Greening as a pathway to resilience in urban areas
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Leafy places in cities can greatly improve health and happiness. But here’s the thing: green isn’t always good for everyone.
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Are you working on fringe?
Maarten van Tuijl takes a look at the “ sub>urban, re-inventing the fringe " network, across 9 cities, re-thinking city fringes over the past 2,5...
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Gender Equal Cities: Inspiration from Vienna
Vienna (AU) is famous for many things: classical music, exquisite architecture and good cakes too. Less well known is its reputation as an exemplar...
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How mobility becomes an integrated part of our city development
Right before the start of this year’s URBACT City Festival in Lisbon I found myself sitting at the waterfront at Praça do Comércio, enjoying the...
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Plan your own temporary use journey!
Marcelline Bonneau introduces the concept of Temporary Use and URBACT’s REFILL networks achievements over the past 2 and a half years.
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Give unused residential buildings a second chance!
Haven't you ever experienced this: You are in a city with beautiful old buildings and many of them are empty and dilapidated? And you ask why? Many...
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Transfer networks, an URBACT Learning Lab to build capacity and promote cohesion across Europe
You might not expect Twitter to be the place for informed debate on the future of the EU Cohesion Policy. But you’d be wrong. Amidst the white noise...
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Gender sensitive public space? Placemaking and spatial justice through the perspective of gender
What do we mean by the ‘gendered nature’ of urban space? How can a better awareness of gender create safer and more inclusive cities? These questions...
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Creating temporary space for experimentation about future activities
Nantes has an extraordinary story of systematic urban development over three decates, explored within the REFILL Network . Here I give a short...
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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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How do URBACT Good Practices strive towards more sustainability together with citizens and other stakeholders?
Striving towards sustainability together The occurrences and types of events and catastrophes related to climate change (environmental , biodiversity...