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Circular economy: another buzzword or your city’s future?
In times of decreasing resources and growing responsibilities, many cities and regions are understandably skeptical towards what seems to be yet...
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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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What do European consumers want on their plate today?
A growing global movement recognizes that the current complexity of food systems based on economies of scale is causing economical, societal and...
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Does your city want to become green?
Application have opened for the European Commission’s European Green Capital Award 2019 and European Green Leaf 2018. The European Green Capital...
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#Basque2016: what’s next for European sustainable cities?
In the last week of April I have joined 800 local and regional leaders, urban experts, researchers and activists at the 8 th European Conference on...
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Damaged (by) goods? The case for sustainable urban freight logistics
Today I was woken up at 6am by a loud rattling noise. I looked through the window; two men were carrying crates of beer to the new bar downstairs. I...
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sub>urban
The cities from this Action Planning network searched for a solution to the following challenge: how can we make existing 20th century urban tissue attractive and qualitative again? How can we add a different urban layer? For the past two decades, urban development and planning practice in European...
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Freight TAILS
Freight TAILS
Devoted to discovering Tailored and Innovative Logistic Solutions (TAILS) for the successful management of freight, this Action Planning network aimed on rethinking how freight can shape almost every aspect of our urban lives. The air we breathe, the noise we hear, the traffic we experience, the...
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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...
Participation or Inclusion?
According to planning guidelines the more participative urban planning is, the better the outcomes are. However, in reality the link between more/...