LIFE is at the cutting edge of the liveable city revolution. In the Lombardy region in northern Italy, for example, the recently completed LIFE in the city project brought students, conservationists and citizen scientists together to protect threatened urban biodiversity in three cities – Milan, Varese and Cassano Magnago.
The project set out to design and test an ‘innovative, collaborative and participatory model of green urban regeneration for biodiversity conservation’. In just two years it delivered free online training courses on biodiversity and urban greening for teachers,…