An EU-funded project has been helping cities face the future with confidence by tackling climate change, putting the green back into cities, and preventing urban sprawl in new and exciting ways. By the time TURAS, a five-year EU project aimed at making cities better, greener places to live, ended in September 2016, it had produced a wealth of results, some planned, whilst others were unplanned but pleasant surprises nonetheless. Back in 2011 the project brought…
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