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URBACT annual conference Copenhagen 2012Workstream 4

Neighbourhood Management in BerlinTackling spatial segregation-strengthening social cohesion

Reinhard FischerBerlin Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment Section Socially Integrative City

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Berlin - Administration - Disparaties

› 3.5 mill inhabitants

› Berlin has the status of City and State (Land)

› 12 Districts (boroughs) as municipalities

› unemployment rate 12 % (twice the national average)

› unemployment rate in some neighbourhoods 25 %

› disparities in educational success within the city

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Berlin Neighbourhood Management

› Why Neighbourhood Management (NM) in Berlin

Until 1989 the wall prevented urban sprawl

subsidies kept “old” industries alive

the early 1990 saw rise in unemployment

and segregation

› How is it organized ?

It started in 1999 in 15 neighbourhoods- now 34 neighbourhoods with 400.000 inhabitants.

Neighbourhood Management Teams are contracted by the Senate.

Neighbourhood Councils of residents and institution.

Administrative steering groups

233.5 Mill € invested since 1999, with ERDF, Federal Programme Socially integrative city and Land of Berlin

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Areas of Socially Integrative City Programme

34 Neighbourhood Management Areas

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Senate Department for Urban Development, Berlin

Berlin Neighbourhood Management

suggestions

collection approval implementation decision

workshops

citizens‘ fora

planning units

individual suggestions

Neighbourhood

Council

District administration

implementation: NM Team/institution

processingSenate Dept

District PSS

NM office

review

rejection

analysis/expert opinions

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Berlin Neighbourhood Management

Additional area basedbudgets - Urban Lab

Integrated approacheson District and City levelof administration

NetworkingLocal education networksLocal business networks

ParticipationNeighbourhood Councildecides on projects

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Action Area Plus Initiative 2010 – 20135 Areas (800.000 inhabitants), including 30 NM Areasimproved cooperation between administrative departmentstackling spatial segregation on a larger scale

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Monitoring of social-spatial development Methodology* Standardized index analysis - „development index“* Based on small statistical units

Indicators (status and dynamics):* Unemployment* Welfare recipients* Selective migration* Stability and mobility of residents

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Questions and challenges

› What scale is best for area-based interventions? The small Neighbourhood Management areas or the larger Action Areas-plus?

› How can we evaluate and measure the impact of neighbourhood management, knowing that monitoring data is influenced by the general economic situation and the housing market?

›When and how can we end the Neighbourhood Management process? How can we establish sustainable support structures for disadvantaged neighbourhoods?

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Thank you – merci – gracias – TAK!

› Neighbourhood Management

› www.quartiersmanagement-berlin.de

› Action Areas Plus

› www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/soziale_stadt/

› aktionsraeume_plus/index.shtml

› Monitoring 2000 - 2011

› www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/planen/

› basisdaten_stadtentwicklung/monitoring/index.shtml

› URBACT Cohesion Network CoNet 2008-2011

› www.urbact.eu/conet