ESPON TOWN project Loris Servillo Vilnius (Li), 04 December 2013
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ESPON TOWN projectLoris Servillo
Vilnius (Li), 04 December 2013
New perspective on towns in Europe: From analysis to policy reflections
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Linguistic differences and translating problems
Conventional wisdom on towns Town: 1) an urban area that has a name, 2)defined boundaries and
3)local government, AND that is larger than a village and generally smaller than a city
Definition within the TOWN projectTown: 1) a built-up area (a polygon that has a number in a database!), 2)
with boundaries possibly crossing administrative limits, and 3) where you search (and sometimes find) for local capacity and horizontal and multi-level local governance
What is a town?
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Small and medium-sized towns
Morphological interpretation
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DENSITY (inh. / kmq) < 300 300 - 1500 > 1500
POPULATIO
N (inh.)
< 5000 OTHER SETTLEMENTS VST VST
5000 - 50000
OTHER SETTLEMENTS SMST SMST
> 50000 OTHER SETTLEMENTS large SMST HDUC
Morphological interpretation
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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
! Policy message
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Complexity and institutional diversity across Europe concerning the relationship between administrative and morphological definitions
Not only a technical aspect: - Data issue
(thus)- Policy issue
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N (SMST
polygons in database)
Mean number of intersections between SMST polygons and:
local authority units (LAU) NUTS3 regions (2006)
Belgium (BE) 184 1.23 1.05 Czech Republic (CZ) 222 1.73 1.01 Spain (ES) 65 1.78 1.00 France (FR) 881 2.89 1.06 Italy (IT) 252 2.41 1.11 Poland (PL) 42 1.33 1.02 Sweden (SE) 41 1.00 1.00 Slovenia (SI) 43 1.26 1.00 England & Wales (UK) 574 1.19 1.12 Total 2304 2.05 1.07 ! Policy message
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EU
NUTS3 with prevailing
settlements
Settlement polygons
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EU macro-trendsVariation of Population and GDP at NUTS3
level between 2001 and 2011Measured on 3 types of regions:- Region predominantly populated in small and
medium settlements(pop in HUDC < 30%)
- Highly urbanized regions(pop in HUDC > 70%)
- Region with population evenly distributed in various settlements
(in between)
Preliminary results
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In relation with early suppositions- Have we assisted to a general shift of population toward cities and
metropolitan areas?- Have we registered a general impoverishment of (regions
characterized by) smaller settlements?- Can we consider towns as isolated and independent settlements?
- National policies matter?- Meso-level: relationship with urban regions?- Objective 1 regions
! Policy message
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• 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)
What makes SMSTs different
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• 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:
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‘All’ Small towns (N=1339)
Small towns in Slovenia
Small towns in NW Italy
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Net migration by countryMigration-
enhanced aging?
Growing
Labour exporters
Shrinking
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So what?
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• Do SMSTs across Europe face ‘common problems’?• 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• No ‘one size fits all’….• Supporting alternative visions of the local economy• Collective action within/among small towns• Supporting the definition of micro-regionalism processes
! Policy message
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So what?
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Place-based approach recommended?Endogenous growth vs specialized towns with urgent challenges (retail trade,
deindustrialization) In many case, at the local level, difficult to anticipate problems, to make
choices (and alliances);
How does the national/regional policy deal with a town specificity (and specific cases of towns)?
Investment driven? Bottom-up and top down? How is it negotiated, coproduced with the local stakeholders?
Does the national, regional, local level prioritize, discriminate?Is there a ‘policy model’?
! Policy message