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JOINING FORCES Metropolitan governance & competitiveness of European cities
Lille CityLab – Workshop 2 :Economic development & labour markets across boundaries
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JOINING FORCES : Objectives
1 main focus: Which cooperation mechanisms are/can be developed at the city-region level
Analysis of current situations through 7 main dimensions
• Spatial and strategic planning
• Mobility and transports
• Environmental issues
• Knowledge economy
• Public/private arrangements
• Social inclusion, participation and empowerment
• Attractiveness and competitiveness
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JOINING FORCES : partner cities
8 partners :
Bourgas - BulgariaBrno - Czech RepublicBrussels Capital Region BelgiumEindhoven - SRE - The NetherlandsFlorence - ItalyKrakow - IRM - PolandLille Metropole (Lead partner) - FranceSeville - Spain
Thematic Expert: Tamas Horvath - Hungary
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Monocentric FUA with main LA
smaller than the morphological area
Krakow, Eindhoven
Monocentric FUA with main LA
+/- corresponding to the MA
Sevilla, Brno
Monocentric FUA with main LA
larger than the MA
Burgas
Different local realities (1) Depending on the FUA configuration
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Polycentric FUA with main LA smaller than the MAFlorence, Brussels, Lille
Different local realities (1) Depending on the FUA configuration
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Competences & tasks of LAs • existance and power of the regional authorities• existance, statute and role of chambers of commerce • service provision / local development• regulation powers: planning, others,
Resources :• financial autonomy or not• Importance of local taxes / national tranfers• Existance, form and role of a local business tax
Government systems:• decentralisation/autonomy of LAs• monolevel vs multilevel systems
Existing Governance mechanisms:• cooperations between LAs• private sector involvement• voluntary sector organisations
Different local realities (2) Depending on the national/legal context
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Pooling the local authorities’ forces
• to reach a certain critical mass:– investing capacity – ability to negociate with the private sector – comprehensive approach to the economic system– sufficient importance and diversity to play at global level
• to avoid sterile competition between them :– risk of duplication– careful use of land – relevant use of public money
• to provide relevant services – important enough in size and quality– diversiy– right geographical level
which does not necessarily mean creating new local governments but developing new governance/co-operation mechanisms
First conclusions (1)
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Involving all relevant actors
• starting with the private (profitable) sector
– at every territorial level
– public private partnership if required
– unformal agreement with the private sector when relevant
• not only local but also regional authorities
• voluntary sector organisations
Some crucial economic issues
• Innovation – knowledge economy
• Territorial marketing
• Tourism?
First conclusions (2)
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Flexible instruments required, to be used by joined actors
•Additional Resources
• Relevant Tax system , with incentives for developing the economy in the urban area
• EU Funding provided at the right level, as any economic development strategy cannot be effective at a too small level
•Openess to ressource allocation and re-allocation
• New public processes (procurement , media, open events)
First conclusions (3)
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