15 projects since 2013 — from first festivals to city-wide programmes.
Yerevan region · 2023–present
A housing programme that gives families displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) in 2023 a land plot of their own, where they build a house with a state housing certificate.
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Rostov-on-Don · 2014–2023
How cycling became part of the transport system of Rostov-on-Don — from a city request and Urban Factory’s research with cyclists to a design tender, a city cycle network scheme and cycle lanes built in phases from 2021.
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Rostov-on-Don · 2013–2023
A tram network concept — new lines and reconstruction of existing track — that informed the city’s tender documents and the 2023 programme of 119 km.
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Rostov-on-Don · 2020
An expert platform for the city's long-term future, timed to Rostov-on-Don's 300th anniversary in 2049 — eight themed discussions and a public series of video interviews.
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Zverevo · 2018–2019
A 3.1 ha boulevard designed together with residents: from first workshops to a complete design package handed over to the city.
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Rostov-on-Don · 2017–2019
Bringing a neglected city river back into public life — a non-profit, an international partnership with INCITI / UFPE (Recife) and the First Mile of a linear park, opened in 2023.
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Rostov agglomeration · 2016–2019
A concept for one rail system across the Rostov conurbation — tram, city trains and a new high-speed rail station — presented in public in 2018.
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Zverevo · 2018
A development strategy for a small mining town, written together with residents and adopted by the city council in December 2018.
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Rostov-on-Don · 2018
Mihail Veklenko worked in the working group on the transport section of the city’s development strategy to 2035. Part of the materials he prepared went into the adopted document.
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Rostov-on-Don · 2018
Mihail Veklenko worked in the working group on the transport section of the regional development strategy to 2030, on rail in the Rostov agglomeration. Part of the materials he prepared went into the adopted document.
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Recife · 2017
An international session on water and the city, organised and moderated by Urban Factory as part of a UN-Habitat Urban Thinkers Campus in Recife.
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Rostov-on-Don · 2015–2016
A documentary portrait of Rostov-on-Don: eight young authors film their city and change how they see it along the way, while the director films the process itself — a “nesting-doll” film. Urban Factory was the local partner and on-site organiser.
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Rostov-on-Don · 2013–2015
A city festival about public space, held from 2013 to 2015. It brought Rostov’s urban initiatives together for the first time, left behind a new public square and gave birth to Urban Factory.
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Rostov-on-Don · 2013–2015
“Islands of the Future”: a network of small parks for vacant city-centre plots, tested as a 3×6 m modular micro-park installed in Revolution Park in 2015.
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Rostov-on-Don · 2013–2015
A concept proposal for a cycle and pedestrian bridge over Gagarin Square, with gentle ramps, a wooden deck and the square’s greenery kept intact.
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