REVITALISATION OF PUBLIC SPACES IN HISTORIC CITIES -adaptation of cities courtyards to climate change in Central Europe

Historic cities often find it difficult to become resilient to climate change. Especially in their centre, quartered buildings with internal courtyards need special attention while tools and policies for their adaptation are missing. The RE-PUBLIC SPACES project involves local communities and applies participatory methods in changing this. The partners develop a new methodology to analyse courtyards as a single spatial organism and prepare adaptation strategies that take account of specific climatic factors in each region. They test and evaluate these new strategies in local pilots and draft protocols and guidelines to guide public authorities dealing with the adaptation of courtyards.