Cities of tomorrow: Action today

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Posted on: 26 June 2013
By: mackene
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In October 2011, the European Commission published a report, Cities of tomorrow: Challenges, visions, ways forward, which examined the possible impact of a series of major trends on different types of European cities in the coming years. Six ‘workstreams’, launched by URBACT at the beginning of 2012, examined a theme which corresponds with one of the threats identified by Cities of Tomorrow and, over the period of a year, has brought together evidence from URBACT projects but also from a wide range of stakeholders from all around Europe. Reports on these themes are now available:

From crisis to choice: Re-imagining the future in shrinking cities

This report calls for a new realism with regard to urban regeneration in cities affected by shrinkage.

More jobs: Better cities. A framework for city action on jobs

This report provides a framework for city action on jobs, which aims to help cities support and grow more and better jobs for the recovery. It is aimed at practitioners and policy-makers at the city level, as well as those at national and international levels, concerned with urban employment and skills policy and practice.

Supporting urban youth through social innovation: Stronger together

This report examines how cities can promote social innovation to address chronic social challenges. Although our specific focus is young people, the conditions identified for promoting social innovation have wider relevance.

Against divided cities in Europe

This report intends to provide an overview of the concept of urban segregation and related public policies that have been studied and explored within URBACT. The objective is also to bring forward some of the most interesting practices from URBACT partner cities working on integrated sustainable development, which have implemented innovative policies against segregation.

How cities can motivate mobility mindsets

This report focuses on the ways in which cities can facilitate the transition to a new urban mobility, which is more fundamentally linked to the quality of space, to a new mindset, and is built on integration between policy priorities and multi-stakeholder buy-in.

Building energy efficiency in European cities

This report examines how cities can mitigate climate change by reducing energy consumption in the construction, maintenance and refurbishment of buildings.

Cities of tomorrow: Action today. URBACT II Capitalisation. Key message

This report highlights some of the main points previous six reports make, with a particular focus on those that are relevant for cities concerned with supporting integrated sustainable urban development in the next round of EU programmes.

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