Scotland funds councils and community bodies to run participatory budgeting, with a framework agreement targeting 1% of council budgets by 2021; a …
Since 2009 the City of Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu UAS, VTT and Technopolis have run a renewed alliance (to 2027); in …
Dunkirk made its bus network free in September 2018 alongside a network redesign. Eight months on, bus use was +65% on weekdays …
Medellín planted 30 green corridors along roads and waterways (about 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees by 2021, USD 16.3 million) and …
Since 2012 the Capital Region and 27 municipalities have built branded commuter cycle routes. Bicycle accounts show ~23% more riders after upgrades …
Founded in 1992, a four-party public company regenerates Bilbao's deindustrialised estuary by receiving port and rail land and reinvesting resale proceeds; evidence …
Stockholm redeveloped a former industrial harbour into a district of ~25,000 residents around an integrated energy–water–waste 'eco-cycle' targeting half the impact of …
Singapore's HDB houses 77.2% of resident households (2025), with 90.8% of households owner-occupied (2024). Transfer is limited by state land control and …
A year-long Boston pilot raised and adjusted meter rates; Back Bay saw 11% more free metered spaces and 14% less double parking, …
Vienna cut its annual transit pass from €449 to €365 in May 2012. Annual pass holders reached about 822,000 by 2019 (≈43% …
Vitoria-Gasteiz planned 68 superblocks in 2009; in the Sancho el Sabio pilot, CO2 fell 42% (755→438 t), pedestrian space rose from 45% …
Since 1994, four-year action plans agreed between the Region, a commune and residents in deprived areas have built or renovated 1,903 housing …
Funded with £30m, Waltham Forest built low-traffic neighbourhoods and ~22 km of segregated lanes. A 2016–19 natural experiment found ~22% less car …
Seville built a connected, traffic-segregated cycle network (12 km to ~120–164 km in 2006–2011) and a bike-share scheme; cycling rose from 0.5% …
Oslo removed roughly 760–800 on-street parking spaces from its city centre in 2016–19 and replaced them with seating, cycling and play space; …
In April 2017 Ghent split its centre into six sectors reachable from the ring road only, targeting the ~40% of centre traffic …
Founded in 2002 by Saint Joseph University, Berytech became the first EU-accredited Business Innovation Centre in the Middle East. By its 20th …
A randomised controlled trial of 288 Greater Accra SMEs found that a 2-day working-capital-management training plus WhatsApp follow-up raised treated firms' profits …
Chile's CORFO co-finances firm-level tech and innovation projects, subsidising up to 80% of costs for small firms — but the only rigorous …
In 2018, Auckland's Perpetual Guardian trialled a four-day week (100% pay, 80% hours) for ~240 staff; university researchers measured a 7-15% drop …
After the 2010–11 earthquakes levelled much of central Christchurch, the community group Gap Filler turned vacant lots into temporary public spaces, part …
Germany's 1976 codetermination law gives workers up to half the seats on large firms' boards. Rigorous natural-experiment studies find modest effects: no …
Venture Partners at CU Boulder turned university IP into 35 new startups in FY2024 (the US's second-highest annual total ever) and a …
Msida's TAKEOFF incubator has run the TOSFA seed-grant scheme since 2014 with Malta's government, awarding €2,500–€25,000 per project; 2024's round gave €150,000 …
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