1. Urban Audit Agenda: 2.2. Current state of play

2. Chapter 1
The PHARE project

3. Co-operation with PHARE countries
PHARE covers 8 of the 10 new Member States
Bulgaria and Romania
Urban Audit phase 2 within PHARE 2002
Runs until May 2005

4. Urban Audit in PHARE countries
Task 4 Maps of sub-city districts
Task 5 Collect existing variables from external sources
Task 6 Estimations of key variables
Task 7 Estimations of standard variables

5. Progress
Task 4 maps sent by all countries, but some corrections still needed
Tasks 5-6 finalised by a few countries
Task 7 planned for the remaining period until May 2005
If you foresee delays or problems, please inform Eurostat!

6. Chapter 2
Turkey

7. Co-operation with Turkey
USST programme
”Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey” (USST)
3 phases, about 9 years
Many statistical fields, including regional and urban statistics

8. 26 UA cities in Turkey code city population TR001C Ankara 3,203,362
Kars
78,473
TR002C
Adana
1,130,710
TR015C
Kastamonu
64,606
TR003C
Antalya
603,190
TR016C
Kayseri
539,870
TR004C
Balıkesir
215,436
TR017C
Kocaeli
195,699
TR005C
Bursa
1,194,687
TR018C
Konya
742,690
TR006C
Denizli
275,480
TR019C
Malatya
381,081
TR007C
Diyarbakır
545,983
TR020C
Manisa
214,345
TR008C
Edirne
119,298
TR021C
Nevşehir
67,864
TR009C
Erzurum
361,235
TR022C
Samsun
363,180
TR010C
Gaziantep
853,513
TR023C
Siirt
98,281
TR011C
Hatay
144,910
TR024C
Trabzon
214,949
TR012C
İstanbul
8,803,468
TR025C
Van
284,464
TR013C
İzmir
2,232,265
TR026C
Zonguldak
104,276

9. Map of 26 UA cities in Turkey

10. The weight of the 26 cities
One city in each Statistical region at level 2
The population cover 34% of the national population
Istanbul alone covers 13% of national population

11. LUZ and SCD Each city has a Larger Urban Zone
Istanbul: province of Istanbul = LUZ
Other cities: one or more districts (LAU 1) constitute the LUZ
Wards in cities (“mahalle”) will be used as Sub-City Districts
Some wards must be grouped together.
Difficult to split wards, because no data available at lower level

12. Conclusions
The co-operation with Turkey can serve as a model for future Candidate Countries
Depends on a general co-operation framework (USST for Turkey, PHARE for Bulgaria and Romania)
Urban Audit serves as EU harmonisation in many thematic fields
Everything takes longer time than expected!

13. Chapter 3
Geographic data

14. Which maps are available
City boundaries
Boundaries of the LUZ
Source of map data: SABE (commune boundaries for Europe)
Available in the GISCO database (Geographical Information System for the COmmission)

15. Maps of Sub-City Districts
Maps of Sub-City Districts have to be sent from Member States and PHARE countries
Integrated into a common GIS (GISCO)
Technical work done at DG REGIO
Problems with lack of information about projection (necessary for creation of a common European map)

16. Missing maps
Austria, France, Greece (DG REGIO due to pay for the SCD maps)
UK – wrong set of Wards
Bulgaria, Romania – whole cities not covered by SCD
Some German cities - lack of information about projection (needed for integration into common European map)

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