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A joint event of EU Human Cities partnership and AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures hosted by Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS) and University of Ljubljana, Faculty of architecture (UL-FA) in Ljubljana in May 2017. A three-day Ljubljana event in May 2017 was structured in three interrelated activities: a seminar, a workshop and a field-trip. The main purpose was to address the questions of revealing the shared values of more and more diversified urban communities as an important step-stone to a more inclusive provision of local public spaces. In the framework of the seminar entitled "PUBLIC SPACES FOR LOCAL LIFE / Shared values in diversified urban communities as a foundation for participatory provision of local public spaces", the Book of contributions was launched to represent the researchers’ and practitioners’ points of view in their fields of work presented at Ljubljana seminar. In spring 2018, a launch of the special issue of the Urban Challenge entitled "Public spaces for local life" is foreseen. This special issue will include academic and research articles that were also presented at the international seminar.