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Small cities and regeneration
– the secret of the public places!
Wessel Badenhorst
Lead Expert
City Centre Doctor Project
@WesselBaden
25th October 2017
Ljubljana, Slovenia
“Intricate mingling of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.”
- Jane Jacobs
Regeneration - Renewal - Revitalisation
“It is a misconception – and a most simple-minded one – to think city diversity is innately ugly.Lack of city diversity is innately either depressing on the one hand, or vulgar on the other.”
- Jane Jacobs
Regeneration - Renewal - Revitalisation
A partnership of 10
smaller cities in
Europe working
together to revitalise
their city centres
Naas, Ireland
Amarante, Portugal
Medina del Campo, Spain
Nort-sur-Erdre, France
Heerlen, Netherlands
San Dona di Piave, Italy
Radlin, Poland
Valmez, Czech Rep
Idrija, Slovenia
Petrinja, Croatia
urbact.eu
Integrated Urban
Development
Governance
Environment
Inclusion
Economy
Small cities
from ten EU
countries;
Learning from
each other;
Supporting
each other;
Building a
partnership
Medina del Campo, Spain
Inter-city Visits and Learning
City centre walks and peer reviews
Radlin, Poland
Amarante, Portugal
San Dona di Piave, Italy
Community
engagement
Ideas Cafes and Ideas Markets
Step 1: ULG selects ideas for possible inclusion as actions
Step 2: ULG uses own resources to create a beta action or model
Step 3: Trial period of 3 - 6 months for feedback from residents
Step 4: ULG evaluates to decide on dropping, changing or
continuing beta to action in Integrated Action Plan (IAP)
Public space
Beta actions
Petrinja, Croatia
Heerlen, Netherlands
Public space
Beta actions
Public space
Beta actions
Heerlen, Netherlands
Valmez, Czech Rep
Public space
Beta actions
“What attracts people most, it
would appear, is other people”
- William Whyte
Heerlen, Netherlands
Margarita
Solon
URBACT Good Practice
| social entrepreneurs |
Michel Huisman
URBACT Good Practice
| city makers|
Facilitate
urban
innovation
Wessel Badenhorst
Lead Expert
City Centre Doctor Project
@CityCentreDoc
@Urbact
@UrbactMDC
@ccdheerlen
Thank you!
Small cities and regeneration
– the secret of the public places!