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In April 2023 Budapest municipality launched a new initiative: City Governance Academy. This is a whole-year course with meetings every second Saturday between 10-17 hours. During the 13 occasions the participants get three presentations each day, covering all important fields of urban government and governance, from the best Hungarian academics and practitioners. The cost of … Read more
On 8 February 2024 Ivan Tosics participated in an International Roundtable, as part of the Greater Paris Metropolis Meetings #1. The topic of the conference was: Metropolises facing the challenges of density: what concrete solutions for sustainable and desirable density? The Greater Paris Metropolis and its Development Council (CoDev) organized at the Maison de la … Read more
Ivan Tosics gave the afternoon keynote presentation at the urban@it National Center for Urban Policy Studies conference on 26 January 2024, at the Enzo Biagi Auditorium in Bologna. The title of the presentation was: „The challenges of the post-pandemic recovery in EU: are cities crucial?” The presentation was followed by a moderated roundtable, attended by … Read more
Are you a local politician, decision-maker, or a city practitioner? Or a citizen who is interested in making your city a better place for people and shift from car dependency to sustainable urban mobility? The Walk’n’Roll Cities initiative of the URBACT Knowledge Hub has just published a practical and concise guidebook presenting innovations in urban … Read more
The news about Ukraine focus almost exclusively on the war situation. In the meantime, however, there are other important processes going on that get much less attention, at least in the mass media. Background: the privatisation and decentralisation process Since the collapse of communism, Ukraine has gone through a highly imperfect transition towards the free … Read more
Every year I prepare a short photo essay on questions related to urbanism and urban research, and 2022 is no exception. This year I briefly discuss the visions of “people friendly” cities with more greenery and less cars. The essay is available in English on the New Year’s Photo Essays subpage, the Hungarian version is … Read more
There are many new developments in Hungary which are decided in an autocratic way, not leaving room for opposing ideas, not even for questions. In the given, government-controlled and dominated media situation in Hungary it is not easy for the opponents to effectively reach the public: the opposition’s access to the various channels of the … Read more