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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.

Piraeus, Greece
A blue gem making digital waves
Urban practice summary

Based on Barnsley’s good practice, Piraeus launched its own ‘Blue Lab’– the first Blue Economy Innovation Center in Greece. Blue Lab is one of the few centres in Greece that has a dedicated ‘makerspace’ for start-ups to focus on creating functional prototypes to develop their main ideas.

Heerlen, Netherlands
Urban Innovative Action
WESH – We.Service.Heerlen
Access to funding
+2
Urban practice summary

To tackle a number of pressing challenges, such as low civic engagement, poor quality of public spaces and high shop vacancy, a consortium led by the municipality of Heerlen in the south of the Netherlands developed an innovative civic engagement platform.

Bielsko-Biala, Poland
EUI - Innovative Actions
Digital Transition in Bielsko-Biala
Productive, smart and connected
+7
Urban practice summary

Bielsko-Biala developed its innovation ecosystem inspired by international exchange of experience, through systemic approach composed of two intermingling formats of FabLab (Digital Innovation Hub) and multistakeholder engagement approach.  It may be described as follows:

By European Urban Initiative
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Lisbon, Portugal
Shops with a history
Urban practice summary

Throughout history, trade has played a significant role in the birth and development of cities. The city of Lisbon (PT) developed the programme Loja com História, “Shops with a History”, to recognise trade as a distinctive element of the city.

Amsterdam, Netherlands
EUI - Innovative Actions
Eat – Play - Transform: Circular food waste management at Johan Cruijff ArenA stadium (The biodigester in Amsterdam South East).
Waste management
+5
Urban practice summary

The Eat – Play – Transform project initiated by the Dutch company The Waste Transformers have a radically different approach to food waste. Their containerized urban biodigesters called Waste Transformers process food waste on-site, directly where that food waste is produced.

By European Urban Initiative
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