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We are happy to announce the next EURA Urban Regeneration Talk that will take place online on February 6, 2025 15:00 (CET). This EIRA evemt is launched in the context of the Working Group on Urban Regeneration.

The Sixth UR talk will focus on the French case, counting with the valuable contribution and expertise on the topic of Christophe Demazière from University of Lille. The talk will give place to an overview on the evolution of urban regeneration in France and discuss the political shift from “banlieues” to small and medium sized towns.

Link to the online event:

https://tu-dortmund.zoom.us/j/98987165073?pwd=SjJZbENhSkJLbG8yVGtUOVFRMlBLdz09

About the research

This work, authored by the JMC coordinator, departs from studies that have stressed increasing vulnerability and a lack of urban regeneration in European Union (EU) cities in the programming periods 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 of the Cohesion Policy. In the context of the coming Cohesion Policy period in which innovative instruments will be crucial in addressing urban poverty and vulnerability – in line with that proposed by the European Green Deal -, this study demonstrates how urban regeneration has lost visibility and relevance in European Commission (EC) instruments and its related policy discourse through time, and how this has resulted in public stakeholders’ decreasing interest in urban regeneration and in weaker strategies being put into place in the programming period 2014-2020 of Cohesion Policy. The diachronic perspective adopted allows us to reveal the changing definition of the EU ‘urban problem’ from the end of the 1980s to the present moment, as well as the evolution of policy priorities; with vulnerable neighbourhoods being particularly identified as receiving insufficient attention. All this confirms the need to rethink and boost urban regeneration at EU level and integrate it as a specific objective of the Cohesion Policy for the period 2021-2027.

Publication date: 17/12/2024