ENTER.HUB_Baseline study PDF, 6 Mo - Urbact

EUROPEAN
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European Regional
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Definition of the initial 10 Themes
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SYNERGY WITH THE CITY the railway interface has a strategic role in the redefinition of a city
asset. The investigation will concern the new economic, cultural, social dynamics established
(e. g. housing demand, market, tourism and cultural activities renewal, social effects, …)
SYNERGY WITH THE HINTERLAND (catchment area): the territorial effects of these hubs can
even be perceived at a wider level. The focus will be on how an intermodal junction spread
its influence in the territory gravitating on it.
TOURISM AND CULTURE the insertion of a o node of regional significance or a HS station can
also be accelerator of tourism regeneration at a local and regional level. In turn tourism can
act as a throttle to urban and territorial regeneration.
URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL INSERTION of the junction and infrastructure at the service
of the node in order, at the same time, to harmonize the infrastructures with the territory,
and to reduce their impact and to help users in reaching the station or, from the station,
their destination (and this with special care when the destination is the historical city
centre), following the European Landscape Convention outlines.
COMMUNICATION/ PARTICIPATION/ GOVERNANCE make users and local stakeholders/
actors aware that the interface will serve the entire catchment area and as such can be a
driving force for certain economic activities, especially in the tertiary field (to install new or
revitalize existing ones). To conceptualize a graphic model/restitution of the catchment area.
CREATION OF NETWORKS between these hubs and their polycentric regions (networks of
accessibility, economic, social, cultural nature). The investigation will concern the definition
of tools and strategies for developing such a network.
NEW PLANNING TOOLS AND TOOLKITS that are based on the new non-political boundaries
of the catchment area. It will be important to define the reference catchment area for supracity
area, involving therefore also nearby cities which become part of the catchment area,
and have the appropriate planning tools for the area; new proceedings and negotiation tools
will be needed to foster voluntary cooperation
RAILWAY-RAILWAY NETWORKING as intermodal junctions, these hubs have to strengthen
their capacity of connecting different rail networks in order to make them able to feed each
other and to satisfy the demand of transport service of the whole territory
RAILWAY-ROAD NETWORKING: the need to optimize (instead of the extend) road
infrastructures in order to make them able to serve an intermodal hub need a specific
investigation, in particular for networking the highway and the railway (both the main and
the local lines) systems.
ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES to be installed or renewed thanks to the node and nearby: the
junction can have a multiplier effect and be a "speaker" of innovative thrust of a whole
region. It would be important to identify the indicators that companies prefer, to localize in a
particular area and prepare the creation of a "unified package” (“one-stop-window”) of
procedures, documentation and permit remise (a kind of conference of services for private
entities, so as to streamline the course of procedures that a company had to afford to
install).
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