some districts, decrease of service level due to depopulation
Judith Borsboom, EURBANIS 9
Lessons Learned• Comparable problems observed (such as transport, air
pollution, segregation, lack of urban green)
• Nevertheless the drivers behind and the manifestation of urbanisation may diverge between different European regions: this heterogeneity only revealed with a more qualitative, in depth approach with case studies
• Approach of Shafer and Pacione most practical to work out Liveability, Quality of Life, Quality of Place
• Perception of Quality of Life/Place is important next to empirical observations
Judith Borsboom, EURBANIS 10
Preliminary conclusions
• Lack of harmonised data and time series major obstacle for analysis of changes and bench-marking purposes: should be completed and validated
• A clear practical framework to assess urbanisation is still needed for balanced and sustainable urban development
• Liveable cities project might provide clues for such a framework
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