The city can be considered as a sum of framework conditions for social and business development. The concept 'urban policy' has been put on the agenda in recent years. The concept signals a broad political effort to strengthen the social and business development on a local level. Urban policy is integrated and geographically defined since it takes its starting point in areas (districts, cities and municipalities) rather than sectors (housing policy, educational policy etc.). In doing so, urban policy differs from a number of policies traditionally used by municipalities in planning urban development. There is need to provide inspiration to municipalities of how urban policy is put into practice.

A network between Naestved, Ringe, Toender and Local Government Denmark (LGDK) with the intention of redistributing experiences with urban policy.

As a consequence of the network cooperation 3 different levels of methodical considerations are connected to this project:

The network can now present examples of gains reaped through working with urban policy as a method. In all three cities voluntary cooperations have been initiated between the municipality and a number of private players - and in all three cases the experience has been that this kind of cooperation gives the city a push in the right direction. The project results can be found on the home page of LGDK and in the booklet 'Bypolitik - det er noget vi gør' (in Danish).

Financed by 'Bypuljen' (urban project funding) of the Ministry of Social Affairs.

Local Government Denmark (LGDK)
Denmark
Maj Green

01/01/2002

case

Urban Policy > Urban environment > Urban renewal

Urban restructuring