Levente Polyak
@levenpoly
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urban regeneration, community-led development, participatory urbanism, research / Rome-Vienna-Budapest @Eutropian @CooperativeCity @kekorg @InteractiveCit
Rome-Vienna-Budapest
Joined July 2010
How can communities drive the #adaptivereuse of #heritage assets? How to keep spaces out of speculation and create positive impact via inclusive #governance? OPEN HERITAGE. COMMUNITY-DRIVEN ADAPTIVE REUSE IN EUROPE is our new book building on the experiences of @OpenHeritageEU
NEW BOOK: OPEN HERITAGE. COMMUNITY-DRIVEN ADAPTIVE REUSE IN EUROPE! Open Heritage brings together case studies, analyses and stories of adaptive #heritage reuse projects across Europe. Published by @Birkhauser, co-edited by Eutropian’s @levenpoly, building on @OpenHeritageEU.
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Fidesz proposes new legislation echoing Russia's foreign agent law. The legislation would allow the government’s Sovereignty Protection Office (SPO) to blacklist NGOs, media outlets and other organisations receiving foreign funding. https://t.co/FyvFqYtpob
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In March, Orbán held a speech about a “shadow army” of critics supposedly funded by foreign powers, pledging to do a “spring cleaning” before the elections
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“To rename the Gulf of Mexico the ‘Gulf of America’ is to reconceptualize the United States,” writes @davidfrum. “No longer a country that stamps itself upon history, but a country upon which history is stamped”:
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Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is not triumphant but pathetic.
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A few weeks ago I visited Jardins do Bombarda, the new cultural and social centre by Largo Residências in Lisbon. Here's a @CooperativeCity interview with co-founder Marta Silva about how the Jardins came to life:
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Jardins do Bombarda is a cultural and community centre run by Largo Residências, a cultural and social solidarity cooperative. The organisation moved to the premises of the former psychiatry hospital...
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Last week in Ravenna with Altea, Den Helder, Dunaújváros, Kragujevac, Olomouc and Piraeus to study the @EUI_Initiative project #DARE. In the coming two years, with @URBACT #DaringCities we'll work on cooperative urban regeneration, bottom-up digital environments and storytelling.
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Eutropian at CityLab 2024 !🇲🇽 We are in Mexico City for the 11th Bloomberg @CityLab , where over 500 leaders gather to explore innovative urban solutions! Exciting discussions on how cities can tackle challenges and shape a sustainable future are underway! Stay tuned!
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Join @levenpoly #LargoResidências, #PlacemakinEurope and @PlateauUrbain at Terceiros Lugares LX24 for a lecture and workshop on third places as community catalysts. 📷 Lecture: October 11, 2024 📷 Workshop: October 12, 2024 https://t.co/VF2bdyYSZl
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Do you work in an "Article 11 city"? Do you need external help to develop or implement your city's Sustainable Urban Development strategy? Would you use your experience to support other cities? 📢 Join the @EUI_Initiative Peer Review programme as a City under Review or a Peer!
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How to strengthen your city's capacities to develop and implement #strategicplans? How to build more integrated, cross-sectoral, participatory and financially sound #strategies? 📣 The @EUI_Initiative Call for Peer Reviews is now officially open! ➡ https://t.co/lqXmoKhLGL
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“Abolire gli affitti brevi, costruire in perdita, potenziare i trasporti regionali: le soluzioni prospettate per contrastare gli effetti del mercato richiedono tutte un intervento pubblico energico, a livello nazionale e locale” via @Internazionale
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Sono i fondi immobiliari. Sono gli affitti brevi. È una bolla speculativa. Chi vive in città cerca le cause dell’esplosione dei valori delle case, e non le trova. Leggi
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“Every great city needs some element of disorder, or at least of the eccentric or the atavistic, to temper its arrangements. I mean dis-order as against un-order, as being dis-interested differs from being un-interested.” Jan Morris: Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
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“For the past three years, about twenty-two per cent of office space in New York has gone unrented—that’s a hundred million vacant square feet, the equivalent of nearly thirty-five Empire State Buildings.” via @NewYorker
newyorker.com
Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles.
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“Urban theorists describe a phenomenon called “doom loop”: workers stop filling up downtown offices, the stores and restaurants that serve them close, which makes the area even emptier. And who wants to work somewhere with no services?” @NewYorker
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Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles.
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“Academic freedom is an understanding, not a law (…) It has to be asserted and defended. That’s why it’s so disheartening that leaders of great universities appear reluctant to speak up for the rights of independent inquiry and free expression.”
newyorker.com
Politicians despise it. Administrators aren’t defending it. But it made our universities great—and we’ll miss it when it’s gone.
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‼️🇷🇺Wow. Looks like Slovak PM Robert Fico's reported assailant, writer Juraj Cintula, was associated with pro-Russian paramilitary group Slovenskí Branci (SB). Their leader was even trained by Russian ex-Spetsnaz soldiers. Read more on @VSquare_Project 👇 https://t.co/2IzSHwq54d
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“Housing has the potential to become as potent a driver of far-right support as immigration.” Fix Europe’s housing crisis or risk fuelling the far-right, UN expert warns via @guardian
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Unaffordable rents and property prices risk becoming a key political battleground across the continent
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Last week I was in Bucharest to talk about our work at @Eutropian and @CooperativeCity on conceiving spaces and collaborations for civil society and social economy initiatives, based on experiences of @ACTiveNGOs @cocity_torino Such a privilege to be part of this initiative!
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Join me today in Vienna at 17h at the TU Wien for my lecture "Informed Interventions: Research in the service of community-driven adaptive reuse" https://t.co/Mn9vYpP3hC
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A Paris, « la fréquentation des pistes cyclables s’y est envolée, jusqu’à doubler entre 2022 et 2023 aux heures de pointe. Une tendance, enclenchée en 2019 lors des grèves de transports en commun puis en 2020 lors du déconfinement » via @lemondefr
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L’usage des voies cyclables continue de progresser fortement depuis la pandémie de Covid-19. Aux heures de pointe, les vélos sont plus nombreux que les voitures sur certains axes représentatifs de la...
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“We have a commercial subsidiary in Paris which has put €200m into managing retail areas in the city with rates below the speculative real estate market. This is specifically to rent to small shops, artisans, bakeries, bookstores.“ @CarlosMorenoFr
theguardian.com
Urbanist Carlos Moreno on how his concept is transforming French life and what is hindering change across the Channel
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