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How to Engage Socially Deprived Neighbourhoods

Karl Dickinson - August 8, 2022 0

Stakeholder engagement can be challenging at any time but initiating open, constructive dialogue with socially deprived neighbourhoods has its own set of obstacles. Urban Designer Mikaela Åberg has a decade of experience in creating...

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CityChanger Carlo Ratti: Designing Natural-Artificial Cities

Karl Dickinson - July 26, 2022 0

Technology and greenery will be more synergetic in cities of the future. Leading the charge for melding nature and the artificial is Professor Carlo Ratti, who is pushing the frontiers of innovation in urban...

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CityChanger Jan Gehl: Creating Liveable Cities

Karl Dickinson - June 20, 2022 0

Renowned Danish architect Jan Gehl changed our understanding of what urban space should be. Shunning the traditional school of planning in favour of liveable cities, he pioneered the movement of designing places for people....

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Collaboration: How to Work Together to Change Your City

Karl Dickinson - June 7, 2022 0

Plenty of professionals and residents in your city are hungry for change, just like you. It makes sense to combine forces. Together you can achieve more, faster. But it takes a specific skill set...

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CityChanger Santiago Uribe Rocha: “City Changes Take Place on a Daily Basis”

Karl Dickinson - May 23, 2022 0

Tragedy can break us, or it can spark a fire of determination, resilience, and growth. This statement is as true for the Colombian city of Medellín as it is for the person who made...

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CityChanger Mikaela Åberg: Drottninghög’s Neighbourhood Revival

Karl Dickinson - May 16, 2022 2

As an urban developer, Mikaela Åberg improves lives in one of Helsingborg’s most socially deprived districts: Drottninghög. Just a month before she is due to speak at the UF22 conference, this CityChanger tells us...

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CityChanger Jaakko Blomberg: “Addicted to Creating Something New”

Metka Novak - May 5, 2022 0

Specialising in new community-based urban culture, placemaking, street art, and co-creation, Jaakko Blomberg believes in the power of people; in their power to change cities. And his formula? “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than...

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Urban Planning – “It’s Not Hard Science”

Karl Dickinson - March 28, 2022 0

With so many interest groups all wanting representation in the decisions that form our living cities, it isn’t easy getting it right. There will be those who are unrepresented, those involved but who do...

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Turn a New Leaf: How to Change Behaviour

Karl Dickinson - February 28, 2022 0

Initiating a high-impact project is one thing, but what good is it if no one participates? Convincing others to get onboard is about more than just handing them a list of benefits; it’s about...

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CityChanger Lior Steinberg: A Different Kind of Human

Karl Dickinson - January 10, 2022 0

Why are we obsessed with success and fearful of failure? Often, it’s the unexpected trials and tribulations that provide the most valuable learning opportunities. Lior Steinberg is a rarity: with so many irons in...

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Eurotowns: Big Enough to Cope, Small Enough to Care

Cornelia Forsthuber - September 28, 2021 1

If you think that only big cities can substantially contribute to sustainability efforts, you couldn’t be further from the truth. A network of small- and medium-sized European cities shows you exactly what can be...

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How Cities Can Use the Law to Advance Climate Action

External Content - September 21, 2021 0

This article was written by and for the C40 Knowledge Hub, delivering cutting-edge insights and practical resources from leading climate cities directed at those working in city government. It was originally published here in August 2021. We’re featuring...

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How to Make Public Spaces Inclusive for an Ageing Society

Ignacio Foyatier - June 18, 2021 0

How does the design of public spaces influence mental health? Could urban design reduce isolation and loneliness and increase accessibility and mobility? “Rosario is also its older adults”, a pilot project in Rosario, Sante...

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En Route to Changing the Conversation: How to Make Citizen Engagement Work

Cornelia Forsthuber - April 29, 2021 0

How can you make authentic citizen participation work? Warren Logan, Policy Director of Mobility and Interagency Relations in the city of Oakland, has made a name for himself by not just superficially asking for...

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Participation for Innovation – Why We Need To Talk More About Participatory Cities

Tanja Polonyi - April 20, 2021 0

When talking about bringing change to cities, many governments and private organisations tend to hold on to traditional ways of creating policies and engagement. But many researchers are looking into new, innovative ways of...

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Problem Solving and the Art of the Reframe

External Content - April 14, 2021 3

This article was written by Leon Voon, Lead Designer & Co-Head at Experience Strategy Design, Government Technology Agency of Singapore, and was originally published on Apolitical, the global learning platform for government. It was originally published here in...

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Karl-Filip Coenegrachts: Creative Bureaucracy, An Oxymoron?| TEDxGhent

External Content - April 12, 2021 0

In this thought-provoking TED talk, Karl-Filip Coenegrachts gives an overview of what creative bureaucracy means and why we can't continue to use 19th-century bureaucracy to solve 21st-century challenges anymore. This talk was held at the...

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No Time for Trial and Error – How to Lead in a Crisis

Tanja Polonyi - April 8, 2021 0

Over the last year, we’ve found ourselves in a situation unfamiliar and nerve-wracking to all of us. The pandemic and its impact on people all across the continents have shown us the importance of...

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