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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    Rome’s urban garden Parco Or9-Sergio Albani becomes a member of the Italian National Network of Social Farms

    Шест стъпки за създаване на Интегриран план за действие

    Patricia Hernandez

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  • Porto Culture as pathway towards sociability

    Our partners from Bologna share with us their idea and a way to build partnerships between NGOs, universities, cultural institutions and the city hall in a revitalised cultural area. They show what and how they managed to achieve in this area.

    n.rydlewska

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  • TNM in Bologna - Culture as a perspective of regeneration

    5th Transnational Network Meeting was dedicated to the issue of how to involve the inhabitants, the local community in the life of the nearest area, the neighbourhood through the broadly understood culture and all kinds of cultural events. It was also the time of our Midterm revive meeting.

    n.rydlewska

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  • Making Spend Matter - Summer Newsletter

    Welcome to the fifth issue of Making Spend Matter Newsletter bringing you the latest updates from our Network on progressive public procurement, spend analysis and anchor institution cooperation.

    Alison Taylor

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  • A virtual Masterclass to reflect on Online Communities in the time of Covid-19.

    In this difficult period workers need to ask many questions regarding how to manage professional dynamics which so far have been taken for granted. Among these are dynamics ruling sociality: the difficulty and, in many cases, the impossibility to physically meet pushes to find the solution to keep communities active (and maybe to create new ones), especially through digital technologies.

    Valeria Tarallo

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  • Healthy Cities during COVID-19; Accelerating from planning to action

    By Dr.Sebastiaan van Herk, lead expert Healthy Cities, and Sofia Aivalioti, Ad Hoc Expert Healthy Cities

    The COVID-19 pandemic that has sent the world into lockdown has also affected, but not derailed, progress towards building healthier cities. In fact, it’s only under confinement that many people truly took stock of their living environment - their homes, streets and neighbourhoods - and appreciated the value of accessible green spaces. It was also a time to (re)discover the importance of community and collective health: our health depends on the health of others. This places health at the centre of the debate when re-considering the priorities of urban planning. Out of the crisis, cities can build back better with much more support for city policies in greening, mobility and health, that may well have taken years to build up otherwise. In other words, they can work towards becoming a healthy city.

    Estrada Cristina

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