On Wednesday 5th December, after the URBACT Annual Conference 2012 two-day meetings (3-4 December 2012), field Study Visits were organised for those who wished to get more insight into Copenhagen surroundings’ urban management. I hopped on board the study visit linked to the Against Divided Cities in Europe workshop, which would take me to Albertslund, […]
Archives for 2012
On board the Study Visit ‘Against Divided Cities in Europe’ : An insight into ‘The Albertslund Concept’!
A Success for URBACT Social Media Turn
URBACT has long been active on social media. Its Facebook profile is now well established and is now a meeting point for 1750 fans. As for twitter, URBACT has now 1 099 followers and the URBACT National Dissemination Points tweet from their own accounts about URBACT in national languages. But the great digital turn has […]
URBACT Annual Conference: Providing Urban Practitioners with New Tools and Ideas to Improve Policy
The URBACT Annual Conference is coming up very soon! We are all excited about being there, to learn more about URBACT projects results and have the opportunity to exchange with other European urban practitioners. But the Annual Conference is not just as any other conference! First, it is thought to be as interactive as possible, […]
European Cities meet in Eger for the final conference of the URBACT project SURE
Today in Eger, Hungary, took place the final conference of the project SURE (Socio Economic methods of Urban REhabilitation). The project was designed to develop the partners cities’ capacity to work more effectively with resident and business communities on the development of integrated and locally sustainable solutions. SURE also supported the partner cities in the […]
International Conference : Urban Energies
What are the questions that will concern our cities in the future? Will a new balance be struck locally between civic involvement and political responsibility? Who must do what today to make sure our cities remain a success model for the future? These are some of the question addressed by the International Conference Städtische Energien/Urban […]
Eight Cities in a Kitchen!
How can one gather eight cities in a kitchen and what would they cook? This sounds as a bizarre question, but it is the starting point for the final product of the URBACT ESIMeC project, which focused on boosting sustainable economic growth in small and medium size cities. ESIMeC gathers eight European cities: Albacete and […]
Easy to Reach Resources on Urban Policy in Europe on the Web
For the person who has already searched for documents on urban sustainable development in Europe in the web’s jungle and has spent hours identifying which document was the most useful to their purposes, here is some good news! The URBACT Programme and the European Urban Knowledge Platform (EUKN) have commonly decided to facilitate the access […]
Bikes and Soft Transportation: Small and Medium Size Cities Are Leading the Way Too!
Soft transportation means are meant to be a key for the future of European cities sustainability: they solve problems of road congestion and also improve the health of citizens. Of course, everyone knows the popular rental bikes systems in big European cities such as Copenhagen, Paris or now London: their set up, implementation and success […]
National Urban Agenda in Italy: Back to the Future
25 years after the closure of the Ministry for the problems of urban areas (1987), Italy has a new institutional structure for the coordination of urban policies at national level, the CIPU (Comitato Interministeriale per le Politiche Urbane). Approved with a solid bi-partisan support, the creation of the CIPU is probably the most strategic act […]
European Cities in an Urban World
What Will Be the Cities of Tomorrow? How Can Urban Planners Act Today for a Prosperous, Inclusive and Sustainable Future? These will be the key questions at the URBACT Annual Conference and the answers given during plenary sessions and workshops will be informed by the experience of URBACT projects and European Cities. But the debates […]
Authors
Aidan Cerar
Aldo Vargas
Alice Ferguson
Alina Andreea Băileşteanu
Alison Partridge
Amy Labarrière
Ana Resende
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