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    When is a Wasteland? A Critical Understanding of Infrastructure and Residual Spaces - by Brian Rosa

    Urban peripheries in Europe tend to be disorderly landscapes, and the overlay of infrastructures often create areas depicted as ‘wastelands’. In this article, Brian Rosa reflects on the definition of such spaces and the uses they host. He also looks at transformation processes that aim to repurpose these residual spaces.

    Mikel Berra-Sandín

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  • Hacking our cities and testing our ideas – reflecting on 2021 in the iPlace Project

    Sometimes the restrictions that limit our way of working can be turned into a positive. The ten cities who are partners in URBACT’s iPlace Project set themselves the task of giving their citizens the opportunity to ‘hack their city’ in the midst of the Covid19 pandemic with severe restrictions on physical interaction in the countries of all the partners.

    Sonia Files

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  • CO4CITIES - 2nd Transnational Meeting, Gdańsk, September 16-17, 2021

    The 2nd Transnational Meeting took place in Gdańsk with a mixed-mode: some sessions were carried out “in presence”, with the participation of representatives of Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, and Turin, and others online.

    Laura Socci

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  • Transnational meeting in Voru - Going hybrid for the first time in SIBdev Network’s history

    Between 14 and 16 September 2021 a long-awaited event for the SIBdev Network took place in Voru, Estonia and in the online space at the same time: the first hybrid transnational event in the partnership’s history. The meeting was the 5th since the launch of the 2nd phase of the project, following a series of online sessions that started with the Activation meeting on 8-10 September 2020.

    Nora Kebel

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  • Focus on Timisoara (RO) - How knowledge can contribute to fighting homelessness

    Timisoara decided to join the ROOF network because, like in many other European cities, homelessness is more and more present and we wanted to learn new ways towards ending it. Housing First approach to end homelessness is seen as the most effective especially when working with people with complex social needs. During the transnational meetings we could see good examples of how this approach is used in more than half of the cities from the ROOF network to successfully improve the life of people and take them out of homelessness. Still Romania and Timisoara were not familiar with the Housing First approach and most of the URBACT Local Group members never heard of it. So, we decided that in order to draw an accurate and achievable Integrated Action Plan we need to use the Small-Scale Actions to gain more knowledge on Housing First approach.

    Hannelore Bonami

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