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  Placemaking is not complicated and does not require specialist skills. There are however principles that are very important which, if followed, will enable a successful and rewarding community capacity building process. These include: 1. Community and citizen participation are essential from the start to the end...

  Often the spotlight is on the larger better-known cities as the major focal points for urban economic development and innovation. The assumption is that with the potential for agglomeration and significant infrastructure investment, larger cities will always have distinct advantages over smaller cities. The spatial distribution...

  This Report is the final report published in August 2018 concluding the City Centre Doctor Project – an Action Planning Network of the URBACT III Programme.   All cities have a centre which historically and functionally brings residents, businesses, services and a range of social activities together....

The following case studies from the partner cities in the City Centre Doctor Project were all achieved by using own resources, i.e. people, materials and funding:   1. Idrija, Slovenia – Playground on the Main Square 2. Valmez (Valašské Meziříčí), Czech Rep. – Connecting the centre with a...

The Session on how Small Cities/Large Towns could be impacted by Gentrification was of particular interest.   It is accepted that the unintended consequence of successful placemaking initiatives in a less attractive neighbourhood could be that it contributed to and incentivised new regeneration projects which ultimately could result in...

Idrija is located in the south-eastern foothills of the Alps in Slovenia and has a population of 12,000 inhabitants. It is known for its industrial heritage as one of the main mercury mining locations globally and has a UNESCO heritage designation. But mining stopped in...

Many of our cities in Europe as we know them today are to a large extent the result of local industrial economic development strategies and programmes over the last century. Historically the path of economic development in European cities was highly dependent on local and...

All the partners in the City Centre Doctor Project (CCD) successfully completed a Place Analysis of their city centres in the 4th Quarter of 2016. The 3rd stage of the 5-stage process to develop integrated action plans to revitalise the city centre is generating ideas to...

The Place Analysis of the city centres in the partner cities participating in the City Centre Doctor Project is the 2nd stage of the 5 stage process to develop integrated action plans to revitalise the city centre. The 1st stage was to establish a structure,...