PUBLICATIONS, Porto — June 19, 2022 [Book Chapter] Cocriar a cidade com as crianças: o caso do projeto URBiNAT no Porto, Campanhã
PUBLICATIONS — May 17, 2022 [Policy Brief] Innovating with urban governance: municipal committees for inclusive, nature-based solutions This policy brief explores the challenges and innovative opportunities for institutionalising participatory processes within municipal contexts. Specifically, we report on the creation of municipal committees, a proposal framed within the EU-funded project URBiNAT aimed at co-creating healthy corridors made up of a combination of nature-based solutions (NBS).
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.
