ESPON SeminarEvidence-based Cohesion Policy: Territorial Dimension

29-30 November 2011, Krakow, Poland

Best Development Conditions in European Metropolises:Paris, Berlin and WarsawBEST METROPOLISES

Best Metropolises Project Partners

Lead Partner

• Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences

Project Partners

• Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS)

• Paris Region Planning and Development Agency, IAU île-de-France (formerly IAURIF)

• NORDREGIO - Nordic Centre for Spatial Development

• Spiekermann & Wegener, Urban and Regional Research

Stakeholder Cities

• Paris, Berlin, Warsaw

objectives

Identification of factors that determine the development of Paris, Berlin and Warsaw and their metropolitan areas

The project aims at providing information on• metropolitan development trends• policy measures to guide the development

Policy themes:• living conditions • intra-metropolitan mobility + metropolitan region

and adjacent municipalities• governance of metropolitan area

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development problems / expected results

Metropolitan areas: • engines for development • fragmentation, transportation, environmental problems,

social inequalities

Paths of development:• sustainable metropolitan development?• factors for success?• regularities / common problems?• European dimension

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• What are the consequences of metropolization for cities and their metropolitan areas?

• Who benefits from metropolization? • Metropolization – endogenous – exogenous – guided -

spontaneous• What is the impact of metropolization on cities’ development

potential? • How do political, organizational, spatial, and socio-economic

contexts influence processes of formulating development policies and their performance?

• Types of relationships within metropolitan areas• How to evaluate development policies in terms of their efficiency

in achieving sustainable development goals? • Evolution of metropolises – directions and drivers

policy questions

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policy questions:

• room for maneuver?

• metropolitan / territorial context of development --- still metropolises abstract creatures from policy making perspective?

• bottlenecks for development efforts? • who rules?

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