Category Archives: WG Activities

Introduction to Urban Steps for Resilient Future

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Dear reader,

We are extremely pleased to share with you a project we have worked on in 2018. The Urban Steps for Resilient Future Project was developed with lots of love and deep commitment by a group of young activists from Eastern Europe. The project encompasses a diverse range of activities and tools. It also tackles issues related to alternative urbanization, resilience, public spaces and activism in the Eastern European cities, focusing on the role of young people and their rights to the city. Below, you can find a detailed description including pictures, videos, and publications that might inspire you! Enjoy!

“If there is no discussion about youth’s role in shaping the cities, then what kind of cities are we looking forward to? What is the role young people have in creating a vision of the future of our cities? And how do you give them agency to be able to take part in shaping their local communities?“

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Guess the City – Summer edition

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Greetings visitor,
You have before you a summer mini-project of AlterUrb Blog’s Editorial team. We wanted to create a fun, interactive and not too time consuming initiative for this summer at our blog and show interesting places members of our Working Group are visiting. 
Tourism affects cities a lot – it is particular travel agencies that decide what to show to the tourists and what not. This kind of tourism creates many problems for the cities. Airbnb takes over the center, particular parts of the cities are dominated by tourists and you practically don’t see any authenticity in the place you visit. We want to counter this problem with giving you some information about lesser known but still interesting urban places in Eastern Europe. It is a game of knowledge and chance so be quick and resourceful! 
Person who finds the most cities during these 5 rounds will receive a message of praise and a group hug from the team if we ever meet!
We will write the correct answers for each of the city at the end of the game – 5 cities, 5 questions, 5 correct answers.
Leave your answers in the replay thread below the articles! 🙂

Mystery City No. 5

Eastern European cities, Guess the city - Summer edition, WG Activities

Oh my fair thee daughter Dee, comee here an lemme tell ya a storee. Once, before the Great Flood and this world of islands I used to live in a city. Cities, Dee, weree not like our Olie here, they weree bigger, there was more land and space to build big things and small, more space to do anything you want. And there weree cars, I’vee told you about them. And there weree roads and the cars used thee roads and theree was a lot of them. The movement of thesee many carsee had to be controlled somehow and for that purposee Dee, theree weree traffic lightsee.

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