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Yourspace.Sutton community garden: Championing social inclusion
Yourspace.Sutton is more than a community garden. It provides workshops to kids, supports social therapeutic activities, and hosts local sustainable businesses in a horticultural environment. Tucked away in the back of the nursery of Seears Park in Cheam, at the edge of London, this hub
Yourspace.Sutton community garden: Championing social inclusion
Yourspace.Sutton is more than a community garden. It provides workshops to kids, supports social therapeutic activities, and hosts local sustainable businesses in a horticultural environment. Tucked away in the back of the nursery of Seears Park in Cheam, at the edge of London, this hub is booming with activities. Its
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Resistant and resilient: perspectives for independent culture in Hungary
Independent culture is a vital ingredient of Hungary’s cultural landscape. While Budapest remains a thriving metropolis with a strong independent scene and many smaller towns
Urban Lab Torino: making sense of urban processes
Urban Lab Torino is an independent association that tells the story of the large-scale transformation of Turin and its metropolitan area. Working closely with the
Measuring social return: The case of the community centre Can Battló
Like other major European cities, Barcelona has a great industrial heritage that can now be re-used for a new and different development of its urban
New book: Open Heritage. Community-Driven Adaptive Reuse in Europe: Best Practice
Heritage is a crucial component of our individual and collective identities, communities and social infrastructure as well as our urban and rural fabrics. Heritage assets,
Placemaking
What kinds of financial support and solidarity structures are needed to help community-led development projects flourish?
Gamification
How to make digital interaction more engaging and fun? We explore the use of digital games to experience and design your city.
Urban commons
How can urban commons strengthen communities and help face the upcoming social and economic challenges? Produced in cooperation with the gE.Co project.
Manifesto to Action
We advocate for existing knowledge, policy recommendations and financial resources to be geared towards the strengthening of social and solidarity economy practices throughout Europe.
Solidarity City Vienna
Solidarity City Vienna is a platform of Cooperative City. It promotes and strengthens social and solidarity economy practices, mapping 12 initiatives that focus on social inclusion, fair employment, participation, sustainable food systems, ethical consumption and responsible tourism.
magdas HOTEL: Changing the world while sleeping
This retro-style hotel next to the famous Prater park is the first hotel in Austria that is run as a social business. It is dedicated to the integration of people with a refugee background and helping them overcome barriers at the job market.
Bikes and Rails: Co-housing with solidarity and an environmental mission
Self-managed and affordable, ecological and inclusive, Bikes and Rails' concept provides for buying houses collectively through private financing, freeing them from the market in the long term and thus securing affordable housing.
Zukunftshof: An agricultural city laboratory at the edge of Vienna
A former farm at the southern edge of Vienna’s Favoriten district, Zukunftshof brings innovative urban agriculture, water management and sustainable energy production closer to the people, integrating old traditions and former residents in new urban developments