URBACT City Lab Metropolitan Governance Managing Metropolitan Areas

URBACT City Lab – Metropolitan Governance Managing Metropolitan Areas Across Boundaries & Frontiers 12 February 2010 - Lille

Opening plenary Welcome and introduction by: § Marie-Caroline Bonnet-Galzy, Directrice Générale des Services (CEO), Lille Metropole § Jean-Loup Drubigny, Head of the URBACT II programme § Christian Vandermotten, Professeur, Université Libre de Bruxelles § Peter Ramsden, URBACT Thematic Pole Manager Title of presentation I 25/09/2020 I Page 2

Seminar Key Questions § How do cities deal with the complexity of managing both the morphological and functional city regions which are cleaved by national, regional and administrative boundaries ? § What types of innovative arrangements do they develop in order to overcome the resulting political, financial and/or administrative divisions ? § How does the citizen remain engaged and the system maintain legitimacy in increasingly complex governance arrangements ? § Which models of governance are best suited to tackling the great urban challenges of the 21 st Century ? Title of presentation I 25/09/2020 I Page 3

4 workshops § Workshop 1 – Land use, Housing and Urban planning § Workshop 2 – Economic development and Labour markets § Workshop 3 – Light footprint urban environments § Workshop 4 – Identity and Citizen participation Title of presentation I 25/09/2020 I Page 4

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