Spatial dynamics and strategic planning in metropolitan areas

Programme 2014 - 2020 ESPON 2020

Date of latest update: 2024-05-18

Description

Description (EN):

Metropolitan areas are based on agglomerations, which include the built-up area and the commuter belt around a city. A sustainable and inclusive development of the economic potential as well as the well-being of people living there may be developed more efficiently by taking into account the metropolitan area as a whole. Given the growing role of cities and metropolitan areas in governance this topic is high on the policy agenda of the European Commission. However, there are major policy issues in the spatial development of cities and metropolitan areas, like urban sprawl, that affect the latter’s ability to meet the goals of sustainable and inclusive growth. Policy makers in cities often have limited capacity to address these challenges, due to the de facto (and sometimes de jure) existence of functional urban areas (FUAs), defining cities and their commuting zones. These FUAs extend beyond formal administrative boundaries. Therefore, metropolitan areas often suffer from fragmented policy making. Hence, the metropolitan dimension gives new and challenging aspects to the question of how to address policy issues, since dialogue and commitment to joint policies has to be achieved by the core city and often many neighboring municipalities as well as directly elected local and regional authorities. City to city cooperation as well as multilevel cooperation are crucial points to be taken into account in this respect. Furthermore, different planning frameworks need to be considered, which in most cases are not specifically designed to strengthen inter municipal and multilevel cooperation. New governance approaches, though, are promising to ease the potentially unfavourable effects of fragmentation of different municipalities and other public authorities within metropolitan areas. Even if the roles that metropolitan areas can play for territorial development are increasingly recognised in Europe, there is still no unified typology providing policy makers with a better representation and understanding of the metropolisation of society. The latter would be of relevance for embedding metropolitan development in local and regional development discourses and strategies. Emerging local and regional development strategies across Europe address some of the metropolitan areas' challenges. Nevertheless, many places lack the policy tools and governance approaches for metropolitan planning and spatial management at metropolitan level. More specifically, some countries and cities lack formal powers for planning at the metropolitan area level, especially in Central-Eastern Europe and in federal systems. A number of other countries, though, such as France, The Netherlands, Italy and the Nordic countries, have legal frameworks, or even requirements, for spatial planning at a metropolitan level. However, even if there is a legal framework it might be the case that the territory fixed for cooperation does not cover the whole FUA. Moreover, the frameworks vary with wide differences in the level of experience, practice, institutionalization and resources, and therefore have varying measures of success. With the continuous urban sprawl in Europe and merging of urban zones within metropolitan areas, it is of key importance to assess the role of spatial planning policy and urban governance processes at metropolitan level. Spatial planning policy is one of the three main topics of cooperation in metropolitan areas across Europe. Being cross-sectoral, coordinating and integrating, metropolitan spatial policy can play a significant role in promoting sustainable and inclusive growth.

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Expected Results (EN):

The objective of this activity is to identify policy options and methods that can help to achieve strategic spatial policy aims when dealing with the connections between strategic planning and management of spatial development in metropolitan areas. Multi-level cooperation and related governance arrangements shall be taken into account in this respect. Furthermore it needs to be considered that strategic planning for a metropolitan area can be fragmented in itself as it is done by diverse entities, not necessarily sharing the same interests. Even if there is a metropolitan integrated strategic plan, there might be no means to implement the strategies in the different territories.The project shall study and compare tools and governance approaches implemented in the eleven participating European metropolitan areas, enabling stakeholders to better manage spatial development at a metropolitan scale and identifying good practices on joined, coordinated and coherent policies at the scale of a metropolitan area.While doing so, cities’ and urban areas’ ability to specify and operationalise the European policy goals for sustainable and inclusive growth shall be considered for policy orientation in the context of each stakeholder’s metropolitan area.More concretely, the objective of this activity is to satisfy the stakeholders’ need for structured evidence as defined below:- Analysis of the strategic role of spatial planning for cities towards inclusive and sustainable growth within a metropolitan area, taking into account the national context, specificities of each metropolitan area as well as multi level governance arrangements. Joint agreements and measures between core cities and surrounding municipalities in the metropolitan area are of high relevance. The following key spatial development challenges shall be studied for comparison in and between metropolitan areas: 1. Agreements on strategic locations (e.g.: retail centers, transport hubs, hospitals etc.).2. Limiting and managing urban sprawl.3. Stimulating areas for jobs and housing within the metropolitan area, e.g. secondary centers, station towns, strong (well connected) suburbs etc.4. Prioritizing regional infrastructures/amenities and mobility, in relation to land use and development (examples from ongoing research and partner cities).5. Conserving and protecting the environment and resources, including farmland (incl. short food supply chains) and valorizing green spaces (landscape, leisure, biodiversity etc.).6. Addressing potential imbalances in local government finance that are linked to spatial development.7. Including all relevant actors in the process (private, public and civil society).- Information shall be provided on approaches, including governance arrangements, to spatial and strategic planning that can help overcoming the above mentioned spatial development challenges at the metropolitan level in the specific context of each stakeholder´s metropolitan area.- Evidence shall be provided on policy tools and governance approaches which are useful and sensible to plan and manage spatial development at metropolitan area scale, taking into account the context of each stakeholder metropolitan area. The main outcome of the service should be:- An overall and case-specific understanding of the spatial challenges within metropolitan areas, taking into account the planning frameworks and other policy instruments that are available, including evidence on policy tools and governance approaches which are useful and sensible to manage spatial development at metropolitan scale.- Policy recommendations for metropolitan spatial management/planning showing factors either for success or avoiding failure, including identification of win-win strategies in metropolitan areas between the core city and its hinterland. These recommendations shall strengthen the steering capacity by means of policy influence: discourse, spatial plans, legal and political basis, coalitions and alliances, resources as well as legal and cultural provisions. They should also strengthen the governance arrangements related to spatial planning, as needed to achieve the policies for the whole metropolitan area.

Thematic information

Urban development Regional planning and development

Specific Objective: Upgraded knowledge transfer and use of analytical user support

Thematic Objective:

(11) enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration through actions to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administrations and public services related to the implementation of the ERDF, and in support of actions under the ESF to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administration.

Investment Priority: (11 ETC) ETC specific for transnational cooperation: enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration by developing and coordinating macro-regional and sea-basin strategies

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: Stichting Wageningen Research

Address: Droevendaalsesteeg 4, 6708PB Wageningen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Nowegian Institute for Urban and regional Research

Name: Nowegian Institute for Urban and regional Research

Address: PO BOX 4 St. Olavs plass, 130 Oslo, Norway

Legal status: public

Metropolitan Research Institute (MRI)

Name: Metropolitan Research Institute (MRI)

Address: Lónyay Str. 34, 1093 Budapest, Hungary

Legal status: private

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Stichting Wageningen Research

Spatial dynamics and strategic planning in metropolitan areas

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Nowegian Institute for Urban and regional Research

Spatial dynamics and strategic planning in metropolitan areas

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Metropolitan Research Institute (MRI)

Spatial dynamics and strategic planning in metropolitan areas

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Summary

Project name (EN): Spatial dynamics and strategic planning in metropolitan areas

Project acronym: SPIMA

Project start date: 2016-11-22

Project end date: 2018-07-20

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 276 000.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 225 686.30

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 225 686.30.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Targeted Analysis - Final Report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-03-05

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Targeted Analysis - Annex 1 to Final Report - Guidelines for metropolitan planning approach

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-03-05

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Targeted Analysis - Annex 2 to Final Report - Profiles of the metropolitan areas

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-03-05

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Targeted Analysis - Annex 3 to Final Report - Figures, Maps and Tables

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-03-05

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Brochures / magazines / manuals

Metropolitan area of Brno - Spatial dynamics and strategic planning

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-07-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Metropolitan area of Brussels - Spatial dynamics and strategic planning

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-07-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Metropolitan area of Lille - Spatial dynamics and strategic planning

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-07-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Metropolitan area of Lyon - Spatial dynamics and strategic planning

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-07-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Metropolitan area of Oslo and Akershus - Spatial dynamics and strategic planning

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-07-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Metropolitan area of Prague - Spatial dynamics and strategic planning

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-07-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Metropolitan area of Terrassa - Spatial dynamics and strategic planning

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-07-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Metropolitan area of Turin -Spatial dynamics and strategic planning

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-07-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Metropolitan area of Vienna - Spatial dynamics and strategic planning

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-07-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Metropolitan area of Zurich - Spatial dynamics and strategic planning

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/metropolitan-areas

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2018-07-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 ESPON 2020

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2024-03-04

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

68 / 69 (98.55%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

353 / 370 (95.41%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Data from 3 projects ((MRS. ESPON TOOL, SoET and CPS 2.0) was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2024-03-01. Regarding partners only data only main partners is available. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.espon.eu), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-21 and 2023-01-03.

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