Tag: neighborhoods
“Lyon’s Call” for working-class neighborhoods: “The State must play its role”
Elected officials from Ville & Banlieue launched “Lyon Call” yesterday, to mark the 40th anniversary of their association. Six years after their “Grigny Appeal”, they urge Emmanuel Macron to take…
Nieuwegein is getting old: tens of millions in budget for schools, neighborhoods and roads
The budget also states that Nieuwegein wants to invest in affordable housing, greening, public transport, safety and the quality of life in neighborhoods. The Plettenburg and De Wiers industrial estates…
“Chêne Pointu”, in Clichy-sous-Bois, an exhibition to bear witness to the reality of the neighborhoods
How to bring art to the city? This is the bet that starts on Saturday September 30 in Clichy-sous-Bois. Photographers, filmmakers, writers, visual artists, painters… Thirteen artists bear witness to…
Riots: the real effects of city policy in disadvantaged neighborhoods
With each new episode of riots in France comes this nagging question: the city policy led by the State, which aims to improve the cohesion of the territories by giving…
These 20 Utrecht neighborhoods are the first to go off the gas: ‘Exciting step’
These are the (clusters of) neighborhoods that will be affected by the plans: • Kanaleneiland-Zuid• Eye in Al• Dichterswijk & Rivierenwijk• Star District• Wilhelmina Park & Oudwijk• Tagdreef • Wolgadreef,…
flooded neighborhoods of Lomé and many families without housing
In Togo, the first rains fell this week and, with them, the damage. Some areas of the capital are already flooded as the rainy season has only just begun. This…
Utrecht is taking steps in plans for paid parking, see here when it’s your neighborhood’s turn
The neighborhoods adjacent to the area where paid parking already applies are the first to be affected. According to the municipality, parking pressure is highest here. Neighborhoods in the second…
Accused of luxury renovations – calls older neighborhoods “shit” and “slum”
Housing company Akelius has previously been one of Europe’s largest listed housing companies. They have carried out so-called concept renovations, which means that the company has bought houses and renovated…
Marseille, interreligious dialogue anchored in the neighborhoods
Religions of the World takes you to Marseille, a city of more than 800,000 inhabitants open to the Mediterranean and to the world, where all nationalities and faiths meet, a…
The buses [2/5]: the employment bus as close as possible to the neighborhoods
In neighborhoods where the unemployment rate is very high, the employment initiative bus is welcome. Carried by the Creative association for 11 years, it travels through the suburbs to meet…