News

NEWS COVERAGE, Porto — October 26, 2021

[In the News 🇵🇹] URBiNAT combines urban regeneration with nature for the wellbeing of local residents // URBiNAT combina a regeneração urban com a natures em proc do bee-estar.

Cerco do Porto, Lagarteiro e Falcão são bairros sociais situados na periferia da cidade. Desde 2018, estes bairros do Porto têm sido o local de intervenção de um projeto que visa a construção dos chamados “corredores saudáveis” no âmbito do Urban Innovative and Inclusive Nature – URBiNAT

NEWS COVERAGE, Porto — October 1, 2021

[In the News 🇵🇹] The Challenges of Urbanism. An interview with URBiNAT project coordinator, Gonçalo Canto Moniz

Architect and URBiNAT project coordinator was interviewed on Portuguese national radio TSF Radio Noticias as part of a series of programmes on the opportunities and challenges in 2021 for new territorial planning.

NEWS COVERAGE, Porto — July 30, 2021

[In the News 🇵🇹] Projeto do futuro Parque da Alameda de Cartes apresentado em Reunião de Executivo

The green area to be created in the eastern part of the city is based on the consolidation of people's needs, both in terms of pedestrian mobility and in terms of intervention in the green infrastructure, giving priority to Nature-Based Solutions.

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.

BLOG, Porto — June 10, 2021

[PORTO 🇵🇹] Exhibition: Cities in the city

From 14 May to 27 June 2021 The Ci.CLO Gallery in Porto will be showing a series of photos by Carlos Barradas who has been documenting the local implementation of the URBiNAT project in the district of Campanhá, Porto., since the summer of 2020.

BLOG, COVID-19, Porto — May 11, 2021

[COVID-19 🇵🇹] Challenges, responses and solidarity in Porto

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, Porto — April 29, 2021

[In the News 🇵🇹] Coverage of the URBiNAT in Publico (Portuguese National Newspaper), Sept 2018-2021

BLOG, CONFERENCE, Porto — February 11, 2021

[Conference 🇵🇹] Edu-communication and urban regeneration: young people mobilize to tell stories and visions of a sustainable future in the parish of Campanhã

NBS, NEWS COVERAGE, Porto — January 15, 2021

[In the News 🇵🇹] PORTO: “The orchard in Campanhã where seeds of friendships are sown”

There is a growing media interest in URBiNAT plans for the creation of a Healthy Corridor in the neighbourhoods of Campanha and Falcao, especially since a preliminary of the urban plan for the district, in November 2020. The following is an extract from an article published in Publico, on 15 January 2021.