Local Economic Development

in the Urban Context

Israel Planners Association

February 2011

nachman@miu.org.il

www.miu.org.il

What is LED? The Old Simple View

• Local Economic Development is

Employment Generation

What is LED? The Current View

• The purpose of Local Economic Development is

– to build up the economic capacity of a local area

– to improve its economic future and

– the quality of life for all.

• It is a process by which

– public, business and non-governmental sector partners work collectively

– to create better conditions for economic growth and employment generation.

Why is LED Important? • Big differences in productivity possible since the Industrial Revolution

Pre - Industrial Revolution Agriculture

10x

64x

144x

A Brief History of LED

Nations Regions / Sectors

Cities and Towns

Hard Infrastructure and

Manufacturing Transplants

Attract Foreign Investment and Support Local Businesses

Skills/Education, Attractive Policies

and Public/Private Partnerships

1960s to early1980s

1980s to mid 1990s

Late1990s onwards

• The success of the Marshall Plan kicked off

three waves of LED

Summary of Outdated Thinking on LED

Top-Down approach

• Central Government conceived, controlled, and directed strategies

• Total dependence on central government

Attract outside businesses

• Promotion and support of big business transplants

• Attract outside investments and outside talent

Focus on regions

• Attempts to jumpstart and support LED over entire regions

• Connect under-developed regions to successful ones

Goal is Employment Generation

Summary of Current Thinking on LED

Participatory approach

• Including all stakeholders and sectors

• Led by local government

Growth of local businesses

• Promotion and support of innovation and entrepreneurship (both business and social)

• Business friendly policies

Focus on cities

• As engines of economic development

• Urban regeneration as a tool

Goal is quality of life for all

Employment Environment Livibility Social inclusion

Which Programs Do Not Work

(But We Still Keep Using Them!)

• Unfortunately there are countless examples of failed LED strategies and projects. These include: – Expensive untargeted foreign direct investment marketing

campaigns

– Supply-led training programs

– Excessive reliance on grant-led investments

– Over-generous financial inducements for inward investors (not only can this be an inefficient use of taxpayers money, it can breed considerable resentment amongst local businesses that may not be entitled to the same benefit).

– Business retention subsidies (where firms are paid to stay in the area despite the fact that financial viability of the plant is at risk)

– Reliance on "low-road" techniques, e.g., cheap labor and subsidized capital

– Government-conceived, -controlled, and -directed strategies http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTURBANDEVELOPMENT/EXTLED/0,,print:Y~isCURL:Y~contentMDK:

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Urbanization Matters for

Economic Growth • Economic Growth and Urbanization are bi-

directionally causally connected

• ―… no country in the industrial age has

ever achieved significant economic growth

without urbanization.‖

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Economic Growth Urbanization

The Big Picture

• The World is getting more urbanized

– Opportunities are focused in Cities where people concentrate

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Israel 92%

Cities Have Natural Economic Advantages

• Doubling city size will increase productivity by 3%-10%

• Successful cities grow to metros

• Successful metros grow to mega-metros (>5M pop) – 1955 – 11 Mega-Metros

– Today - 40 Mega-Metros

– 2015 – 60 Mega-Metros

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1955 - 11 mega-metros 2015 - 60 mega-metros

Cities Have Natural Economic

Advantages • 40 Mega-Metros today

– A resident of a mega-metro is 8 times as productive in

goods, and 24 times as productive in innovations

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Population Economic Output Innovations

Economic Output is Focused in City-Metros

Cities are Engines of

Economic Growth

• Why is this so?

– Economies of scale and of agglomeration

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Urban Economies

• Sharing of fixed costs by a large quantity of outputs

• Input-sharing and competition within the industry

• innovation and exchange of ideas and technology

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The 12 Urban Economies Type of economy of scale Example

Internal

1. Pecuniary Being able to purchase intermediate inputs at volume discounts

Technological

2. Static

technological Falling average costs because of fixed costs of operating a plant

3. Dynamic

technological Learning to operate a plant more efficiently over time

External or

agglomeration

Localization

Static

4. ―Shopping‖ Shoppers are attracted to places where there are many sellers

5. ―Adam Smith‖ Outsourcing allows both the upstream input suppliers and downstream firms to

profit from productivity gains because of specialization

6. ―Marshall‖

labor pooling

Workers with industry-specific skills are attracted to a location where there is a

greater concentration

Dynamic

7. ―Marshall-

Arrow-Romer‖

learning by doing

Reductions in costs that arise from repeated and continuous production activity

over time and which spill over between firms in the same place

Urbanization

Static

8. ―Jane Jacobs‖

innovation

The more that different things are done locally, the more opportunity there is for

observing and adapting ideas from others

9. ―Marshall‖

labor pooling

Workers in an industry bring innovations to firms in other industries; similar to

no. 6 above, but the benefit arises from the diversity of industries in one location.

10. ―Adam Smith‖

division of labor

Similar to no. 5 above, the main difference being that the division of labor is

made possible by the existence of many different buying industries in the same

place

Dynamic

11. ―Romer‖

endogenous

growth

The larger the market, the higher the profit; the more attractive the location to

firms, the more jobs there are; the more labor pools there, the larger the

market—and so on

12. ―Pure‖ agglomeration Spreading fixed costs of infrastructure over more taxpayers; diseconomies arise

from congestion and pollution

Cities have natural

economic advantages

• But poor city design undermines these advantages

and creates barriers to economic development,

whereas good city design can enhance these

advantages.

• How can we leverage the natural economic

advantages of cities?

• Compact mixed-use development in the city center

that focuses on pedestrian and public transport

access is key.

LED in the Context of Cities from the easiest to the most difficult

LED in a Great City

LED in the Region of a Great City

LED in a Town Outside a Great City Region

LED in a City that is not Great

A Great City generates much more wealth than it consumes for mere existence.

A Great City generates enough wealth to support growth in the city as well in its surrounding region.

LED in a Great City

LED in the Region of a Great City

LED in a Town Outside a Great City Region

LED in a City that is not Great

LED in a Great City

• What is the role of Urban Planning and Transportation in creating a

great place to live and to develop economically?

It can become a LED generator

If the City provides

Density Mixed use Mixed age buildings

Small Blocks

LED in a Great City

LED in the Region of a Great City

LED in a Town Outside a Great City Region

LED in a City that is not Great

LED in the Region of a Great City

• Create a great place to live and to develop

economically

• Provide attractive and efficient access to The City

• The City will do the rest

LED in a Great City

LED in the Region of a Great City

LED in a Town Outside a Great City Region

LED in a City that is not Great

The Five Economic Forces Exerted by Cities on Their Own Regions

City markets City jobs City

developed technology

Transplanted city work

City generated

capital

How to Jumpstart the cycle of city

development

Density Variety

& Access

Innovation &

Culture

Development Intensity

Opportunities

Quality Of

Life

People

The

―handle‖

LED in a Great City

LED in the Region of a Great City

LED in a Town Outside a Great City Region

LED in a City that is not Great

How do you

advance ever closer

to your vision of a

successful town,

based on daily

decisions and based

on existing budgets?

City Center Renewal as a LED Tool or

How to increase Density, Variety and Access

First stage:

• Surgical urban intervention plan in the public space

Second stage:

• Renewal of the public space

Third stage:

• Private Development Construction and Renovation near the public space

Use the ―charrette‖ collaborative planning

tool as the basis of a LED program •Create a great place to live for local

residents

•Create a great place to succeed for local

businesses

•Leverage the true identity of the city / town

as seen by the local residents

•Local residents strengthen their sense of

belonging by planning their town

•Leverage existing budgets for

public building projects to

implement the plan

•Local residents are

empowered by seeing their

plans adopted and

implemented

•Provide loans to accelerate

private storefront and

residence renewal

Thank You and see you in November 2011

nachman@miu.org.il

February 2011

www.miu.org.il

כנס אשקלון־מרחב לפיתוח כלכלי עירוני "העיר כמנוע לצמיחה כלכלית"

Participatory approach

• Including all stakeholders and sectors

• Led by local government

Growth of local businesses

• Promotion and support of innovation and entrepreneurship (both business and social)

• Business friendly policies

Focus on cities

• As engines of economic development

• Urban regeneration as a tool

Goal is quality of life for all

Employment Environment Livibility Social inclusion

The critical role of Merhav in

LED in Israel

Participatory approach

• Charrette – collaborative planning with all stakeholders

• Quality in Density Toolbox for all sectors

• Mayors Institute

Growth of local businesses

• Making the local environment great for the locals

• Compact, quality and sustainable cities provide opportunities and breed innovation

Focus on cities

• We view the city as the key mechanism that provides people the opportunities to fulfill their inherent potential

Goal is quality of life for all

In order to improve the quality of living in Israel, while contributing to the global sustainability effort, the MIU promotes quality urban living based on compact,

quality and sustainable urban environments.