Environmental unsustainable areas / buildings - Mainstreaming
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LOW-CARBON HOUSING SOLUTIONS, TAMPERE, FINLAND
Encouraging climate friendly decisions in housing, renovating and constructionTargets to reach energy and climate standards are set at EU and national level, but it is cities who are on the front line, ensuring that these targets are met. Since 2015, the City of Tampere (FI) focuses on promoting low-carbon (...)
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RESILIENT URBAN AND PERI-URBAN AGRICULTURE, ROME, ITALY
A tool for social inclusion and urban regenerationUsing an important area of its territory that is suited to agriculture (51.7 ha), the city of Rome (IT) developed a participatory urban gardening project. The aim of the project is two-fold: it fights social exclusion and poverty and (...)
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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 (...)