Urban Atlas: Europe's eye in the sky provides cities with tools for smart development

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1 IP/09/65 Brussels, 16 th January 2009 Urban Atlas: Europe's eye in the sky provides cities with tools for smart development What do Prague, Leipzig, Cork, Ljepaja, Poznan, Nice, Glasgow, Venice or Gozo have in common? Whether big or small, European cities need reliable and comparable urban planning information for safe, sustainable and prosperous development. This year, for the first time, 185 cities from all 27 EU Member States, will benefit from the "Urban Atlas", which has been produced by the European Commission and Member States with the support of European space technology. Compiled from thousands of satellite photographs, the Urban Atlas provides detailed and cost-effective digital mapping, ensuring that city planners have the most up-to-date and accurate data available on land use and land cover. The Urban Atlas will enable urban planners to better assess risks and opportunities, ranging from threat of flooding and impact of climate change, to identifying new infrastructure and public transport needs. All cities in the EU will be covered by the Urban Atlas by Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, responsible for Enterprise and Industry, and Commissioner Danuta Hübner, responsible for Regional Policy, said: "European cities and municipal authorities face significant new challenges for future urban planning in the coming years and this project provides a practical and costeffective solution for their needs. Through the use of European space technology we will open up possibilities for mutual learning from a land use perspective and help cities to make more informed investment decisions. The Urban Atlas demonstrates the benefit of an integrated European approach and is an excellent example of how space based applications contribute to local solutions across Europe." The Urban Atlas is part of the implementation of the Global Monitoring of Environment and Security (GMES) service. It is financed with the support of 1 million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and full operability is foreseen for Due to economies of scale, the mapping cost of EUR 2.45 per square km yields at least a tenfold reduction of costs compared to other mapping methodologies. The Urban Atlas maps provide a pan-european classification of city zones, allowing for comparable information on density of residential areas, commercial and industrial zones, extent of green areas, exposure to flood risks and monitoring of urban sprawl which is important for public transport planning in suburban areas.

2 The first edition of the Urban Atlas will be delivered in 2009 to 185 cities (see Annex for a complete list). The Urban Atlas covers all EU capitals and a large sample of large and medium-sized cities participating in the European Urban Audit, a data collection covering over 300 cities in the EU. Future editions of the Urban Atlas are planned in 3-5 year intervals, to complement the Urban Audit exercise. The Urban Audit is co-financed by the European Commission and managed in close consultation with National Statistical Institutes in all EU Member States.. More information: 2

3 Annex 1: European cities mapped by Urban Atlas in 2009 Country City Surface (km*) AT Graz 1243,17 AT Innsbruck 2104,27 AT Linz 1762,08 AT Salzburg 1757,81 AT Wien 4638,4 BE Antwerpen 952 BE Brugge 412 BE Bruxelles/Brussel 1639,73 BE Charleroi 628,14 BE Gent 546,57 BE Liège 1067,06 BE Namur 404,02 BG Plovdiv 1235,84 BG Sofia 3435,78 CY Lefkosia 2724,32 CZ Brno 3322,1 CZ Ceske Budějovice 1638,78 CZ Liberec 1339,86 CZ Olomouc 1629,92 CZ Ostrava 3904,63 CZ Plzen 3124,93 CZ Praha 7008,19 CZ Usti nad Labem 880 DE Berlin 17504,83 DE Bielefeld 2943,17 DE Bonn 1300,33 DE Bremen 5920,41 DE Dresden 2635,29 DE Essen 4462,57 DE Frankfurt am Main 4309,05 DE Hamburg 7232,45 DE Hannover 2993,81 DE Karlsruhe 1268,72 DE Köln 1634,7 DE Leipzig 2818,46 DE Mönchengladbach 171,21 DE München 5238,55 DE Nürnberg 2725,27 DE Stuttgart 3679,26 DE Trier 1217,41 DE Wuppertal 167,81 DK Aarhus 4554,46 DK København 2837,98 EE Tallinn 4350,1 EE Tartu 3017,94 ES Alicante/Alacant 679,03 ES Barcelona 1809,58 3

4 ES Bilbao 991,32 ES Córdoba 1265,45 ES Gijón 524,7 ES Las Palmas 875,33 ES Madrid 8054,23 ES Murcia 1334,6 ES Palma di Mallorca 2174,65 ES Sevilla 3093,06 ES Valencia 1454,65 ES Valladolid 3055,61 ES Vigo 1435,67 ES Zaragoza 2304,94 FI Helsinki 3095,87 FI Oulu 3773,58 FI Tampere 2392,63 FI Turku 1746,07 FR Aix-en-Provence 1305,51 FR Bordeaux 3909,9 FR Clermont-Ferrand 1833,6 FR Grenoble 1618,78 FR Le Havre 641,72 FR Lille 620,09 FR Lyon 3339,29 FR Marseille 609,28 FR Metz 1854,83 FR Montpellier 599,07 FR Nancy 1856,04 FR Nantes 2322,91 FR Nice 334,65 FR Orléans 2085,79 FR Paris 12106,34 FR Rennes 2575,62 FR Rouen 1600,2 FR Saint-Etienne 575,48 FR Strasbourg 1382,84 FR Toulon 340,72 FR Toulouse 4064,45 FR Tours 1825,2 GR Athina 3031,26 GR Irakieio 605,95 GR Joannina 1339,41 GR Larisa 1567,87 GR Patra 510,58 GR Thessaloniki 1436,94 GR Volos 308,82 HU Budapest 2536,07 HU Debrecen 1687,67 HU Győr 1451,53 HU Miskolc 1015,11 HU Pécs 578,28 HU Szeged 760,28 IE Cork 2112,87 IE Dublin 7013,88 4

5 IE Galway 51,95 IE Limerick 3541,09 IE Waterford 43,19 IT Bari 901,27 IT Bologna 2065,98 IT Brescia 548,75 IT Cagliari 1695,82 IT Firenze 1273,13 IT Gatania 591,58 IT Genova 933,65 IT Milano 1361,43 IT Modena 647,57 IT Napoli 571,4 IT Padova 988,28 IT Palermo 1190,49 IT Reggio di Calabria 492,83 IT Roma 3616,84 IT Taranto 1427,07 IT Torino 1893,59 IT Trieste- 215,22 IT Venezia 1215,81 IT Verona 1220,18 LT Kaunas 1635,1 LT Panevėžys 2243,19 LT Vilnius 4266,07 LU Luxembourg 2612,43 LV Liepaja 3666,39 LV Riga 5413,94 MT Gozo 68,03 MT Valletta 243,61 NL Amsterdam 1183,76 NL Apeldoorn 630,94 NL Breda 503,76 NL Eindhoven 332,64 NL Groningen 949,09 NL Nijmegen 322 NL Rotterdam 713,66 NL s' Gravenhage. 421,28 NL Tilburg 394,39 NL Utrecht 394,91 PL Białystok 5140,38 PL Bydgoszcz 3416,42 PL Częstochowa 2586,64 PL Gdansk 3351,19 PL Katowice 2658,55 PL Kielce 2373,78 PL Kraków 3024,73 PL Lodz 2875,44 PL Lublin 2902,02 PL Olsztyn 2949 PL Poznan 3738,26 PL Radom 1644,72 PL Szczecin 6078,12 5

6 Total PL Torun 1360,06 PL Warszawa 5229,75 PL Wroclaw 4608,38 PT Aveiro 275,07 PT Braga 499,94 PT Coimbra 1264,74 PT Funchal 260 PT Lisboa 1452,68 PT Oporto 567,08 PT Setúbal 177,02 RO Brăila 442,25 RO Bucuresti 1086,51 RO CIuj-Napoca 599,6 RO Craiova 347,57 RO Timişoara 241,25 SE Göteborg 4220,49 SE Malmö 1852,48 SE Stockholm 7005,77 SE Uppsala 6849,51 SI Ljubljana 2573,05 SI Maribor 2185,66 SK Banska Bystrica 815,47 SK Bratislava 2055,36 SK Kosice 1783,67 SK Nitra 878,07 SK Prešov 944,63 UK Birmingham 1596,74 UK Edinburgh 1739,52 UK Glasgow 3390,53 UK Leeds 5131,92 UK Liverpool 650,57 UK London 8991, ,76 km² 6