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Urban sustainability and Cultural heritage Projects Library - Cluster on Urban Management
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Urban Management
Number of projects in the library
 
Air Pollution
8
Urban Green Space
6
Governance for urban sustainability: Leadership & Participation
18
Urban Planning & Economic Development
12
Urban regeneration
7
Urban waste management
9
 
TOTAL
60
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PROJECTS for Urban Management (60)  

Air Pollution

CLEANAIR:  Increased quality of life for 76 million EU citizens by enhancing air quality in urban areas through development of a residential cleaning technology for burning solid fuel for domestic use
FUMAPEX:  Integrated Systems for Forecasting Urban Meteorology, Air Pollution and Population Exposure
INTEGAIRE:  Integrated urban governance and air quality management in Europe
NOZONE:  An intelligent responsive pollution and odour abatement technology for cooking emission extraction systems
OSCAR:  Optimised Expert System for Conducting Environmental Assessment of Urban Road Traffic
SAPPHIRE:  Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Urban Regions of Europe
URBAN-AEROSOL:  Characterisation of urban air quality indoor/outdoor particulate matter chemical characteristics and source-to-inhaled dose relationships
URBAN EXPOSURE:  Integrated Exposure Management Tool Characterizing Air pollution-relevant Human Exposure in Urban Environment

Urban Green Space

BUGS:  Benefits of urban green space
GREENCLUSTER:  Clustering of five ongoing research projects on green space in urban areas
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GREENSCOM:  Communicating Urban Growth and Green: Assessment of Planning Concepts and Policy Instruments for Sustainable Development of the Urban Landscape
GREENSPACE:  The contribution of urban green-space to quality of life
RUROS:  Rediscovering the urban realm and open spaces
URGE:  Development of Urban Green Spaces to Improve the Quality of Life in Cities and Urban Regions

Governance for urban sustainability: Leadership & Participation

AGORA:  Cities for People
CAST:  Process and software tools for analysis and simulation of development of cities into the future
COMMUNAL LABELS:  Development of instruments for Labelling, Benchmarking and TQM for (Energy-) efficient communities
DEMOS:  Democratic Participation in Urban Governance
DISCUS:  Developing Institutional and Social Capacity for Urban Sustainability
HOMESERVICES:  Benchmarking sustainable services for the housing sector in the city of tomorrow
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IANUS:  Indicators system to Assess New Urban Services. Improving decision making through evaluation
INTERACT:  Integrated Urban Governance for the City Of Tomorrow
LASALA:  Local Agenda 21 self-assessment for local authorities on-line
PASTILLE:  Promoting action for sustainability through indicators at the local level in Europe
PEGASUS:  Planning, Environment, Governance and Sustainability
PLUS:  Participation, leadership and urban sustainability
SUDLAB:  Sustainable urban development laboratory
SUT-GOVERNANCE:  Sustainable Urban Tourism: Involving Local Agents and Partnerships for New Forms of Governance
TOOLSUST:  The involvement of stakeholders to develop and implement tools for sustainable households in the city of tomorrow
UGIS:  Urban Development programme, urban governance, social inclusion and urban sustainability
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URBEST:  Urban best practices
WATERTIME:  Improving the quality of urban life through sustainable decision-making on city water system reform

Urban Planning & Economic Development

COMET:  Competitive Metropolises - Economic Transformation, Labour Market and Competition in European Agglomerations
ENTRUST:  Empowering Neighbourhood through Recourse of Urban Synergies with Trades
ECOPADEV:  Developing new decision-making tools to promote the sustainable development in European cities based on eco-industrial park strategy
MASURIN:  Management of Sustainable Revitalising Urban Industrial Sites
OPTIAS:  Development of a Management Concept for Optimising the Location Strategy in Urban and Suburban Commercial Properties
PETUS:  Practical Evaluation Tools for Urban Sustainability
PUB+:  Accessibility to public utility buildings for urban citizens with mobility impairments. socio-economic comparative studies
RECOURSE:  Research and Education Centre for Urban Socio-Economic Development
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SELMA:  Spatial Deconcentration of economic land use and quality of life in European metropolitan areas
SUPER:  Sustainable Urban Planning and Economic (Re)development
URBAN CATALYSTS:  Strategies for temporary uses- potential for development of urban residual areas in European metropolises
URBS PANDENS:  Urban Sprawl: European Patterns, Environmental Degradation and Sustainable Development

Urban regeneration

ENTRUST:  Empowering Neighbourhood through Recourse of Urban Synergies with Trades
LUDA:  Improving the quality of life in large urban distressed areas
NEHOM:  Evaluating housing and neighbourhood initiatives to improve the quality of life of deprived urban neighbourhoods and assessing their transferability across Europe
RESTATE:  Restructuring Large-scale Housing Estates in European Cities: Good Practices and New Visions for Sustainable Neighbourhoods and Cities
RE URBAN MOBIL:  Mobilising Re-urbanisation on Condition of Demographic Change
SURE:  A Time-Oriented model for Sustainable Urban Regeneration
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URBEM:  Urban River Basin Enhancement Methods

Urban waste management

AWAST:  Aid in the management and European comparison of a municipal solid waste treatment for a global and sustainable approach
EUWMC:  European urban waste management cluster
INERWASTE:  Development of a new wastes inerting technique for landfilling or valorisation
LCA-IWM:  The Use of Life Cycle Assessment Tools for the Development of Integrated Waste Management Strategies for Cities and Regions with Rapid Growing Economies
ORMA:  Optimisation of resource use and waste management in an Eco Industrial Park
PAYT:  Variable rate pricing based on pay-as-you-throw as a tool of urban waste management
RELIEF:  Environmental relief potential of urban action on avoidance and detoxification of waste streams through green public procurement
S.W.A.-TOOL:  Development of a methodological tool to enhance the precision & comparability of solid waste analysis data
WAMBUCO:  European Waste Manual for Building Construction
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