Underused areas - Activating

Caen has developed a variety of artistic and cultural marketing actions to draw the attention of their citizens to the former harbour area and to become involved in the reactivation of this underused (...)

The City of Ghent has been experimenting with the temporary use of brown field sites and empty buildings for over a decade - often in the context of urban planning. These usually take very long to get from the development to the implementation (...)

Originally, the event “Experience Your City Differently” was founded in 2006, in Prague, by an initiative called Auto*Mat promoting a better environment and quality of life in the city, thematically linked to two (...)

Living Streets is an experiment that allows citizens to temporarily transform their street into a sustainable place they’ve always dreamed of.

Envisioning: relating to public interest

During a time period of (...)

Municipal recreational spaces fill the lack of open spaces in the city dedicated to different age and interest groups.

Envisioning and promoting: relating to public interest & promoting

Plaza Miejska start in (...)

In the 90s, due to urban sprawl many people moved out from Lazarz district and Glogowska main street of the area became mostly transit road from the main city centre to neighbouring communes out of Poznan. Gradual degradation of the (...)

Since 2015, “somes delivery” has been a yearly reoccurrence. The event draws visitors to the river and gives it a new and more central role in the city. At the same time, the initiative offers a well-framed response to the (...)

The activities of Pop-up-to-Date pivot around the conversion of vacant commercial properties into springboards for creative entrepreneurship. Supporting pop-up shops is not an innovative solution for transforming run-down (...)

The good practice proposed by the Naples city council (IT) aims at guaranteeing the collective enjoyment of common goods such as water, public services, schools, knowledge, cultural and natural heritage, and their preservation for the (...)

The KDAG Cable and Wire Factory is a 6.3-hectare site in the transition zone between the densely inhabited core of the city and the suburbs: the fringe of Vienna. It is very well connected to the public transport system by two metro stations. In (...)

Because of Solin’s rapid growth, the public domain is fragmented and is generally underused. In the past few years, citizens have noticed this and expressed the need to reconnect with the waterfront. Large physical infrastructural barriers (...)

The Lageweg project site is situated in a semi-industrial part of the Antwerp fringe. The area is in decline for years and has become known as a no go zone. It is characterised by large, empty factories, an inaccessible locked-in green (...)

Vienna is a city that grew considerably and compactly in the 19th century. After the Second World War, with the division between East and West Europe, it lost its central position. While other cities grew rapidly and often sprawled, (...)