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Defining specific projects and interventions in the neighbourhood, aligned to the conceptual structure of the Neighbourhood Plan, allows the plan to come to life. In this activity, the technical team consolidates the specific urban interventions and other strategic projects at the neighbourhood scale, considering the the results from the Detailed Data Gathering and Analysis (Activity 31), the outputs and discussion from the Neighbourhood Planning Workshop (Activity 32), and the Neighbourhood Plan and Design (Activity 33). Additional workshops can be carried out with the community to design in more detail specific sites or streets within the neighbourhood, using the Block by Block methodology (See Additional Resources for more information).

Projects and urban interventions can be classified and prioritised according to their scope, scale, impact, investment, urgency, time period of implementation and other criteria. Short term and low investment actions can include tactical urbanism interventions that not only improve the urban conditions with quick and low-cost improvement, but also allow for the process of design and construction to be participatory. Larger scale and high-cost projects will possibly need other forms of funding and management in their implementation, such as requiring funds and support from the municipality, state, or federal government, partnerships with the private sector, or grants.

The identified projects and activities should be in line with the planning legal framework requirements (Legal Resources Review (Activity 2)).It is also important to verify their compatibility with the available resources (Financial Resources Review (Activity 3)) and elaborate a financial strategy. This activity provides a tool to support the estimated calculation of costs for the projects and interventions (T40 Preliminary Estimation of Costs). Then, these can be operationalised in Phase 3 Operationalisation.