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The performing city - Performing arts policies in Bilbao

1. Context

Bilbao's process is well-known and has been frequently used as a benchmark in international studies on urban policies.

Strategic plan development for Yopougon's cultural potential

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With a surface area of 152.11km2, the commune is home to more than one million, five hundred thousand inhabitants, of which 50% are women and 56% are under 20 years old.

Arhus, a library becomes an open knowledge centre

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Roeselare is a medium-sized city of more than 61.000 inhabitants in Flanders, Belgium. The city was looking for a place for a new library as two independent libraries were merging.

Plaine Commune, the Grand Paris project's land of culture and creation: culture, driving force behind the city collaborative development

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Founded in 2000, Plaine Commune became a Public Territorial Institution (Etablissement public territorial) with the creation of the Métropole du Grand Paris, and brings together 9 towns located to the north of Paris.

Nilüfer, the house of the exchange of populations

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The Municipality of Nilüfer was founded in 1987 as one of the three municipal administrations constituting the Metropolitan Municipality of Bursa.

World City Forum of Milan

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The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) estimated that 236.855 foreign-born residents lived in Milan in 2011, representing almost 20% of the total resident population (1.300.000 inhabitants). The territory of Milan and its province (pop.

Making Lyon a sustainable city:a culturally cooperative community

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The municipality of Lyon is home to 480,000 inhabitants, but the city centre lies at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers and is France's largest metropolitan area, with more than 1.5 million people.

"Bal à Fives" of Lille

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Fives, a former working class neighbourhood in the eastern part of Lille centre, can be defined as traditional and cosmopolitan. Since the end of industrialisation, Fives has been a neighbourhood in full renewal.

"Build together", Transformation of a military site into a multicultural site in Le Havre

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Le Havre is writing a new chapter in its history: raised to the ground in the Second World War, the town has built itself back up by expanding and annexing neighbouring towns in the 1950-60s.

The Byblos municipal cultural centre

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Situated just 40 kilometres from Beirut, Byblos is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It is one of the most visited cities in Lebanon, whose archaeological sites are among the richest and most varied in the region.