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NBS, PUBLICATIONS, Høje-Taastrup — March 2, 2023

[Høje-Taastrup 🇩🇰] Cards & Reflection Method for Citizen Involvement

A Design Thinking Method for easy and effective involvement of citizens in city planning processes developed and tested with Høje Taastrup Municipality in Denmark.

NBS, PUBLICATIONS, Nantes — March 1, 2023

[Research Paper 🇫🇷] Nature-based solutions in a neighbourhood of large social housing estates

In the context of the renovation of large housing estates, NBS are proposed to transform open spaces. Philippe Bodénan and Béatrice Béchet have studied these new methods of spatial design in the Nantes Nord district.

PUBLICATIONS, Nantes — February 15, 2023

[Research Paper 🇫🇷] Urban soil mapping: A method for characterising soil cover subjected to different forms of denaturation and anthroposolisation

URBiNAT scientific partners from Nantes published an article in the in the French Journal EGS - Etude et Gestion des Sols.

PUBLICATIONS, Sofia — December 16, 2022

[Research Paper 🇧🇬] Findings of URBiNAT’s Frontrunner City Sofia presented at several international conferences

Associate professors Milena Tasheva-Petrova and Elena Dimitrova, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), Sofia, Bulgaria, presented findings from URBiNAT in a number of international conferences.

PUBLICATIONS, Nantes — November 17, 2022

[Research Paper 🇫🇷] Allotment gardens: Psychosocial benefits and conflictual community aspects

In this qualitative study carried out in France (Nantes), 28 people with a plot in an allotment garden were questioned through semi-directive interviews about the psychosocial impact of this type of space.

BEST PRACTICES, PUBLICATIONS, Høje-Taastrup — November 10, 2022

[Høje-Taastrup 🇩🇰] Booklet co-produced by citizens and local stakeholders involved in selecting NBS and co-creating a Healthy Corridor

Booklet co-produced by citizens and local stakeholders involved in selecting NBS and co-creating a Healthy Corridor in the town of Høje-Taastrup in the greater Copenhagen region.

CONFERENCE, PUBLICATIONS — October 13, 2022

[Research Paper] Two URBiNAT Papers in Proceedings of DoCoMoMo 2022

URBiNAT consortium members in Porto have published paper in the journal of Docomomo international, the non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement

NBS Policy, PUBLICATIONS, Brussels — October 3, 2022

[European Commission 🇪🇺] EU funded Environment and Health research: EU Project Catalogue

A unique collection of 351 projects (including URBiNAT) funded from all the relevant areas in Horizon 2020, the 8th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.

BEST PRACTICES, PUBLICATIONS — July 11, 2022

[Policy Brief] “For a better urban future” – URBiNAT at the World Urban Forum 2022, Katowice, Poland

Sharing the project results and discussing innovative urban governance with cities.

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