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Maintaining quality of life
in the city and the region
Integrated, sustainable urban development, mobility
and transport planning, access for all in every city:
These are the issues that are shaping our future. And
as they do so, it is becoming increasingly important
for the City of Munich to collaborate with the surrounding
communities in order to keep the region
competitive and maintain its excellent quality of life.
This is one reason why the Department of Urban Planning
and Building Regulations and the Department of Labor and
Economic Development recently took part in the CityRegio-
Net, an EU project spearheaded by the Austrian city of
Graz. During the nearly three-year cooperative project (from
2009 through 2011), the partners involved developed initiatives
to intensify collaboration between local governments
in different urban regions.
Intensifying intraregional collaboration
Graz and Zurich, for example, both supplied Munich with
valuable ideas regarding the joint development of regional
parks that can adopt a key role in local leisure and recreation.
Conversely, Châlons-en-Champagne and Kielce
benefi ted from Munich’s experience in setting up specialpurpose
intermunicipal associations and establishing a
regional public transport association. Ultimately, management
at regional level, sustainable community development
and the promotion of an environmentally compatible culture
Reference Framework
for Sustainable Cities
The Department of Urban Planning and Building Regulations
joined forces with the Department of Health and the
Environment to develop a Reference Framework for European
Sustainable Cities (RFSC). This reference framework
was initiated under the French presidency of the European
Council and is now being fl eshed out in collaboration with
the EU member states. In 2007, the member states signed
the “Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities”. The
reference framework should support the implemen tation of
this charter. The test phase for the framework took place in
spring and summer 2011. Also, to allow the test cities in
of regional mobility have proven vital to the future development
prospects of Munich and the surrounding region.
Aware of this, the Department of Urban Planning and Building
Regulations decided to apply itself to precisely these
issues in a new EU project named MORECO, which builds
on the outcomes of the CityRegioNet.
MORECO project launched:
Mobility and Residential Costs
The MORECO project was launched in summer 2011. Under
its aegis, partners from around the Alpine region
are concerning themselves with the link between mobility
and residential costs for private households and public
stakeholders. What housing and mobility costs will I have
to pay after a move? Will moving to a new home pay for
itself? How expensive will it be to travel to work from my
new home? Which modes of transport will be the most
economical? These and similar questions are being
addressed by the MORECO project leaders – and also by
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German-speaking countries to pool their ideas and experience,
a workshop, attended by a representative of the EU
Commission, was held in Munich in April. Munich focused
its contribution to testing on the RFSC system of indicators.
The framework is intended as a voluntary tool to serve the
purpose of sustainable urban development and to help cities
develop integrated urban development concepts.
www.rfsustainablecities.eu
local governments and creditors such as the savings banks
– in an attempt to improve predictions about favored regions
and potential problem regions. For Munich itself, one aim
is to further refi ne the residential and mobility cost calculator
made available by the Munich Association of Public
Transport Authorities MVV. Another is to improve the
Accesability Atlas published by the European Metropolitan
Region Munich.
Headed by SIR, the Salzburg Institute for Regional Development
and Housing, Munich’s role in the project is being
coordinated by the Department of Urban Planning and
Building Regulations. EU subsidies have been granted within
the framework of the Interreg program for the Alpine
region. The project will run until summer 2014, has a total
budget of EUR 2.49 million and receives EUR 136,800 in
EU subsidies.
www.moreco-project.eu