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Across the OECD globalisation has opened doors for cities with great promise for free trade, open borders, labour mobility, technology transfer and electronic communication. Istanbul, like many other cities, has many initiatives underway to maximize these opportunities.
However air pollution, traffic congestion, infrastructure and housing issues, as well as concentrations of unemployment, violence and poverty in distressed neighbourhoods risk threatening the city’s ability to take advantage of these opportunities and ultimately strengthen its competitiveness.
The Istanbul review, part of a metropolitan series undertaken by the OECD Territorial Development Policy Committee, will employ the same assessment methodology used in Seoul, Mexico City, Helsinki, Stockholm, Milan, Athens, Vienna-Brastislava, Öresund, Melbourne and Montreal. The overall aim of these reviews is to identify and assess innovative policies for regional competitiveness and governance, providing recommendations to policy-makers involved in urban development.
The review will be presented to the Territorial Development Policies Committee for approval in December 2006 and published early 2007.
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