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General impacts of green spaces on physical and mental health (video)

In early 2014 URBACT launched a suite of pilot transfer networks to explore a new way to support peer-to-peer learning amongst cities. The aim was to test the feasibility of a new type of URBACT network, built around the potential transfer of an established example of effective city practice or policy.

How to plan healthy cities? (video)

How to plan healthy cities? What is a healthy city? How does human health relate to planetary health?

Green spaces and mental health (video)

URBACT Good Practice Call 5 Dec 2016 - 31 March 2017

Healing gardens in hospitals (video)

What benefits do healing gardens and therapeutic gardens have in hospitals?

Neighbourhood activities in Riga – an effective way for engaging residents in the local community’s activities

The movement of neighbourhood associations is developing more actively in Riga. Residents of neighbourhoods unite to promote good ideas for improving the environment and quality of life in their neighbourhoods, and they are looking for ways of turning neighbourhoods into attractive venues for public events. We invited for a conversation Inese Auziņa, the board member of one of Riga’s neighbourhood associations – “Rada Brasa” [Brasa Creates].

9 cidades europeias juntam esforços para pôr fim ao fenómeno dos sem-abrigo. Ambicioso? Claro que sim!

O que é um sem-abrigo, porque é que este fenómeno está a crescer e como é que soluções inovadoras de habitação estão a resolver este problema