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Can Europe make its urban spaces more livable and sustainable?
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About chapter 1
This chapter will examine the key ingredients of a livable city and the latest thinking on how to make them better. POLITICO’s specialist policy journalists will — with the help of experts and the Living Cities audience — explore topics including how to ensure affordable housing; how to attract and tame tourism; how to make cities more inclusive; and how to keep culture alive as more work shifts online.
In short: How do we redesign our cities to be more livable?
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Explore topics including how to ensure affordable housing; how to attract and tame tourism; how to make cities more inclusive; and how to keep culture alive as more work shifts online.
Living Cities: Vienna avoids tower block hell — Greater EU say — City Sounds
Living Cities: Cities for women — Clothesline defense — Vending machine revival
Living Cities: Equal access to Pride — Picnic on the bridge — Truly ‘social’ housing
Living Cities: New European Bauhaus fest — Early Danes — Is Brussels terrible?
Living Cities: Refugees strain Polish cities — Limassol’s Russian exit — Plant rehab
Living Cities: Barcelona’s digital twin — Made in Vienna — LGBTQ+ freedom zones
Living Cities: Housing the homeless — Paris wants its trees — Urban food
Living Cities: Cash giveaway — Urban shepherds — Milan powwow
Living Cities: Carbon-free cities — Sustainable shelters — Bike-repair stations
Living Cities: 15-minute city hype — Berlin tackles housing — Meet the Brain Trust
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Living Cities Brain Trust
POLITICO has invited a group of experts on urban planning and living to help inform the Living Cities project.
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