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  • Dnipropetrovsk's Master Plan has been Declassified as the Result of a Lawsuit Filed in the European District Court
    26.03.2014
    Availability of Dnipropetrovsk's master plan at City Hall has been made possible by the main planning authority of the City Council. The current master plan for Dnipropetrovsk was approved in 2007 and was enacted in March 2008, as reported on www.056.ua, a website for the City of Dnipropret…
  • HuRiLab’s Ukrainian urban planning experiment
    21.03.2014
    Modern Ukraine is an industrial country with a predominantly urban population. With the rapid urban development of the past decades, government institutions in Ukraine are using internet technologies more and more actively to inform citizens about official decisions related tourban planning. T…
  • Ukraine's State Agency of Land Resources - the Only Agency that Hides Large-Scale Maps
    04.02.2014
    The State Agency of Land Resources in Ukraine remains the only central executive authority that creates unreasonable barriers to public access to maps. According to the list of proprietary data in the State Agency of Land Resources, all topographic digital maps with scales larger than 1:50,000 are…
  • The Security Service of Ukraine* Hindered the Availability of Zhytomyr's Comprehensive City Plans
    04.02.2014
    During its monitoring activities about the unavailability to citizens of master plans of cities in Ukraine, the Eastern-Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives received information about the role played in the Zhytomyr region by the Security Service of Ukraine. The formal reason given for the una…
  • Case about Accessibility of the Comprehensive City Plan of Dnipropetrovsk Will Go to the European Court
    28.01.2014
    The Eastern-Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives (EUCCI) has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights concerning the unlawful restriction of access to the comprehensive city plan of Dnipropetrovsk. According to a court complaint filed by the NGO, the City Council in Dnipropetrov…
  • Civic Activist Network Tests the New Law
    27.01.2014
    A network of nongovernmental organizations will test through the court system how to protect the right of access to public information. The experiment will be conducted by activists from the following areas: Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk, Lviv, Sumy, Chernihiv, and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. T…
  • The Court waited 3 Years!
    25.01.2014
    The Court waited 3 Years! to Consider a Case of Obstruction of Access to the General Plan of Chernihiv Today, January 21, 2014, in the October District Court of the City of Luhansk a lawsuit against the Chernigiv City Council was reviewed. This suit was brought to the court by the Eastern-U…
  • 3 Years Later Courts of Ukraine Require that Simferopol City Council Must Respond to Information Requests
    22.01.2014
    The Administrative Court of Appeals in Donetsk ruled that the Simferopol City Council acted illegally when they failed to respond to a request made by the Eastern-Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives (EUCCI). In its information request sent in 2010, EUCCI, a non-governmental organization, asked…
  • Residents Themselves of Severodonetsk Will Create a Development Plan for their City Park
    22.01.2014
    Thanks to a new, specially created program called UplanIT, residents of Severodonetsk are able to develop a detailed vision and plan for the development of their own city park. This work is part of the project "Information Technology (IT) Innovations for Designing Cities. Step 1: Severod…
  • A Citizens' Guide for Gaining Access to the Secrets of Master Plans
    14.01.2014
    The Eastern-Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives has posted a useful guide online, Master Plans of Cities: A Handbook for Citizens. In the 70 pages of this publication, authors tell readers in simple words about what master plans are all about, what the plans contain, and how these documen…