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CityChanger Jennifer Keesmaat: An Unconventional Urban Planner

Iris Fiebiger -
What do a liberal arts degree, a congested street, and the City of Toronto have in common? They all link back to our CityChanger Jennifer Keesmaat, an unconventional urban planner. We sat down with...
Energy

How to Motivate the Transition to Community Energy

Karl Dickinson -
Community energy is an agent of decarbonisation. Transition in the sector is gaining momentum. How can we motivate people to get involved and maintain that trajectory? We asked Éva Goudouneix, Community Development Manager with...
Housing

CityChanger Eef Tanghe: Fulfilling Cohousing Dreams

Iris Fiebiger -
Have you ever heard of cohousing? This alternative living model promises to combine privacy and community, use space efficiently, and provide plenty of greenery. Eef Tanghe, CityChanger and founder of Cohousing Projects, makes the case...
Housing

Reviving Thriving Communities Through Meanwhile Housing

Karl Dickinson -
We’re in the midst of a housing crisis: too few affordable homes for our growing population. Quick wins are usually synonymous with shoddy quality, but meanwhile housing bucks that trend. We spoke with Lorna...
Construction

Recycling Concrete: Can We Really Reuse Construction and Demolition Waste?

Karl Dickinson -
Concrete. As a staple of construction, it’s everywhere in our cities. What happens when a building has served its purpose? Could we recover, recycle, and rebuild with construction and demolition waste material? Would that...
Construction

Notable City Skellefteå: The Sky’s the Limit… in Wood

Karl Dickinson -
One city in Sweden has been getting a lot of attention. The 20-storey plyscraper Sara kulturhus is one example of how notable city Skellefteå is pioneering the realms of wooden construction, but there’s a...
City Logistics

Cutting Back on Construction Traffic: How to Get Started

Mathis Hampel -
Construction traffic is costly, dangerous and awfully polluting. A promising tool to radically reduce traffic are construction consolidation centres (CCC) or urban logistics hubs. At CCCs, construction materials are stored, traffic in and out...
Housing

Community Land Trusts: Guaranteed Housing Affordability

Iris Fiebiger -
Everyday people can make a difference in their communities. This is the vision that Community Land Trusts (CLTs) build upon. They are groups of local people who create community assets. And they provide an...
Greenery

Safety in Green Areas: It’s About People

Metka Novak -
Green areas are great; they have the potential to attract a city’s residents to enjoy nature, relax, and get some much-needed fresh air. Safety, though, is a large element of that enjoyment; so how...
Housing

Unusual Homes from Around the Globe

Iris Fiebiger -
If you think prefab houses are revolutionary, check this out! Homes produced by an advanced soft serve ice cream machine and houses floating thanks to an ancient Greek principle – these and other unusual...
Greenery

Bringing Homes to Life: How to Green Your Walls

Metka Novak -
Greening your walls just may be easier than you think. We have gathered guidelines, recommendations, costs, benefits, and everything you need to consider in this compact, easy-to-follow guide. Whether you’re a lover of vegetation or...
Construction

What a Waste: Global Good Practices of Urban Waste Management

Abbie Harby -
From lack of planning to a shortage of resources or an absence of imagination when it comes to strategies, there are many reasons why responsible waste management falls through our fingertips. However, with the...
Retrofitting

What Not to Do: How to Avoid Common Retrofitting Mistakes

Karl Dickinson -
Are you keen to retrofit? That’s what we like to hear. But hold your horses! Do you know what you’re doing? We mean, really know. Being ill-prepared may result in not-so-efficient changes, wasting more...
Housing

The Challenge of Making Housing Healthy

Iris Fiebiger -
Making housing healthy is not a piece of cake. To give you an idea of the challenges you might come across, we have dug through a myriad of guides and condensed the top five...
Housing

Leave the Suburbs! Why North America Should Finally Focus on Multi-Family Housing

Tanja Polonyi -
A grand single-family house in the suburbs with a nice garden and a big garage at the end of a long driveway where two cars easily fit – that is an aspiration of many...
Greenery

Terras de Cascais: Connecting People and Nature Through Community Gardening

Metka Novak -
“Giving new life to natural spaces and promoting organic urban culture” is the motto of Terras de Cascais. It’s a project working towards bringing people together, reviving the connection with nature, and growing fresh,...
Construction

CityChanger Michaela Maresch: Lessons in Modular Construction

Karl Dickinson -
Modular construction is emerging as a quick and reliable way to build new houses. Although these usually conform to a template, rolled out in their hundreds, Michaela Maresch had the guts to rethink the...
Housing

The Challenge of Creating More Space in Dense Cities

Iris Fiebiger -
The growing population of urban dwellers has an archenemy: space. Many cities don’t have enough of it. Or so it seems. Creating more space in dense cities is a tricky (yet possible) task. Below...
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