13-Jul-07

The Urban Audit Measuring the quality of life in European cities

Inna Steinbuka Director

EUROSTAT Economic and Regional Statistics Directorate

June 2008

Outline of my talk

Goals of the Urban Audit The characteristics of the Urban Audit

Number of cities Spatial units Covered domains Data coverage

Analysing the data: The State of European Cities report

Complementary to hard facts: the perception survey Future challenges

June 2008

Where people live in EU-27

13.7%

12.3%

17.9%

29.8%

26.2%

over 1 million

large (250 000 to 1mio)

medium (50 000 to 250000)

small (5 000 to 50 000)

country-side

74 percent live in

an urban context !!

June 2008

Major goals and added value of the Urban Audit

Support EU urban policy

Facilitate comparisons between cities

Facilitate exchange of experience between cities

Inform the public about the quality of urban life

At city level: Assist mayors in

reviewing their objectives

The added value is the unique neighbourhood level

and infra-regional data for urban policy and research

Eurostat’s mission is to provide the EU high-quality statistical information service

DG Regio’s mission is to strengthen economic, social and territorial cohesion on the basis of high-quality statistical information.

Cities and local authorities are involved as data providers and as data users.

National Statistical Institutes compile the data and co-ordinate the collection.

Main stakeholders of the Urban Audit

DG Regio

Cities and local authorities

National Statistical Institutes

Eurostat

June 2008

Urban Audit data collections

1999: Pilot study with 58 cities First large scale Urban Audit in 2003/2004, 258 cities,

reference year 2001, Plus partial collection in 26 Turkish cities Collection of “historic” data, ref. year 1991 and 1996

In 2005, decision by Eurostat: Collecting urban statistics is a core task of Eurostat

Data collection every 3 years Second large scale Urban Audit in 2006/2007, 367 cities,

reference year 2004 In addition data collection on all cities over 100 000 inhabitants

Next large scale Urban Audit starts in 2009 Including annual data collection

the number of cities increased by 30 %

1 out of 4 EU citizen lives in an UA city

Spatial levels in the Urban Audit

Land cover map of Torino

Spatial levels in the Urban Audit

Land cover map of Torino

─ Core city

Spatial levels in the Urban Audit

Land cover map of Torino

─ Core city

─ Larger urban zone

Land cover map of Torino

─ Core city

─ Larger urban zone

─ Sub-city districts

Spatial levels in the Urban Audit

June 2008

Not (yet) covered: the rural area

TorinoUrban areasIntermediate areasRural areas

Challenge No 1: include rural areas

Domains covered by the Urban Audit

Demography 51 indicators

Social aspects 47 indicators

Economy 72 indicators

Civic Involvement 18 indicators

Education 19 indicators

Environment 53 indicators

Transport 37 indicators

Tourism & Culture 21 indicators

Information Society 15 indicators

Challenge No 2: increase comparability

Data coverage by domaincore city – variables

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10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

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90%

100%

Ref. year 2001

Ref. year 2004

Challenge No 3: increase of coverage

June 2008

The State of European Cities report - an analysis based on the Urban Audit

Contracted by DG Regional Policy to a consortium led by ECOTEC

Typology of cities Fifty maps illustrating urban trends The Report (EN) and the Executive summaries in 8

languages (DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, NL, PL, PT) are available: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/themes/urban/audit/index_en.htm

Next report is planned to be published in Autumn 2009

June 2008

Strong growth in FI, SE, EL and ES.

Decline in many cities in the new Member States

Mixed picture in UK, DE, IT and BE

Demography

June 2008

Housing

Living space per person shows the east / west divide in the most striking manner

June 2008

The perception survey

Complementary to hard facts: citizens’ perception of schools, health service, safety, housing, labour market etc.

First in January 2004: 31 cities of 15 old Member States

Repeated in December 2006 for 75 cities in EU 27, Croatia and Turkey

Telephone survey with 22 questions The survey was launched by DG Regional Policy in the

Eurobarometer series and has been executed by Gallup

It is easy to find a good job

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(SK)

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(U

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wer

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(BE)

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(UK)

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ster

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(NL)

Hel

sink

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ndon

(UK)

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terd

am (N

L)Gla

sgow

(UK)

Lefk

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(CY)

Ver

ona

(IT)

Mun

chen

(DE)

Luxe

mbo

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(LU)

Paris

(FR)

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(PL)

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nes

(FR)

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FR)

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UK)

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(SL

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(IT

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ulu

(FI)

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(EL

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llinn

(EE

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fia

(BG)

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(BG)

Bru

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(BE)

Bel

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(UK)

Krak

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(ES)

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n (A

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(RO

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burg

(DE)

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ning

en (

NL)

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(LT)

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(BE)

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R)

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(PL)

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R)

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(TR

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(FR)

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(ES)

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n (D

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rino

(IT

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stra

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tanb

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mt (R

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(DE)

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(TR)

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IT)

Somewhat disagree Strongly disagree Somewhat agree Strongly agree

It is easy to find good housing at a reasonable price (only the capitals)

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20%

40%

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Ber

lin (

DE)

Mad

rid (

ES)

Ath

inia

(EL)

Budap

est

(HU

)

Anka

ra (

TR

)

Wie

n (

AT)

Bru

ssel

(B

E)

Sofia

(BG

)

Tal

linn (

EE)

Viln

ius

(LT)

Val

etta

(M

T)

Pra

ha

(CZ)

Ljubljan

a (S

L)

War

szaw

a (P

L)

Rig

a (L

V)

Lefk

osi

a (C

Y)

Lisb

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(PT)

Zag

reb (

HR

)

London (

UK

)

Am

ster

dam

(N

L)

Rom

a (I

T)

Koben

hav

en (

DK

)

Bra

tisl

ava

(SK

)

Hel

sinki

(FI

)

Sto

ckholm

(SE)

Bucu

rest

i (R

O)

Luxe

mbourg

(LU

)

Dublin

(IE

)

Par

is (

FR)

Somewhat disagree Strongly disagree Somewhat agree Strongly agree

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Challenges to tackle

June 2008

What needs to be improved

The Territorial Agenda includes “Urban-Rural Partnership” as an objective. Challenge No. 1: Rural area is not covered by audit

Solution: create a “Rural Audit”

Challenge No. 2: Comparability of the urban data is not up to the standards of national and even regional data

Solution: Reflection on a legal framework which would make the Urban Audit data more comparable

Challenge No.3: Coverage ranges between 90% and 30%

Solution: Reflection on a legal framework which would make the Urban Audit data transmission mandatory

13-Jul-07

Thank you for your attention!