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Culture as the center of a perspective of regeneration – Bologna background and perspective

Culture can be an exceptional lever for economic and social development of an urban area from a sustainability point of view. Urban Regeneration Mix’s TNM in Bologna, entitled “Culture as a perspective of regeneration”, aimed to explore and discover the effectiveness of this lever. The meeting wanted to show how culture can be the key element for urban regeneration; for this reason, it took place inside one of Bologna’s factual representations of this strategy: the site of DAMSLab, the laboratory of the Department of Arts, Music and Entertainment of the University of Bologna. Let's see what is happening in Bologna as part of the Urban Regeneration Mix project.

Seven cities on a Zero Carbon Journey

URBACT City Festival on vuoden 2022 eurooppalaisen kaupunkikehittämisen huipputapahtuma. Se järjestetään Pariisissa 14.–16.6.2022.

Preparing Net Zero Energy for cities and regions

The URB-EN PACT project will develop a method for city-regions to prepare Net Zero Energy action plans.

Social Impact Bonds: the secret tool for effective public services?

In times of financial constraints, total government expenditures on public services are decreasing, while citizens expect more and more effective services. Social Impact Bonds may be the tool for providing funds and overcoming short-term focus, fragmentation of services and lack of innovation.

Responsibilities and profile of the project/area manager

In order to ensure the effectiveness of public action, it is important to appoint a person responsible for the coordination of all project stakeholders. This ensures a strong role in the municipality, which provides an overall vision of the project and the mobilisation of the various departments involved.

Small cities finding their economic niches in a competitive world

Can small cities with populations below 100 000, including large towns between 10 000 and 50 000, compete with their larger counterparts for talent and investment?

Are there examples and good practices among partners, and from small cities across Europe, that will inspire new initiatives, which could be examined and explored in the iPlace Project?

All cities compete and collaborate. The URBACT Programme has developed proven methods for cities to work together in well-designed efficient projects to create mechanisms for analysing, learning and planning actions that will initiate integrated and sustainable urban development. Following from their kick-off summit meeting, the partner cities in the iPlace Project are confident that the potential exists for partners to learn and develop new pathways, especially if those pathways include exercises in re-imagining historical sectors that were the mainstays of their local economies in previous eras.