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NBS, NBS Policy, PUBLICATIONS — May 2, 2022

[Expert Report 🇪🇺] The vital role of NBS in a nature positive economy

Just out: "The Vital Role of Nature Based Solutions in a Nature Positive Economy" (Ed. European Commission) co-authored / edited by URBiNAT partner Thomas Andersson, IKED.

PUBLICATIONS — April 12, 2022

Book Launch Event: Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Planning

Book Launch Event on 12 April (18:00- 20:00) at Politecnico di Milano. Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Planning: Greening Cities, Shaping Cities - a book to which URBiNAT contributed with a chapter on inclusive urban regeneration.

PUBLICATIONS, Brussels — March 29, 2022

[Research Paper] Automotive urban landscapes: Exploring public programmes for adaptive reuse of underground car parks

Public underground car parks could be interpreted as capsular infrastructure landscapes, attracting cars to the heart of the city and sweeping them under the proverbial carpet.

PUBLICATIONS — March 14, 2022

[Research Paper] URBiNAT referenced in new academic paper in Sustainability journal

Precisely because they participate in the patchwork of terrains vagues and open spaces of the urban fabric, archaeological areas contribute to the making of green corridors that are now highly regarded for citizens’ wellbeing.

PUBLICATIONS, Brussels, Høje-Taastrup, Nantes, Nova Gorica, Porto, Siena, Sofia — March 8, 2022

[Research Paper] Inclusive Urban Regeneration with Citizens and Stakeholders: From Living Labs to the URBiNAT CoP

Peer-review publication: Inclusive Urban Regeneration with Citizens and Stakeholders: From Living Labs to the URBiNAT CoP

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

[Research 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.

BEST PRACTICES, PUBLICATIONS — December 4, 2021

[Research Paper] Guidelines for Citizen Engagement and the Co-Creation of Nature-Based Solutions: Living Knowledge in the URBiNAT Project

Participation and citizen engagement are fundamental elements in urban regeneration and in the deployment of nature-based solutions (NBS) to advance sustainable urban development. Various limitations inherent to participatory processes concerning NBS for inclusive urban regeneration have been addressed, and lessons have been learnt.

PUBLICATIONS — November 24, 2021

[Conference Proceedings 🎓] An inclusive urban project for healthy cities

With the advent and rapid dissemination of the COVID 19 corona virus the world has found itself living in a new reality, one which has, to a great extent, revealed a different face of globalization, in which we are all connected by a network that goes far beyond that of the virtual world.

NBS, PUBLICATIONS — November 8, 2021

[Research Paper 🇮🇹🇪🇸] Enhancing the integration of Nature-Based Solutions in cities through digital technologies

Paper exploring pathways towards a progressive knowledge construction to shape a future in which NBS are largely integrated in our buildings and public space thanks to the use of digital technologies and design, transforming our cities into healthy, productive and collaborative environments.

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