Cities are finding innovative ways to help poor neighbourhoods
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Using good practice from their URBACT partners, cities are getting residents involved in regenerating their own neighbourhoods.
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How to plan for healthy and active communities: learning through ’Deep Dive’
Healthy and active communities are integral parts of a smart city – and they must be planned for. Urban planning has a crucial role in facilitating...
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Building an effective entrepreneurship eco-system
How can cities create effective programmes for promoting enterprise and entrepreneurship? How should cities respond to some of the structural changes...
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Conclusions and presentations of URBACT workshops during the European Week for Regions and Cities
This year the Committee of the Regions and the DG Regional and Urban Policy organised the 15th European Week for Regions and Cities in Brussels from...
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Bologna innovates to help its most fragile communities
Three of the cities selected in the first call of Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) are working, or have worked, within URBACT on topics similar to...
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Implementation Networks’ pages now online!
You can find more information about their project, the state of play and challenges ahead thanks to articles written by each Lead Expert.
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How Eindhoven unlocks the collaborative capacity of the city through social service delivery
It is clear why Dutch cities have a good reputation recently among urbanists. In the beginning of the year we heard that four Dutch cities, Tilburg,...
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Welcome to Rotterdam – from Mayor Aboutaleb
Rotterdam will host the 3rd edition of the URBACT Summer University , between the 24 and 26 of August 2016. We’ll be bringing around 300 urban...
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EU Urban Agenda: The challenge of “affordable housing” in Europe
In 2014 the Guardian published an article titled “ Affordable housing does not mean what you think it means ”. The article shows the limits of what...
Less money, more innovation! Regeneration of deprived residential areas since the crisis
Since the crisis local municipalities are forced to change their approach to the regeneration of deprived residential areas. They have several...
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URBACT launches report on Deprived Areas
Urban poverty has been rising in the political agenda and one of the topics being covered under the European Urban Agenda is on the revitalisation of...