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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    The Playful Paradigm Transfer Network - A Tool kit for Cities to transfer the Playbus - Ludobus initiative

    Insights for cities and policy-makers to set and implement activities of a Ludobus-Playbus

    CREAA

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  • The Third TNM of Playful Paradigm in Klaipėda

    An article by Laura Kubiliutė, Head of public health monitoring and projects department, Klaipeda City Public Health Bureau about the third Transnational Meeting in Klaipėda

    CREAA

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  • What’s on in BN2 Five guide – a summer of activity, collaboration & Mediterranean weather

    It has been a busy summer in Brighton’s BN2 Five. ULG members holding a wide range of activities, ranging from pottery classes at the Bristol Estate Artist Studios to Street Cricket at Crew Club, making for a packed summer schedule. These activities met the needs of new born children to those in their 100s. One resident in BN2 Five celebrated her 105th birthday!

    z.biteniece

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  • It was simply amazing, a real treasure-hunting II.

    The URBACT Come In Talking Houses/Shared Stories Transfer Network marks a milestone, as the first festivals modeled on the Budapest 100 Open House Weekend were held. In the second part of our series we asked István Elekes (Gheorgheni) and Adrienn Lőrincz (Újbuda) about their first experiences.

    k.tapody

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  • It was simply amazing, a real treasure-hunting

    The URBACT Come In Talking Houses/Shared Stories Transfer Network marks a milestone, as the first festivals modeled on the Budapest 100 Open House Weekend were held. In the first part of our series we asked Rita Szerencsés (Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre) and Ferenc Szigeti-Böröcz (network expert) about their first experiences.

    k.tapody

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  • Community between panels

     

    Although the first prefabricated buildings were built in Western Europe after the Second World War, they are undoubtedly the synonyms of the post-soviet countries like Hungary. Negative connotations towards prefabricated housing estates neglects the diversity of these areas and their diverse development processes in past years. Undoubtedly, their judgement has been changing, and it is perhaps time to revalorise these areas. We made a very first attempt in the Come in! Transfer Network to do that by organising a pilot community festival in Őrmező.

    k.tapody

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