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Public Procurement, Covid-19, health inequalities, and Playful Paradigm

by Matthew Baqueriza-Jackson, Ad-Hoc Expert for Playful Paradigm and Co-Trainer of the URBACT Online Course on Strategic Procurement

RiConnect themes: Rethinking for adding ecosystem functions

The continuity and proper functioning of the ecological metabolism is often interrupted by mobility infrastructure. Therefore, rethinking infrastructure can help both protect nature flows and add new ecosystem functions.

RiConnect themes: Planning the metropolis

Rethinking mobility infrastructure offers the opportunity to have a positive impact in the metropolitan scale, through sustainable urban development.

Another way of looking at Plasencia

People in Plasencia are very proud of their medieval and renaissance heritage, the main protagonists of the city. But the weight of the medieval architecture often makes modern, residential buildings unnoticed. "We know the heritage buildings, but we do not know the normal residential buildings, in which we have seen all our lives". Let’s see how locals engaged with their own heritage in Plasencia!

RiConnect themes: Rethinking for integrating the infrastructure

How to physically integrate the infrastructure? The goal of our second theme is to ensure that mobility infrastructure is accessible, surrounded by active spaces and without leftover areas. 

Transfer Story: Baena. A tale of two cities

“It was the best of times, it was the worst oftimes, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…” The first words of Dickens' universal work can bring us closer to the state of mind in which we have spent the last year in our cities. A mixture of fear and hope, of fragility and resilience, of science and fake news, of solidarity and at the same time of enormous gaps of inequality...