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How did cities stop moving during lockdown?
New analysis of Google data by the City of Vienna shows how different types of lockdown affected people’s mobility patterns in cities across Europe.
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Eurocities Award nominees 2021
Rivers smashing through motorways, armies of cyclists taking over transportation from trucks, and tonnes of trash turned into treasure - check out our Eurocities Awards 2021 nominees.
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Green City Accord: High-level ceremony for signatories
Join the European Commission and mayors from across Europe to celebrate more than 50 cities' commitment to ambitious environmental protection targets.
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A Mayors Alliance for the European Green Deal
The Mayors Alliance for the European Green Deal gathers together city leaders who are dedicated to making the sustainable transition possible, and aims to showcase city actions.
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Full stop: fossil-fuelled mobility in cities
The transport sector needs to cut its emissions drastically to meet Europe's climate ambitions. A new position paper from Eurocities set out top recommendations for how to get there.
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Stronger urban policy in the EU and China
The Chinese word ‘市‘, ‘shì’, translates only loosely into English as ‘city’, but despite differences, European and Chinese cities face many of the same policy-making challenges. Here are the tools to meet those challenges.
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Circular textiles: making fashion more sustainable
A new position paper by Eurocities calls for greater emphasis on circular textiles, to ensure sustainable design for repair, reuse and recycling.
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Volunteering for integration across Europe
Now with one click, you can explore how cities and volunteers are working together for migrant integration across Europe.
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Future-proofing urban waste water
Eurocities shares recommendations on the management of urban waste water, especially in the context of new challenges stemming from climate change and new contaminants entering the water system.
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How can cities ensure resilient labour markets?
The Covid-19 outbreak altered the patterns of the world of work and had a strong social economic impact at local level. Cities have designed emergency responses to support job retention, as well as long term measures for an inclusive and fast recovery.
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The city of tomorrow
Welcome to ‘Eurocity’, a place made of the best actions of real cities all over Europe. The animated online report ‘Reinventing cities’ shows how cities work for a better future.
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A new decade of making cities disability-inclusive
A new Eurocities report, the fifth in a series, designed to collect evidence from cities concerning the implementation of the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, assesses the inclusion of people with disabilities.
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Fighting child poverty in European cities
Even before the pandemic, child poverty levels were already high in cities – often much higher than national averages, which is why many cities have already been finding innovative ways to combat it, as outlined in two new publications by Eurocities.
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Podcast – Covid and culture
Covid crushed the culture sector, but it also showed us how essential culture is in our lives. Our latest podcast presents the cases of Bologna and Lisbon.
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