Social media to strengthen local commerce: The case of the Semaest in Paris
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With the growth of e-commerce and out-of-town shopping malls, smaller retailers have been suffering greatly. Causing the closure of many shops, this...
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A lack of communication is bad communication
There are vast amounts of different types of information floating around and influencing our decisions and behaviour on a daily basis. One negative...
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EXPERIMENTATION OF A PARTICIPATORY PROCESS IN PARISIAN RETAIL
SEMAEST, a Parisian semi-public company specialised in commercial revitalisation, is launching on Monday 25th September 2017 a new digital experiment...
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Tartu's new masterplan - A platform for ideas by citizens
“The trick is how to translate the masterplan to something that people can understand” Interview with Jarno Laur, Deputy Mayor of Tartu Tartu, 2016...
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Make Genoa a part of you
The Municipality of Genoa has the full awareness of the importance that the social media play in the promotion of the city, as well as in the...
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AN INNOVATIVE USE OF BEACONS IN VARNA
LIGHTHOUSE: MEET AN INNOVATIVE INTERACTIVE CITY GUIDE- iBeacontrends App Lighthouse, a Bulgarian-based app company, has introduced the first...
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Car sharing and bike sharing in Palermo
One of our main goal during these months of work has been the creation of an integrated system of sustainable mobility which creates a connection...
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The future of smart mobility passes through Palermo
The City of Palermo has been involved in two important projects of the URBACT Program: Interactive Cities and CityMobilNet. For this reason we tried...
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Citizen Participation & Citizen Engagement, the construction of a dialogue in the Urban Environment
Right of the bat; “Citizen participation or engagement” is not an event, we’re not talking about a meeting, a public forum, not a public hearing, nor...
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Santa Eulalia, progress in neighbourhood revitalisation through citizen participation
As we have previously explained, “ADN Urbano” (Urban DNA) focuses on neighbourhoods in the city centre, allowing us to prioritise courses of action...
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What happened within the project after Ghent took its ULG members to the future and back?
After the ULG meeting last October 2016 with the ULG members of Ghent, where they were taken to the future and back ( see this news article ), it is...