Explanations about Urban Practice Database ?
What is the Urban Practices Database?
The Urban Practices Database of Portico is a repository of tested urban solutions tested on the ground by cities from all over the EU, gathered to inspire urban stakeholders looking for concrete ideas to address their urban challenges. Urban practices from all over the continent and from a variety of sources, classified through precise criteria and easily searchable tags, can be browsed here in a single place.
What is an urban practice?
Urban practices are concrete answers to issues affecting urban areas, implemented previously as part of local programmes.
They have been led by cities and can be either successful or experimental, but they are all worth getting inspiration from.
Where does the Database get its urban practices from?
The Urban Practices gathered here all come from EU-based initiatives which are active in identification or funding of promising urban practices. Some of these practices might have been identified through specific calls for proposals or funding programmes; if so, a clickable labelling icon with the logo of the source will appear at the top of the practice.
This practice promotes local youth engagement in reading and book culture, involving young people in literary award juries. These are the Mandarache category, decided by a jury of more than 4 500 young readers aged between 15 and 30, and the Hache Award,
This citizen-science project aims to obtain the most realistic estimation possible of CO2 captured by urban trees, in order to understand their capture capacity across the entire urban environment.
Strasbourg (FR) is steadily working on improving its environmental impact, and on promoting biodiversity. In 2008, it stopped using pesticides and integrated plants into the urban landscape.
In a rural town threatened by depopulation, a strong and determined smart territorial innovation strategy, known as the Fundão Innovation Plan, has created an innovation ecosystem that is a reference in Portugal, attracting 16 IT companies, creating
The City of Chemnitz has been affected in different ways by demographic and economic change in the past decades. Vacancies can be found to different extents all over the city and amount to more than 22,000 flats (14 % of the housing stock).
The Stars Zaragoza Project stands out for its high level of community involvement, its adaptability to each educational centre, and for its promotion of children's autonomy.
Every day, citizens, tourists and enterprises need to access a range of city services and resources, and in some cases to pay for them. Meanwhile, city councils are also developing various policies to boost healthy habits and social behavior to improve the quality of life.
The City of Aarhus (DK) has been testing the method of including young people in the redevelopment of empty buildings since 2013.
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