Networks and cities' news

Catch up on the latest updates from cities working together in URBACT Networks. The articles and news that are showcased below are published directly by URBACT’s beneficiaries and do not necessarily reflect the programme’s position.

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    Nudging residents towards outdoor exercise facilities

    When the covid-19 pandemic in Espoo shut down all indoor sports facilities, ­­outdoor exercise facilities got more popular than ever. We were lucky – this was only possible because the City of Espoo has invested within the years heavily in outdoor exercise facilities as a part of its wellbeing strategy.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Nudging residents towards outdoor exercise facilities

    When the covid-19 pandemic in Espoo shut down all indoor sports facilities, ­­outdoor exercise facilities got more popular than ever. We were lucky – this was only possible because the City of Espoo has invested within the years heavily in outdoor exercise facilities as a part of its wellbeing strategy.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Nudging residents towards outdoor exercise facilities

    When the covid-19 pandemic in Espoo shut down all indoor sports facilities, ­­outdoor exercise facilities got more popular than ever. We were lucky – this was only possible because the City of Espoo has invested within the years heavily in outdoor exercise facilities as a part of its wellbeing strategy.

    Viktoria Soos

    See more

  • Nudging residents towards outdoor exercise facilities

    When the covid-19 pandemic in Espoo shut down all indoor sports facilities, ­­outdoor exercise facilities got more popular than ever. We were lucky – this was only possible because the City of Espoo has invested within the years heavily in outdoor exercise facilities as a part of its wellbeing strategy.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Enabling co-governance in a post-communist city: Iași Transfer Story

    As “learning city” of Civic State Transfer Network, Iași was motivated to see the good practices of the mature cities – like Naples, Barcelona and Gdansk – on participative approaches and understand how these could be adapted in the local context to better use the local urban goods, by involving actors of the local community in the process. For Iași, commoning and urban commons are quite an innovative approach to governance, being the first time the city is facing this kind of challenge.

    Gregorio Turolla

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  • Enabling co-governance in a post-communist city: Iași Transfer Story

    As “learning city” of Civic State Transfer Network, Iași was motivated to see the good practices of the mature cities – like Naples, Barcelona and Gdansk – on participative approaches and understand how these could be adapted in the local context to better use the local urban goods, by involving actors of the local community in the process. For Iași, commoning and urban commons are quite an innovative approach to governance, being the first time the city is facing this kind of challenge.

    Gregorio Turolla

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