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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    CAEN TRANSFER STORY

    Once upon a time, in a resilient European Union, 7 cities decided to join forces and adapt Rome’s  good practice of urban gardening. One of them is Caen, a 105,000 inhabitant city located in Normandy, Northern France and here is its story as part of RU:RBAN network.

    Patricia Hernandez

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  • Battling residential emergencies

    “Housing is healthcare”. This sentence popped up in a recent discussion around the Corona mitigation efforts that cities are undertaking to strengthen the livelihoods and well-being of their citizens during and after the pandemic. This notion of housing as a physical and psychological setting for both hardship and relief is opening our view again to the significance that housing has for our local communities.

    sabine.hausmann

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  • Come in! An uncomfortable heritage told by its inhabitants

    “The 2020 edition will focus on houses built during the 20-year period of Fascism, just to support the vulgate that fascism did good things too!” 

    “I would gladly commit myself to the city, but I just can't do it for what was built during Fascism. See you again for the next editions, if the theme changes.” 

    These are the first comments posted on the project's FB page. We cannot say we were surprised, so why decide to venture on such delicate ground? Why make a community festival that tells the story of the residential buildings built in Forlì during the twenty-year Fascist period? To answer this question we take a leap back three years when we first heard about the Budapest 100 festival and we decided to venture into an exciting and challenging URBACT project. 

     

    Adrienn Lorincz

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  • The dream of different living or as Claude Berri said in his 2007 film “Ensemble c´est tout”

    Since around 2017, the Housing Agency Chemnitz (URBACT Good Practice) has been increasingly asked about opportunities and houses for housing projects. Some groups of friends had grown the desire to buy a house together and live in it all together. The groups were very different in size, age and ideas about how to live together. There were requests from groups who were looking for something as a multigenerational housing project, those who wanted to live more village-like and grow their own food, and those who wanted to live in the middle of the center. 

    sabine.hausmann

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  • Tree of inspirations

    Be inspired and act together with your residents!

    n.rydlewska

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  • Learning Log - Lodz .

    Weave a city of collaboration with us. Explore Lodz's solutions

    n.rydlewska

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