1. State of play of the Urban Audit Summary of the NUAC Day 2009
Teodora Brandmüller
Eurostat, E4
Oct 2009

2. Luxembourg, 2009 October 7

3. Country availability competition 2003 – 2005, Core City

4. Core city: per domain,

6. Issues and research questions
Spatial concentration of people and demographic change
Relation of cities compared by their region
Relation between very large and smaller cities
Role of sub-urbanisation
Environmental situation
Role of highly specialised service activities
„Social polarisation“
Regional governance

7. Structural Clusters

8. Employment rate Ratio of employed persons to population of working age, 2004 (in %)

9. Urban Audit Mapping Tool (UAMP)

10. Last effort to verify the Urban Audit geo-data
ESTAT produces maps for every UA city (UAMT)
ESTAT sends the maps to for verification Is the delineation of all the UA elements correct? Is the spelling of all UA elements correct? (particularly SCD names) –
Opportunity to review naming conventions

13. Urban Atlas Call for tender just launched:
185 cities (LUZ) this year, 133 in 2010
Budget 2008 to 2010 = €1,000,000
ESA supplies images
To be renewed twice a year
Reference year 2006 (+- 1 year)
Goal is to cover all Urban Audit LUZ
Ideally, updating envisaged every 3 years
Next update for reference year 2011

14. Urban Audit Perception Survey
Eurobarometer (DG Communications and information) framework
3rd in series – 2004, 2006, now 2010
Originally 31 cities, 75 since 2004, one change for 2010
Covers all technical questions and methodology
Will take place in coming months
Phone based survey
29 questions + identity questions for profiling and representativity analysis
Contract with Gallup for EUR 750,000. Very costly to add further questions

15. Planned actions Identification of variables ANNUAL Urban Audit 2008
EXHAUSTIVE Urban Audit 2008
Compilation of variables for the Large City Audit
Compile an interim operational report
Compilation of variables for the 2009 ANNUAL Urban Audit
Participate in the quality control of variables
Participate in the quality control of indicators
Compilation of maps
Compile a final operational report

16. The most important steps of the grant procedure
Financing Decision
Ex ante publicity
Call for proposals
Evaluation
Decision
Ex post publicity
Payments
Ex post control
Audit by other Community organisations
 21 applications received
 grant agreements

18. Pieces of the puzzle Need TT, EN Design Build Collect Process Estimate
Analyse
Diss.
Est.
State of cities
CARP
TT, EN
Call for proposals
Glossary
UA IV

19. Thank you for your attention!
Teodora Brandmüller
Eurostat Unit E4
Oct 2009