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Bicycle Parking: Amsterdam’s Creative Solutions
Amsterdam has almost 1 million bicycles. As a result, it is challenging to create sufficient parking spaces for bikes.
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Cohesion Policy challenges in the post-2020 reform
Excerpt from the European Parliament Briefing on “Challenges for EU cohesion policy Issues in the forthcoming post-2020 reform:”
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Recent City Initiatives on Instagram
Communicate effectively your urban stories, ideas, needs and solutions. Be the change that you want to see and create a better city! Below are some tips for expanding the coverage of your visual urban communication:• @unhabitat (Yes, they are on @Instagram since January!) encourages submission of city photos reflecting good urban policies. #glimpseofmycity• DG MARE launched a photo competition encouraging
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Reclaiming Parking Spaces
This is it! Cities should strive to make more space for its residents and take away spaces previously designated for cars. 👏🏻 Los Angeles is doing good! Parking spaces near Grand Central Market transformed into coffee shops and bars.
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eHealth
My morning today started with a tasty cup of coffee and a croissant, while listening to Peteris Zilgalvis, Head of Unit at DG CONNECT. He challenged the audience at the monthly Creative Mornings event to think of more design in ethical issues, especially in areas such as health and well-being. To be honest, I haven’t paid attention to
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Milan: Livable & Lovable
Milan proved to be so much more than what I have expected. It is green, livable and lovable. I wish I had seen it before it started taking measures to increase quality of life of its residents.
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Dealing with issues of global interdependence
Interdependence per se is not an inevitable problem for the world politics, contrary to what many critical theorists advocate. However, it urgently calls for the better communication strategies between global stakeholders.
