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Integration Facilitators program for disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Integration Facilitators program for disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Berlin

The program provides training and qualifications for unemployed people to work as mediators who facilitate the integration of new arrivals in local neighbourhoods.
Depot.Bike
Prague, Czech Republic

Depot.Bike

Improving Prague’s environment one delivery at a time
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.
Auld but not Reekie – transforming transport energy use in Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Auld but not Reekie – transforming transport energy use in Edinburgh

Edinburgh's municipal bus company, Lothian Buses, is going a long way to combat this image with ‘Auld but not Reekie’, an initiative that by the end of 2014 will see 65 hybrid buses in service and 45 buses retrofitted with low emissions exhausts.
MyTehran app
Tehran, Iran

MyTehran app

A digital application that delivers Municipal services to citizens
Barcelona: Inclusive employment in park maintenance
Barcelona (ciudad), Spain

Barcelona: Inclusive employment in park maintenance

Successful collaboration between a team specialising in the employment of people with disabilities and the municipal park company has helped provide support to individual employees and made the company itself more responsive to their needs.

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Jennifer Jiang
Berlin, Germany

Jennifer Jiang

Individual | Architecture and Urban Design Researcher
Seoul , South Korea

MUN Bum-Sik

Individual | Researcher
Buenos Aires, Argentina

General Directorate for Urban Regeneration

Institution | The General Directorate for Urban Regeneration projects integrates urban works in public space, implements plans for the comprehensive enhancement of said areas and assists in the execution of the projects carried out.
Storm Cunningham
Washington, D.C., United States

Storm Cunningham

Individual | Executive Director: RECONOMICS Institute. Editor: REVITALIZATION. Author; Speaker; Urban/Rural Regeneration Strategist
Ramin Keivani
Oxford, United Kingdom

Ramin Keivani

Individual | Head of School of the Built Environment - Oxford Brookes University
Noemí Martínez García
Barcelona (área metropolitana), Spain

Noemí Martínez García

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