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    While you were designing your city logo, they built an entire city from scratch

    Adrian Docea gives cities a long overdue wake up call, suggesting they take a leaf out of the private sector to build their brands before it’s too late.

    He says: ‘We’re completely out of time. Europe

    Adrian Docea

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    Naples’ Urban Civic Communities

    By Nicola Masella

    Conferring a greater social value to the historical municipal assets by promoting open and inclusive management schemes

    Massimiliano Rumignani

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    BLUACT: Why the Blue Economy is an increasing sea of opportunity

    A report by Darinka Czischke, Conor Moloney and Catalina Turcu

    Jim Sims

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    INT-HERIT Road towards an Operational Implementation Plan

    A compendium of two videos released in the past weeks about the last transnational meetings by INT-HERIT.

    Antonio Zafra

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    Why is Lisbon’s community economic development approach so important in Europe today?

    Bairros (Neighbourhoods) and areas of priority interventions BIP/ZIP.

    Peter Ramsden

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    WORKING SESSION OF ULG BARCELONA: EXPLORING CONNECTIONS AMONG ACTIONS.

    By Sebastià Riutort (Barcelona, Lead Partner of the URBinclusion network). Integrated approach is one of the URBACT challenges of Implementation Networks (IN). The Guidelines that deal with this issue

    Massimiliano Rumignani

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    The dilemma of fighting urban poverty: invest into poor people or into poor places?

    This article provides an insight into URBACT’s work on urban poverty and its contribution to the Urban Poverty Partnership of the Urban Agenda for the European Union. At URBACT City Festival 2018, the

    Ivan Tosics

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    Housing at the URBACT City Festival 2018: from the EU Urban Agenda to Lisbon (PT)

    Affordable and adequate housing is one of the theme Lab sessions at URBACT City Festival taking place in Lisbon, 13-14 September 2018. This text serves the purpose of introducing to the housing

    Laura Colini

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    Social media to strengthen local commerce: The case of the Semaest in Paris

    Foram aprovadas, pelo Comité de Monitorização URBACT, 23 Redes de Planeamento de Ação, as quais envolvem 26 países e 203 parceiros. A decisão teve lugar no dia 25 de junho de 2019, na reunião

    Daniela Patti

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