ENTER.HUB_Baseline study PDF, 6 Mo - Urbact

EUROPEAN
UNION
European Regional
Development Fund
ENTER.HUB AIMS:
to DEVELOP A WELL BALANCED POLYCENTRIC SYSTEM: to make these medium cities attractive
and competitive; to address the existing hierarchies among the cities and the preferential
connections before and after the arrival of a intermodal hub, the TEN-T corridors and HSL; to
carry an equal re-distribution of the urban weights and a re-definition of the urban centre
systems; to maintain an equilibrium of the urban and rural contexts by working on their
peculiar identity, strengthening effective connections but avoiding shrinking or dispersion
phenomena.
to INTERVENE AT DIFFERENT LOCAL LEVELS (starting form cities, because they are “engines”
of the territorial development):
a-- the LOCAL level of the station area and of the city itself (i.e. relations with the historical
city centre; measures for avoiding the urbanized areas dispersion, especially in the cases of
decentralized stations). For example, in-depth studies at EU level have highlighted that the
arrival of a HSL, livening up the internal dynamics and bringing an image of a really European
and “open-minded” city, can give a great development push to the city and to all the spheres
of the economy
b-- the REGIONAL level of the territories gravitating on each of these new railway hubs: how
making the station accessible and regenerating for the whole catchment area; how spreading
the HS and railway EU corridors effects on the whole influence area.
c-- the EUROPEAN level of all the EU territories connected by these preferential channels, to
be perceived as infrastructural and relation channels: how to foster these relationships in
order to create a new EU exchange network for the sharing of economical-social-cultural
flows able to face the crisis. This will revitalise the rail transport on the medium/long
distances too (it has been pointed out that for distances up to 600 km the HS train is
competitive with the plane).
to make cities able to reach the difficult BALANCE among some variables like GROWTH,
EQUITY, ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, LOCAL IDENTITY, in order to face the current economical
crisis;
to bring COHESION AND VALORISATION on the internal RESOURCES-identities-heritages, being
them at the basis of the economical and social development : protection from the
homologation risks; protection of the differences of the EU territories; keeping of the
capacity of producing growing parts of territorial added value; establishment of a high quality
in the fields of urban design, architecture and environment.
to promote the EQUITABLE CONDITIONS OF ACCESSIBILITY in terms of infrastructures for the
whole European territory (not only in terms of extension but even of density).
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