URBACT Good Practice Label

How can small towns thrive today? Here we highlight an array of local actions to help small and medium sized cities become more vibrant.

Peter Wolkowinski, lead expert on URBAN REGENERATION MIX shines a light on Lodz in Poland. Its success story regenerating “The Priest's Mill"...

Programme Lead Expert, Ruth Essex, shares her insights into promoting social cohesion and challenging the nature of rumour- ideas from her experience...

For years the municipality of Gdańsk (PL) has been struggling to develop a network of citizen-led community centres. Thanks to the city’s...

Eddy Adams, SIX Adviser and URBACT Programme Expert says Europe’s cities are widening civic participation to innovate, drive change and nourish...

For those familiar with Asterix comics, Mouans-Sartoux (FR) could be compared to a small sustainable city, surrounded by the rather unsustainable...

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

Levente Polyak looks at the pros and cons of Riga’s NGO House in Teika (LV), sharing its story from its inception to its five year anniversary.