Engaging cities to reject housing exclusion as a ‘fact of life’
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The article is based on the joint URBACT-UIA web conference ‘No one left behind’ of 26 June 2020.
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How the food sector can help reduce youth unemployment in European medium-sized cities
The world needs to wake up to “the ticking time bomb” of youth unemployment in European medium-sized cities and treat the issue as seriously as...
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Densification beyond the city centre: urban transformation against sprawl
Densification of urban areas beyond the core of the cities is not an easy task but it is a challenge worth taking to fight against urban sprawl....
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There’s more to Digital Democracy than just a tweet
The US presidential election results came as a surprise to many of us especially because we hadn’t encountered any testament of sweeping support...
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With a climate change denier in the Whitehouse, how can our cities maintain momentum towards a low carbon future?
A day to remember…or one to forget Where were you when you heard that Donald Trump had been elected President of the United States? In years to come...
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The challenges of implementation
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.” All European cities can certainly endorse this quote by President Obama and...
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URBACT at the Urban Development Network event Smart, Innovative & Sustainable urban mobility - November 23 in Brussels
The European Commission ( DGREGIO and DGMOVE ) is organising an URBAN DEVELOPMENT NETWORK event on 23 November in Brussels bringing together cities...
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Ready for the future? Urban resilience in practice
Urban resilience is the capacity of urban systems, communities, individuals, organisations and businesses to recover, maintain their function and...
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Waking up the sleeping giants? The mission of URBACT 2nd Chance network
Walking in the extremely densely built Montesanto Area in Naples visitors are shocked by the narrow streets in which people can hardly move between...
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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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Post-Crisis Urban Planning: Innovative Local Solutions to Fight Environmental Degradation
Due to the financial crisis the heavily indebted public actors are not able any more to launch large-scale programmes to handle difficult...