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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 how the Chinese city of Hefei came up with sustainable...
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...
Climate Adaptation

Coolfood Quick Guide: Strategies to Entice Better Food Choices

Karl Dickinson -
Food service organisations are well placed to make a big dent in greenhouse gas emissions just by reducing how much meat they serve. The World Resource Institute’s Coolfood Quick Guide shows them how. And...
Food Systems

Please Don’t Kale My Vibe – Piloting Edible City Solutions to Change Food Systems

Mirka Råberg -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Mirka Råberg and Olivia Fokeerah, who both work for Forum Virium Helsinki, the City of Helsinki’s innovation company, in Finland. In it, they explore how cities can...
Circularity

Pioneering Sustainable Solar Panels: Amsterdam’s Move Towards Circularity

Tabita Slimmens and Lukas Sloet -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Lukas Sloet, Policy Officer for Solar Energy, and Tabita Slimmens, Communications Specialist in Sustainability, both working for the City of Amsterdam. They explore the often-overlooked harmful implications...
Car-Free

The CityChangers Podcast #17: Heart & Seoul

The CityChangers Podcast -
How did Seoul turn a backed-up expressway into a tranquil urban stream? We take a look at the landmark Cheonggyecheon River Restoration project and ask why, almost 20 year later, this peaceful pocket in...
Climate Adaptation

Daylighting Rivers: A Hidden Gem of Climate Adaptation

Karl Dickinson -
Urbanisation in the post-industrial age led to the burial of waterways to make way for buildings, roads, and public spaces. Water, though, cushions the blow of climate change, so many cities are raising channels...
Food Waste

CityChanger Matt Homewood: Copenhagen’s Food Waste Warrior

Mariano Trevino -
When it comes to reducing food waste, Matt Homewood isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. As Instagram’s An Urban Harvester, he’s amassed a sizeable following documenting the shocking amount of edible food supermarkets...
Urban Farming

How to Advocate for Urban Agriculture

Karl Dickinson -
How do we unlock urban agriculture’s potential? By improving policies, spreading knowledge, and implementing a supportive network. This is the work of European Forum on Urban Agriculture, an EU project determined to help urban...
Farm to Fork

Making Urban Farms Happen: The Foodprint Lab

Metka Novak -
How to turn unused land into an urban farm? Ask The Foodprint Lab! Or use the land sharing platform Grow Here. Specialised in bringing urban agriculture into cities, this company – and the people...
Food Systems

Reducing Food Waste Through Packaging: An Unwrapped Opportunity?

Mariano Trevino -
How can changing the way we store and preserve our food reduce waste in the interests of a more sustainable future? And what do cities have to do with it? We unpack these questions...
Urban Farming

CityChanger Christopher Leow: Urban Farming – Freestyle

Mariano Trevino -
Christopher Leow has spent more than a decade working in Singapore’s burgeoning urban agriculture industry. We chat to him about his unique journey, why growing in the city continues to gain ground, and the...
Farm to Fork

Utilising Untapped Space: Food Security with Rotterdam’s Floating Farm

Karl Dickinson -
Space in cities is limited. Urban farming signals better times for food security but if there’s a future in it, we need to find ways to make it fit around existing land uses. When...
Urban Farming

The Grounded Community: East New York Farms!

Mariano Trevino -
From farming fish in high-tech warehouses to growing mushrooms under city streets, interest in urban agriculture is well and truly coming into season. But producing food in urban areas is nothing new, and there’s...
Food Systems

CityChanger Frank Holleman: Realistic Expectations for Sustainable Eating Habits

Karl Dickinson -
Meat may be one of the most controversial topics in sustainability discourse. It’s a major contributor to climate change emissions, for one, and vegan advocates have a hard time convincing diehard carnivores to change...
Farm to Fork

Improving Urban Food Security with Community Supported Agriculture

Karl Dickinson -
Food security will be one of the greatest challenges that humans face in the years ahead. Urban agriculture reduces reliance on rural imports, but a bad harvest can threaten financial viability of small producers...
Food Waste

The CityChangers Podcast #13: Cake, Brew and Mend

The CityChangers Podcast -
In our throwaway culture, binning a broken object and buying a replacement is often the easiest, and cheapest, solution. But the take-make-waste economy has serious costs – for the environment and for society. So, what...
Food Waste

In the Eye of the Beholder: One Co-op’s Quest to Make Ugly Fruit Beautiful

Mariano Trevino -
Would you eat misshapen fruit or vegetables to save our planet? Portuguese co-op Fruta Feia successfully diverts ‘ugly’ produce from waste streams by buying it directly from farmers and selling it to customers in...
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