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

Playful Paradigm to re-think cities: join our participatory play lab at the European Week of Regions and Cities

Thu 8 October | 11:30 – 13:00 CET | Registration deadline: 27/09/2020

Let's build together upon the Good Practice of the Playful Paradigm URBACT Network!

Rome: the Improvement Plan of the city’s Regulations of Urban Gardens is going ahead

The debate between the Councilor for Green Policies of the City of Rome, Ms Laura Fiorini, and the representatives of the city’s urban gardeners associations is in progress: the City Administration has launched the new rules for urban gardens and shared them with the City Districts before proceeding with their approval by the City Council. The rules have nevertheless encountered some confusion and disagreement among the representatives of the urban gardeners associations.

Janez Ziherl: »Ne smemo ignorirati mnenja občanov«

Janez Ziherl je vodja Urada za okolje in prostor na Mestni občini Kranj. Na občini je zaposlen že dobro desetletje, v tem času je imel možnost delovati v različnih službah in se tako dodobra seznaniti z raznolikostjo dela in pristopov na občini. Osrednjo vlogo je igral pri prenovi soseske Planina, s katero si je Mestna občina Kranj za odprt pristop pri vključevanju prebivalcev prislužila nagrado programa URBACT za dobro prakso. Pravi, da je treba začeti bolj aktivno upravljati s prostorom, ki je zlasti na Gorenjskem zelo omejena dobrina. S sodelovanjem v evropskih projektih in spodbujanjem sodelovanja s sosednjimi občinami si prizadeva uveljaviti principe krožnega gospodarstva, ko gre za ravnanje z degradiranimi zemljišči. Je goreč zagovornik sodelovanja z javnostjo in v to smer vodi tudi delo svojega urada.