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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...
Greenery & Biodiversity

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?

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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...
Architecture & Design

The CityChangers Podcast #12: The Gendered City

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After centuries in charge, men have made a mess of our cities! Gender bias is present in almost every element of urban planning and design, from mobility networks right down to the way we build...
Architecture & Design

Creating Safer Cities: Considerations for Gendered & Nighttime Design

Karl Dickinson -
If the design of urban spaces does not make us feel safe, it limits how we move around, engage with, and enjoy the city. This impacts women disproportionately, and even spaces that seem welcoming...
Inclusive Cities

Notable City: Tanga – Generating City-Wide Benefits by Boosting Youth Social Mobility

Karl Dickinson -
Through population growth and in-migration, cities are only going to increase in number and size. This presents a challenge: how do we ensure citizens’ needs are addressed adequately as urban environments sprawl at an...
Inclusive Cities

The CityChangers Podcast #11: Night, Gov!

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Life goes on after the sun goes down, so why should our cities stop? With more cities around the world creating night offices and appointing night mayors – we take a look at the potential...
Food

Cooking Up Community: Transforming a Town Square into an Open Air Kitchen

Jeroen Beekmans -
This article is part of a paid collaboration between Urban Future and Pop Up City Amsterdam, implemented in the run-up to UF24 in Rotterdam. The featured "recipe", the Open Air Kitchen, is one of...
Inclusive Cities

Urban Design Lessons We Must Learn from Communities in the Global South

Karl Dickinson -
Implementing spatial changes that benefit citizens isn’t a straightforward process. In many cities, there’s not a process for it at all! Or is there? The case of Muscat, in Oman, shows us that it...
Guest Article

DearNeighbour: Cohesive Communities As the Driving Force of a Just Green Transition

Eliza Barnea -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Eliza Barnea, Policy and Government Affairs Coordinator for IntreVecini, a Bucharest-based non-profit that empowers citizens to lead their own urban improvements. Using residents of urban condominiums as...
Inclusive Cities

The CityChangers Podcast #8: Citizens, Assemble!

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Elected officials make decisions that affect millions of people, but beyond voting every few years, what say do citizens really have? Maybe democracy needs a tune-up. Citizens’ Assemblies – a sort of lottery promising better representation...
Inclusive Cities

The CityChangers Podcast #5: The Unlikely Urban Planners

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What would a city designed entirely by children look like? And what could it tell us about the cities we live in now – the good things and the bad? Academic Christina Ergler’s research into...
Inclusive Cities

The CityChangers Podcast #3: The Tiny Town Hall

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One city in Germany takes a unique approach to civic participation. With declining rates of local democratic engagement around the world, Keil has teamed up with local creatives to try something radical: take their town...
Inclusive Cities

Policy Recommendations & Mechanisms That Support Urban Migrant Experiences

Karl Dickinson -
The challenges for migrants arriving in a new country seem endless. The more vulnerable their situation, and precarious their legal status, the deeper these problems run. Social and structural barriers and discrimination prevent newcomers...
Inclusive Cities

Gendered Issues in Urban Migration & Integration in European Cities

Karl Dickinson -
It’s a fact! Cities are designed by men for men. This skews power relations in the built environment and the systems that govern them, curtailing women’s social and economic mobility. Added to this, intersectional...
Editorial

Colonial Urbanism: Polycrisis Guaranteed by Design

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Cities across the Global South remain firmly in the grips of their colonisers’ “innovations”, hosting entrenched centuries-old systems and practices of abuse and exploitation that disrupt health and life across the planet.  Approaches to...
Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Safaa Charafi: Creating Fair & Sustainable Cities with Intersectionality

Karl Dickinson -
Cities aren’t inclusive. It’s evident in how they’re laid out, the policies that govern us, and the mindsets of inhabitants. There’s a way to change this. Mainstreaming gender and intersectionality results in more inclusive,...
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