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What does the Urban Audit do? It provides

What does the Urban Audit do? It provides. Ready access to information on each city Comparisons between individual cities Comparisons between predefined groups of cities Comparisons between cities and wider urban areas Comparisons of indicators at city and national level

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What does the Urban Audit do? It provides

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  1. What does the Urban Audit do? It provides • Ready access to information on each city • Comparisons between individual cities • Comparisons between predefined groups of cities • Comparisons between cities and wider urban areas • Comparisons of indicators at city and national level • The opportunity to see variations within cities • The chance to see how it was done

  2. Provides ready access to information on each city • 58 cities chosen by size within member states • 21 domains • 70+ indicators (all except population and employment change ‘snapshot’ indicators) • Three points in time 1981, 1991 and 1996 (where possible) • Illustrative Maps • Comment: Information basically reliable, reasons for missing data given, but don’t try to use the maps to get from a to b!

  3. Provides the opportunity to compare between individual cities • Via city summaries in Volume 2 (where enough cases), city scores divided into fifths, the quality of comparisons is shown, • Via comparative tables (Volume 1), • Comment: caution required, no presumption of what is better or worse

  4. Provides opportunity to compare between predefined groups of cities • By Size (at city level) • North South • Central Peripheral • Capital Non capital • For selected indicators and trends(Volume 1) • Comment: caution required, comparisons less valid when small number of cases

  5. Provides opportunity to compare cities with wider urban areas • In 27 cases • Individual cities for all indicators (on web site) • All cities for some indicators (in Volume 1) • Comment: caution, based on administrative areas grouped by extent of built up area or population density, not Functional Urban Regions and unit of analysis not necessarily used for other purposes

  6. Provides the opportunity to compare city and national level indicators • For all cities (in Volume 1) • For each city (via comparative tables in Volume 1) • Comment: absence of Paris and London affects results, some indicators not applicable at national level

  7. Provides the opportunity to see variations within cities • Selected indicators all sub areas (results on website) • Additional indicators for 2 areas in each city • City summaries (Volume 2)show disparities within individual cities • Brief overall analysis in Volume 1 • Comment: Beware, basis of subdivision varies and for a few cities data are not published.

  8. Provides guidance on how it was done • The Urban Audit Manual is available on the website • It was tested by two cities Bilbao and Nurenberg • Cities not included in the Urban Audit can follow in detail the definitions and procedures used

  9. Conclusions and acknowledgements • Feasibility demonstrated, good basis for future development • Internet technology improving access and increasing expectations for good information • Depended upon strong co-operation • Required flexibility in presenting results from 1500 different datasources

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