15 Amendments of Karima DELLI related to 2011/2311(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
Citation 21 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 26 March 2009 on the impact of extensive urbanisation in Spain on individual rights of European citizens, on the environment and on the application of EU law, based upon petitions received;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas cities represent the engine of the economy, manufacturing and employment, yet at the same time are where one encounters the problems of suburbanisation, unemployment and more generally, social exclusion and segregation, and environmental pollution;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the current transformation processes within the urban fabric produce growing expectations and problems that the state traditionally seeks to resolve, which therefore require mechanisms for innovative and integrated economic and soc, social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas revisiting traditional approaches can become an opportunity to launch a process of urban experimentation and pathways of design, based on a reinterpretation of the planning of spaces and, community needs and citizens' involvement;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the local development model represents a key strength of the cohesion policy since decisive mobility factors encourage the selection of the best choices closest to the citizens, joint actions and more coherent, effective and efficient measures giving moreover greater visibility to community interventions in the EU areas facing more difficult challenges;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Hopes for actions aimed at the completion and restoration of existing parts of cities, the functional conversion of disused spaces, the desegregation of marginalised neighbourhoods, the return to the community of strongly symbolic and historically rich spaces which have lost their original function and have become progressively neglected;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Asks for cultural and economic resources to be circulated, assuming as a priority the theme of social sustainability and urban transformation, in the knowledge that processes of urban regeneration always risk pushing out the weaker sections of the population; underlines the necessity to closely involve the inhabitants from the earliest stage possible;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights that urban regeneration and economic revitalisation are closely related and that the construction of an attractive location can become a factor in economic recovery that should also serve the evolvement of local economy and jobs;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. states that, particularly in pockets of poverty, actions in favour of economic development should be complemented by social measures in order to achieve real inclusion;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. stresses that urban re-development requires that particular attention is given to improving the state of urban environment by reducing congestions, contamination and noise resulting from transport and unsustainable land-use patterns;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the proposal for the ‘Urban development platform’INTERACT programme, which promotes the creation of networks between cities and the exchange of experience and good practices, butand stresses that it should be extended to the urban areasfurther strengthened;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Appreciates the provision for a reserve of at least 5 % of the ERDF funds, to be assigned directly to municipalities to promote sustainable urban development; calls on the managing authorities to consistently propose a full delegation of funds to voluntary cities to implement the integrated urban strategies and to make use of new instruments such as Community-led local development due to its shared governance and bottom-up participation;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Highlights the importance of involving rural areas, integrating their needs with those of the urban areas, to promote a relationship that is not in conflict but is complementary and synergetic in particular by improving the use of resources, limiting urban spread, and developing the local economy and the accessibility to public services;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for a mobility and parkingsustainable mobility management model integrated with town planning, with appropriate attention to the needs of the urban distribution of goods;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Is convinced that the management of waste represents a socialcould be a sensitive issue that involves institutions, the economy and society and that therefore requires participative governance and respects European requirements as stipulated in the waste directive, in particular what concerns the waste hierarchy;