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  • Alphen aan den Rijn: op weg naar een Groen-Blauwe stad!

    Alphen aan den Rijn is een gemeente in Zuid-Holland. De gemeente kent haar oorsprong in de Romeinse tijd en industrialiseerde in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw. Het uitgestrekte gebied en de omliggende dorpen zijn agrarisch gecentreerd, waaronder ook Boskoop valt, die vooral bekend staat om haar 560 kwekerijen. Deze groene achtertuin is een belangrijke economische pilaar en speelt een belangrijke rol in de toekomstige healthy city planning van Alphen aan den Rijn.

    URBACT punt Nederland

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  • Caceres kicks of the first Biomarket in Extremadura

    Last Sunday, March 20th, Cáceres kicked off its Small Scale Action as a project partner in URBACT Tourism-Friendly Cities considering that Cáceres performance in both networks Tourism-Friendly Cities and Resourceful Cities focuses on the renovation of Ribera del Marco in order to enhance its visibility and attractiveness as the real origin of the city.

    Sabrina Bruzzone

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  • Caceres kicks of the first Biomarket in Extremadura

    Last Sunday, March 20th, Cáceres kicked off its Small Scale Action as a project partner in URBACT Tourism-Friendly Cities considering that Cáceres performance in both networks Tourism-Friendly Cities and Resourceful Cities focuses on the renovation of Ribera del Marco in order to enhance its visibility and attractiveness as the real origin of the city.

    Sabrina Bruzzone

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  • SamenMakenWeHeerlen – TogetherWeMake-Heerlen- SSA

    Municipality of Heerlen drew up the Bid Book 'Urban Heerlen' in 2016. This bid book describes how Heerlen wants to develop its centre around 5 themes with 25 different ambitions. The bid book received great appreciation at the time. Many ambitions have since been realised.

    Sonia Files

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  • Six solutions for city authorities to help us all waste less food

    Each year, EU households throw away millions of tonnes of food. What can cities do to support the fight against food waste?

    Marcelline Bonneau

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  • Updates from the Small Scale Actions of the Tourism-friendly Cities URBACT network

    This last period has shown the importance of our network even more than before, as the tourism sector has been one of the most damaged sector by the pandemic.

    Now cities have the possibility to contribute to a real change becoming more able to attract tourists and to manage the effects of the tourist flows preserving at the same time the local identity and fostering a balance between the need of the visitors and the ones of the residents and the administrations. A real sustainable tourism can be part of the solution and a response to the needs of recovery that all the cities in the world, from the biggest to the smallest, are seeking to restart.

    Sabrina Bruzzone

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