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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.

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Tampere: Making heritage housing more energy efficient
Tampere, Finland

Tampere: Making heritage housing more energy efficient

Tampere supports actions to make its heritage housing more energy efficient while assisting young people to gain the technical skills needed to carry out these works.
Oderberger Street: participative renewal of a historically grown street environment
Berlin, Germany

Oderberger Street: participative renewal of a historically grown street environment

The main challenge of this project was to implement a concept of street renewal respecting the historically grown character of Oderberger Street and conserve the unique identification the residents have, while still satisfying needs of a modern urban environment.
A Non-Motorised Transport Corridor pilot project
Kampala, Uganda

A Non-Motorised Transport Corridor pilot project

Non-motorised transport improves walkability, reduces fatalities and promotes equity and inclusion.
Love your city: transforming Hamilton through culture
Hamilton, Canada

Love your city: transforming Hamilton through culture

A participatory and sustainable cultural plan
Utrecht, Netherlands

City talks on sustainable energy: the silent majority speaks

Utrecht initiated a democratic experiment to share and broaden responsibility for creating an energy plan to help it become climate neutral by 2030.
Nursing Care Assistant System
Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Nursing Care Assistant System

Citizen Acceleration Project for Active Seniors

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Berlin, Germany

Hadi

Individual | Architect
Noemí Martínez García
Barcelona (área metropolitana), Spain

Noemí Martínez García

Individual | Architect | Head of Design, Documentation and Dissemination Department
Budapest, Hungary

Ivan Tosics

Individual | managing director, Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest
Pierre Sarr
Dakar, Senegal

Pierre Sarr

Individual | Statisticien
Moscow, Russia

Pulat Saidov

Individual | manager
Kh Md Nahiduzzaman
Dhaka, Bangladesh

Kh Md Nahiduzzaman

Individual | Urban Planner & Policy Analyst