Networks and cities' news

RiConnect themes: Rethinking for adding ecosystem functions

The continuity and proper functioning of the ecological metabolism is often interrupted by mobility infrastructure. Therefore, rethinking infrastructure can help both protect nature flows and add new ecosystem functions.

RiConnect themes: Planning the metropolis

Rethinking mobility infrastructure offers the opportunity to have a positive impact in the metropolitan scale, through sustainable urban development.

Community in the making: how to build communities in socialist housing estates?

"Every house is interesting,” says the motto of the good practice, the Budapest100 festival which involves volunteers and residents to celebrate the built heritage around us for more than ten years now. But is every house truly interesting? Even socialist housing estates? Are there strong communities in the blocks of houses? If yes, how can we reach out to them? Are there hidden places, uncovered stories? Is there anyone willing to tell these stories? 

 

RiConnect themes: Rethinking for integrating the infrastructure

How to physically integrate the infrastructure? The goal of our second theme is to ensure that mobility infrastructure is accessible, surrounded by active spaces and without leftover areas. 

A virtual feast! Closing loops in local food systems

URBinclusion is focused on the implementation of new solutions to address poverty and social exclusion challenges in the partner cities.

An Armenian Hungarian guy from Romania and his URBACT transfer story

When I was a child, my grandmother always told me a lot about being Armenian. It was weird to me because we lived and actually still live the same way as the Szekler majority in my town, Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni, Transylvania). Years passed and while I was organising the pilot festival as the ULG coordinator of the Come in! Transfer Network I realized that many residents hiddenly cope with the same duality.