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  • Restoring Vilafranca del Penedès - a transfer story from Catalonia

    Jordi Cuyàs reports on the transfer within the ALT/BAU network and on the cooperation with another URBACT Good Practice in Vilafranca del Penedès. The story begins back in 1979.

    With the re

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  • Carry out a pilot renovation diagnosis to help owners initiate their refurbishment project

    Following the good practice of Chemnitz, the city of Seraing will soon open a housing agency to support owners in their renovation project. Bénédicte Borckmans reports on a pilot study whose results

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  • How does Seraing want to boost the renovation of its habitat?

    From prosperity to decline then to reconstruction

    Bénédicte Borckmans, project coordinator for the ALT/BAU network in Seraing, reports on how the transfer process went in the Belgian city.  

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  • Metropolitan Geographies for ALT/BAU – a customized map of Torino

    Similar to Rybnik, the URBACT local action group meetings in Torino had an excellent side effect, described by Erica Albarello and Giulietta Fassino.

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  • From a housing agency to a living platform - the Torino transfer process

    What do Chemnitz and Torino have in common? An easy answer could be that, in the last century, both had been known as “the city of…”.  The city of Karl Marx for the former Karl-Marx-Stadt in the

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  • An unexpected but welcome result of the transfer process in Rybnik. The real impact of the ALT/BAU project on shaping the housing policy in Rybnik.

    Artur Gliwicki reports on an unexpected but very welcome side effect of the ALT/BAU network in Rybnik.

    When on 9 July 2020 we sat down to the next ULG online meeting, we couldn’t realize how crucial

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    Thanks to ALT/BAU the ball started rolling - Artur Gliwicki describes how the transfer of the Chemnitz good practice is going in Rybnik

    Once upon a time, in the spring afternoon of 2018, I was called by the Deputy Mayor of Rybnik Piotr Masłowski and asked if I’m interested in participating in the URBACT project. Without knowing the

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    The story of saving a building in Chemnitz

    In the history of the housing agency Chemnitz, the building featured in the following article represents a success story. That's not the only reason why the building is featured in the article and has

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    Quo vadis, housing agency Chemnitz? Or how the vote on the future profile of the Agentur StadtWohnen Chemnitz is based on scenarios.

    What do you do as a lead partner with a very well running good practice in an URBACT network? Of course - you transfer your good practice to the partner cities of the network. But what can be the

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