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 importance of procurement to city economies

    This article explores why procurement is increasingly being seen as a way of addressing some of the economic, social and environmental issues facing our cities. It does this through reflecting on: the legislative framework for procurement; the activities of the Procure network; the importance of understanding where procurement spend goes; and how social considerations can be more effectively embedded into procurement processes.

    Matthew Baqueriza-Jackson

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  • Delivering Socially Responsible Regeneration and Procurement

    Over the course of 2 and half years, Urban Regeneration Mix Transfer Network has been seeking to enable a new approach to urban regeneration. Framed by the good practice , the network has sought to influence the process of regeneration so that it includes greater community involvement and engagement, so that it brings social and environmental benefits, and so that it challenges the orthodoxy of the way in which regeneration has been undertaken historically in a European context.

     

    n.rydlewska

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  • Memories can't wait, heritage as urban regeneration by Lead Expert Miguel Rivas

    Can heritage be an engine for urban development?

    by Miguel Rivas, KAIRÓS Lead Expert

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    Dorothee Fischer

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  • Designing the neighbourhood of the XXI century, through strategic innovation

    “It could be that the neighbourhood, not the individual, is the essential unit of social change. If you’re trying to improve lives, maybe you have to think about changing many elements of a single neighborhood, in a systematic way, at a steady pace.” – David Brooks

    n.rydlewska

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  • EAT MAKE PLAY: A community enterprise that promotes participation and local trading for the benefit of the community

    Traditionally, we see mediators as people/organisations external to the conflict. What if it were done differently? If the center point of mediation were within the community itself?

    n.rydlewska

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