Large-ScaleLarge-Scale UrbanUrban DevelopmentDevelopment ProjectsProjects inin EuropeEurope DriversDrivers ofof ChangeChange inin CityCity RegionsRegions N° 146 - June 2007 - 36 € ISSN 0153-6184 Composition of the Board of Directors on 12 March 2007 INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PLANNING Chairman Mr Jean-Paul HUCHON AND DEVELOPMENT Chairman of the Île-de-France Regional Council OF THE ÎLE-DE-FRANCE REGION • Executive Board: 1st Vice Chairman Recognised as a public interest foundation Mr Bertrand LANDRIEU in the decree of 2 August 1960. Prefect of the Île-de-France region, Prefect of Paris 2nd Vice Chairman Mr Jean-Claude BOUCHERAT Chairman of the Île-de-France Economic and Social Regional Council Chief Executive Officer M. François DUGENY 3rd Vice Chairman Ms Mireille FERRI, Vice-Chairwoman of the Regional Council responsible for regional development, territorial equality, regional and rural contracts Treasurer: Mr Robert CADALBERT Secretary: Mr François LABROILLE As an urban planning agency af- filiated to the Regional Council, • Regional Councillors IAURIF provides technical sup- Permanent: Deputy: port to Île-de-France local autho- Mr Gilles ALAYRAC Ms Jeanne CHEDHOMME rities as a priority. Mr Robert CADALBERT Ms Aude EVIN Ms Marianne LOUIS Mr Olivier GALIANA Mr Daniel GOLDBERG Mr Daniel GUERIN It draws together wide-ranging Ms Christine REVAULT-d’ALLONNES Mr Philippe KALTENBACH Ms Mireille FERRI Mr Jean-Félix BERNARD expertise: urban and rural deve- Mr Guy BONNEAU Ms Francine BAVAY lopment, environment, transport, Mr François LABROILLE Mr Alain ROMANDEL Ms Christine MAME Mr Jean-Yves PERROT housing and lifestyles, economy Ms Josy MOLLET-LIDY Ms Sylviane TROPPER Mr Jean-Jacques LASSERRE Mr Michel CAFFIN and local development, public fa- Mr Eric AZIERE Mr Pierre Le GUERINEL cilities and land, healthcare. Mr Jean-Michel DUBOIS Mr Dominique JOLY Its diagnoses and proposals feed into decision-making by regional • Chairman of the Economic and Social Regional Council: Mr Jean-Claude BOUCHERAT and elected representatives be- fore finding concrete form in ac- • Two members of the Economic and Social Regional Council: tual projects. Permanent: Deputy: Ms Joséphine COPPOLA Ms Danielle DESGUÉES Ms Isabelle DROCHON Mr Noël ZELLER It acts in liaison with other French and European operators via its • Four representatives of the French State: networked Geographical Infor- Mr Bertrand LANDRIEU, Prefect of the Île-de-France region, Prefect of Paris Ms Sylvie MARCHAND, Regional Director of INSEE, representative of the Minister in charge of the Budget mation System and Media li- Mr Pascal LELARGE, Regional director of Île-de-France public facilities, Prefect, representative of the Minister for Urban Planning brary. The representative of the Minister of Transport • Four founding members: It exports its know-how by means Mr Guy CASTELNAU, representative of the Governor of the Banque de France Mr Claude BLANCHET, the Interregional Director of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations of direct contracts and technical Mr Patrick BAYON DE LA TOUR, representative of the president of the executive board of Crédit Foncier de France cooperation agreements. Mr Henry SAVAJOL, representative of the Chairman of the executive board of Crédit de l’Équipement des P.M.E. • The Chairman of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, represented by Mr Jean-Claude KARPELES Cover photo: P. Lecroart/Iaurif/IJburg-Amsterdam CAHIERS DE L’IAURIF N° 146 In this issue PUBLICATION CREATED IN 1964 DE L’INSTITUT D’AMÉNAGEMENT ENGLISH VER- N°146 SION ET D’URBANISME Editorial: DE LA RÉGION D’ÎLE-DE-FRANCE JUNE 2007 Bringing in change in City-regions . 3 Jean-Paul Huchon, President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France Director of the publication Large-scale urban development projects in Europe: François DUGÉNY what lessons can be learnt for the Île-de-France Region? 5 Editor-in-chief Paul Lecroart, Jean-Pierre Palisse, IAURIF Sophie MARIOTTE (01 53 85 75 28) [email protected] with the assistance of Dominique LOCHON Coordination Paul LECROART (01 53 85 78 76) [email protected] Press 29 Catherine GROLÉE-BRAMAT (01 53 85 79 05) [email protected] Translation ILTI Framework for projects: Studio manager Denis LACOMBE (01 53 85 79 44) [email protected] strategies, spatial planning, Production and partnerships Sylvie COULOMB (01 53 85 79 43) [email protected] Layout, illustrations Agnès CHARLES (01 53 85 79 46) [email protected] Strategies, stakeholders, and large-scale projects: a few pointers . 30 Mapping Paul Lecroart, IAURIF Didier PRINCE (01 53 85 79 47) [email protected] Xavier OPIGEZ (01 53 85 78 44) [email protected] Further Reading From Docklands to Thames Gateway: reversing the tides . 39 Linda GALLET (01 53 85 79 63) [email protected] Peter Hall, The Bartlett, Faculty of the Built Environment, London Christine ALMANZOR (01 53 85 79 20) [email protected] Julien CAMMAS (01 53 85 79 23) [email protected] Berlin’s Urban Development Strategy – Planning and Projects 47 Media library – photo library Hilmar von Lojewski, Senate Department of Urban Development, Berlin Claire GALOPIN (01 53 85 75 34) [email protected] Aurélie LACOUCHIE (01 53 85 75 18) [email protected] Printing Amsterdam Zuidas: ambition and uncertainties of a large scale Point 44 mixed-use urban development . 60 Stan Majoor, Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Joint committee no. 811 AD ISSN 0153-6184 Studies © I.A.U.R.I.F. 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Copyrighting: 2nd quarter 2007 Ørestad – the generator of the Øresund region? . 77 Carsten Arlund, Ørestad Development Corporation Distribution, sale and subscription: Olivier LANGE (01 53 85 79 38) [email protected] Porto Antico in Genoa: a project on the rise . 85 France International Maria Basile, University of Genoa and University of Paris VIII Per issue: 36 € 38 € Subscription for 4 issues: 87 € 98 € Students* 30% discount Trans scalar strategies of action: comparing experiences Directly: of mega projects in city regions of Europe . 91 ÎLE-DE-FRANCE bookshop, IAURIF desk Willem Salet, Amsterdam Institute of Metropolitan and International Development e 15, rue Falguière, Paris 15 (01 53 85 77 40) Studies By mail: INSTITUT D’AMÉNAGEMENT ET D’URBANISME DE LA RÉGION D’ÎLE-DE-FRANCE Large-scale urban development projects: 15, rue Falguière, 75740 Paris Cedex 15 where public and private strategies converge . 101 subscription and sale by issue http://www.iaurif.org Ludovic Halbert, CNRS * Photocopy of card for year in progress. 2007 rates Large-scale urban development projects in Europe 109 Delivering the projects: approaches, methods, and tools From the plan to the city: managing large-scale urban development projects in Europe . 110 Paul Lecroart, IAURIF The 22@Barcelona project: brownfield urban redevelopment or innovation melting pot? . 119 Albert Broggi, Aula Barcelona IJburg, the bumpy road of an ambitious new (sub)urban district for Amsterdam . 126 Tineke Lupi, Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies Malmö, Västra Hamnen (Sweden): methods and tools for urban transformation . 135 Mats Olsson, Consultant Göran Rosberg, Municipality of Malmö Glasgow Clyde Waterfront: public partnership, private developments . 143 David Forsyth, Benchmark Media Rotterdam CityPorts, a new organisation, a new path to urban port restructuring . 151 Jaap van der Want, Rotterdam CityPorts The North Milan model: economic regeneration without an urban development project? . 157 Floridea Di Ciommo, CSTB (scientific and technical centre for the building industry) Planning and delivery structures in Europe: a comparative approach . 163 Thierry Vilmin, Logiville Housing policies, social mix, and large-scale development projects The ambitions and contradictions of Thames Gateway . 172 Brigitte Guigou, IAURIF Are large-scale sustainable neighbourhood projects the ecological laboratories of the future? . 180 Dominique Sellier, ARENE Île-de-France To be published: Between projects and strategies, the financial gamble of six city regions in Europe . 188 Further Reading . 190 Book review . 206 Events . 208 2 CAHIERS DE L’IAURIF N°146 Bringing in change in City-regions Bringing about change in the Paris Île-de-France city-region is the ambition that the Regional Council of Île-de-France has set itself in adopting its new Regional Structure Plan. Three major challenges that are common to most European metropolises need to be taken up: - reducing social, environmental, and territorial disparities; - anticipating climate and energy changes; and - developing jobs and economic excellence in Île-de-France and developing the Region’s influence. Through the Regional Structure Plan, the strategy consists in promoting the Île-de-France as a city-region that is more compact and more dense, that is better structured, and whose infrastructures and facilities impart consistency from the core of the conurbation to the rural areas around it. Underpinned by its spatial