Networks and cities' news

Catch up on the latest updates from cities working together in URBACT Networks. The articles and news that are showcased below are published directly by URBACT’s beneficiaries and do not necessarily reflect the programme’s position.

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  • Lisbon Transnational meeting

    March 2021- The Access network went on a virtual fieldtrip to the peripheries of Lisbon, where the Muro Urban Art Festival took place. Neighbourhoods were transformed into a playground for urban artistic expression to allow voices of the residents to be heard, to be legitimated, and to sediment in the history of the area. 

    TessaV

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  • ACCESS challenges, how Lisbon is taking it

    As ACCESS enters its second phase and the world deals with the pandemic reality, Culture in Lisbon is both focusing on the territory that has been chosen to work upon and the constraints that will emerge from it and from the global and local context.

    TessaV

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  • Insights from the URGE network: thematic report

    Circular economy in the built environment, approached from different perspectives: academic, design, architectural, construction, civic and the role of infrastructure for materials’ storage, Destination circular: The case of Copenhagen.

    By Dr. Eleni Feleki, Lead Expert of the URGE Action Planning Network

    City of Utrecht

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  • Case study Copenhagen: Citizen engagement for circular gardens

    In this fourth case study delivered by the URGE network, the city of Copenhagen shares their experiences with citizen engagement in the regeneration of an urban courtyard: 'Urban Garden of the Future', in which they placed focud on circular reuse of soil, concrete, windows, and wood.

    City of Utrecht

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  • Natural playgrounds of Poznan

    In his book "The Last Child of the Forest", Richard Louv defines the syndrome of deficit of contact with nature in children. He notes that children living in cities have limited access to free play in the bosom of nature, which has a negative impact on their psyche, ability to concentrate, motor coordination and physical condition. Natural playgrounds are the antidote to these issues.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Nextagri in a Nutshell

    Under the frame of the “Milan Food policy” and the policy strategy called “Circular Milan”, the legacy of OpenAgri post-UIA consists in an innovation hub serving a bigger part of the agricultural park, with a strong focus on the waste-water sector, understood as the activities related to treatment, and valorisation and reuse of wastewater of any origin (municipal, industrial, or agricultural).

    NextAgri is the mechanism to transfer the practice to 3 European cities: Vila Nova de Gaia in Portugal, Stara Zagora in Bulgary and Almere in the Netherlands

    Cristina Sossan

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