Adapting the Athens experience to Budapest’s needs

Budapest District XVIII is designing cooler and more resilient neighborhoods through Cooling Havens.

Budapest District XVIII, as part of the Cooling Havens European climate-adaptation knowledge transfer, is preparing a housing-estate pilot that gives a local, measurable and community response to urban heatwaves. The essence of the project is not the simple adoption of an Athens solution, but its application tailored to local conditions: on the Havanna housing estate, from an underused public area, a multifunctional, cooler, greener and more community-oriented urban space may be created.

In this process, District XVIII does not take over one-to-one, but adapts. The planned intervention is pilot-like: on a smaller scale, in a controlled way, it would test how nature-based urban development, water management, measurement-based decision-making and residential participation can be connected in a densely populated Budapest housing-estate environment.

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