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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  • Sharing good examples and ideas

    Vilnius City Municipality Administration is actively working together with Vilnius URBACT Local Group while preparing for the next steps of ACCESS project implementation as part of Vilnius Roadmap for the Integrated Action Plan. 

    TessaV

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  • Exploring cultural wishes and needs

    How can we support the development of cultural infrastructure? And how can we involve local residents and stakeholders? Amsterdam’s second ULG meeting on the 21st of April was about every district’s focus questions for the ACCESS project.

    TessaV

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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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