Stretching Metropolitan Regions
The New Planning Dialogue #04
'Stretching Metropolitan Regions' is a masterclass and workshop organised by Vereniging Deltametropool in collaboration with METREX and hosted by L’ Institut Paris Region, in the French capital. On that day, we expect an interactive and explorative dialogue with different European Metropolitan Regions in order to share knowledge, create good narratives and specify aspects of classification and typologies of the Metropolitan Regional scale.
The 20th century has witnessed a progressive “metropolization process” of the European territory leading to a nearly three-quarters of the European population (Eurostat, 2014) living in metropolitan and urban areas. “The limits of what we understand to be urban and extended in constant evolution (Mariona Tomàs, 2015) raising questions regarding the effective forms and models of governance that better respond to the challenges posed by the metropolitan phenomena. Those embrace different dimensions: social (combining inequalities, ensuring access to public services), economic and financial (guaranteeing competitiveness and efficiency); territorial and environmental (the management of urban explosion, mobility and waste);political and institutional (the co-ordination of policies and services, democratic representation) (Mariona Tomàs, 2015).
In this workshop we concentrate on the scale of Metropolitan regions and their approaches. During the previous activity of the New Planning, there was a strong focus on the regional scale from all the experts and organizations. At the same time we would like to take the opportunity in The New Planning progression, to open up in the European context and explore the diversity in planning approaches at the metropolitan region scale. The political or geographical frame and structure of the metropolitan regions varies in each European country. Although, in the times of changes and transitions, this scale is equally pressurized to act and improvise in each country. The issues and challenges remains the same.Yet, the solutions vary depending on the contextual set-up and planning systems. Thus, we would like to discuss the typologies, set-up, approaches, collaboration and sectors and the planning of metropolitan regions in this meeting.
We expect this dialogue to be interactive and explorative. A combination format of presentations and workshop will be conducted during this meeting. At the beginning we will initiate a conversation about the need to understand the variety of approaches and typologies of the metropolitan regional scale. Soon afterwards, we will dive into specific aspects or classification or metropolitan regional scale by some interesting examples from Europe. We would be discussing 4-5 examples of different metropolitan regions about Europe and then conducting a workshop with the experts or other metropolitan regions sharing the knowledge and creating a narrative for the regional scale.
Session details
Session 01: What is the metropolitan scale?
What is metropolitan scale? What are the Concept and practice, Future Challenges. What changed in the overall planning of metropolitan regions?
Session 02: Planning focus – Strategic and Spatial Planning
Planning focus – Strategic Planning and Spatial Planning – Metropolitan region of Torino can be discussed as the strategic plan example, while the metropolitan region of Frankfurt and Paris can be discussed on the focus on developments and spatial planning decisions being made there.
How are the metropolitan regions determining their focus on planning approaches? Whether spatial planning or strategic planning should be the focus on this scale of effect? Should the metropolitan scale contemplate both strategic and spatial planning?
The difference in the political and geographical setting contextualize a contrasting planning approach . With the two examples presented during this conversation, we will learn the stark differences in the planning approaches and their impact and consequences.
Session 03: Formation of Metropolitan regions
Formation of Metropolitan regions: Metropolitan region of Amsterdam, Metropolitan region of Rotterdam Den Haag and Metropolitan region of Eindhoven
How are the metropolitan regions being formed? What models of metropolitan regions are being followed? How does the Metropolitan dimension take form in the flexible setting? How the democratic decisions are being tasks at the metropolitan scale? What are the relations between the political and economic framework at this scale? Which different approaches does the metropolitan region act in in a similar context? What different actions can be expected from a capital city metropolitan region and others?
Various perspective on the formation and setting of the metropolitan regions are being practiced about Europe. In this first conversation, we would like to examine the different take on formation and relationship with investments in the metropolitan regions of the Netherlands.
Program
12:00 – Registration and Lunch
13:00 – Welcome by Henk Bouwman (Director, METREX)
13:05 – Introduction to the program by Paul Gerretsen (Director, Deltametropolis Association)
Session 01: What is the metropolitan scale?
13:20 – Development of metropolitan scale by Viviana Rubbo (architect, independent researcher), Metrex Bernd Steinacher Fellow 2016-2018
13:30 – Reflective panel: What changed in the overall planning of metropolitan regions?
Speakers – Lawrence Barth (UK), Alessandro Delpiano (Bologna), Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani (via Skype)
Session 02: Planning focus – Strategic and Spatial Planning
14:00 – Strategic Planning and Spatial Planning: Planning focus in metropolitan regions; Case of Metropolitan Region of Torino, Frankfurt and Paris
Speakers – Claudia Fassero (Torino), Reinhard Henke (Frankfurt), Paul Lecroart (Paris)
14:30 – Reflective panel: Which planning method works effectively at the metropolitan scale?
Speakers – Alain Thierstein (Munich), Ignacio de la Puerta Rueda (Euskadi, Spain)
15:15 – Coffee break
Session 03: Formation of Metropolitan regions
15:30– Formation of Metropolitan regions: Metropolitan region of Amsterdam, Metropolitan region of Rotterdam Den Haag and Metropolitan region of Eindhoven
Speakers: David Quarles van Ufford, Pim Uijtdewilligen, Stephan Bekx, Joan van Dijk
16:00 – Reflective Panel: How are the metropolitan regions being formed? What models of metropolitan regions are being followed?
Speakers – Daniel Galland (Norway)
16:45 – Closing discussion and methodology by Rudiger Ahrend (OECD)
17:00 –Conclusion and wrap up by Paul Gerretsen
17:15 – Drinks
The New Planning dialogue
This is the fourth event of The New Planning Dialogue in partnership with Metrex and L’Institut Paris Region, in the series of eight inspiring activities in the upcoming years. The conference has been developed by the Delta Metropolis Association together with Delft University of Technology, European Policy Research Center and University of Groningen.
