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  • Urbano vrtlarstvo u Krakovu

    Vrtovi zajednice u Krakovu je projekt koji je stvoren zbog potrebe građana za gradskim vrtovima. Međutim, njegova priroda i način na koji funkcionira je jedinstven. Koncept “zajednice” je ovdje ključan. 

    emarko

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  • Innovation a wonderful journey in Torino

    (from Town and Peripheries to Department and Offices)

    Valeria Tarallo

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  • Le Housing First : comment deux villes URBACT en Belgique mettent en œuvre le droit au logement

    Découvrez comment deux villes belges luttent contre le sans-abrisme dans le cadre du réseau URBACT ROOF.

    Fabian Massart

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  • City video URGE: Riga

    The third of a series of city videos of URGE - the URBACT Action Planning Network on the theme of Circular building cities.

    City of Utrecht

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  • 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...

    n.rydlewska

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  • Brighton (UK) adopts good practice from the impressive NGO House in Riga (LV)

    A somewhat dreary day in a municipal office was, unbeknownst to me, a significant one in the form of an email with the Urbact Project III call out for partner cities. Having previously failed with a strong collaborative application to Horizon 2020, talk amongst the office was that UK would be out of vogue as partner cities, particularly with the B(rexit) word casting a shadow over future EU collaboration. Optimistically, I read through the projects in this round and stumbled on ACTive NGOs. NGO House, Riga, Latvia. The only thing I knew of Latvia is that I grew up imitating a cult Latvian player’s (Marian Pahars) goals on the local green – Marian played for my beloved team, The Saints, in the late 90s. 
     

    z.biteniece

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