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Wiener Wäldchen: Mini Forests for Urban Climate Adaptation

Wiener Wäldchen: Mini Forests for Urban Climate Adaptation

Vienna is planting small, dense mini forests on underused green spaces to strengthen biodiversity, support climate adaptation and bring urban nature closer to children and residents.
Vienna’s mini forests join USE as a new climate adaptation case study

Vienna’s mini forests join USE as a new climate adaptation case study

A new USE case study shows how Vienna is using small, dense urban forests to support biodiversity, local cooling and environmental education.
USE puts urban climate adaptation in focus as Europe faces extreme heat

USE puts urban climate adaptation in focus as Europe faces extreme heat

Over the next six months, USE will examine how cities can prepare for growing climate risks.
That's a wrap on 2025!

That's a wrap on 2025!

700+ citymakers, 440+ cities, one shared mission.
Closing the Digital Divide

Closing the Digital Divide

An interview with citizen participation expert Adrià Duarte (UCLG), exploring how cities can use digital tools to strengthen local democracy, and put human rights at the centre of digital transformation.

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Oslo, Norway

Oslo’s Traffic Agent app - Game to improve road safety

Oslo has turned to mobile technology to tackle traffic security issues affecting parents’ willingness to let their children walk to school. Its pioneering app, ‘The Traffic Agent’, provides child’s eye feedback to enable improved road maintenance and infrastructure planning.
Xianning, China

Improving Traffic Safety near Schools

A low-carbon initiative to change travel behaviours
m4guide - mobile multi-modal mobility guide
Berlin, Germany

m4guide - mobile multi-modal mobility guide

m4guide stands for an integrated communication and navigation system by which the user is led continuously from door to door. As a result, the m4guide increases the user's opportunities for mobility in the city.
Prague, Czech Republic

Depot.Bike

Improving Prague’s environment one delivery at a time
Intersections: Dialogues on Inequalities
Montevideo, Uruguay

Intersections: Dialogues on Inequalities

Design of local policy agenda that addresses the principle of intersectionality
Saebit Talk Talk
Suwon, South Korea

Saebit Talk Talk

A citizen participation platform to increase participatory planning

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Grand Paris, France

Michaël Gaudin

Individual | Student @ Ecole des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris
Adriana Rofman
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Adriana Rofman

Individual | Professor /researcher at Universidad Nacional de Gral. Sarmiento
Ramallah, Palestine

GAZAZZ MAHIR

Individual | PRM
Nadine Bitar
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Nadine Bitar

Individual | Thought Leader -Place-led 4.0 © and Director, Placemaking.me
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Grand Paris, France

fatma

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Tim Campbell
San Francisco, United States

Tim Campbell

Individual | Urban studies and planning