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A Good Practice Call with a difference
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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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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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DIY Integrated Approach: learning from Prinzessinengärten
“Prinzessinnengärten is a new urban place of learning. It is where locals can come together to experiment and discover more about organic food...
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Retail at the heart of local economies - RetaiLink investigates new business models for medium sized cities
This article aims to provide a better understanding of the retail sector in order to give clues for public policy decision-makers who want to...
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Open for business? Europe’s cities and the skills challenge of the Next Economy
Eight years after the advent of the Global Financial Crisis, much of Europe's economy continues to be sluggish, with uneven rates of jobs and...
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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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Making Meetings Matter, City Centre Doctor explores the art of facilitation
“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be...
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How Eindhoven unlocks the collaborative capacity of the city through social service delivery
It is clear why Dutch cities have a good reputation recently among urbanists. In the beginning of the year we heard that four Dutch cities, Tilburg,...
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There is no sense in sensors: making a smart city for citizens
“Smart cities represent the culmination of a development that is bringing together local green grass-roots movements and Silicon Valley mind-sets...