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Making integrated urban development more manageable
How can cities improve their plans for integrated urban development?
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Gothenburg’s new app for education
Could a digital tool change the school system and prevent drop out by educating students and teachers?
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Ravenna is redeveloping its City Docks thanks to URBACT and Urban Innovative Actions
Ravenna (IT) is one of the major urban centres of the Emilia Romagna region, on the Adriatic coast. Amélie Cousin looks at the City Docks’ urban...
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Bringing (more) sustainability to cities: 5 golden rules
How are cities putting sustainable urban development into practice? Here are 5 golden rules from URBACT's City Lab.
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URBACT’s City Labs: Refreshing Europe’s urban policy principles
The 2007 Leipzig Charter established the EU’s urban policy principles. Ahead of its 2020 EU Presidency, Germany is refreshing this key document...
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REFILL@Lille: Temporary spaces, policy design labs and URBACT networks
URBACT lead expert, François Jégou, explains how TRANSFO LILLE , a process of co-construction of a public policy design lab led in the European...
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Enhancing the vitality of small cities: “let’s make it a priority!”
How can small towns thrive today? Here we highlight an array of local actions to help small and medium sized cities become more vibrant.
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How residents and businesses are re-energising their city centre
Many in Heerlen (NL) wanted change, but didn’t know how to effect it. Following a wealth of inspiration, participation and activation through URBACT...
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From URBACT to H2020: how 2 cities are scaling up citizen-powered projects for greener communities
Manchester (UK) and Poznań (PL) are just 2 of many European cities building on their URBACT experiences in integrated, sustainable urban development...
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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...