Underused areas - Mainstreaming
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POP UP TO DATE, ANTWER, BELGIUM
From vacant to vibrant: creative entrepreneurs as seeds of change in fertile soils of (sub)urban shopping areasThe 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 (...)
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LOST & FOUND, NAPLES, ITALY
Civic uses and new policy tools for the communityThe 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 (...)
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ARTS DISTRICT, MÃLAGA, SPAIN
The conversion of a central decaying area into an innovative districtThe Arts District of Soho in Málaga (ES) has become the city's new art and urban culture reference area. A 2010 citizens' initiative was the starting point to this urban regeneration process. The Arts District is located between (...)
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FLEXIBILITY IN RULES AND QUALITY CONTROL: KABELWERK, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
The Kabelwerk area offers a lot of shared facilities like hobby rooms, a communal kitchen, a roof-top swimming pool, a gym and a saunaThe 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 (...)