who we are
Coalition for Sustainable Development
“Ion Mincu” Facultatea de Urbanism
who we work with
- consulting
what we do
- consulting - training and education
what we do
- consulting - training and education - promotion and communicaton
what we do
WETEST
Walkable Environment through Technology Experimentation and Sustainable Travel
our projects
our projects
our projects
Self-build
Plan site maintenance
In the wake of so many top-down, large-scale redevelopment efforts with little to no community input, the Urban Pockets approach focuses on human-scale, easily replicable urban improvements that are responsive to local residents’ needs. The construction phase involves directly the residents and the local community that work on a voluntary base, or according to time-sharing schemes. The project adopts an incremental approach that allow the users to make small-scale, improvements in the space, taking ownership of the new square. The implementation should consist in intensive interventions over a relatively short period of time to maintain the active engagement of the people and to make the square ready to be used. This approach allowed the character of the square to grow over time so that it could continually evolve to accommodate the demands of the inhabitants around it.
An action team of residents is formed through all the stages leading to the realization of the square. It will be responsible, with the eventual support of the municipality, of the maintenance of the new public space. A year plan for maintenance and management of square is defined by all the actors involved in the process.
Experience transfer Scaling up Next steps
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our projects
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Urban Pockets
● Belgrade ● Ploieşti
● Skopje
● Rome
● Tirana
● Athens
Urban Pockets
Athens operational partner:
MicroMega
PloieĹ&#x;ti operational partner:
MKBT Arta in Dialog
institutional partner:
City of Athens
Urban Pockets
institutional partner:
Municipality of PloieĹ&#x;ti
- retrofitting strategy for urban open spaces
Urbego for PERFECT
- community space management - mapping open spaces public and private - mapping and engaging stakeholders
Urban Pockets
- rapid and cost-effective strategy
Urbego for PERFECT
- testing and promoting open space policies - training communities collective learning - bridge between public and private intervention
Urban Pockets
www.urbego.org team@urbego.org
London, 7th May 2015