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Past Future City Games

2009
01.10.2009

The 7th Future City Game in Poland was played in Warsaw, in an area called Nowe Miasto, part of historical core of the city. Samborska Str » Read more

21.09.2009

The Warsaw Future City Game, which was played at the Transformations Art Festival, was one of the four games incorporated into Warsaw's » Read more

16.09.2009

Nowa Huta, a district in Krakow, is one of the newest parts of the city that developed due to the location of the ironworks in the 1950s. Today, Nowa Huta is  » Read more

01.08.2009

The Manchester Future City Game focused on Gorton, a challenging area in Manchester, which has suffered from social and economic deprivation, but is now undergoing some degree of urban regeneration » Read more

16.07.2009

The Stirling Future City Game focused on the city centre and was played as part of the City Council’s ‘visioning’ activity for the future of Stirling and formed the third of four  » Read more

29.06.2009

The fourth Future City Game in Poland was played in Gdańsk, which with Gdynia and Sopot constitutes the largest urban area on the Baltic Sea in Poland. The game was played as part of the city's la » Read more

19.06.2009

Hradec Kralove, which is located in northeast Bohemia, is among the largest and most important municipal settlements in the Czech Republic.

The game in Hradec Kralove was closely conne » Read more

18.06.2009

Ukmergė is one of the oldest settlements in Lithuania. The town has always been an industrial centre, famed for its cabinetmakers, metalworkers, and light industry workers. Despite the colourful h » Read more

17.06.2009

Gorzów Wielkopolski, a city of approximately 125,000 residents, is situated in a very picturesque area of northwest Poland, about 130km from Berlin and 80km from Frankfurt. Located on the hi » Read more

15.06.2009

Prior to the game, Melitopol participated in a European Council project aimed at developing intercultural cities. Proposals for the regeneration of Gorky Park were subsequently submitted to the EC  » Read more

12.06.2009

Ostrava, the third largest city in the Czech Republic, is the centre of the Moravian-Silesian region. It has a very favourable geographical position, being located about 10 kilometres south of the  » Read more

09.06.2009

Blackburn with Darwen is a multi-cultural area, with diverse urban neighbourhoods set in countryside. It is a key geographical and cultural gateway to Pen » Read more

29.05.2009

Plunge is the Lithuanian Capital of Culture 2009. On this occasion, we invited teams from three other Lithuanian towns – Kedainiai, Ukmerge an » Read more

22.05.2009

Klaipeda, a port in Lithuania, has quite a number of summer festivals and events to offer. The Summer Stage, where the major cultural festivities take place, used to attract a number of visitors. H » Read more

22.05.2009

Cēsis, an old Hansaetic city located in the northern part of Latvia, is bidding for the title of European Capital of Culture in Latvia in 2014. The city is  » Read more

07.05.2009

Saue, a town in northwestern Estonia, is situated in a very favourable location near the capital, Tallinn. It attracts many people who like the balance between small town life and the city atmosphe » Read more

15.04.2009

Aarhus is preparing a bid to become the European Capital of Culture in 2017. We held a pilot Future City Game to establish how it can be used in this process and how it could support the bid. Aarhu » Read more

20.03.2009

Karksi-Nuia, an ancient settlement in South Estonia, is situated on the southwestern slope of a pre-historic valley and is particularly known for its beautiful nature and rich cultural life. The Ha » Read more

19.03.2009

Poznań, the fifth largest city in Poland, is an important historical and industrial centre. The Poznań Future City Game focused on a specific area in the city - the Śródka district, one o » Read more

17.03.2009

Viljandi is an ancient city in south Estonia known for its beautiful nature and rich cultural life. It is located on a hill above a lake, which is popular with residents, holidaymakers, fishermen a » Read more

19.02.2009

The Core Cities group is a network of England's major regional cities: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield. They form the economic and urban cores » Read more

30.01.2009

The Future City Games in Pilsen districts engage the residents in the process of bid preparation for the European Capital of Culture in 2015 by challenging them to find innovative and creative solu » Read more

04.01.2009

The first Future City Game in the Czech Republic was launched in Pilsen city centre and addressed the needs of the individual districts in the city, with a special focus on the challenges related t » Read more

2008
04.12.2008

Glasgow is Scotland’s largest city and is famed for its history of shipbuilding and engineering. Glasgow has a rich and vibrant cultural life, with regular festivals for art, jazz, comedy, fo » Read more

03.12.2008

Only a few kilometres from the Hungarian capital, Budaörs has been known as Budapest’s trade gateway. Multinational commercial companies based in Budaörs (e.g. IKEA, Decathlon, Auch » Read more

19.11.2008

Only a hundred kilometres from the Lithuanian capital, Kaunas is considered to be the centre of Lithuania's economic life, notable for the spread of industry and rapid economic reform. The second l » Read more

08.11.2008

The Future City Game in Vantaa, which is the fourth most populous city in Finland, focused on the Tikkurila Centre, the administrative and commercial hub of Vantaa. The participants were challenged » Read more

31.10.2008

Voldparken is a residential area on the outskirts of Copenhagen with approximately 10,000 residents. The area lacks a community centre and recreational spaces that would improve the quality of life » Read more

22.10.2008

Łódź, the second largest urban centre in Poland, is in the running for the European Capital of Culture 2016. The city is an important cultural centre, internationally known for its Film Sc » Read more

20.10.2008

Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, with approximately 260 000 inhabitants is a cultural and administrative centre and has the highest GDP in the country. The city, which provides services for appr » Read more

28.08.2008

Only a hundred kilometres from the Estonian capital, Haapsalu has always been a popular summer resort, attracting thousands of tourists. During the winter, however, the city becomes a quiet, seclud » Read more

20.06.2008

Pilsen, an industrial, commercial, cultural, and administrative centre of the western part of the Czech Republic, is running for the European Capital of Culture 2015. The  » Read more