Community of Practice on Cities

Dear CoP-CITIES members,

Thursday April 28th from 14:00 – 15:30 hours marks the new date and time for our annual CoP-CITIES plenary meeting. We kindly invite all of you to SAVE THE DATE and join us!

The meeting will include speakers from DG REGIO and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) as well as various European Commission policy departments, who will be updating you on relevant work on cities, such as the new policy briefs and the results of the CityLabs Exploratory Research Activity. Next to that, city networks will present some of their recent work.

We will dedicate some time for open discussions and questions and invite all participants to initiate and/or collaborate on future short publications on relevant urban topics.

Eddy Adams from URBACT will moderate the event.

Please, note that the detailed agenda will be shared with a special edition of the newsletter when the event approaches.

In collaboration with the University of Porto, the JRC has recently published a new report on housing affordability and property investment in Porto and Lisbon, which have lately witnessed significant changes, becoming more and more attractive to tourists and investors. The contribution highlights the outcomes of the regeneration of some inner-city neighbourhoods, observing in both cities increasing socio-spatial segmentation and decreasing housing affordability.

Decreasing our dependence on fossil sources will require cities to better plan their heating systems. This recently released report illustrates the best practices for the planning and construction of thermal networks.

The EEA just released a new briefing on 'Who benefits from nature in cities'. Check it out!