ESPON Citybench ‘quickscan’ webtool for cities Working Party on “Regional Statistics and Rural Development” ESPON Citybench ‘quickscan’ webtool for cities Eurostat, Luxembourg Instructions for ESPON Project Presenters The presenters are requested to: • Not exceed the total of 10 minutes that is allocated for your presentation. • Use the ESPON Template provided and address the two questions below What are the main territorial trends or observations since 2007/8 from your project concerning the impacts of the last economic crisis)? Please select maximum 2 maps from your project and include maximum 5 bullet points in the .ppt template attached that could illustrate and synthesize this question. Maximum use 3-4 slides for showing ESPON evidence on question 2. What are the opportunities and challenges that exist for fostering recovery and resilience in the next programming period? (according to your mind / your ESPON findings)? Please include maximum 3 bullet points in the .ppt template attached that could illustrate and synthesize this question. Please use up to 2 slides to answer to this question. • Be prepared to actively contribute to the discussion concerning what have been the lessons learned in territorial development since the last economic crisis

ESPON 2013 Programme Mission: Territorial evidence providing comparable information on territorial dynamics that can reveal territorial capital and potentials. Key principles: Policy demand driven, usability, quality, timing, continuity, transfer and complementarities Budget 2007-13: 47 mill Euro 34 mill. Euro from European Commission 13 mill. Euro from 31 participating countries

Programme Delivery Volume of projects: 25 Applied Research projects (policy driven themes) 23 Targeted Analyses (defined by stakeholder demand) 12 larger projects under Scientific Platform and Tools 7 Transnational Networking Activities Project implementation status: Of these 67 projects, 22 have still to deliver final results Additional 16 MA-led projects, each with several actions with implementation by Calls for Tenders One final Call for Proposals for the ECP network Budget implementation status: All funds allocated, but high performance needed in Progress Reporting and spending needed to avoid de- commitment in 2013

Citybench context and objectives The project - European Urban Benchmarking webtool Cities of all sizes play a crucial role as engines of smart, sustainable and inclusive territorial development. Help policymakers, practitioners and public and private investors to identify “similar” cities around issues such as demographic challenges, economic challenges, social disparities/polarisation, urban sprawl and greenhouse gas emissions. Citybench is a ‘quickscan’ webtool highlighting both the risks and opportunities for cities, the potential aspects for investment and allow benchmarking of cities. Large Urban Zones Objectives Comparing regions Attracting investors

Territorial Trends & Observations Data Reduced official, top-down data providers -> difficulty in up to datedness Increasing volunteer, non-official, bottom-up, real time data providers Information Reduced investment Increased unemployment … Exploration of official data shows…. In the other hand, last years we’ve seen a growing trend on VGI… In direct relation with the actual crisis, data suggest a descencing investment And a big growth of unemployment (more in the more affected countries: Spain, Greece…)

Territorial Trends & Observations Ilustrating previous ideas, from eurostat data: In the left, a random set of european cities showing the unemployment rate in 2003 – 2006, …. We see the rise of unemployment and the lack of updated data. In the right, a random set of European cities showing cinema seats per 1000 inhabitants: descending activity and again lack of up to date data http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tgs00084&plugin=1 http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tgs00080&plugin=1

Potential Users Targeted to the use of: Policymakers and practitioners concerned with attracting and managing the development in cities. Public investors, including the European Investment Bank and its traditional lending operations in sustainable urban projects. Private investors seeking to get a quick overview of European urban regions. Opportunities: Similar cities face similar cities: partnerships, lessons learned Urban Audit data, LUZ VGI (i.e. social media) provides real-time up-to-date data -> concentrated in cities From our project point of view, we see some challenges for what our tool provides some opportunities. Our tool is a comparation and similarity finding tool, which will help investors to choose with a criterium where is the best place to invest- In the other hand, this will bring cities managers a tool for learning how other cities have cope with similar problems. Finally, VGI and social media, providing real-time and up to date data, and concentrated in cities, is an opportunitty to get more information, bu also a challenge to make it usefull.

opportunities & challenges distribution of tweets along europe Illustrating the previous ideas, a mockup schema of our similar city finder tool and the distribution of tweets along europe: clearly related to urban areas. http://worldmap.harvard.edu/tweetmap/

Selecting and Comparing cities Multi-dimensional city (each indicator a dimension)

Selecting and Comparing cities http://espon.geodan.nl/citybench/#

Selecting and Comparing cities

Selecting and Comparing cities

Next steps 30 November 2013 - Draft Final Report and deliverables Final web text sections • Draft Final European Urban Benchmarking Webtool • Draft Final Report • Draft ‘European Urban Benchmarking Webtool Demonstration Report’ 28 February 2014 - Final Report and deliverables

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