INCEPTION REPORT // ESPON METRO – The role and future perspectives of Cohesion Policy in the planning of Metropolitan Areas and Cities Annex 1 // November 2020 This Inception report is conducted within the framework of the ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme, partly financed by the European Regional Development Fund. The ESPON EGTC is the Single Beneficiary of the ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme. The Single Operation within the programme is implemented by the ESPON EGTC and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, the EU Member States and the Partner States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. This delivery does not necessarily reflect the opinions of members of the ESPON 2020 Monitoring Committee. Authors Giancarlo Cotella, Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone, Umberto Janin Rivolin, Marco Santangelo, Loris Servillo, Luca Staricco, Maurizio Pioletti, Donato Casavola. Politecnico di Torino (Italy) Christophe Demazière. DEMAZIERE (France) Iwona Sagan, Jacek Zaucha, Radomir Matczak. Institute for Development (Poland) Mario Vale, Margarida Queiros, Eduarda Marques da Costa, Nuno Marques da Costa. Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território - ULisboa (Portugal). Gilles Van Hamme, Moritz Lennert, Pablo Medina Lockhart, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) Zaiga Krisjane, Guido Sechi, Janis Krumins, Toms Skadins, University of Latvia (Latvia) Luděk Sýkora, Alena Coblence, Charles University (Czech Republic) Valeria Lingua, Giuseppe De Luca, Carlo Pisano, University of Florence (Italy) Marc Marti Costa, Vittorio Galletto, Barcelona Institute of Regional and Metropolitan Studies (Spain) Advisory group Stakeholders: Claudia Fassero, Città Metropolitana di Torino (IT) | Odile Huiban, Metropole de Lyon (FR) | Aleksandra Fijałkowska, Metropolitan Area of Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot (PL) | Filipe Ferreira, Lisbon Metropolitan Area (PT) | Sandrine De Meyer, perspetive.brussels (BE) | Agnese Gūtmane, Riga City Council (LV) | Soňa Raszková, Brno City Municipality (CZ) | Alessandra Barbieri, Municipality of Florence (IT) | Xavier Tiana Casablanca, Barcelona Metropolitan Area (ES) | Dorthe Nielsen, EUROCITIES | Guillaume Berret, Metropolis. 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INCEPTION REPORT // ESPON METRO – The role and future perspectives of Cohesion Policy in the planning of Metropolitan Areas and Cities Table of contents Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 8 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 9 1 Metropolitan City of Turin ............................................................................................... 12 1.1 Institutional configuration and cohesion policy .......................................................................... 12 1.2 Objectives and policy needs ..................................................................................................... 18 1.3 References ............................................................................................................................... 21 2 Barcelona Metropolitan Area .......................................................................................... 23 2.1 Institutional configuration and cohesion policy .......................................................................... 23 2.2 Objectives and policy needs ..................................................................................................... 33 2.3 References ............................................................................................................................... 35 3 Brno Metropolitan Area ................................................................................................... 38 3.1 Institutional configuration and cohesion policy .......................................................................... 38 3.2 Objectives and policy needs ..................................................................................................... 43 3.3 References ............................................................................................................................... 45 4 Brussels Capital Region .................................................................................................. 48 4.1 Institutional configuration and cohesion policy .......................................................................... 48 4.2 Objectives and policy needs ..................................................................................................... 52 4.3 References ............................................................................................................................... 54 5 Lisbon Metropolitan Area ................................................................................................ 56 5.1 Institutional configuration and cohesion policy .......................................................................... 56 5.2 Objectives and policy needs ..................................................................................................... 60 5.3 References ............................................................................................................................... 62 6 Lyon Metropolitan Area ................................................................................................... 64 6.1 Institutional configuration and cohesion policy .......................................................................... 64 6.2 Objectives and policy needs ..................................................................................................... 70 7 Metropolitan Area of Gdansk-Gdinya-Sopot ................................................................. 75 7.1 Institutional configuration and cohesion policy .......................................................................... 75 7.2 Objectives and policy needs ..................................................................................................... 81 8 Metropolitan City of Florence ......................................................................................... 84 8.1 Institutional configuration and cohesion policy .......................................................................... 84 8.2 Objectives and policy needs ..................................................................................................... 97 8.3 References ............................................................................................................................... 99 9 Riga Metropolitan Area .................................................................................................. 101 9.1 Institutional configuration and cohesion policy ........................................................................ 101 9.2 Objectives and policy needs ................................................................................................... 109 9.3 References ............................................................................................................................. 110 ESPON // espon.eu 5 INCEPTION REPORT // ESPON METRO – The role and future perspectives of Cohesion Policy in the planning of Metropolitan Areas and Cities List of maps, figures, charts and tables List of maps Map 1.1 Metropolitan City of Turin .................................................................................................... 13 Map 2.1 Barcelona Metropolitan Area ............................................................................................... 24 Map 3.1 Brno Metropolitan Area ........................................................................................................ 40 Map 4.1 Brussels Metropolitan Area ................................................................................................. 49 Map 5.1 Lisbon Metropolitan Area ..................................................................................................... 57 Map 6.1 Lyon Metropolitan Area ....................................................................................................... 67 Map 7.1 Metropolitan Area of Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot ........................................................................ 77 Map 8.1 Metropolitan City of Florence ............................................................................................... 86 Map 9.1 Riga Metropolitan Area .....................................................................................................