Policy and governance
wohnbund:consult is an independent office working in the field of social and sustainable [...]
The Metropolitan Institute of Bratislava (MIB) is a new urban centre that aims to bring [...]
In the last decade, cities across Europe have seen an increasing number of innovative [...]
A Pact of collaboration is a negotiation between the city administration and civil [...]
In 2018, the Croatian Ministry of Culture announced a project tender for the development [...]
The right to bid for Assets of Community Value was defined in the Localism Act, [...]
The blog presents an initial reflection on emerging challenges that the influx of [...]
Vienna is the largest municipal housing owner in Europe. About half of the city's [...]
Xavier Matilla, Barcelona’s chief architect and Silvia Casorran Martos, deputy chief [...]
Polyák Levente írása eredetileg a budapesti alternatív kulturális szcénát [...]
Sally Kneeshaw, Gender Equal Cities lead for URBACT, found through her work that whilst [...]
Local communities and their local governments have two possible ways to cooperate. One is [...]
The city of Naples (Italy)[1] is an exemplary case study of how a city can co-design [...]
Gólya is a self-organised community space in Budapest’s 8th district. Gólya has [...]
In the year 2000, the Art Workshop Lazareti, one of the most significant Croatian [...]
Local Operators’ Platform (LOCOP) is an independent initiative and research lab [...]
Kultura Nova is a public foundation promoting civil society organisations in the field of [...]
When we undertake any type of project, of whatever nature, it is more necessary than ever [...]
Many urban regeneration schemes focus on architectural interventions or masterplans that [...]
The Power of Civic Ecosystems: How community spaces and their networks make our cities [...]
Once called a sonic wonderkid by Time Out, American singer, songwriter Joe Driscoll had a [...]
Realising the need to create international dialogue on handling the COVID-19 crisis [...]
Planning post-COVID-19 cooperative cities Building on existing efforts towards social [...]
During the first weeks of the lockdown we noticed that there was little or no exchange [...]
Since the 2008 economic crisis, cities in Europe have witnessed a veritable revolution in [...]
Probably all community centres in Europe have a lot in common regarding the way they work [...]
The Coronavirus pandemic is causing huge damage in both physical and psychological terms [...]
Nel corso delle prime settimane di lockdown ci siamo resi conto che fra i paesi [...]
Fin dalla crisi economica del 2008, le città europee si sono trovate ad affrontare una [...]
Qual è il ruolo dell’e-learning nell’istruzione e nell’educazione, e quali sfide [...]
Episodio # 3: Sfide e soluzioni potenziali per il settore culturale Viviamo tempi [...]
Year: 2017 Length: 0.57 Director: Emanuela Liverani and Federico Greco Language: [...]
Abbiamo incontrato a Napoli gli attivisti del Centro Sociale Ex OPG Occupato – Je so' [...]
Co-Hab Athens is a research project which aims to elaborate long-term models of [...]
FRIEDA 23 is a venue for art and media production. Located in Rostock, Northern Germany, [...]
Ex OPG Occupato Je so’ pazzo (Neapolitan for “I am crazy”) is a former criminal [...]
The extractive nature of mass tourism is made possible by tourist behaviour, missing [...]
Based on the experience developed over the past ten years in Lisbon, the Bip/Zip program [...]
Polis is a platform developed by Martha Giannakopoulou and her studio, If- untitled, to [...]
The City of Bari joined the Com.Unity.Lab Urbact network to be inspired by the Bip/Zip [...]
The cooperative L'Olivera manages agriculture projects with social impact in the [...]
Ecos is a cooperative of cooperatives which works to support the growth of single [...]
Via Baltea is a multifunctional space initiated and run by Sumisura, a cooperative of [...]
A Város Mindenkié, in English The City is for All, was established in 2009 to advocate [...]
ShareTown is a fictional town populated by a cast of characters, which sets out to [...]
Dynamo Velostation was opened in 2015 with the support of the Incredibol tender promoted [...]
Mercato Sonato is a project to requalify an unused market hall in Bologna. It was [...]
Urban redevelopment at the neighbourhood scale: the case of Bagni Pubblici di via Agliè 9 in Torino
Bagni Pubblici di via Agliè 9 is a community space where more than 15 organizations, [...]
The role of the Studio Commissioner for Berlin exists since 1993. After the city’s [...]
Rossella Ferorelli introduces us to Spazio13: a real connector in the city of Bari, a [...]
Adriana Freire is the founder of Cozinha Popular da Mouraria, a community kitchen [...]
In the early 2000s, La Marina de Valencia hosted editions the America’s Cup and the F1 [...]
With today's European cities hosting most of the continent’s population and urban areas [...]
The US presidential election results came as a surprise to many of us especially because [...]
How to strengthen the position of cities in the digital domain? Amsterdam’s ecosystem of cooperation
Recent newspaper articles highlighted the controversial position of large ICT companies [...]
NEST is a temporary use project in the former City Library of Ghent awaiting [...]
De Pastory was created in 2015 in an old presbytery building and the garden on Ghent’s [...]
Nel 2014 il Comune di Milano e Fondazione Cariplo hanno siglato un accordo per la [...]
Year: 2018 Length: 2.01 Director: Jorge Masquera Language: [...]
ÖkoKauf (Eco-Purchase) is an initiative of the City of Vienna, part of the Eco-Business [...]
While decisions taken in Bruxelles are increasingly recognised as affecting our daily [...]
In the early 2000s, some cities in the Central Eastern European region began to introduce [...]
Plateau Urbain is a temporary use organisation in Paris. Established in 2013, it examines [...]
Southern European countries were among the hardest hit by the 2008 economic crisis. In [...]
MAR Movilidad is the mobility hub of the Mares Madrid project, an initiative by the city [...]
Toestand is a temporary use organisation in Brussels, helping citizen activities and [...]
Communication between citizens and local administrations is a key element of [...]
Civic initiatives regenerating urban areas emerged all over Europe as an answer to the [...]
Laituri is an urban information centre in Helsinki established in 2008. Attached to the [...]
The international debate on the commons has a long history but only in recent years has [...]
Locality is the national network of ambitious and enterprising community organisations, [...]
In the past years, civic crowdfunding has become an increasingly used tool by communities [...]
Spacehive is a civic crowdfunding platform based in London. The platform, established in [...]
The Community Land Trust Bruxelles was created in 2012 as an initiative of residents, [...]
In the winter of 2007, exactly nine years before Donald Trump became president of the [...]
Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust was created in 2011 to address housing issues [...]
To a large extent, the global financial crisis of 2007-2008 was a result of excessive [...]
Coop57 is a cooperative for ethical financial services with the objective of financing [...]
In 2011 a dozen young people retreated for a weekend to one of the suburbs of Hungary’s [...]
During the past few decades, housing has been at the forefront of community-led [...]
“The trick is how to translate the masterplan to something that people can understand" [...]
Largo Residências is a hostel, hotel, artist-in-residence and café in Lisbon’s [...]
Spreefeld is a housing cooperative created as a pilot project to contribute to the [...]
Gängeviertel is a historic neighbourhood of Central Hamburg. When plans emerged about [...]
De Besturing was founded in 2006 in an industrial area of The Hague and over the years it [...]
BIP/ZIP is a pioneering strategy by the Lisbon Municipality’s Body of Housing and Local [...]
In the past decade, with the economic crisis and the transformation of welfare societies, [...]
Cascina Roccafranca is a multi-functional community centre operating in a building owned [...]
Year: 2018 Length: 3.55 Language:English Director: Jorge [...]
Alianca Stará Tržnica is an NGO managing the Old Market Hall, a historic building in [...]
With public spaces being created by the interaction of various social groups, [...]
Una cosa importante in questo mercato storico è il rilancio della struttura che da anni [...]
Anna Maria Bianchi is the president of the association “carteinregola”, an initiative [...]
Temporary use is a learning process of accommodating innovation and adapting needs and [...]
European cities are still in the wake of the economic crisis. Public administrations are [...]