Transcript Judith Borsboom, Stefan Berghuis, Jos Diederiks, Rob Folkert, Henk Ottens Urbanisation and its impact on Quality of Place in Europe.

Judith Borsboom, Stefan Berghuis, Jos Diederiks,
Rob Folkert, Henk Ottens
Urbanisation and its
impact on Quality of
Place in Europe
The EURBANIS Project
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Gain more insight into European spatial processes and their
impact on environment, ecology and Quality of Life/Place
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Case Study Cities
• archetypical characteristics of urbanisation cluster
• presence in Urban Audit database
• representation of European regions
Cluster 1 Stagnating:
Cluster 2 Compact:
Cluster 3 Leisure:
Cluster 4 Shrinking:
Cluster 5 Sprawling:
Cluster 6 Average:
Cluster 7 Booming:
Reims
Aarhus
Südburgenland
Vilnius
Erfurt
Rotterdam, Bologna
Madrid
Link to Quality of Life/Quality of Place on base of
Urban Audit data on a local level: economic, social,
environmental, housing, land use variables
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Sustainability
•Elsewhere and later
perspective
Economic
•Income
•Employment
Environment
Social
•Demographics
•Education
•Health and -care
•Crime
•Culture
Human
perspective
Environmental
perspective
•Satisfaction with • Characteristics of
environment
environment
•Here and now
•Air pollution
•Noise
•Green spaces
•Land-use
•Transport
•Housing
Case study Erfurt
• Urban land use:
– high increase built-up area on farmland due to economic
growth and transition and residential preferences
• Urban densities:
– large decrease because of single-familiy housing and
depopulation/migration
• Urban green:
– older inner city districts low rates of green areas, new
residential development in lower densities with more urban
green
• Air quality:
– new road infrastructure, decrease of noise and air pollution in
inner city,
• Social Cohesion:
– more polarisation due to suburbanisation, accumulation of
problems in some districts, decrease of service level due to
depopulation
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Lessons Learned
• Comparable problems observed (such as transport, air
pollution, segregation, lack of urban green)
• Nevertheless the drivers behind and the manifestation
of urbanisation may diverge between different
European regions: this heterogeneity only revealed
with a more qualitative, in depth approach with case
studies
• Approach of Shafer and Pacione most practical to
work out Liveability, Quality of Life, Quality of Place
• Perception of Quality of Life/Place is important next to
empirical observations
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Preliminary conclusions
• Lack of harmonised data and time series major
obstacle for analysis of changes and bench-marking
purposes: should be completed and validated
• A clear practical framework to assess urbanisation is
still needed for balanced and sustainable urban
development
• Liveable cities project might provide clues for such a
framework
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