Environmental unsustainable areas / buildings - Financing
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INCENTIVES FOR REFURBISHMENT OF PRIVATE HOUSES IN PIRINEUS STREET, SANTA COLOMA DE GRAMANET, SPAIN
The municipality of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, part of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region, makes use of top down innovative legal instruments to break their deadlock situation in trying to improve an existing urban area together with the residents and in this way give respond to a bottom-up ambition by the majority of owners to refurbish their housing block.Pirineus street is located in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a city on the left bank of Besos River. From 1955 to 1975 Santa Coloma’s population increased from 20,000 to 140,000 inhabitants. In those days the city grew without the (...)
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WHO CARES, MULTI GENERATION CO-HOUSING, ALMERE, NETHERLANDS
Step by step development plan to make a postwar area more sustainable and to introduce a new collective layerLike in many European countries the Dutch population is ageing. And of course ageing people want to stay healthy as long as possible and are demanding proper care to stay fit. Because of this the costs of care are rising and are (...)