WILCO - Welfare innovations at the local level in favour of cohesion,

City Reports

A total of 20 European cities will be studied in depth in the framework of WILCO. These 20 WILCO City Reports represent the first attempt at understanding how these cities have developed in the last decades and how these changes have contributed to the current landscape in the areas of housing, employment, family and immigration.

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The following reports will be published shortly: Malmö and Medway.

These city reports map the problems of social inequality and cohesion at the local level, as the background for the research on local social innovations in the subsequent part of the project. We chose twenty European cities (two per country) on which we will focus our remaining research: Münster and Berlin Friedrichshain – Kreuzberg (DE); Zagreb and Varazdin (HR); Amsterdam and Nijmegen (NL); Barcelona and Pamplona (ES); Milan and Brescia (IT); Stockholm and Malmø (SE); Birmingham and Medway area (UK); Warsaw and Plock (PL); Lille and Nantes (FR); Bern and Genève (CH). The reports include (1) an analysis of the main characteristics and trends of the local labour market (main sectors, employment and unemployment levels, groups of population mainly affected by long-term unemployment); (2) an analysis of demographic structure of the population and of the trends taking place in the preceding ten years (proportion of the elderly, fertility and natality rates, proportion of immigrants and their distribution in the urban territory, etc.); (3) an analysis of the housing market, with special attention to critical situations such as overcrowding, difficult affordability, evictions, homelessness; (4) an analysis of migration trends, of migrants’ flows into the cities, of the composition of migrant population, its features, changes and possible risks of exclusion and segregation.

 

Documents

Amsterdam (The Netherlands) - 4214 KB
Barcelone (Spain) - 1452 KB
Berlin (Germany) - 574 KB
Birmingham (United Kingdom) - 1659 KB
Brescia (Italy) - 1384 KB
Milan (Italy) - 4931 KB
Bern (Switzerland) - 1563 KB
Nijmegen (The Netherlands) - 800 KB
Plock (Poland) - 1141 KB
Münster (Germany) - 3462 KB
Stockholm (Sweden) - 1514 KB
Warsaw (Poland) - 917 KB
Pamplona (Spain) - 2356 KB
Varazdin (Croatia) - 463 KB
Geneva (Switzerland) - 1104 KB
Zagreb (Croatia) - 576 KB
Lille (France) - 743 KB
Nantes (France) - 563 KB