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Torrent thematic report
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Innovating in City Learning. The Inside Story of the first URBACT City Festival
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‘I knew it would not be just me sitting around and sleeping in a conference’
… all participants were actively part of the whole process. This creates enthusiasm, which is quite fascinating.
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The consequences of the unleashed urbanization process before the real estate crisis are today very explicit on the building stock as well as on the...
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Functional territories for better integrated governance: Towards spatially coordinated development in metropolitan and urban-rural area
The growing territorial mismatch (between the administrative and the real-life boundaries of urban areas) and the conflicting relationship between...
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Piloting an international city standard. Interview with Andrew Collinge, Assistant Director, Intelligence and Analysis, Greater London Authority
Part of good city governance, which URBACT encourages through its tools and capacity building programmes, is to use evidence based approaches, and...