URBACT Good Practices

A climate adaptation plan designed and implemented with local stakeholders to increase resilience on a metropolitan scale

Gardening has wider impacts on the city that one would expect

Urban food policy for an inclusive, integrated and sustainable development of cities

Highlighting urban trees' role in carbon capture and climate neutrality 

The new ‘Towns’ Living Room’, established by the municipality in a vacant building, involves the heads of the city administration, active citizens, social services, development agency, public library and nursing home, local clubs and various associations

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

Transforming a former disused school into a Creative Hub as part of (sub)urban regeneration process.

Turning neighbourhoods into sustainable, resilient, people-centred communities 

The collaborative management of urban commons to counteract poverty and socio-spatial polarisation