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.
Since 2023, the Municipality of Oeiras (PT) has been promoting food and environmental sustainability practices, to obtain changes in food production and consumption behaviour, and to boost the local economy and social inclusion.
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).
Com'ON is a participatory programme that enables young people to become more responsible, active and adaptive, providing a model for their peers while building trust and care in the community.
This practice, Transforming wastewater basins into a biodiversity hotspot, powered a remarkable shift from industrial land-use to nature conservation.
CEETe serves as an innovation hub representing the future of energy and the environment. It aims to move away from fossil fuels and focuses on sustainability.
MAC proposes a series of activities with the aim of redeveloping the urban environment and, at the same time, fighting poverty in the Monterusciello district in Pozzuoli, where the current problems of the social context are combined with a difficult urban environment, characterized by isolation,
Làbora is a large network of collaboration between Barcelona City Council (ES), social organisations and companies in the city.
The Bee Path was opened in 2015 by the city of Ljubljana (SI), a municipality aware of the importance of pollinators for the sustainability of cities.
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.
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