The urbanization process that is transforming our planet is amply described by a large number of documents, studies and publications. However, sources rarely mention the fact that as a result of this transformation, another process is transforming our surroundings, surpassing all existing decision-making frameworks: metropolisation.
The aim of this seminar is to analyse the impact of the emergence of metropolitan spaces on governance, social cohesion and the quality of life of their inhabitants. How can these new spaces for metropolitan governance also create metropolitan identities and get citizens involved in their construction? What data and studies do we have on inequalities and the lack of social cohesion in metropolitan areas? How can we go beyond quantitative data and analyse the conditions and quality of life of the metropolitan population? In order to do so, we will mobilize the experiences of governments and institutions that work on these kinds of issues with data on a metropolitan level.
We cannot answer these questions without the necessary tools. Therefore, during the seminar we will use the opportunity to present the Metropolis metropolitan indicator system. This is an open database on a metropolitan scale, which when completed will incorporate data from more than 140 Metropolis members. It is an innovative project that will allow us to bring metropolitan data to the surface and make it available to everyone, to identify global and regional trends, as well as to observe the work that remains to be done in the construction of a data system on a local and metropolitan level that is up to date and that incorporates a gender perspective. With its 38 indicators, this project includes information from the 58 metropolitan spaces analysed, amounting to more than 2,204 pieces of data.
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Pol Morillas, Director, CIDOB
Octavi de la Varga, Secretary General, Metropolis
Octavi de la Varga, Secretary General, Metropolis
Nuno Ferreira Da Cruz, Research Fellow, LSE Cities
Introduction: Tools to build efficient public policies to promote quality of life
Marina Subirats, Sociologist
Metropolitan data
Silvia Llorente, Project Officer, Metropolis Women
Quality of Life Survey of Gauteng City Region Observatory
Julia de Kadt, Senior Researcher, Gauteng City Region Observatory
Moderated by: Maria Cortada, Technical Office, Metropolitan Governance and Prospective, PEMB
Introduction: Presentation of the Policy Brief on the pillar of social rights prepared by CIDOB for the EMA
Eva Garcia, Senior Researcher and Scientific Coordinator, Global Cities Programme, CIDOB
Metropolitan data
Eugeni Villalbí, Project Officer, Metropolis Observatory
Re-city platform
Marc Tataret, Researcher, Metropolitan Observatory in Social Sustainability
Inclusive metropolitan public space policies
Ramon Torra, General Manager, AMB
Moderated by: Sergio Porcel, Head of Social and Urban Cohesion Department, IERMB
Introduction: From the municipality to the metropolis. The change of scale in participatory mechanisms and processes
Marc Martí, Head of Governance and Public Policies, IERMB
Metropolitan data
Eugeni Villalbí, Project Officer, Metropolis Observatory
Office de Consultation Publique de Montréal
Dominique Ollivier, President, Office de Consultation Publique de Montréal
Urban Brussels
Philippe Perieuse, Director, Direction of Urban Regeneration, Urban Brussels
Moderated by: Agustí Fernández de Losada, Director of the Global Cities Programme, CIDOB
