EU Integrated Urban Initiatives: Policy Learning and Quality of Life Impacts in Spain

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: EU Urban Initiatives as Integrated Multi-level Policy Mixes—Policy Levels, Policy Dimensions and Added Values of Integrated Local Strategies from a Comparative Perspective
	Place-Based Urban Policies as Complex Multi-level Policy Mixes: Policy Levels, Dimensions and Integration
	EU Urban Initiatives as Integrated Multi-Level Policy Mixes: Policy Frames, Institutions and Comparative Analysis to Examine Local Integrated Strategies
		The ECP Policy Frame for Urban Initiatives and Over-Time Comparisons: From ‘Neighbourhood Revitalisation’ to ‘Sustainable Communities’
		Institutional Context and Local Conditions: On Cross-Sectional Comparisons
	On EU Urban Integrated Initiatives Evaluation and Added Value: Better Urban Policies and Better Urban Places to Live
	The Spanish Case: An Opportunity for the Comparative Analysis of EU Urban Integrated Strategies and Their Added Value
	References
Part I Better Urban Policies or Added Value I: The Practice and Learnings on the Policy Integration Strategy at the Local Level
2 The Nature and the Policy Added Value of EU Integrated Urban Initiatives: Research Issues and Strategies
	Introduction
	Analysing EU Integrated Urban Initiatives: Main Methodological Perspectives
	The Nature of EU Urban Initiatives and Their ‘Added Value I’: Quality of Design, Policy Agenda Content, Integrated Strategy, and Policy Theories
	References
3 Evaluating the Design of Integrated Urban Development Strategies: Evaluability, Plan Quality and Planning Learning Processes
	Introduction
	The Quality of Integrated Urban Policies Design: Comparative Tools to Assess Evaluability
	The Quality of Integrated Urban Initiatives: URBAN and URBANA Initiatives
	Integrating Evaluation in Planning Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development Strategies
	References
4 The Agenda of Urban Sustainable Development Initiatives: Challenges, Goals, and Actions Across Policy Areas
	Introduction
	Analysing Urban Development Agendas: The Relevance of Different Policy Sectors of Intervention as Problems, Objectives, and Policy Actions
	The Urban Development Agenda: The Relevance of Challenges, Objectives, and Policy Actions
	From Problems to Strategies: On Projects Consistency
	Conclusions: A Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development Model
	Annex
	References
5 The Integrated Strategy as Urban Policy Innovation Proposed by the EU: Do Cities Apply It?
	Introduction
	Integrated Urban Development as Urban Policy Innovation in the European Union and Spain
	Measuring the EU ‘Urban Acquis’: Policy Diversity, Integration, and Participation
	Levels of Policy Integration, Diversity, and Participation in Local Projects
	Towards a Sustainable and Integrated Urban Strategy?: Something More Than Diversity or a Balance Between Different Sustainable Development Goals
	References
6 Opening the Black Box of Integrated Urban Development Strategies: On Causal Mechanisms and Policy Theories
	Introduction
	Integrated Urban Development Projects as Policy Mixes: Objectives and Causal Processes
		Basic Policy Actions in Integrated Urban Development Policy Mixes: Combining Objectives and Policy Tools
	Integrated Urban Development Strategies in the URBAN and URBANA Programmes: Changes in Their Policy Theory
	From Policy Frames to a Theory of Integrated Urban Development: Some Analytical and Methodological Foundations
	References
Part II Better Spaces to Live or the Added Value II: The Impacts of the Policy Integrated Strategy on Neighbourhoods and Residents
7 The Impact of EU-Integrated Urban Development Initiatives: Research Strategies Beyond ‘Good Practices’
	Introduction
	Analysing the Effects of Integrated Urban Development Strategies on Socio-Spatial Cohesion: Main Methodological Strategies
	Impact Analysis Using Controlled Comparisons: A Quasi-Experimental Research Design Approach
		Observation Units: ‘Homogeneous Urban Areas’
		Reducing the ‘Selection Bias’ of the Programmes: Propensity Score Matching for Experimental and Control Areas Selection
		Analysis of the ‘Average’ Impact of Programmes and Potential Heterogeneous Effects: Controlled Comparisons of Urban Trajectories of Change and Other Possible Specifications
	References
8 The Impact of the URBAN Initiative: On Residential Mobility and ‘Contextual Exposure’ to EU-Integrated Urban Development Strategies
	Introduction
	The Impact of Integrated Urban Development and Urban Change: Intervention Mechanisms, Policy Exposure, and Residential Mobility
	Research Design to Analyse Integrated Strategy Impacts: Controlling by Territorial Eligibility Criteria and Contextual Exposure to the Programme
	Results
	Place-Based Integrated Strategies and the Puzzle of Residential Mobility: on Gentrification, Revitalisation, and Socio-Spatial Inequalities Reproduction
	Annex
	References
9 The Impact of the URBANA Initiative: Socio-Economic Conditions, Self-Perceived Health and Quality of the Built Environment—A Time-Trend Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data
	Introduction
	Measuring Programme Objectives: Household Socio-Economic Situation, Personal Health and House-Environmental Problems
	Is There an ‘Average’ Impact of the URBANA Projects?
	Do Impacts Depend on the Properties of the Context in Which the Intervention Takes Place?
	Some Brief Reflections About the ‘Average’ and ‘Heterogeneous’ Policy Impacts of EU Urban Integrated Strategies
	References
10 ‘Cultural Buzz’ on the Neighbourhood:  The Impact of the URBAN I Initiative on Cultural Consumption Opportunities
	Introduction
	Cities and Neighbourhoods as Cultural Contexts: Urban Policies and the ‘Cultural Buzz’ of Neighbourhoods
	Urban Development Strategies and Cultural Buzz: Quantity and Type of Opportunities for Cultural Consumption
	The URBAN Initiative: ‘Culture’ as a Project Objective and Its Potential Impacts
	The Impact of the URBAN Initiative on the Cultural Buzz of Neighbourhoods: Sort and Long Time Effects
	Final Considerations: On the ‘Sustainability’ of Impacts
	References
11 The ‘Historical City Centre’ Question: How Have the Historical Centres of Major Cities Changed After the Intervention of the URBAN I Initiative?
	Introduction
	The URBAN Initiative as a Socio-Spatial Rebalancing Policy in the City: Contextualised Improvements and Changes
	Methodology: Case Selection and Analysis Strategy
	Starting Conditions in the Intervention Areas: Severity of the Socio-Spatial Vulnerability
	URBAN Policy Impact: Contextualising Changes Within the City
	Urban Integrated Policies, Changes in Historical Centres, and Heterogeneous Policy Impacts
	References
Part III Conclusion
12 Policy Evidence About the Added Value of EU-Integrated Urban Initiatives as Local Policy Mixes
	Introduction
	On the Nature and Added Value of Urban Initiatives Promoted by the EU: Policy Evidence About Policy Compliance and Learning from the Case of Spain (1994–2013)
		Better Urban Policies? Applying and Learning About the Integrated Model Proposed by the EU
		Better Urban Places to Live? ‘Average’ and ‘Heterogeneous’ Effects of EU Urban Initiatives
	Towards a Multi-Scalar Comparative Research Agenda for EU Urban Initiatives as Multi-Level Policy Mixes: Policy Levels, Institutional Contexts and Integrated Local Policy Mixes
	References
Index