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BEST PRACTICES, NBS, PUBLICATIONS, Sofia — December 8, 2021

[Academic Paper 🇧🇬] Re-claiming space for public life: messages from the northwestern periphery of Sofia

A case-study based qualitative research on public space and public life in four housing estates in the north-western periphery of Sofia provides the basis for re-thinking urban legacy and the Modernist concept of public interest, once placed in the core of urban planning.

DIGITAL ENABLERS, Nantes, Porto, Sofia — December 1, 2021

[Digital Enablers] Super Barrio: A video game to boost participatory design, available on Google Play

Developed as part of the URBiNAT project, SuperBARRIO is a video game that boosts participatory design processes. Designed as an open source video game for smartphones and tablets, it is a digital tool for architects and public entities to engage the citizens in the design of public space, to educate in sustainability and inclusiveness, and to collect data about the citizen’s needs, desires and proposals.

CONFERENCE, PUBLICATIONS, Nova Gorica, Sofia — October 22, 2021

[Conference Proceedings🎓] HURBE2021 – Making Healthy Cities for People

Proceeding of HURBE 2021 Conference held between 4-5 October 2021, organised by the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

NEWS COVERAGE, Sofia — June 29, 2021

[In the News 🇧🇬] Tender announced for contractor of the project “Green Health Corridor, Nadezhda District,” Sofia

BEST PRACTICES, PUBLICATIONS, Sofia — June 25, 2021

[MOOC 🇧🇬] Online lecture by URBiNAT researcher as part of MOOC exploring health impact of greenery and urban green system lifecycle management

Co-selection and implementation of Nature-Based Solutions and other URBiNAT practices discussed in first MOOC produced by the URBiNAT Frontrunner City, Sofia

NEWS COVERAGE, Sofia — June 23, 2021

[In the News 🇧🇬] Residents of the district of Nadezhda (Sofia) give ideas as part of URBiNAT co-creation events

Residents of Nadezhda district give ideas and want to participate in the URBiNAT project

BLOG, COVID-19, Sofia — May 19, 2021

[COVID-19 🇧🇬] Challenges, responses and solidarity in Sofia

The seven URBiNAT cities share their impressions of the repercussions, challenges, responses and alternatives that emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic. In this series of seven posts, we share the main measures implemented by local municipalities, and some stories to inspire alternative and cooperative ways to live together (in) the city. The full set of article will be available in URBiNAT’s deliverable related to the compilation and analysis of human rights and gender issues to be released in 2021.

NEWS COVERAGE, Sofia — April 29, 2021

[In the News 🇧🇬] Recap of News Coverage of the URBiNAT meeting in Sofia, Jan. 2019

PUBLICATIONS, Sofia — March 26, 2021

[Academic Paper 🇧🇬] Urban morphology and mobility patterns- myths and real-life transformations of a large housing estate in Sofia

Newly published academic paper discussing the long-term urban planning impacts on the urban morphology and mobility patterns in the large housing estates designed and built at the periphery of Sofia in the period 1960-1990