1. The Urban Audit II

2. AIM OF THIS TALK:
Inform about a challenging project concerning new Europe-wide statistics
Highlight possible consequences

3. Spatial units in Urban Audit for EU
Chapter 1
Spatial units in Urban Audit for EU

4. Three spatial levels central city (administrative unit)
larger urban zone
sub-city district (neighbourhood)

5. Commune / Municipality / Ward / Gemeinde
Administrative unit
Commune / Municipality / Ward / Gemeinde
Specific focus on medium-sized cities (50 000 to 250 000 inhabitants)
France: Communauté d’agglomération; Communauté urbaine (contains several communes)
The number of cities increased from 58 to 189
Final city list available

6. Larger Urban Zone (LUZ)
Some problems:
One EU country remaining
“common LUZ” in conurbations
not all small cities have a LUZ
The final list of LUZ: no real harmonisation

7. Sub-city districts (SCD)
Most problematic
Difficult to respect thresholds
Several countries still working on the definitions
“… information on intra-city disparities indispensable for further political action”
“… enable city authorities to gather precise information on possible ‘pockets of concern’ ”
“… pinpoint major disparities in terms of social cohesion ”

8. Countries B - E Belgique/België - finally settled
Danmark - LUZ ok, miss details about SCD
Deutschland - LUZ ok, list of SCD missing
España - finally settled
Ελλάδα - LUZ ok, list of SCD missing

9. Countries F - N France - finally settled
Ireland - miss some proposals for LUZ; list of SCD missing
Italia - LUZ ok, provisional SCD (1991) accepted
Luxembourg - finally settled
Nederland - finally settled

10. Countries O - U Österreich - finally settled
Portugal - LUZ ok, list of SCD missing for 1 city (of 8)
Suomi/Finland - finally settled
Sverige - finally settled
United Kingdom - LUZ ok, final list of SCD missing

11. Chapter 2
Mapping

12. What does Eurostat have?
LUZ and cities can be created from existing boundaries in GISCO database
SABE -Seamless Adm. Boundaries of Europe
SCD boundaries can be created from existing GISCO boundaries for some countries
We have UK wards, PT freguesias, IE electoral districts

13. Need for additional maps
Many SCD have been created only for UA
We need to know where in the city the SCD are located
Need indicative boundaries of SCD
Localisation of UA data on web site
Put Urban Audit spatial units into GISCO database
Possibility to make thematic maps per city

14. Procedure Availability depends on country
Bilateral discussions Eurostat - NUACs
Formally not part of the Urban Audit grant

15. Map formats Arc/INFO (used by EU Commission in GISCO database)
Digital format (anyone)
Paper format (to be digitised)

16. Restrictions for use of maps?
Different options:
1. Only within Eurostat and DG REGIO
2. Urban Audit web site and publication
3. Store in GISCO - internal to Commission
4. Store in GISCO - dissemination environment

17. Tentative conclusions
Chapter 3
Tentative conclusions

18. Conclusions Negative Positive
Sub-city districts is the most difficult topic and this is still not finally settled
Conceptual challenge of “spatial unit”, given diverging national realities
LUZ are not really comparable between countries and cities
Positive
All Urban Audit cities in the EU are settled!

19. Thanks for listening !
Any Questions ?