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4 Days 4 Lines: Improving Equitable Access to Public Transit

Karl Dickinson -
Omer Juma’s organisation 4 Lines 4 Days assesses the accessibility of metro stations. Findings in Montreal surprised city leaders, who have since commissioned improvements. Between 1984 and 2014, a succession of law changes related to...
Guest Article

How to Open Urban Swimming to People with Disabilities

Laura Puttkamer -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Laura Puttkamer, a writer, journalist, communications consultant, and founder of parCitypatory. In it, she explains how a lack of inclusive infrastructure is a barrier to independent recreational...
Cycling

Vienna Woman Bike Ride: A Demonstration of Solidarity

Karl Dickinson -
How can cities reduce their gender cycling gap? Organisers of the Vienna Woman Bike Ride believe it starts with improving visibility of female bikers. Every September for ten years, people on the streets of Izmir,...
Circularity

What is a Lending Library? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson -
A Lending Library allows citizens to borrow… well, anything. It’s emerging as an increasingly popular cost-saving, community-boosting, emission-reducing stalwart of the sharing economy. Could there be a greater neighbourly gesture than sharing your possessions? Lending someone...
Inclusive Cities

Dignity by Design: How Kitty’s Laundrette is Reviving Anfield’s High Street

Karl Dickinson -
Faced with a decimated high street, residents of an Anfield neighbourhood created a community hub, reviving much needed services, decent jobs, and social infrastructure. There’s a wall of washing machines constantly on the go at...
Architecture & Design

CityChanger Siobhan Burger: How to Lead Social Design for a Better Future

Karl Dickinson -
The cities we build today will still be standing for generations to come, so we need to anticipate how these will form the physical and social infrastructures people need in the future. Siobhan Burger...
Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Marjan Ehsassi: Amplifying Voices with Citizens’ Assemblies

Karl Dickinson -
When we as citizens feel helpless to interject in the questionable actions of decision-makers, the cracks in democracy are laid clear. But what if there was a way to put power back in the...
Car-Free

Mums for Lungs: The Campaign for School Streets Powered by Coffee

Karl Dickinson -
The benefits of school streets are numerous. So too are the triggers that prompt people to set them up. For campaign group Mums for Lungs, it’s urban air pollution. We explore how their mission...
Car-Free

Od-Nowa: How Łódź is Creating Its First School Street

Karl Dickinson -
Karolina Taczalska was appalled by the density of traffic outside her son’s school, so she and Mateusz Cyganek started a project that aims to make the street child friendly by implementing small but effective...
Car-Free

What are School Streets? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson -
There has been a lot of talk about school streets in the sustainable cities sphere of late, but what does the term really mean, and why are school streets necessary? We gen up on...
Inclusive Cities

Kids’ Court: How Children & Traffic Police Are Making School Streets Safer

Karl Dickinson -
When drivers don’t observe – or know! – traffic laws, people can get hurt. A quirky idea expanding through Africa is making streets safer by educating motor users about courteous driving. It’s called the...
Architecture & Design

Does Indigenous Architecture Hold the Secrets to Sustainable Construction?

Karl Dickinson -
Diversifying cultural representation in architecture extends a sense of belonging to communities that have long been hidden. Reanna McKay tells us how Indigenous urban design and place markers are rolling back centuries of exclusion...
Inclusive Cities

Inclusive Cities Glossary: Key Terms

Karl Dickinson -
Create a more equal world is a lot of work. We not only have to build inclusive cities, but first dismantle the long-established and accepted systems that stand in our way. It can be...
Architecture & Design

Young Leader Luisina Perassi: Enabler of Child-Inclusive Urban Design

Karl Dickinson -
Understanding children’s experiences of cities exposes new opportunities for inclusive design. The trick is knowing how to properly engage them. Gold Coast transport planner Luisina Perassi has made it easy – even collating a...
Architecture & Design

Architecture4kids: Urban Design Skills in Early Years Teaches Valuable Lessons in Sustainability

Karl Dickinson -
Engaging children in urban design and planning activities can increase interest in these professions in later years. It also provides perspectives infrequently considered in architecture, which are fundamental to building inclusive, sustainable cities. The municipal...
Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Hanah Lahe: Healing Political Divides to Unite Citizens in Climate Action

Karl Dickinson -
In ageing societies like Europe, young people have little of the political power needed to influence decisions that impact their lives. As a group for whom sustainability is a prominent concern, futureproofing cities relies...
Inclusive Cities

The CityChangers Podcast #15: Defensive Urbanism – Who’s Defending Whom?

The CityChangers Podcast -
How truly public are our public spaces? In this episode, we take a look at the rise of ‘defensive urbanism’ in our cities and ask what it would take to stop designing people out...
Editorial

How an Artist Will Improve Inclusion, Environmental & Communication Strategies

Michael Shank -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Dr. Michael Shank, Director of Engagement with the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance. In it, he argues that it’s high time that creatives be brought in as a...
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