1. A Health Check for European Cities
The Urban Audit
A Health Check for European Cities
Press Conference
11:30-12:00
23 September 2008

2. European cities
60 % of the population –approximately 300 mio. people live in cities over inhabitants + urban agglomerations

3. Cities involved
Pilot project
Growing scope: from 58 to 321 cities (EU 27) and 41 non-EU cities (CH, NO, HR, and TR)
Urban Audit I
Urban Audit II

4. 420.000 statistics on 330 indicators
Fields
statistics on 330 indicators
Demography (52)
Social (44)
Economy (73)
Civic Involvement (18)
Training and Education (19)
Environment (53)
Travel and Transport (36)
Information Society (14)
Culture and Recreation (21)

5. Shrinking cities

6. Growing/shrinking

7. Growing cities

8. High unemployment in many city centres
Hamburg: Unemployment rate (%) in 2004
High unemployment in many city centres

9. Unemployment

10. Unemployment

11. Housing
Housing disparities within city centres

12. Environment

13. Transport

14. A tool for ranking
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