ENTER.HUB_Baseline study PDF, 6 Mo - Urbact

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3.234 Partners common challenges, according to cross cutting themes
Description of the 5 STRATEGIC AND TRANSVERSAL POLICIES
(transversal macro-themes)
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HOW TO MANAGE URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRISIS:
TO PUT URBAN DEVELOPMENT AT THE BASIS OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS CHALLENGE. Urban development
is essential in helping cities facing the economic and financial crisis. At the same time, due to
decreased public resources, in this moment of crisis it is more and more difficult to carry on measures
and concrete actions of urban development.
To work at a EU level should help to optimize the resources of each city itself and of each city as a
part of a whole and wider system.
Urban development should not aim, especially in this critical phase, at large and expensive
interventions, but at smaller, smarter, benefitting from these interventions (interventions not only to
be intended as “hard” interventions, i.e. public spaces and structures requalification or construction,
transport facilities, etc, but even as “soft” interventions, i.e. cultural initiatives, networks of figures
interested in the same fields, etc.
These two levels of interventions really need a EU exchange to be effective for a smart, sustainable
and cohesive growth of cities (and of Europe, as cities are its development engines). This in line with
the definition of future EU guidelines fro sustainable and smart development of cities as stated in
commission’s documents
HOW TO FOSTER INTEGRATED AND SUSTAINABLE APPROACHES TO URBAN DEVELOPMENT
TO USE INTEGRATED (INTER-DISCIPLINARY AND MULTI-LEVEL) APPROACHES TO THE URBAN
DEVELOPMENT.
People who will have a “role” in a well-defined urban context (institutional, scientific, as user, as
stakeholder) are those people who have to be involved in the planning and decision phases.
A multi-level and multi-disciplinary (or, if we can say it, inter-level and inter-disciplinary) approach,
where not only knowledge/skills/fields/levels competence, but even needs and expectations, worries
and challenges are integrated, permits to provide” urban answers” shaped following everyone’s
measures, and needs smart, sustainable and cohesive approaches (even because shared approaches)
for smart, sustainable and cohesive growth, for smart, sustainable and cohesive cities and territories.
URBACT resources will allow the city partners to create new meaningful connections and dialogue
between city stakeholders to make the most and best of their railway hubs. The initial phase will
include a stakeholder’s identification and analysis- shared across cities- so that they get new ideas
from each other-, to bring together in an innovative way all those who can input and benefit from
the station developments
. HOW TO DEVELOP EFFICIENT PARTNERSHIPS AND MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE PROCESSES
MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE FOR MULTI-SCALAR PHENOMENA.
Multi-level governance, able to link different levels of authorities, each one with its own competences
and fields of investigation and intervention, is an essential tool for analyzing and facing some “multiscalar”
phenomena (i.e. phenomena which need to be considered at different scales because at each
scale they have different manifestations and different answers to be found).
For ENTER.HUB a multi-level governance would be able to individuate each hub catchment area and to
intervene on it, with innovative and proper tools, being cross-wide tools to all the municipalities
belonging to the catchment area itself.
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