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OUR CITY? Countering Exclusion in Public Space
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  • Gentrification
  • Place Management
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Streets

Illuminating Darkness: the Case Study of the SynOikia Pittaki Participatory Light Installation in Athens

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  • Affordable Housing
  • Healthy Cities
  • Inclusivity
  • Neighbourhoods

Everyone should feel at Home. The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Inclusiveness

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  • Healthy Cities
  • Inclusivity
  • Sustainability
  • Parks
  • Rooftops

Creating Space for Nature in the City: Inclusive Ecology

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  • Community Engagement
  • Inclusivity
  • Walkability
  • Sidewalks

Jane’s Walk: organise a Citizen-led Walk to engage Locals in creating better Neighbourhoods

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  • City-wide Strategies
  • Plinths
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  • Temporary Use
  • City Centers

Temporary Use of Space as a Short-term Intervention for Long-term Revitalization

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Shrinkage in Asturias, Spain

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  • Affordable Housing
  • Gentrification
  • Inclusivity
  • Place-led Development
  • Sustainability
  • Neighbourhoods

Sustainable for whom? Smart green houses in Malmö, Sweden

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  • Child-friendly
  • Community Engagement
  • Inclusivity
  • Temporary Use
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Sidewalks
  • Squares
  • Streets

The Young Urban Planners Initiative – Reclaiming public space for teenagers in Romania

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  • Child-friendly
  • Community Engagement
  • Inclusivity
  • Neighbourhoods

Creating Spatial Justice from the Start: at the Child’s Level

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  • Affordable Housing
  • Gentrification
  • Inclusivity
  • City Centers

OUR CITY? COUNTERING EXCLUSION IN PUBLIC SPACE

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  • Community Engagement
  • Place-led Development
  • Sustainability

Valuing the Community as an Expert in the Built Environment Revitalisation Process

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  • Child-friendly
  • Community Engagement
  • Placemaking
  • Programming
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Streets

The Playful City: a Tool to develop more Inclusive, Safe and Vibrant Intergenerational Urban Communities

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  • Child-friendly
  • Community Engagement
  • Placemaking
  • Sustainability
  • Neighbourhoods

Meri-Rastila, Helsinki: from a Troubled Square to a Green and Playful Hangout for All

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  • Place-led Development
  • Placemaking
  • Sustainability
  • Industrial Areas

Hof van Cartesius: our Affordable Place where Small Businesses and Creative Local Entrepreneurs thrive

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  • Bike-friendly
  • Healthy Cities

Circular Cycling to connect, strengthen and accelerate Social Impact

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  • Community Engagement
  • Inclusivity
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Squares

Beyond being nice

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  • Community Engagement
  • Placemaking
  • Temporary Use
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Parks

Vianen Urban LAB: The Citizen as City-maker

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  • Community Engagement
  • Placemaking
  • Sustainability
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Streets

‘Changing Chelmsford’: An Experiment in Collaborative Urbanism – Re-imagining Spatial Learning, Identity & Interactions

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  • Affordable Housing
  • Neighbourhoods

Interethnic Coexistence in Vienna’s Social Housing

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  • Community Engagement
  • Healthy Cities
  • Inclusivity

Inclusive Strategic Planning for Disadvantaged Communities

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  • Affordable Housing
  • Gentrification
  • Neighbourhoods

Actions towards Social Integration and Sustainable Neighbourhoods in Zurich, Switzerland

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  • Community Engagement
  • Inclusivity
  • Parks

Why refugees should be welcome in parks

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  • Community Engagement
  • How we experience
  • Place Management
  • Programming
  • City Centers
  • Squares

Rotterdam Inner City, creating a City Lounge for All

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  • Child-friendly
  • Community Engagement
  • Placemaking
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Streets

LudoBarrio: Making Places by a Participatory Playful Process

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  • City-wide Strategies
  • Place-led Development
  • Placemaking

The Learning City: Common Knowledge for the Development of Societal Value

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  • Community Engagement
  • Healthy Cities
  • Inclusivity
  • Neighbourhoods

Restoring the Link between Home and Neighbourhood

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  • Placemaking
  • Squares

Tensions between Citywide Regeneration and maintaining Locality: the Case of Four Central Squares in Athens

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  • Inclusivity
  • Sidewalks

Criteria for a Hybrid Place: a tool for creating inclusive leisure venues

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  • Art & Culture
  • Community Engagement
  • Heritage
  • Neighbourhoods

Östberga, Östberga: Museum work in a divided area

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  • Affordable Housing
  • Gentrification
  • City Centers
  • Neighbourhoods

FairBNB: Turning the Influx of Tourists into a (more) Sustainable Presence

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  • Healthy Cities
  • How we experience
  • Traffic
  • Neighbourhoods

Hush City

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  • Gentrification
  • Inclusivity
  • City Centers
  • Neighbourhoods

The Intimacy of Exclusion. An Embodied Understanding

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  • Community Engagement
  • Sustainability
  • Neighbourhoods

Smart Cities require Smart Citizens: Crowdsourcing, Co-creation, Self-organisation

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  • Child-friendly
  • Community Engagement
  • How we experience
  • Inclusivity
  • Neighbourhoods

Girls’ Room in Public Space – Planning for Equity with a Girl’s Perspective

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  • Inclusivity
  • Placemaking
  • Neighbourhoods
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East Jerusalem

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  • Place-led Development
  • Placemaking
  • Programming
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Office Areas

Long-term Collective Financial Stability: The Case of Club Rhijnhuizen

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  • Community Engagement
  • Economy
  • Placemaking
  • Neighbourhoods

Working side by side with Private Partners: How can Placemakers confront the Challenges of successfully integrating Private and Public Sector Interest in creating Great Places?

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  • Community Engagement
  • Inclusivity
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Can Conflicting Claims be Reconciled? Exploring Mechanisms for Inclusive Planning

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  • City-wide Strategies
  • Community Engagement
  • Place Management
  • Placemaking
  • Programming
  • Industrial Areas
  • Waterfronts

La Marina de Valencia: Civic Engagement and Economic Activation of the Valencian Waterfront

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  • Placemaking
  • Temporary Use
  • City Centers

Doing Together: From Temporary Use of Public Spaces towards a Co-created City

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  • Affordable Housing
  • Community Engagement
  • Heritage
  • Place-led Development
  • Neighbourhoods

Organic Development: the Medieval Portici of Bologna

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  • Sustainability
  • Parks

The Limits to Urban Green Space for Wheelchair Users

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  • Community Engagement
  • Inclusivity
  • Place Management
  • Programming
  • Neighbourhoods

Towards an Active and Inclusive University Campus

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  • How we experience
  • Inclusivity
  • Sidewalks

The Complexity of Inclusion for the Physically Disabled

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  • Bike-friendly
  • Child-friendly
  • Neighbourhoods

Biking the Streets to Independence

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  • Bike-friendly
  • City-wide Strategies
  • Neighbourhoods

Moving People beyond A to B: Promoting cycling on Rotterdam’s South Bank as a means for socio-economic development

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  • Inclusivity
  • Streets

The Reappropriation of an Abandoned Open Common Space: learnings from a 3-year Experiment in the Suburbs of Paris

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  • Sustainability
  • Streets

EXPLORING TOOLS – Ecological Evaluation of Urban Green Space

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  • Economy
  • Food
  • Healthy Cities
  • Inclusivity
  • Neighbourhoods

Online Sharing, Offline Caring?

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  • Economy
  • Inclusivity

Will Google be your next mayor? A reflection on technology and the future

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  • Economy
  • Gentrification
  • City Centers
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From Rural Haven to Party Heaven. How a Quiet Village in Crete became the Mecca of Partying in the Mediterranean

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  • Affordable Housing
  • Economy
  • Gentrification
  • City Centers
  • Neighbourhoods

The Impact of Urban Vacation Rentals: Is Airbnb an Inclusive Cure, or an Alienating Disease for City Residents?

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  • Gentrification
  • Placemaking
  • City Centers
  • Neighbourhoods

The Gentrification Challenge: Placemaking as the Problem, or Placemaking as the Solution?

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  • City-wide Strategies
  • Heritage
  • Inclusivity
  • City Centers
  • Neighbourhoods

It is not about Tourists: The Case of Barcelona

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  • Community Engagement
  • Gentrification
  • Neighbourhoods

Galata, Istanbul: Understanding Conflict and Tension in a Gentrifying Neighbourhood

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  • City-wide Strategies
  • Economy
  • Gentrification
  • Inclusivity
  • Plinths
  • Retail
  • City Centers
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Gentrification without the Sharp Edges. Is there Such Thing as Gentlyfication?

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  • Affordable Housing
  • Economy
  • Gentrification
  • City Centers
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Office Areas

Real Estate as an Investment Vehicle – The London Story

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  • Affordable Housing
  • Gentrification
  • Neighbourhoods

Future-proof Retail Innovation and Inclusive Placemaking in Amsterdam North: a Real Challenge