Towards urban governance: Twenty years of neighbourhood contracts in the Brussels-Capital Region

Romańczyk, Katarzyna M.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2014.12.002

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“…In addition to the established areas, there are several other areas where cooperation would be beneficial, such as spatial management, tourism, an intermunicipal public defender's office, waste management, traffic, watercourse management, elementary education and preschool, project application, and obtaining EU funding. Although there is variation in the duties of municipal authorities in different countries, international researchers have also noticed closer intermunicipal cooperation, especially in communal services (Hophmayer-Tokich and Kliot 2008;Põldnurk 2015;Pérez-López et al 2016) and joint spatial and development planning (Ioan-Franc, Ristea and Popescu 2015;Romanczyk 2015).…”

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“…Examples from abroad (Hophmayer-Tokich and Kliot 2008;Romanczyk 2015;Ioan-Franc, Ristea and Popescu 2015;Põldnurk 2015;Pérez-López et al 2016) and from Slovenia (Marot 2010) show that the governance of functionally connected areas is more successful when there is cooperation between authorities. This is especially true for Slovenia because of its small size and its human resources and financial limitations, which could be solved through various forms of intermunicipal cooperation.…”

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Forms, areas, and spatial characteristics of intermunicipal cooperation in the Ljubljana Urban Region

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Bojnec

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This article studies the strength, forms, and areas of intermunicipal cooperation, and their advantages, disadvantages, and spatial characteristics based on the example of the Ljubljana urban region. Surveys, interviews, data analysis of joint administration and joint companies, and analysis of joint development projects show that cooperation in joint municipal administration is limited to parking authorities and the intermunicipal inspectorate, joint companies dealing with communal infrastructure and traffic, and joint projects mainly focusing on economic infrastructure, tourism, mobility, spatial and development planning, and applying for EU projects. The areas of former municipalities, the municipalities in Ljubljana Marsh Nature Park, and the municipalities that are part of the Development Partnership of the Center of Slovenia connect more often than other areas. The advantages of cooperation include better opportunities for EU funding, economizing, and joint representation of municipal interests, whereas disadvantages include problems with coordinating funding and a lengthy coordination period, which is additionally hindered by unsuitable legislation and a lack of financial incentives, human resources, time, and ideas.

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Forms, areas, and spatial characteristics of intermunicipal cooperation in the Ljubljana Urban Region

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Bojnec

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“…This is because a high share of public investment in the physical state of private housing is directed to the deprived central neighbourhoods within the Area for Reinforced Development of Housing and Renewal (Espace de Développement Renforcé du Logement et de la Rénovation, EDRLR) (Romainville 2010;Dessouroux et al 2016). Inhabitants of the EDRLR benefit from higher renewal grants and from area-based programmes conceived through citizen participation (neighbourhood contracts) (see Romainville 2010;Romańczyk 2015). As large housing estates fall outside the EDRLR area (except for one), they do not benefit from any special rule for public intervention.…”

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Sprouted All Around: The Emergence and Evolution of Housing Estates in Brussels, Belgium

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Valk

2018

Housing Estates in Europe

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the socioeconomic evolution of large housing estates in Brussels, Belgium, in particular their role in shaping residential segregation in the city. As in many European countries, modernist and functionalist ideas of the mid-twentieth century led to the raising of large housing estates in Brussels, in an attempt to offer middle-class households affordable yet modern and comfortable dwellings. However, contrary to other countries, the development in Belgium was marked by general housing policies that promoted homeownership, with limited investment in social housing, and a lack of laws and political vision related to spatial planning Whereas some public ensembles were conceived by modernist architects, most of Brussels' large housing estates were built by private contractors in peripheral neighbourhoods and were aimed at homeownership of the lower middle class. In this chapter, we first present a brief historical perspective of the policies, ideologies and territorial processes that made it possible for housing estates to develop and spread in Brussels. Next, we analyse how large housing estates evolved since the 1990s in terms of socioeconomic composition and the role they play in segregation. We finally discuss the challenges, current perspectives and political awareness with respect to large housing estate. Our findings point out that Brussels' housing estates are spatially scattered and have only a limited impact on the concentration of deprivation and foreign nationals. However, the trends identified in our study indicate that housing estates can become important socioeconomic fractures at the local level.

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Shops as the bricks and mortar of place identity

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Pignolo

2017

Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life

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Towards urban governance: Twenty years of neighbourhood contracts in the Brussels-Capital Region

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

Forms, areas, and spatial characteristics of intermunicipal cooperation in the Ljubljana Urban Region

Forms, areas, and spatial characteristics of intermunicipal cooperation in the Ljubljana Urban Region

Sprouted All Around: The Emergence and Evolution of Housing Estates in Brussels, Belgium

Shops as the bricks and mortar of place identity

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