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    Local Communication has many facets

    Participatory planning, co-creation, co-management are fashionable “buzzwords” when you ask city practitioners on the recent trends in urban planning and development. And they are right: the best way to plan for an inclusive, green and also prosperous city development is to meet the needs of its stakeholders, its population. This means of course involvement, the earlier and the more integrated the better. But what is needed to accomplish planning with and for people? One of the answers to this is an obvious and at the same time a challenging one: it is communication. With stakeholder, with residents, with population groups. On their needs, their concerns, their ideas, their vision for coming development steps. So, what can be done for a good communication a city’s diverse stakeholder and population setting?

    Claus Kollinger

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  • Meet the partners: interview with Sebastian Knoll

    [[{"fid":"48554","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Sebastian Knoll","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Sebastian Knoll","field_author[und][0][value]":"City of Munich"},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Sebastian Knoll","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Sebastian Knoll","field_author[und][0][value]":"City of Munich"}},"attributes":{"alt":"Sebastian Knoll","title":"Sebastian Knoll","height":445,"width":445,"style":"float: right; height: 100px; width: 100px;","class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"1"}}]]The city of Munich works on the city’s first circular district, transforming the former military base ‘Bayernkaserne’ to a new urban district housing around 15,000 people. Making smart use of locally available materials is an important goal in the project. Sebastian Knoll, being an engineering ecologist, supports the ULG in Munich regarding the re- and upcycling of excavated soil and secondary raw materials as rooting layers. At the Technical University of Munich he is currently researching the possible re-use of brick material as plant substrates.

    City of Utrecht

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  • A hackathon for gender equality on career choices

    La Rochelle aims solve the mismatch between offer and demand in the local labour market through a gender perspective, and in the beginning of March they arranged a hackathon for gender equality on carreer choices.

    annika.dalen@umea.se

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  • SDG Story: Dzierżoniów

    Vision and mission for Dzierżoniów, Poland.

    Karin Luhaäär

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  • Panevėžys promoting tourism for everyone

    In order to increase the competitiveness of the tourism sector and promote the full participation of different groups in society, it is important to ensure that tourist attractions and services are adapted and offered to all tourists, taking into account their different conditions. This is one of the things that Panevėžys has worked on in the development of their Small Scale Action.

    annika.dalen@umea.se

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  • Ars Pori Megastore: from 0 visitors to 15.000

    The focus for Pori in iPlace is the rejuventation of our City Center. We have the usual story: the building of a new shopping mall, Puuvilla in 2016, located to the north of the older part of the City Center, has moved many shops away to a new location. Some shopping centers on the south side are struggling to keep up with the competition, since Pori does not have enough population to support two commercial centers with the same profile.

    Sonia Files

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