URBACT The blog

In the run-up to #URBACTfest, sit back and enjoy this musical tour of urban Europe, from Daniele Terzariol, URBACT ad-hoc expert and Deputy Mayor of San Donà di Piave (IT).
The cities URBACT supports are complex realities and a source of design inspiration. They’re also often the starting point or the landing place for many artists. On the eve of URBACT’s first community appointment in person after two years of forced stop...

Cities across Europe are looking for solutions to develop fairer housing models. In 2020, URBACT and Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) developed a common ‘Right2Housing’ platform to exchange ‘housing as a right’ practices among cities. Although the debate...

Within the framework of its Recovery and Resilience Facility to mitigate the economic and social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, the European Union is making EUR 723.8 billion available to support reforms and investments undertaken by Member States...

What did we learn from the responses of urban areas to the Covid-19 pandemic? At the end of 2020, I wanted to take stock…
Immediate ‘tactical interventions’ in the use of public space
The pandemic turned the world upside down. Local municipalities suddenly found themselves in a peculiar and difficult situation: facing unprecedented levels and new forms of social and economic problems at local level; but ever more subordinated to the...