OECD Territorial Reviews: Venice, Italy 2010

This report offers a comparative analysis of these issues, utilising the OECD’s metropolitan database to benchmark productivity and growth. It draws on regional economics, urban planning, transportation studies and hydrology to throw light on the changes within the city-region.





In light of planned inter-city rail extensions, the Review calls for programmes to increase economic synergies between Venice and its neighbours. It evaluates key tools for promoting economic growth and metropolitan governance and proposes enhanced co-ordination of land use policies, additional business development services for small and medium-sized businesses, and the enlargement of university-linked innovation. Given frequent flooding, the report appraises the quality of metropolitan water governance and Venice’s potential to become a powerful reference for climate change adaptation.


Table of contents
Assessment and recommendations
Developing innovation capacity and enhancing labour market inclusion
Connecting Venice, Padua and Treviso
Calibrating economic and spatial policy to safeguard the environment
Metropolitanise an economic and environmental agenda
Chapter 1. Towards a resilient and integrated metropolitan economy
Introduction
1.1 The emergence of a city-region
1.2. Economic trends
1.3. Is the model resilient to the transformational changes taking place?
Conclusion: towards a resilient and integrated metropolitan economy
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2. Towards a competitive city-region
2.1. Towards a strategic vision for a metropolitan area
2.2. Addressing the economic base in the context of a new regional economic scenario
2.3. Preparing the labour force for the twenty-first century
2.4. Connecting Venice, Treviso and Padua: overcoming urban sprawl and improving mobility
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3. Effective water governance: from instability to resilience
3.1. Water: a critical resource of the Venice city-region
3.2. Water resources in the Venice city-region
3.3. The impact of climate change and the need for adaptation
3.4. The institutional framework of water governance
3.5. Urban water governance in the Venice city-region: critical challenges
3.6. Strategies and tools for improving water governance
3.7. Recommendations for improved urban water governance in the Venice
city-region
Notes
Bibliography
Annex 3.A1. The institutional framework for governing Venice and the Lagoon
Annex 3.A2. Principal supporting institutions engaged in decision support and
research activities for protecting Venice and the Lagoon
Chapter 4. Metropolitan governance: a goal in search of a model
4.1. The Venice city-region in the Italian governance framework
4.2. Strategic planning for a polycentric metropolitan region
4.3. Vertical co-ordination
4.4. Horizontal co-operation
4.5. Towards a metropolitan government?
4.6. Sub-national finance issues
4.7. Participatory governance and civic engagement
4.8. Towards improved multi-level governance
Notes
Bibliography


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