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Plenary session 3: The EU Urban Agenda and cities’ role in the creation of growth and jobs

Plenary session 3: The EU Urban Agenda and cities’ role in the creation of growth and jobs TOWN in Europe Loris Servillo. ESPON Open Seminar 2014 “Opportunities and threats for territorial cohesion: Blue Growth and Urban Poverty”. Three items Main territorial trends

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Plenary session 3: The EU Urban Agenda and cities’ role in the creation of growth and jobs

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  1. Plenary session 3: The EU Urban Agenda and cities’ role in the creation of growth and jobs TOWN in Europe Loris Servillo ESPON Open Seminar 2014 “Opportunities and threats for territorial cohesion: Blue Growth and Urban Poverty”

  2. Three items • Main territorial trends • Opportunities and challenges • Experiences and examples

  3. Morphological analysis

  4. General picture ~8,350 urban settlements can be classified as SMSTs ~70,000 urban settlements can be classified as Very Small Towns (below the 5.000 inhabitant threshold) SMST: about 27% of EU population Very Small Towns: 19% of EU population

  5. What makes SMSTs different • On average, SMSTs (in database) are different from large cities on a range of measures: • Social (older working population, more pensioners, higher ‘non-foreign’ population) • Economic (greater proportion employment in manufacturing, more self-employment, more likely to be net exporter of labour (dormitory), less diverse in sectoral mix) • Housing issues (more second homes)

  6. Changes in SMSTs during the period 2001-11 are different from the change that are observed in cities over the same period • Demographic (faster growing, net migration rate higher) • Economic (slightly greater rate) • However between group and between country differences: ‘All’ Small towns (N=1339) Small towns in NW Italy Small towns in Slovenia

  7. Net migration by country Migration-enhanced aging? Growing Labour exporters Shrinking

  8. Is ‘town’ as a proper category? Socio-spatial configurations with a specific regional dependency high variety of socio-economic performances

  9. EU Settlement polygons NUTS3 with prevailing settlements

  10. Issues for further thoughts concerning regions predominantly populated in small settlements Prevalence of macro trends • less spatial inertial capacity to bounce them back macro/meso regional dependency - relationship with urban regions? National policies matter?

  11. Preliminaryresults

  12. Economic activity mix and population size in SMSTs

  13. Catalonia Slovenia Czech Republic Flanders

  14. ! Policy message

  15. ! Policy message So what? Do SMSTs across Europe face ‘common problems’? • Diverse? Social and economic problems for SMSTs are only ‘common’ in an abstract sense • In practice the ‘problems’ of towns are mainly framed by their national/regional context (clusters of ‘problem-sets’) What concerns of European policy touch down on SMSTs? • Giving SMSTs a voice in regional debates • Small town does not mean small problem • Tailored measures (place-based approach?) • Supporting alternative visions of the local economy • Collective action within/among small towns • Supporting the definition of micro-regionalism processes • CLLD?

  16. THANK YOU Loris.servillo@asro.kuleuven.be

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