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The ‘Aims of regeneration' working group convened in Dublin on May
28th, 2003. The group agreed to organise the thematic cross-analysis of
all case-studies with a jointly agreed checklist. The chosen chairs of
the working group, Stefan Kreutz from Hamburg and Gediminas Rutkauskas
from Vilnius, developed the checklist which was circulated to all
group members via e-mail. Then all group members had the opportunity to
answer the checklist on the basis of their practical experience and
knowledge regarding their specific local (regional and national)
situation.
The group co-ordinators synthesised all answers under thematic
headlines. The first draft of this synthesis was presented in Brussels
on July, 28th 2003. The results and findings of this first draft were
discussed intensively with the theme co-ordinators and Heads of Science
at the meeting.
As a result of the Brussels meeting the first draft was circulated
with a slightly revised checklist to all working group members again.
All group-members were asked as city-representatives to comment on the
first draft and to answer the questions of the revised checklist on that
basis again. This step was needed to validate the findings of the
synthesis and to gain more empirical evidence.
Then the group co-ordinators revised the synthesis and produced an
advanced draft for the joint ENTRUST workshop in Berlin. The advanced
draft was presented in Berlin on September, 22nd 2003. The results of
the intense discussions in the plenary session and in two meetings of
the working group were fed in the production of this final paper.
The synthesis of our findings regarding the thematic issue is based
on the collected empirical information and evidence from the case-study
level of all ENTRUST-partners. The comparison of these results and the
synthesis of the findings helps to show common understanding, the
variety of practical experience and – if so – cultural differences, too.
These findings are published in the second chapter in detail.
The main aim of this paper is to generalise from the case-study level
to understand the preconditions of urban regeneration processes, to
extract principle conclusions and to develop recommendations for the
policy-level at the municipal, national and European level mainly
regarding the programming phase. These draft recommendations are
collected in the third chapter.
An important focus of our analysis is on the preconditions for the
integration of private partners mainly in the programming phase but also
in the implementation of regeneration processes. This is because the
ENTRUST project is aiming at a new approach towards urban regeneration
in a sense of active participation of all relevant partners
(communities, businesses and public sector) to achieve a new quality of
urban regeneration. So we can say that we want to change the approach
towards urban regeneration and to change the targeted areas. The big
question behind these ENTRUST aims is: What kind of structures and
instruments do we need for this new approach?
This paper is addressing the members of the ENTRUST partnership and
targeting at the involved practitioners, researchers and representatives
from the public sector. To understand the findings and results of this
thematic analysis it's necessary to have at least a principle idea and
basic knowledge of the ENTRUST case-studies. For detailed reference from
the case-study level the reader has to look at the case-studies himself.
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