URBACT Good Practices

Managing a city's sustainable development focusing on economic, environmental, social and cultural revival

Appointing community representatives amongst the residents of the target area Edgbaston Reservoir, to become permanent ambassadors, communicating with the City Council, and understanding their challenges – enabling Birmingham in this way to rebuild trust

Improving public spaces through solutions co-designed with local actors and communities 

Using collaborative planning and partnership to integrate bottom-up local input with top-down strategic priorities

Improving energy efficiency of private housing and social support to vulnerable inhabitants

Sustainable farm producing quality vegetables while involving individuals at risk 

An atlas of interdependency and interconnections, with a view to implementing efficient partnerships across the territory as a whole

A strategic biodiversity planning composed of six different but interrelated actions that can be used by a city to valorise urban biodiversity and preserve natural heritage

A partnership approach for reinvigorating town centres