Underused areas - Experimenting

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 (...)

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 arcade of merchants (stoa emporon) is a shopping passage in the city centre of Athens. Due to the financial crisis, the shops closed down and the arcade was abandoned. As an experiment to revitalise the arcade, the project (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

According to general prognoses, the city of Antwerp is expecting a large increase in population (+ 20% in 15 years). We observed the first effects of an unmonitored population increase on children, who were unable to find a place in (...)

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, (...)