PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE URBACT II LUMASEC PROJECT

1. URBACT City Lab – Metropolitan GovernanceManaging Metropolitan Areas Across Boundaries & Frontiers12 February 2010 - Lille

2. PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE URBACT II LUMASEC PROJECT LUMASEC (2008-2010): Land Use Management for Sustainable European Cities Lead Expert: Didier Vancutsem, ISOCARP Lead Partner: Dr Dirk Engelke, KIT, Germany Knowledge Support Partners: Universities of Karlsruhe (Germany), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), CERTU (Lyon, France) City partners: Baia Mare (Romania), Bytom (Poland), Bristol (UK), Kavala (Greece), Saint-Etienne (Epures, France) • LUMASEC is a network of decision-makers in small and medium sized cities, which is developing strategies of land use management for sustainable European cities. LUMASEC project focuses on managing urban sprawl and encouraging the use of brownfield sites to create more attractive, competitive and compact urban areas. Title of presentation I Thursday, 02 January 2020 I Page 2

3. Key problems identified: DATA MANAGEMENT - Problems of use and management of data PARTICIPATION- Involvement of citizens not sufficient GOVERNANCE- Lack of inter-municipal cooperation - Lack of coherent land use strategy - Problems of urban sprawl and lack of instruments to contain sprawling process- Lack of vertical integration of instruments - Limited horizontal cooperation - Internal bureaucracy constraints- Short term projects vs. Long term spatial strategy- Deficit in governance Title of presentation I Thursday, 02 January 2020 I Page 3

4. DATA MANAGEMENT • The monitoring of land use is the mayor key for sustainable land use management in European cities. • Land use data is based on constructing the required operational data-base, management of data and how to deal with the information structure to achieve effective land use management. Today, most of the land use plans are based on the land use types, buildings structure and property ownership registry, using the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Computer Aided Design (CAD). But it is not the question, how much information, but what kind of land management strategy with the available and affordable data (re)sources has to be followed. • - How is land use data in European cities available and affordable to different stakeholdres – via Internet, statistical yearbooks, registries, land used plans, etc? • - How are local data-bases on land use management incorporated into European data bases – EUROSTAT, ESPON, URBAN AUDIT, etc. – and/or vice-versa do local authorities and other stakeholders use publicly available European data source for benchmarking and indormation pool? Title of presentation I Thursday, 02 January 2020 I Page 4

5. PARTICIPATION For the LUMASEC approach on urban land use management, the factor ”involving people” is essential. Citizen’s participation has to be considered as a fundamental element for success of land use plan implementation, sharing long term vision with day-to-day reality. Municipalities or regional bodies should learn from this process and should be able to share public and private interests with inhabitants. The basic benefit of participation is effective fitting of projects to the local communities' needs and involving them in the planning process. Participation could consist of creating local support groups, initiating cooperation between economic, social, cultural and environmental organisations and their involvement in the early stages of land use planning. • Are citizens, civil society groups and local communities (e.g. elderly, children, disabled, foreigners, etc) adequately involved in the early stages of land use planning in European cities - or only through the process of public hearing after preparation of the draft of land use plan? Title of presentation I Thursday, 02 January 2020 I Page 5

6. GOVERNANCE • Developing effective patterns of governance and key stakeholders involvement, including the public-private partnership (PPP) as well as public-public partnerships in land use management within the urban sustainability context. Network and partnerships should be the essence of the land use management process. There is a need for better understanding of the respective roles of spatial planning, regional development, local management, and the market forces in urban areas. • The capacity of local authorities in developing effective land use management is limited by the administrative and institutional fragmentation. Land use management needs to be developed at city-region scale to be efficient. • Horizontal and vertical integration of policies is needed: only integrated policies and long-term strategic action plans will have the best results, by linking policies and stakeholders committments through different levels of governance, when integrated into a strategic land use management framework. • Inadequate clarity of roles and responsibilities of stakeholders: it is important to improve networking and cooperation between public actors, private sector, politicians and citizens to integrate different perceptions over a problem in order to overcome the gap between long term planning goals and projects implementation and between different objectives and stakeholders interests. Title of presentation I Thursday, 02 January 2020 I Page 6

7. What are the instruments of »good governance« and coherent land use management activities in European city-regions? • Consensus of politicians and professional institutions with support of local inhabitants • Cooperation of various local institutions with the (inter)national institutions and agencies and EU administration • Integrated interests of the public and private sectors and citizens at the local and regional levels • Joint multi- or inter-sector strategic land use policy with operational instruments, long-term funding • Integration of spatial planning, regional programming, local management practice and market forces in city-regions. Title of presentation I Thursday, 02 January 2020 I Page 7

8. What should be the most important policy implications for effective land use management in European city regions? • Multi-level approach for coordinating »combinations« of land use policies at horizontal and vertical levels of governance: • »Top-down« sectoral policy interventions, at macro and meso levels (i.e.EU Structural Funds and other (inter)national capital investments) (inter-regional); • Capacity-based - or »bottom-up« with focus on implementing policy interventions in an integrated manner at meso and micro levels(inter-municipal); • EU recommendations – (inter)national regulation, norms and standards – economic (fiscal/financial) incentives – advocacy of planning Title of presentation I Thursday, 02 January 2020 I Page 8

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