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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    KAIRÓS THEMATIC WARM-UP#1 by ad-hoc expert Matthias Ripp

    The online meeting showed common challenges and potential of cultural heritage for urban development and regeneration.

    Dorothee Fischer

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  • KAIRÓS THEMATIC WARM-UP#2 by ad-hoc expert Matthias Ripp

    The second KAIRÓS warm-up webinar showed the potential and role of community involvement in heritage-based urban regeneration and how this is connected to urban resilience and sustainability.

    Dorothee Fischer

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  • Role-playing as a method for active participation in the URBACT KAIRÓS - Heritage as Urban Regeneration project by ad-hoc expert Mirna Karzen

    Can you have small scale actions before infrastructure developments and when to introduce them? Why include community in the urban planning processes – they are not experts, architects, urban planners, and traffic specialists? How can you introduce alternative mobility options in the hilly city? What green infrastructure solutions to introduce in the historical old towns that would not make conservationists cringe?

    Dorothee Fischer

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  • Porto Metropolitan Area

    The Porto Metropolitan Area covers a vast territory with dispersed population. This offers a great diversity, resulting in an area of fantastic beauty suitable for living, investing or tourism. However, it also poses mobility challenges and a great dependency on car traffic, and RiConnect wants to help overcome such issues by better integrating mobility in urban areas.

    Mikel Berra-Sandín

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  • Ecosystem Service Analysis enables comprehensive perspectives for planning the benefits of nature in a city

    Espoo is one of the very first cities to use ecosystem service study as a perspective for planning the blue and green infrastructure and future land use of the city. To achieve this, Espoo created an Ecosystem Service Analysis, in which the spatial variations in the number of different regulating, maintenance and cultural ecosystem services are mapped at the selected area.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Looking ahead and reconnecting

    Last week, the network took some time to reconnect and look ahead after the holidays.

    annika.dalen@umea.se

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