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Breathing new life into abandoned spaces
Casoria is a heavily urbanised city that has suffered from years of political mismanagement. Thanks to participation in the URBACT sub>urban...
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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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A closer look at URBACT City Festival 2018
URBACT City Festival 2018 took place in Lisbon on 13 and 14 September 2018. It was attended by 573 participants, coming from 224 cities and 32...
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We must provide alternatives to car ownership!
Michael Glotz-Richter is Senior Project Manager for Sustainable Mobility for the German city-state of Bremen in the Senate Department for Environment...
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France’s ÉcoQuartier label, an initiative to support communities for sustainable city planning
The concept of “écoquartier” - the term is a contraction of the two French words “quartier” and “écologique” (ecological neighbourhood) - was...
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From participative to personal budgets: the power of responsibility sharing
We can improve public services for local communities and individuals by giving them more control rather than imposing top down governmental...
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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...
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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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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...