What to search?

CATEGORY

Sustainable Buildings

Greenery

Urban Biodiversity and the EU Taxonomy

Metka Novak -
It’s easy to forget we share our space in the city with other creatures. Either being small and almost invisible to the unobservant eye or being right there, planted in front of your front...
Greenery

Green Is the New Black: How to Get Started

Metka Novak -
You want to start greening your city but don’t exactly know where to start or how to go about it? Well, lucky you! Below is a neat step-by-step guide to making your change-making path...
Greenery

Useful Tools and Guides for Greening

Metka Novak -
If our articles have lit the fire for greening in you, we suggest getting even more information and details here! Find and collect all the needed knowledge, information, and guidance in this list of...
Housing

How to Solve the Housing Affordability Crisis

Iris Fiebiger -
The housing market is in crisis. Demand is increasing, rents are soaring, and even middle-income earners are struggling to afford to live in cities. What is the root of this housing affordability crisis, and...
Energy

Notable City London: The Transition to Community Energy

Karl Dickinson -
Widescale social housing retrofit projects led by local authorities are not uncommon. Yet many energy refits still tend to focus on changes at the microscale – in single buildings. Does it have to be...
Housing

Housing: Useful Guides

Iris Fiebiger -
Finding useful resources that help you improve the housing situation in your city is often difficult. Not because there’s nothing out there. Quite the contrary: there is so much information out there that it’s...
Construction

The Challenges of Sustainable Construction

Abbie Harby -
Encouraging people to change the way they’ve always done things is never going to be easy. While calls to construct buildings more sustainably may be met with scoffs and points to the price tag,...
Construction

Mud: Fact File

Abbie Harby -
Half of the world’s population is living in mud constructions. And we can understand why. Take a look at the following facts, primary building methods, and the main uses of earth in construction to...
Greenery

Multifunctional Roofs & How to Implement Them in Your City

Metka Novak -
You’ve heard of green roofs and the value they add to the overall city climate, appearance, and well-being. But what then is a multifunctional roof? And why does it matter which one you choose? In...
Greenery

The Challenge to Making Cities Greener

Metka Novak -
The thing about greenery is there’s more to it than just planting a bunch of trees. Peeking behind the scenes, a lot of urban planning, designing, technical research, and policy writing goes into realising...
Construction

Sustainable Construction: Facts & Figures

Abbie Harby -
It’s always important to know your stuff and be able to back it up with solid data. That’s why we’ve collated all the essential facts and figures on sustainable construction that you CityChangers might...
Construction

Straw: Fact File

Abbie Harby -
Are you familiar with the fairy tale of the big bad wolf blowing the little piggies’ straw house down? Well, despite how this story ends, straw is actually surprisingly strong, and we’ve got a...
Housing

From PROMISE to ENERGY PUSH: Past and Ongoing EU Projects on Housing

Iris Fiebiger -
Housing is a complex and multifaceted topic. We want our homes to be eco-friendly, socially inclusive, well-maintained, and – at the end of the day – affordable. That sounds like quite a challenge to...
Housing

Housing: Facts & Figures

Iris Fiebiger -
Why is it important to improve housing and make our homes greener, safer, more socially inclusive, affordable, and just overall better? The following facts provide answers to this question. They illustrate what impact housing has...
Construction

Financing Green Buildings: Is ‘Sustainable’ Affordable?

Iris Fiebiger -
Sustainable buildings provide plenty of environmental, economic, and social benefits. So why are we hesitant to build more of them? A common explanation (and misconception!) is that they are simply too expensive. To bust...
Construction

How Urban Mining Can Promote Circular Construction

Abbie Harby -
Since writing his thesis on “Recyclable Building in Residential Construction” over 20 years ago, Thomas Romm has only delved deeper into how we can reduce the environmental impact of construction and planning practices. Cue:...
Construction

Building Sustainably: How to Get Started with Natural Materials

Abbie Harby -
A house made of straw, an office block made of timber, or a shopping centre made with hempcrete – you might be thinking that this all sounds very hippyish, but this could be the...
Construction

Wood: Fact File

Abbie Harby -
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Well, hopefully just enough to help us construct some superbly sustainable and stunning structures made entirely from wood. It’s not exactly...
1...567...9Page 6 of 9

Follow us on

Sign up to our Newsletter

UFGC GmbH

Grillparzerstraße 26
8010 Graz / Austria

Firmenbuchnummer: FN 445350b
UID Nummer: ATU70187068


Imprint   |   Privacy Policy    |    Terms

About us

CityChangers.org

Home Base for Urban Shapers.
Created by Urban Future.

Read our Story

Be part of it!

Imprint   |   Privacy Policy    |    Terms