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NEWS COVERAGE, Porto — July 9, 2021

[In the News 🇵🇹] Como combater o estigma nos bairros sociais

O modelo tradicional dos bairros sociais está ultrapassado, e há muito que se percebeu que não favorece a integração das pessoas mais vulneráveis. Muitos países já abandonaram a velha fórmula. Mas em Portugal ainda é essa a solução dominante. Há, no entanto, uma nova lógica para a habitação pública, que passa pelo maior envolvimento dos moradores nas decisões e em programas específicos para essas populações.

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DIGITAL ENABLERS — June 15, 2021

Protected: [Digital Enablers] Digital enablers for citizen engagement and co-creation of NBS: Key takeaways for policy makers and city administration

In a newly-released URBiNAT report on digital enablers, Portfolio of Purposes, Methods, Tools, and Content: Forming Digital Enablers of NBS, key takeaways for various stakeholder groups are outlined. In the following, we zoom in on a few specific implications and key takeaways for policymakers, including city administration.

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COVID-19, Siena — June 9, 2021

[COVID-19 🇮🇹] Challenges, responses and solidarity in Siena

As COVID-19 tore across Europe and the world it struck at the heart of our societies, taking lives and revealing in a harsher, more uncompromising light the extent of social, economic, and environmental disparities within our communities. In some sense, the pandemic spread indiscriminately. Yet, it is clear that factors such as income level, housing type, neighborhood, and other socioeconomic variables would (once again..) determine starkly different levels of exposure or risk. Individuals, families, and communities have not suffered the effects of the pandemic in the same way. But what does this really mean? How have people coped with the restrictions imposed by COVID-19 mitigation policies? What lessons can we draw from this period?