During the 2nd week of the Attractive Cities summer school held at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Jim Macneil organised an Urban Reconnaissance workshop with Chiara Vitrano (PhD, GSSI) and the students. They chose the neighbourhoods Isola and Porta Garibaldi as areas of exploration, given the massive urban projects and transformations that have been taking place over the past decade.
You find an account of the workshop here on the Urban reconnaissance blog
Open Letter from the Scientific Community We receive from our friends in Warsaw and publish this important call for supporting tenants struggles in the Praga Neighbourhood of Warsaw. You can write to wsl.brzeskiej@gmail.com to express your support and sign the letter. Here a 5-minute long film (with English and German subtitles) explaining the predicament as well as […]
As European cities and communities that firmly believe in defending human rights, we have offered a new home to refugees and migrants for decades. We are unconditionally committed to humanitarian values, universal human rights, and the right to asylum, even in difficult times. Today, we see a wave of solidarity with refugees in our cities […]
On 30-31 January we were in Porto for the EU Cities Forum 2020, where Laura Colini coordinated the launch a new URBACT and UIA joint initiative on implementing the right to housing across urban areas in Europe. Throughout 2020, URBACT and UIA’s initiative will provide a platform for city administrations, civil society, research and practitioners to debate and exchange […]