*Celebrating Spatial Planning at TU Delft: 2008-2019. Edited by Stead, Bracken, Rooij & Rocco
This is a summary of the achievements of the session Spatial Planning & Strategy of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, led by Professor Vincent Nadin between 2008 and 2019.
This is a summary of the achievements of the session Spatial Planning & Strategy of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, led by Professor Vincent Nadin between 2008 and 2019.
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Urbanism . <strong>TU</strong> <strong>Delft</strong> 93<br />
EU and the City<br />
RSA Research Network on EU Cohesion Policy<br />
DOMINIC STEAD & MARCIN DABROWSKI<br />
This 9th workshop of the<br />
RSA Research Network<br />
on EU Cohesion Policy<br />
focused on the urban<br />
dimension of EU Cohesion Policy<br />
and other European policies.<br />
While the EU has no formal<br />
competence on urban policy,<br />
cities are increasingly important<br />
and explicit target of its policies.<br />
The importance of cities for<br />
Europe’s future is reflected in<br />
recent European str<strong>at</strong>egies and<br />
agreements such as the Leipzig<br />
Charter on Sustainable European<br />
Cities, the Toledo Declar<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />
or the more recent Urban Agenda<br />
for the EU, in which cities<br />
are seen as focal points for<br />
economic development and as<br />
actors with a key responsibility<br />
in achieving territorial cohesion<br />
and the EU’s str<strong>at</strong>egic goals. This<br />
in turn resulted in a pledge for<br />
boosting the urban dimension in<br />
EU cohesion policy as well as the<br />
development of n<strong>at</strong>ional urban<br />
policies across all of the member<br />
st<strong>at</strong>es. At present, 15 billion<br />
euro is to be invested in cities as<br />
part of cohesion policy in 2014-<br />
2020 and new “urban” instruments<br />
are being rolled out, while<br />
the Urban Agenda is supposed<br />
to coordin<strong>at</strong>e and facilit<strong>at</strong>e<br />
the use of existing policies to<br />
achieve more impacts for cities<br />
through new kinds of multi-level<br />
and multi-sectoral partnerships.<br />
The way in which these<br />
new instruments and frameworks<br />
are actually taken up and<br />
implemented remains an open<br />
question. The workshop aimed<br />
to shed more light on this issue.<br />
More inform<strong>at</strong>ion is available<br />
<strong>at</strong> https://www.regionalstudies.<br />
org/events/eu-and-the-city/<br />
Fig. 57: V. Balz & D. <strong>Stead</strong> <strong>at</strong> the conference ‘EU and the City’. Photo provided <strong>by</strong> D. <strong>Stead</strong>.
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