The dilemma of fighting urban poverty: invest into poor people or into poor places?

This article provides an insight into URBACT’s work on urban poverty and its contribution to the Urban Poverty Partnership of the Urban Agenda for the European Union. At URBACT City Festival 2018, the walkshop 5 “Tackling urban poverty from the ground up” on 14 September will deal with these issues. 

Housing at the URBACT City Festival 2018: from the EU Urban Agenda to Lisbon (PT)

Affordable and adequate housing is one of the theme Lab sessions at URBACT City Festival taking place in Lisbon, 13-14 September 2018. This text serves the purpose of introducing to the housing debates in Lisbon, linking them to the work of the EU urban agenda (EU UA) on affordable housing.

 

Social media to strengthen local commerce: The case of the Semaest in Paris

Foram aprovadas, pelo Comité de Monitorização URBACT, 23 Redes de Planeamento de Ação, as quais envolvem 26 países e 203 parceiros. A decisão teve lugar no dia 25 de junho de 2019, na reunião realizada em Alba Iulia. Com a aprovação destas redes, concluem-se os procedimentos concursais no âmbito do URBACT III.

Every single house is interesting!

There is a little square two-minutes from your flat. You have seen it many times on your daily route. You perhaps even recognised that it is somehow unique. Nothing special, no outstanding architectural value, but lovely and always full of life. And would be great to explore once.

A week-end of Open Houses initiated in Budapest (HU) (budapest100.hu)

VIDEO: LIVE INTERACTIVE DEBATE: CONSERVATION THROUGH DEVELOPMENT

During the meeting celebrated last february in the city of Kortrijk, in the Crown Room of the Texture Museum, one session was also opened to other participants and live streaming through Facebook Live and included interactive Q&A.

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Tech Revolution – the art of the possible

CSI Europe Regulation Conference Report

'Volunteering Cities' a Powerful Model for European Cities

To develop the innovative policies necessary to face the currently emerging multidimensional social needs in cities such as elderly and children care, social isolation and depression, poverty, addiction, just to name some, it is necessary to create collective learning processes based on exchange and peer to peer learning.

Local and international initiatives in Timisoara

By Angela Ciupa-Red

Timisoara recently organized two relevant activities in the Kuncz neighbourhood, the area targeted by the URBinclusion project. Both activities were closely related to our project activities.

Give unused residential buildings a second chance!

Haven't you ever experienced this: You are in a city with beautiful old buildings and many of them are empty and dilapidated? And you ask why?

Many cities in Europe are facing this problem: vacant residential buildings (even in growing housing markets), which start to deteriorate and lose their function, even in inner city locations. This often is due to a shrinking population, suburbanisation processes or legal issues. Often older, outdated buildings are affected, which at the same time are important for the inner urban structure, the cityscape and identity of the city.