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Telling the story of Gendered Landscapes

Cities are places with inherent power structures and challenges but also places where innovations and solutions arise. How do we communicate the nuances and the complexity of cities in a comprehensive and engaging way? How do we revive the spirit of the physical place and the ownership of integrated strategies for our cities? On our transnational meeting with the Gendered Landscape network in March, we had an afternoon with a focus on how to tell the story of the Gendered Landscape. The workshop was led by Simone D’Antonio, URBACT expert on storytelling.

Városi kezdeményezések Európa-szerte az ukrajnai menekültek megsegítésére

Tudd meg, hogy az uniós országok milyen módon segítik Ukrajnát.

Gender, power and housing

Gender and urban development are intimately interrelated in many ways. At the transnational meeting in March 2022 the network made visible gendered power structures in housing in a panel organized by URBACT expert Laura Colini.

Πρωτοβουλίες πόλεων σε όλη την Ευρώπη για βοήθεια στους Ουκρανούς

Ενημερωθείτε για ορισμένους από τους τρόπους με τους οποίους οι χώρες της ΕΕ βοηθούν την Ουκρανία.

The case of redesigning the Vabaduse Street in Valga

Our network partner Valga is a municipality of 15,500 inhabitants located at the Estonian border to Latvia. Administrative centre of the municipality is Valga town with 12,000 inhabitants. But Valga is more than just a town in Estonia: Valga is one part of a twin city with Latvian Valka where the city just goes on once crossing the border. Valga/Valka share a common history: they were one city until they got separated when Estonia and Latvia gained independence from the Russian Empire in 1918-1920. During the following decades, both towns developed separately neglecting the common structures and culture. Now, since several years, Valga/Valka follow up their new common slogan “1 City, 2 States” and invest to re-establish themselves as one town. The largest project just finished is the creation of a joint town centre connecting Valga and Valka beyond the border once more.

#2 Small Scale Action | Razlog, Bulgaria

THERE’S A NEW SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS IN THE AIR IN RAZLOG – AND IT’S ALL THANKS TO URBACT

The city of RAZLOG makes possible the monitoring of urban air quality in real time through the test installation of an Air Station with sensing key for air quality indicators along with environmental data. This is possible thanks to the IoTXchange project which is implemented under URBACT Program.