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	KraftWerk1, Zurich This project is the realisation of a social utopia. It provides living space for more than 300 people and room for work, leisure and several activities. It is a self-managed project built in a new exceptional building. People moved in in summer 2001.
	HIC - Habitat International Coalition Habitat International Coalition acts as an international pressure group in defence of the rights of the homeless, the poor, and the inadequately housed. It promotes the creation of awareness among the public in general about human settlements problems as well as the exchange of information among its members.
	Vrije Ruimtje / EasyCity, Amsterdam, Holland Alternatives for free spaces, uses for several concepts of live. Critiques on the fun city.
	PONTE Foundation is a foundation which supports sustainable urban projects and activities. Since its start in 1993 PONTE has continuously supported the International Network for Urban Research and Action INURA.
	Krax is an investigation process and meeting space which connects different experiences in urban creativity linked to "crack spaces" in dfferent cities.
	Rote Fabrik Cultural Centre Beautiful located in an abandoned silk factory, on the shores of Lake Zurich, Rote Fabrik today is one of Europe's largest, most diverse and longest-standing alternative cultural centres. Every year, about 200'000 people come to one or more of the 300 events, the restaruant, the schools, or the exhibition hall. More than 200 musicians, actors and artists work, study and rehearse in the many studios of the old factory. Rote Fabrik offers about 80 permanent studios of the old factory. Rote Rabrik offers about 80 permanent jobs. What all started as a protest movement in 1980 has produced one of Zurich's largest cultural institution.
	Sarai The summer of '98 was a time for many new beginnings in the city of Delhi. The nineties had been a decade marked by doubt an rethinking on many fronts, all of which seemed to have come to a head for some of us during that summer. There was a sense of disquiet with increasing urban violence and strife, dissatisfaction with restrictive modes of thinking and practice within mainstream academia, the universities & the media and a general unease at the stagnation that underlay the absence of a critical public culture...
	Dérive Dérive - Zeitschrift für Stadtentwicklung - is one of the most interesting jounals issued in German about cities. With a critical attitude it is concerned with actual developments in Vienna where it is issued and in other cities. Most of the issues foucus on a topic like urban culture,gentrification, ecology etc.
	The Land is Ours - TLIO, UK This movement has many different branches of action. Very important work is done by supporting, lobbying and networking local groups, landrights groups, road protests. One of the major actions of the past years was the Wandsworth occupation in London.
	Red Nacional de Investigación Urbana, Mexico RNIU
	Centro Sociale Forte Prenestino, Rome CSOA was founded in 1986. The former fort is used as a cultural or community centre, space to live and work. Over the past ten years, the entire area of approximately 13 hectares, containing numerous rooms and green areas, could gradually be used for all sorts of cultural events. It is fully self-managed and all decisions are taken collectively like in many other Centri Sociali. The Centri Sociali are a kind of movement. All over in the Italian Cities former factories are used as Centri Sociali. You can find Information about several Centri Sociali under http://www.ecn.org/collegamenti/.
	CINEMA NOVA, Brussels In a time when the lines between art/ entertainment/ industry are rotting away, it isn‚t easy to come across films, which haven‚t been backed by enormous production and marketing budgets. In 1997 Cinema Nova, a one screen cinema, opened its doors aiming to help heal this lack of accessibility to alternative, unconventional and challenging approaches in cinema. While the Nova Project remains a non profit association operating entirely on volunteers, its reach and reputation long since spread past Belgium‚s borders.
	Citymined, Brussels City-Mine(d) is a productionroom whose objective is to support, initiate and/or undertake projects of a socio-cultural nature, mainly in public open spaces in areas and neighbourhoods which are characterised by problems typical of a large city, such as poverty, exclusion, weak identity etc. The organisational structure is flexible, network oriented, rhizomatic and its activities temporary
	Exodus Collective, Luton UK The Exodus Collective, Movement of JAH People, is one of the most inspiring action groups, facing very pressing problems of today like unemployment, racism, crime in their own exemplary way. There exist several videos about the Exodus Collective.
	Planners Network Planners Network is a network that deals with progressive planning. It is mainly based in North America. A European branch is about to be built up.
	Spectacle Spectacle is part of INURA since its very beginnings. Spectacle produces videos on social, political and justice issues.
	Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning University College of London, UCL. The BSAP maintains a Searchable bibliography on urban development, planning, community issues.
	LED ART / ICE ART GROUP Novi Sad/Belgrade. The multimedia group LED ART (Led = Ice) was founded in 1993, in the specific social-political climate in Yugoslavia (war, destruction, poverty). ICE ART pleads for active artistic resistance. Working with ice as one state of water is the symbol for various levels of existential questioning which can be interpreted in two ways: as interruption of life functions until death or as hibernation. ICE ART creates in urban milieu (performance, installation, photography, action, questionnaire) and chooses unusual spaces to exhibit (refrigerator truck, garages, street/public space, garbage dumps). Led-Art is an INURA member since 1999.
	The South of the Cities With the project ” The south of the cities”, the Institute for Theology and Politics (ITP) wants to point to symmetries and asymmetries in cities of the global South and North. Simultaneously, we want to find out how to actually work against a neoliberal reorganisation of cities in a solidary way. The focus is on grassroot organisations and organisations in social movements. The project aims at establishing links for a “globalisation from below”
	King's Cross: Think Again Campaign Kings Cross Railway Lands Groupin alliance with member groups and others, is campaigning for a re-think about the proposals for the railway lands - Summer 2006. Read the leflet and sign the petition.
	planum.net Planum is a eurpean on-line journal in the fields of planning, urban studies, gender studies, social and economic topics related to the urban question. You can also subscribe to a e-mailinglist to get links to to recently published interesting articles
	Shrinking Cities Cities are shrinking all over the world! Shrinking cities are a cultural challenge. In the Shrinking Cities project, architects, academics and artists investigate recent developments in Detroit, Ivanovo, Manchester / Liverpool and Halle / Leipzig - and make suggestions.


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