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Economic Crisis: Cities' Responses and Resources

date added: 15.02.2011

The current global economic crisis is having an impact across Europe, in a variety of forms and contexts. It is clear that cities and local governments are on the front line of the crisis, in terms of its impact on people, businesses and places. From sheer necessity, cities have also already started to explore a wide range of responses.

The URBACT Programme currently supports 44 projects of 255 cities in all 27 EU Member States as well as Norway and Switzerland, working together to learn how to deal with some of the major economic, social and environmental challenges facing European citizens today. The economic crisis has dramatically altered the context in which they are operating.

As a response URBACT has launched a study on the impact of the economic crisis and the responses developed by the URBACT II partner cities to address the recession. The study started in September 2009 and the survey was sent to all 221 cities participating in the 28 URBACT projects of the First Call for Projects.

The objective is to support practitioners in cities in developing and implementing responses to the crisis, in the fields of economic development, social inclusion and environmental sustainability, and to help them prepare their cities for a more sustainable recovery.

In particular, the study seeks to identify long-term recovery strategies and innovative policy responses developed at local level, which could be useful to other cities.

Source: http://urbact.eu/en/header-main/integrated-urban-development

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