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CityChanger “Dog Poo Darren” Clark: Finding Meaning in Dirty Jobs

Environmental health officer “Dog Poo Daren” Clark found purpose in a job no one else wanted to do. He ended up improving public spaces...

Notable City Darwin: Plausible Futures for Heat Mitigation in the Tropics

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As extreme weather becomes commonplace, the Darwin Living Lab evaluates what cities in the tropics can do to stay cool enough to be liveable. Temperatures...

Football Centrism: Where Schoolyard Design & Culture Gender Divisions Converge

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Honorata Grzesikowska explains how football centrism, where schoolyards are built around sports fields, excludes girls from accessing and enjoying sport and shared spaces. Culturally revered...

CityChanger Emma Cutting: Improving Neighbourhoods with Street Gardening

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Street gardening gives city-dwellers a way to reconnect with nature. In Melbourne, it is also helping Australia’s wildlife and makes people feel safer in...

Hefei’s Three-Ring Strategy: A Blueprint for Flood-Resilient Urban Growth

Karl Dickinson -
This article is reproduced with the kind permission of Urban Solutions Journal. In it, the urban planner behind “China in 5”, Lile Mo, explains...
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