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Intelligent Tools for Policy Design Intelligent Tools for Policy Design Deliverable 2.1 – FUPOL Guidelines on Policy for Cities and Municipalities Project Reference No. 287119 Deliverable No. D 2.1 Relevant workpackage: WP 2 Nature: Report Dissemination Level: Public Document version: FINAL Editor(s): Susanne Sonntagbauer Contributors: Susanne Sonntagbauer, Anna Hassapi, Silvana Tomic-Rotim, Haris Neophytou, Miquel Angel Piera Eroles, Miguel Antonio Mujica Mota, Elena Palmisano Document description: The objective of this document is to design the guidelines on policy for cities and municipalities, which includes an overview of all policy domains relevant for cities and municipalities, Interdependencies between policy domains, recommended policy analysis methods by domain (qualitative and quantitative), a first assessment of domains and topics concerning the technical feasibility (agent-based modelling or other simulation techniques) ta king into account existing approaches, data availability, priorities assigned to each domain, identification of a first set of data FUPOL data base, security requirements, legal 1 ethical issue History Version Date Reason Prepared / Revised by 0.1 04-10-2011 Initial version Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.2 08-10-2011 Initial version Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.3 11-10-2011 Policy Domains Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.4 14-10-2011 Policy Domains Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.5 16-10-2011 Amendments/Edition Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.6 18-10-2011 Design of Questionnaire Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.7 21-10-2011 Definition of Dataset (Eurostat) Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.8 23-10-2011 Definition Urban Audit Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.9 01-11-2011 Definition of on-going projects FP7 Projects and Susanne Sonntagbauer Assessment of Relevance to FUPOL 0.10 04-11-2011 Definition of Use Cases Initial versions Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.11 07-11-2011 Amendments/Editing Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.12 15-11-2011 Social Media and its Use for Policy Modelling Anna Hassapi, Haris Neophytou 0.13 16-11-2011 Security Requirements Silvana Tomic Rotim 0.14 19-11-2011 Legal Ethical Issues and Privacy Anna Hassapi, Haris Neophytou 0.15 26-11-2011 Amendments/Editing (according to kickoff) Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.16 29-11-2011 Definition of Stakeholders Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.17 12-12-2011 Definition of City Characteristics Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.18 20-12-2011 Definition of Methodologies Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.19 27-12-2011 Amendments/Edition Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.20 03-01-2012 Assessment criteria available data and generic Susanne Sonntagbauer structure 0.21 10-01-2012 Major drivers of urban policies Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.22 13-01-2012 Sprawl as a challenge of urban policies Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.23 16-01-2012 Amendments/Editing Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.24 18-01-2012 Challenge E-Participation Miquel Angel Piera Eroles 0.25- 23-01-2012 Procedures of Land Use Change Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.28 0.29 28-01-2012 E-Participation Miquel Angel Piera Eroles 0.30 29-01-2012 Amendments E-Participation Miquel Angel Piera Eroles 0.31 31-01-2012 Geospatial analysis Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.32 02-03-2012 Model Application in Pilot Cities Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.33 12-02-2012 Corine Database and Metronamica Susanne Sonntagbauer 2 0.34 16-02-2012 Urban Population versus Total Population as a Susanne Sonntagbauer Challenge for the 21st Century 0.35 17-02-2012 Challenges of Urbanization Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.36 18-02-2012 Slum Upgrading versus Slum Clearance Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.37 21-02-2012 Definition of Slum Indicators Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.38 23-02-2012 Allocation of Urban Indicators to Policy Domains Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.39 25-02-2012 Key Questions of Policy Domains Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.40 07-03-2012 Definitions of Measurements for the Key Questions Susanne Sonntagbauer (Land Use) 0.41 08-03-2012 Definitions of Measurements for the Key Questions Susanne Sonntagbauer (Housing) 0.42- 09-03-2012 Editing Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.43 0.44 09-03-2012 Policy Domain Environment plus Key Questions Elena Palmisano, Emiliano Batignan 0.45 12-03-2012 Social Media Haris Neophytou 0.46 13-03-2012 Masterplan of the FUPOL Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.47 14-03-2012 Dependencies between D2.1 and other deliverables Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.48 15-03-2012 Challenges Water and Air Elena Palmisano, Emiliano Batignan 0.49 16-03-2012 Policy Questions Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.50 20-03-2012 Editing Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.51 21-03-2012 Overview of land use and housing workflow from a Peter Sonntagbauer practitioners point of view. 0.53 24-03-2012 Rearrangement of chapters, various amendments Peter Sonntagbauer after review 0.54 25-03-2012 Editing Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.55 27-03-2012 Assessment of Policy Domains Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.56 28-03-2012 Participation, e-participation Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.57 29-03-2012 Participation, e-participation Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.58 30-03-2012 Integration of social media in the city government Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.59 31-03-2012 Generic workflow and methodologies Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.60 01-04-2012 Editing Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.61 02-04-2012 Indicators of Social Media Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.62 16-04-2012 Change of paradigm in housing Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.63 17-04-2012 Needs and Demand Assessment in Housing Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.64 18-04-2012 Definition of Core Outputs Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.65 20-4-2012 Definition of housing inputs Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.66 24-4-2012 Definition of housing processes Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.67 25-4-2012 Definition of housing processes Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.68 27-4-2012 Expected simulation output Peter Sonntagbauer 3 0.69 30-4-2012 Definition of housing processes Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.70 01-05-2012 Slum refurbishment as a special case of housing Susanne Sonntagbauer policies 0.71 02-05-2012 Expected output of a land use simulation model Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.72 03-05-2012 Editing Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.73 04-05-2012 Definition of Segregation Processes Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.74 03-05-2012 Editing Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.75 06-05-2012 Employment as a special driver for land use cover Susanne Sonntagbauer change 0.76 18-05-2012 Input data for segregation Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.77 20-05-2012 Expected output of a simulation model Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.78 22-05-2012 Qualitative and quantitative methods Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.79 23-05-2012 Editing and summarization Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.80- 31-05-2012 Final Editing Susanne Sonntagbauer 0.84 4 Table of Content 1 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY ................................................................. 15 I. PART ONE – PROJECT OVERVIEW, METHODS AND DEFINITIONS ........................................................................... 17 2 DOCUMENT GUIDELINE ........................................................................17 2.1 Purpose of the Document .................................................................... 17 2.2 Target group ..................................................................................... 18 2.3 Masterplan of the FUPOL Guidelines on Policy for Cities and Municipalities 18 2.4 Dependencies between D2.1 and other Deliverables ............................... 19 2.4.1 D2.1 – D5.1/D5.2......................................................................... 19 2.4.2 D2.1 – D2.2 Domains to be Modelled ............................................. 19 2.4.3 D2.1. – D3.1 Data Resources to be Imported .................................. 20 2.4.4 D2.2 – D4.1 Models to be Implemented, Specified as FCM, CPN etc. .. 20 2.4.5 D4.1 – D5.1/2 Results to be Visualized ........................................... 20 2.4.6 D3.1 – D4.1 Technical Interface .................................................... 20 2.4.7 D3.1 – D4.1 Limitation Available Input Data .................................... 20 2.5 Benefits............................................................................................. 21 2.6 Structure of the Document .................................................................. 22 3 THE GENERIC FUPOL WORKFLOW ........................................................24 4 DEFINITION, METHODS AND SUPPORT TOOLS ....................................28 4.1 Cities ................................................................................................ 28 4.1.1 What is a city? ............................................................................. 28 4.1.2 Exurbs ........................................................................................ 28 4.1.3 Metropolis ................................................................................... 29 4.1.4 Conurbation ................................................................................ 30 4.1.5 Megalopolis ................................................................................. 31 4.2 Policy ................................................................................................ 32 5 4.3 Participation ...................................................................................... 33 4.4 E-Participation ................................................................................... 35 4.4.1 Definition .................................................................................... 35 4.4.2 E-Participation: “Knowledge is socially constructed” ......................... 36 4.4.3 Strengths, Difficulties and Risks ..................................................... 39 4.4.4 Planning with Actors..................................................................... 40 4.4.5 Boundary Conditions .................................................................... 41 4.4.6 Social Knowledge through E-Participation
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