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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    Cities After Dark - #3 Quarterly Journal

    Nuno Almeida

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  • COPE Network's Green Initiative in Pombal: A Step Towards Sustainable Transformation

    Rannvá Pállson Joensen

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  • Have you heard about the Berlin Urban Nature Pact?

    Joining this new initiative to promote biodiversity in your city is perhaps the best New Year's Resolution your municipality should do…

     

    The Berlin Urban Nature Pact is an alliance of cities to implement global biodiversity goals locally. Signatory cities will implement targeted and visible actions, projects, and processes by 2030. Watch their short video here.

    Ferenc Szigeti-Böröcz

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    Cities for Sustainability Governance: A Governance Styles Toolbox

    By Louis Meuleman, 07/01/2025

    Karin Luhaäär

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  • CSG

    Cities for Sustainability Governance: A Governance Styles Toolbox

    By Louis Meuleman, 07/01/2025

    Karin Luhaäär

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  • A group of people doing chair yoga in a cobblestone courtyard on a sunny day, with an industrial building and a large tree in the background

    How can cities activate unused green spaces and buildings?

    Picture yourself in that dark grey building or street, which does not smell nice, feels unsafe and makes you wonder only about one thing: I feel so bad, why did I come here? Now, picture yourself in that same building or street wondering only about one thing: OMG, it’s an amazing place, why didn’t I come here earlier?! 

    So… what’s happened? What’s changed to this area that you have to twist your daily itinerary to come and enjoy this area? And what is there actually to do?

    The 9 Project Partners of the GreenPlace network – Boulogne-sur-mer, Bucharest-Ilfov, Limerick, Löbau, Nitra, Onda, Quarto d’Altino, Vila Nova de Poiares, and Wroclaw- have experimented this journey, using the knowledge and methodology gathered over the first year and a half of the network. Their stories tell us more about actions to make abandoned buildings, forgotten tram depots, unused green areas, or unused yet to be renovated built areas – attractive and worth coming to. 

    Joanna Gańcza-Pawełczyk

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