Levente Polyak

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

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. insighthungary.444.hu/2025/05/14/orb…

“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”: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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: cooperativecity.org/jardins-do-bom…

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.

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!

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 largoresidencias.com/terceiroslugar…

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!

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! ➡ urban-initiative.eu/capacity-build…

“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 internazionale.it/reportage/vinc…

Curious to see what the HU presidency of the EU holds for cities: @URBACT summarised the presidency’s urban policy priorities, let’s see if “family-friendly cities” can be translated into real urban actions (ie. 15m cities) or remains a culture war call urbact.eu/whats-new/news…

“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

“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/magazine/2024/…

“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 newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

“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/magazine/2024/…

@Dieter_Stein Linke?

Robert Habeck zieht im Bundestag eine Verbindung von der AfD zum Attentat auf den slowakischen Ministerpräsidenten Robert Fico. Fico ist ein rechter Politiker. Der mutmaßliche Attentäter der linke Schriftsteller Juraj Cintula. Wer soll also genau seine Worte wägen, Herr Habeck?

@CesareSacchetti Al contrario: Cintula era vicino al partito neo-nazista Slovenskí Branci

L'attentatore di Robert Fico si chiama Juraj Cintula. Cintula è un sostenitore del partito progressista del presidente slovacco, Zuzana Caputova. La Caputova è finanziata da Soros. Attorno all'attentato contro Fico, c'è l'ombra di George Soros. lacrunadellago.net/lattentato-al-…

@UniqueMongolia twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/…

PM of Slovakia Robert Fico was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound. Previously he criticized raising money for Ukraine, spoke out against Ukraine’s admission to NATO & said that the SMO began as a result of the rampant Ukrainian neo-Nazis & Putin had no other choice.

@TRobinsonNewEra twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/…

Slovakian PM Robert Fico passed legislation to block Islam from gaining official status as a religion in the country. Last year, he stopped sending his nation's tax money to Ukraine. And here he's a staunch critic of the "vaccines". Today, assassination attempt on him...

@ZentraleV twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/…

Der Moment des Attentats: Der Premierminister der Slowakei Robert Fico soll sich in einem ernsten Zustand befinden, aber aktuell stabil sein. Täter? Schriftsteller Juraj Cintula (71), Anhänger der linksliberalen Partei Progressive Slowakei. Motiv: Hass auf Fico und seine Politik.

‼️🇷🇺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 👇vsquare.org/slovenski-bran…