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Celebrating Limerick as a walled City!

Celebrating Limerick as a walled City!

Limerick, with its 210,000 inhabitants, is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland. The city dates back to the first Viking settlements in 922, utilising its location on the River Shannon. As a medieval city, Limerick was fortified with a wall and is one of Ireland’s fifty –six confirmed walled cities. Limericks walled town consisted of what is now known as Englishtown and Irishtown.

C4TALENT Vilanova i la Geltrú Meeting: A Resounding Success

A truly inspiring event held in Spain, between 28-30 May.

FEMACT-Cities 1st Quarterly Report just released !

LET'S GO CIRCULAR!: How the action planning starts

What a first quarter for the LET'S GO CIRCULAR! Action Planning network. We started to discuss approaches on European cities's way to transition from linear to circular economies and shared some first best cases. 

Transforming Tomorrow: Nykarleby's Digital Journey with Åbo Akademi University

Embarking on the Metacity journey together with the city of Nykarleby, Åbo Akademi University has identified a set of markers that describe the specific context of the future prospects of a small town in a fairly remote area. The prospect of a metaverse of virtual solutions and services sets the stage for rethinking the current state of public services and processes.

The recently adopted new city strategy, Nykarleby 2040, is guided by the slogan “Dream big in a small town” as an overarching aim. These big dreams are life-sized rather than utopian. The task ahead, as reflected by the coming Metacity integrated action plan, is to identify and map the paths toward that aim. The new virtual world may seem abstract, and our goal is to make it concrete and adapt the tools to our needs rather than the other way around. Without implementation plans for the launch of activities, an overarching strategy may become counterproductive.

Communicating Dissonance

ARCHETHICS as a good practice within the Heritage Agora event organized by the Buzludzha Project Foundation and the Dissonant Heritage Action Group part of the Urban Agenda for the EU.