OIKONET Community integration

This report presents a selection of the best practices on community integration in which the OIKONET partners have participated. The cases have been provided mostly by partners from WP3 Community Participation, and some from WP4 Pedagogical Activities.The projects are the following:- “Urban Pockets: The hidden potential of urban pockets and community participation as an engine in revitalizing these spaces”, Tirana, Albania. Presented by Polis University, member of the sub-network Community Participation.- “Public space regeneration of residential neighbourhood near the Niko Dovana stadium”, Durrës, Albania. Presented by Polis University, member of the sub-network Community Participation.-“Environmental Design for Crime Prevention”, Riga, Latvia. Presented by the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Riga Technical University, member of the sub-network Housing Research.- “Get Well City, an International Summer School”, Cēsis, Latvia. Presented by the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Riga Technical University, member of the sub-network Housing Research.-“Living/Dwelling. Participatory action between students of architecture and the residents of Ilinden”, Skopje, Macedonia. Presented by the Faculty of Architecture, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, member of the sub-network Community Participation.- “Defining strategies to facilitate access to social housing in a medium-size city”, Rimini, Italy. Presented by Heriscape, member of the sub-network Community Participation.- “Involving Tarwewijk. Urban regeneration of vulnerable neighbourhoods”, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Presented by the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, member of the sub-network Housing Research.- “Housing sustainability at the edge of an industrial area”, Bratislava, Slovakia. Presented by the Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology, and member of the sub-network Pedagogical Activities.- “Participatory process in "Tras Talleres": memory as a working tool”, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Presented by the School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, and member of the sub-network Pedagogical Activities. The documented projects have been commented by other partners. This way, it has been possible to engage partners from different sub-networks in a joint reflection about community integration in planning.