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Making integrated urban development more manageable

Article 07 November 2019

How can cities improve their plans for integrated urban development?

by Ed Thorpe

Article 03 May 2019

Tropa Verde: recycling - the gift that keeps on giving

Yvan Corbat, URBACT Lead Expert, says rewarding good behaviour still works! Case in point, in Santiago de Compostela (ES) local citizens are rewarded...

Article 19 April 2019

Re-grow City: turning disadvantage into opportunity

Regeneration practitioner and academic, Dr Hans Schlappa is the lead expert on Re-growCity . This network focuses on small and medium sized towns...

Article 28 February 2019

BeePathNet: enriching the urban jungle with bees

Klemen Strmšnik shares his enthusiasm for Ljubljana’s (SI) green endeavours and the on going success of the BeePathNet project linking 6 European...

Article 21 February 2019

Welcoming international professionals and students

Willem van Winden takes a look at how the university city of Groningen (NL), in the North, is working towards welcoming, nurturing and integrating...

Article 25 January 2019

New URBACT book: ‘Cities in Action - Stories of Change’

Cities of all sizes are being encouraged to pick up tips and inspiration from the URBACT programme’s new publication: ‘Cities in Action - Stories of...

News 04 January 2019

'Cities in Action-Stories of Change’ publication just released!

Discover how 40 URBACT cities across Europe have brought positive impact in their population in terms of urban mobility, jobs and skills, reuse of...

News 05 December 2018

23 Transfer networks embarking on the second phase of their journey!

URBACT's Monitoring Committee approved 23 Transfer networks for Phase 2 on 4 December 2018.

Article 28 August 2018

Every single house is interesting!

There is a little square two-minutes from your flat. You have seen it many times on your daily route. You perhaps even recognised that it is somehow...