NGO Urban Reform

Our mission is to popularize and create the best cities for life in Ukraine - healthy, fair, sustainable and active.
Through the introduction of new urban approaches, professional education and the involvement of citizens in decision-making, we have been developing urbanism in Ukraine for 9 years. We help cities find new visions, build high-quality public spaces, develop urban aesthetics and landscape, professionals learn from best practices, improve their skills, and Ukrainian residents learn more about urban development.
Urban Reform (UR) was founded in 2014 in Kharkiv, the year when Ukrainians changed power in the country through the Revolution of Dignity and the war in Donbass. The year when many of us felt the power of public position and the need to influence development in our cities. All these years we have been working on projects for Ukrainian cities, implementing participatory practices, experimenting with public spaces and advocating new sustainable vectors of urban development. For nine years, UR has implemented more than 30 projects in the areas of: tactical urbanism, active city, sustainable mobility, visions for communities and territories, heritage protection and city festivals. UR have worked on projects in 30 big cities and 3 hromadas(territorial communities) around Ukraine.
The UR community in Ukraine consists of 21 employees, more than 30 people who can be involved in separate projects and close partners with whom they are working.