CityCentreDoctor

Revitalising city centres of smaller cities

Edited on 19/06/2025

15/09/2015 03/05/2018

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  • Action Planning Network
  • Urban planning
  • Local economy
  • City Branding
  • Jobs and skills
  • Research and innovation

The cities of this Action Planning network were challenged to identify the urban issues relate to their city centre, analyse perceptions and reality of those areas. All cities have a centre which historically and functionally brings residents, businesses, services and a range of social activities together. Thus, the involved cities shared ideas and practices, supporting each other to develop actions to strengthen the revitalisation of their city centres (which is often the nexus for social, cultural and, ultimately, economic local development).

 

Summary

PARTNERS

Lead Partner : San Donà di Piave - Italy
  • Amarante - Portugal
  • Heerlen - Netherlands
  • Idrija - Slovenia
  • Medina del Campo - Spain
  • Naas - Ireland
  • Nort-sur-Erdre - France
  • Petrinja - Croatia
  • Radlin - Poland
  • Valašské Meziříčí - Czech Republic

Timeline

Kick-off meeting in June (Heerlen). Transnational meetings in September (Medina del Campo) and November (Amarante).

Transnational meetings in April (Nord sur Erdre), May (San Dona di Piave), July (Idrija) and September (Valmez).

Final event in March (San Dona di Piave).

Stories

  • BluAct - Starting Up the Blue Economy

    BluAct network initiated its works during Spring of 2018, and has been awarded with the EEPA 2018 “Promoting the Entrepreneurial Spirit” award. Phase

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    Angelos Ploumis

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  • Find the courage to start implementing innovative solutions for our own city! A story from Salerno, Italy.

    The suggestion I can give to the other European cities from this experience is: being in contact with cities that have already made successful

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    Angelos Ploumis

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  • Transfer Story: Galati Romania

    The Municipality built a strong URBACT Local Group, comprising members from Universities, the River Authority, NGO’s, public bodies and port-based

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    Angelos Ploumis

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Network Outputs

Integrated Action Plans

Articles

  • A conversation on energy poverty, knowledge transfer, governance and the role of cities in Europe

    Contacted by Maximiliano Schulz, intern at the German URBACT Point, EmPowerIngUs Coordinator Fernando Gonzalez Ferreira and Ad Hoc Expert Chiara Lucchini had the chance to dialogue and reflect about

    Chiara.Lucchini

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  • THE COM’ON CHRONICLE (Issue #1: November 2025 – August 2026)

    Understanding before translating: How five European cities want to improve and rebuild their youth participatory budgeting (YPB) based on the Com’ON Cluj good practice

    Nils Scheffler

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  • Grüne Transformation in der Praxis: 47 URBACT-Städte zeigen, wie es geht

    Von der Revitalisierung brachliegender Flächen über die Transformation von Industriestandorten bis zur Kreislaufwirtschaft: Fünf URBACT-Netzwerke zeigen, wie Städte die Ökologisierung ihrer

    Martina Bach

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