Cities of Tomorrow
Workshop - 20-21 December 2010
Cities of Tomorrow: how to make it happen
Agenda and presentations
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Monday 20 December 10h30 - 18h00
Part 1 
Part 2
Part 3
Tuesday 21 December 09h00 - 17h00
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
| Monday 20 December 10h30 - 18h00 |
Welcome Wladyslaw Piskorz |
Session 1: Catching up - consolidating the work so far
Corinne Hermant & Christian Svanfeldt
Philippe Destatte
- Which vision for Europe and for its cities?
Questions for discussion:
- Can we agree on core European values, visions and objectives?
- What are the main obstacles to reach these objectives?
- What are the opportunities for and by cities in relation to the challenges, visions and European objectives?
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| Buffet lunch |
Session 2: Models for territorial governance
- Alternative supra-local governance models for strategic planning: polycentric vs. metropolitan models
Ivan Tosics (lead)  - Thierry Baert - Antonio Calafati 
- Questions for discussion:
- What is the optimal territorial base for governance with regard to future challenges and objectives?
- What kind governance frameworks should Europe follow in the next 2-3 decades?
- How can fixed structures be combined with flexible mechanisms?
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| Tuesday 21 December 09h00 - 17h00 |
Session 3: Socially innovative, inclusive and integrated models of multi-scalar governance
- Models of socially innovative, multi-scalar governance systems to address challenges of cooperation
between policy fields, inclusiveness and integration of institutional/spatial scales in policy delivery system
Frank Moulaert (lead) - Clemens Klikar - Bernhard Leubolt - Stefan Rettich
Questions for discussion:
- How may governance frameworks ensure a collective mobilisation of public,
private and civil society stakeholders, as well as citizens around the European objectives?
- How can we ensure an integrated approach across policy fields and institutions?
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Session 4: Governance principles for European intervention
- Consolidating the models for territorial governance with the socially innovative,
inclusive and integrated models of multi-scalar governance
Questions for discussion:
- What governance principles should guide European intervention?
- What mechanisms could be envisaged?
- Should there be common priorities?
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Buffet lunch |
Session 5: The urban dimension of future Cohesion Policy
Wladyslaw Piskorz
Questions for discussion:
- How to match a place-based and people-based approach?
- Can we identify particular areas of policy intervention of high relevance
and urgency for Cohesion Policy?
- To what extent should future actions be mainstreamed vs. dedicated?
- How should cohesion policy support thematic and territorial (e.g. macro-regions or cross-border agglomerations) city cooperation?
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