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.
The Living Library is an informal activity set up in Valongo (PT) for students from 14 to 18 years of age, with the slogan “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. The organisers took the concept of the Living Library held at Denmark’s Roskilde Festival in 2000, and adapted it for a school audience.
Reggiane OFF is a multi-level, multi-stakeholder initiative promoting social and health inclusion for migrant communities living in the Reggiane area, once home to one of Italy’s most important factories.
Since 2012, town-run canteens in Mouans-Sartoux (FR) have been fully organic, with vegetables supplied by a local municipal farm. This shift was in response to health and environmental concerns surrounding food.
The Parkbogen Ost (Pabo) in Leipzig was created after the eastern railroad line fell ou of use. The project comprises an eight-kilometer green corridor with footpaths and cycle paths as well as leisure and sports areas.
Piazze Aperte – a citywide tactical urbanism programme – was developed by Milan (IT), with the support of AMAT-Municipal Agency for Mobility and Environment in collaboration with Bloomberg Associates, and the Global Designing Cities Initiative.
Population growth in cities brings many challenges to municipalities, such as providing food in a sustainable and equal way, reducing food waste, promoting healthy diets and purchasing food which respects the environment and workers' dignity.
The project “Guardian of Heritage as a Catalyst for Development, Research, and Learning – New Croatian Natural History Museum” is a showcase project for sustainable urban development that builds on the role of museum(s) in driving the development of tourism and local community.
The ILHO (Investigation Logement Huisvesting Onderzoek) housing investigation system in Schaerbeek (BE) mobilises a multidisciplinary team, including municipal departments (urban planning, population, debt recovery, etc.
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