E-Poster selected for Ecocity World Summit 2023, The Barbican, London, UK. June 6-8 2023, Theme: "Connecting Communities" - https://www.ecocity-summit.com/ How can cities be more sustainable and just? This question guided the 3-year EU-funded UrbanA project on “Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities” (2019-2021), which took up the challenge of synthesizing and brokering knowledge generated in previously funded research and innovation projects that deal with approaches tackling urban sustainability and justice. As part of this process, a Community of Practice was created to facilitate a growing body of “City Makers” to engage on this topic together. When the academic term ended the Robert Bosch Foundation offered a small funding grant for the Community of Practice’s continuation and further experimentation into 2023, coordinated by ICLEI, the network for Local governments for sustainability. The author was involved throughout both stages described and played a lead role developing the Community of Practice. Based on Participatory Action Research and Self Ethnography methodologies, the author shares insights in this paper from experiments to expand and diversify the Community of Practice, using Network Weaving to stitch together various projects to connect communities. Digital version was published during the event: POSTER online at: https://www.ecocity-summit.com/media/zugjsuxh/333-duncan-crowley-urban-walking-tours-as-a-tool-to-connect-communities-and-green-our-cities.pdf Via: https://www.ecocity-summit.com/programme/abstracts/

Duncan Crowley: European Network for Community-Led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability (ECOLISE), Communications Office PhD student in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories (ISCTE), Lisbon, Portugal & Degrowth Portugal.

Ecocity,UrbanA,Degrowth,Walking tours