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    How Glasgow is using URBinclusion to drive its Thriving Place, Govanhill

    By Marie McLelland - Glasgow Project Co-ordinator                

    URBinclusion is challenging Glasgow in a new way. It is giving us the space to explore how we implement existing plans and strategies

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    Spaces for smart specialisation: spaces and places where smart specialisation takes shape

    The urban economy is changing, and so are the locational needs for companies and workers. How can cities cope with this? URBACT IN FOCUS partners reflected on the development of new workspaces and

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    Cities’ Challenges in Cultural Heritage Management

    Article by the network Lead Expert Pedro Soutinho.

     

    “A Historic Urban Landscape or HUL is an urban area understood  as  the  result  of  a  historic  layering  of  cultural  and  natural  values 

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    What do you know on children and seniors? A mobility survey from Agii Anargyri & Kamatero

    Genius-open project - a Ning User guide to setting up an online open innovation platform.
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    Gdańsk mobility in balance - how to achieve this?

    The Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) is slowly becoming "must have" for European metropolises that want their residents to feel good in their own city. Gdańsk will also have this document.

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    Cluster development and smart specialisation at city level

    The cluster approach is acknowledged as the most influential one in modern industrial policy worldwide, and the arrival of smart specialisation has emphasized its influence. But, why? How might local

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    Migrants Perspectives 3

    In each edition of its newsletter the Arrival Cities Network will present some of the LSG members through their migration stories, this is the third that has been presented so far.

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    How to plan for healthy and active communities: learning through ’Deep Dive’

    Healthy and active communities are integral parts of a smart city – and they must be planned for. Urban planning has a crucial role in facilitating networks and providing spaces which encourage

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    A JAIL IN SEARCH OF ITS DESTINY

    While the city of Armagh promotes itself as "the religious capital of Northern Ireland" committed to attract visitors, the old prison, another asset in the city part of the extensive legacy of the