Jyväskylä: URBACT Case study of cities response to the crisis
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09 October 2017Cities are clearly on the front line when it comes to the impact of the crisis and they will play a major role in both exploring and implementing many of the solutions which directly effect people's lives. Based on the results of the URBACT survey on the impact of the economic crisis and the responses of URBACT cities, 10 URBACT cities have been preselected for in depth case studies of cities response to the crisis. Second city in the spotlight after Newcastle: Jyväskylä located in central Finland.
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Download URBACT Case study JYVÄSKYLÄ (424.98 KB) Download URBACT Case study JYVÄSKYLÄ (424.98 KB)" describes the recovery process of the city of Jyväskylä following the deep 1990's recession which, while affecting all of Finland, hit Jyväskylä quite hard, resulting in massive unemployment of about 24% by December 1994.
Jyväskylä's post-recession development strategy focused on developing ICT expertise, identified as a potential growth sector at that time, while also reorienting the city's strategic thinking, embracing what might be described as a change management approach. In this development strategy 'hard' investment and infrastructural measures were supported by 'soft' development tools from social and cultural policies, with a wide range of cultural activities, citizen participation programmes and so forth, aimed at enhancing the attractiveness of the place. As a result, Jyväskylä became one of the most important information technology growth centres in Finland.
The case studies aim is to reflect both the diversity of impacts and to focus on innovative policy responses developed at local level in European cities. The outputs will not so much be a set of academic studies as the identification of practical recommendations that practitioners and policy makers within cities can adapt to their own circumstances.
Read the Download URBACT Case study JYVÄSKYLÄ (424.98 KB) Download URBACT Case study JYVÄSKYLÄ (424.98 KB) and discover how Jyväskylä has responded to the economic downturn, its recovery process as well as what aspects of Jyväskylä's response could be useful for other cities.
Read More:
- Download URBACT Case study JYVÄSKYLÄ (424.98 KB) - PDF
- Download Urbact Case Study Newcastle (285.47 KB) - PDF
- Download Urbact II CITIES AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS (1.67 MB) – PDF
- Economic Crisis: Cities' Responses and Resources – URBACT website
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