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GOLD IV EXECUTIVE 2016 SUMMARY Fourth Global Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy CO-CREATING THE URBAN FUTURE THE AGENDA OF METROPOLISES, CITIES AND TERRITORIES © 2016 UCLG This Executive Summary includes the Introduction, Conclusion and the summaries of the original chapters of the Fourth Global Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy of United Cities and Local Governments. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. 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CO-CREATING THE URBAN FUTURE THE AGENDA OF METROPOLISES, CITIES AND TERRITORIES EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Edited by UCLG CONTENTS EDITORIAL BOARD .......................................................................................................................................................................4 CREDITS ...................................................................................................................................................................................................6 PARTICIPANTS OF WORKSHOPS AND CONSULTATIONS ..................................................................8 FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................................................................................12 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................................. 15 METROPOLITAN AREAS: 01 THE COMPLEXITY OF THE METROPOLITAN AGE INTRODUCTION METROPOLITAN AREAS ........................................................................................................34 1.1 Ways to reshape metropolitan governance .....................................................................................................36 1.2 The paradox of the metropolitan struggle for competitiveness ...............................................38 1.3 Sustainable and resilient metropolitan areas ..............................................................................................40 1.4 A paradigm shift in our understanding of sustainability: towards the ‘Right to the City’.........................................................................................................................................41 1.5 Key messages for the agenda of metropolitan areas ..........................................................................44 INTERMEDIARY CITIES: 02 THE VITAL NEXUS BETWEEN THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL INTRODUCTION INTERMEDIARY CITIES ...........................................................................................................50 2.1 Intermediary cities across the world .....................................................................................................................52 2.2 Intermediary cities within national and global systems of cities ............................................57 2.3 Building the agenda of intermediary cities: advantages and opportunities ...............58 2.4 Key messages for the agenda of intermediary cities ...........................................................................61 CO-CREATING THE URBAN FUTURE. GOLD IV 3 TERRITORIES: REGIONS, SMALL TOWNS 03 AND RURAL MUNICIPALITIES INTRODUCTION TERRITORIES .....................................................................................................................................66 3.1 Regional governance ...............................................................................................................................................................69 3.2 Regions as engines of territorial development ..........................................................................................71 3.3 Small towns, rural-urban linkages and regional development ................................................73 3.4 Key messages for the agenda of territories ...................................................................................................77 04 CONCLUSIONS 1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................................................83 2 THE GLOBAL CONTEXT ........................................................................................................................................................84 3 METROPOLITAN AREAS, CITIES AND TERRITORIES: MAIN OUTCOMES ......................87 4 GETTING READY FOR THE TRANSITION TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE URBAN AND TERRITORIAL AGENDA: KEY CONCEPTS .....................94 5 A TERRITORIAL PERSPECTIVE ON A NEW DEVELOPMENT AGENDA ..............................97 6 NATIONAL URBAN AND TERRITORIAL POLICIES: IMPERATIVES OF MULTILEVEL SHARED GOVERNANCE ............................................................. 104 7 A SOCIAL CONTRACT EMBEDDED IN SHARED GOVERNANCE ............................................ 109 8 FINANCING URBAN AND TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT ........................................................... 112 THE AGENDA OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL 05 GOVERNMENTS FOR HABITAT III AND BEYOND ..........................................125 4 EDITORIAL BOARD COORDINATION Edgardo Bilsky Andrea Ciambra Mathieu Guérin Ludovic Terren POLICY ADVICE Josep Roig, Secretary General, UCLG. Emilia Sáiz, Deputy Secretary General, UCLG. SECRETARY GENERALS OF UCLG SECTIONS Brock Carlton, UCLG NORAM; Gustavo Cezario, FLACMA; Mehmet Duman, UCLG MEWA; Jean Pierre Elong-Mbassi, UCLG Africa; Felip Roca, Metropolis; Rassikh Sagitov, UCLG Eurasia; Bernadia Tjandradewi, UCLG ASPAC; Fréderic Vallier, CEMR. UCLG WORLD SECRETARIAT Lamine Abbad, Pere Ballester, Mohamed Boussraoui, Jean-Baptiste Buffet, Xavier Castellanos, Irene Fuertes, Lina Gast, Paz Grossi, Sara Hoeflich, Tara Katti, Ricardo Martínez, Mònica Mora, Carole Morillon, Natalène Poisson, Marie-Laure Roa, Antònia Sabartés, Alejandra Salas Petit, Kate Shea Baird, Elisabeth Silva, Mariola Szek. UCLG COMMITTEES AND WORKING GROUPS SECRETARIATS Culture: Jordi Pascual, Jordi Baltà Portolés and Sarah Vieux. Decentralization and Local Self-Government: Arnau Gutiérrez Camps and Ana Tapia (Diputació de Barcelona – Barcelona Provincial Council). Development Cooperation and City Diplomacy: Elena Pierce (Federation of Canadian Municipalities) and Renske Steenbergen (VNG International, the Netherlands). Digital and Knowledge-Based Cities: Jesus Manzano García (Bilbao International), Lidia Cobas and Leandro Ardanza. Intermediary Cities: Firdaous Oussidhoum (Special Adviser to the Municipality of Chefchaouen, Morocco) and Josep Maria Llop (University of Lleida, Spain). Local Finances: Nathalie Le Denmat and Charlotte Lafitte. Planning: Puvendra Akkiah (Ethekwini Municipality – City of Durban, South Africa) and Maria Regina Rau (Municipality of Porto Alegre, Brazil) Peripheral Cities: Djamel Sandid (City of Nanterre, France) and Deise Martins (City of Canoas, Brazil). Social Inclusion, Participative Democracy and Human Rights: Magali Fricaudet and Guillem Ramírez. CO-CREATING THE URBAN FUTURE. GOLD IV 5 With.special.inputs.from.networks.involved.in.the.Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments.. www.gtf2016.org. Special acknowledgements for the financial and advisory support of: Diputació.de.Barcelona (Province.of.Barcelona). European.Commission And also to the: French.Ministry.of.Foreign.Affairs.. UN-Habitat and.International.Development.(MAEDI) For more information on UCLG and the GOLD Programme, please visit: www.uclg.org/ and www.gold.uclg.org/. 6 CREDITS CHAPTER AUTHORS METROPOLITAN AREAS Greg Clark.and.Tim Moonen,.The.Business.of.Cities,.Ltd,.United.Kingdom Agnès Deboulet.(coord.),.Cyprien Butin.and.Jeanne Demoulin,.LAVUE-CNRS,.France . Their.contribution.has.been.enriched.by.the.reflections.and.comments.of.the.Scientific. Committee. of. the. LAVUE. team,. composed. of. Frédéric Dufaux, Alain Dubresson, Philippe Gervais-Lambony, Aurélie Quentin, Pascale Philifert,. LAVUE. (UMR. 7218. CNRS).and.the.University.of.Paris.Ouest.Nanterre.La.Défense,.and.Tommaso Vitale,. Sciences.Po.Paris. Disclaimer: . UCLG.would.like.to.acknowledge,.in.particular,.the.contribution.of.The.Business.of.