What to search?

CATEGORY

Sustainable Buildings

Architecture & Design

Architectural Design and Climate Mitigation & Adaptation

Metka Novak -
“It’s not just about water, not just about heat. It’s about humans and nature and how our cities function holistically and work together.” - Jeremy Anterola With cities becoming more populated and the growing demand...
Construction

Guide to Natural Materials in Construction: More Than Hobbit Houses and Mud Huts

Abbie Harby -
Deep in the depths of the construction world, among the steel, cement and concrete, there are materials hidden, just waiting to be utilised. We’ve put together this guide exhibiting some of the main natural...
Construction

How, When, and Where to Incorporate Participation into Urban Development

Abbie Harby -
Constructing sustainable buildings in our cities is all well and good, but sometimes you’ve got to step back and look at the bigger picture: urban development. In order to create a city suitable for...
Retrofitting

The Art of Persuasion: How to Involve Residents in Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson -
Why aren’t we retrofitting more? There’s an unarguable case in favour, after all. Something must be holding us back. The problem is that property owners are just not that engaged in the movement. It...
Construction

CityChanger Eugen Antalovsky: Participation, Inclusion, and Urban Development in Vienna

Abbie Harby -
With an interest in architecture, cities, mobility, and society, it seemed like a natural step for Eugen Antalovsky to specialise in urban development, and for the last three and a half decades he’s been...
Retrofitting

The Challenges of Psychology in Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson -
At CityChangers, we value the learning we can gain from bottlenecks, problems, and conundrums. Knowing the challenges and discovering the blockages provides a ground on which we can search for solutions. We’ve noticed a...
Green Buildings

How to Incorporate Greenery into Architecture

Metka Novak -
According to the European Commission, we spend 90% of our lives in enclosed buildings. That’s quite a lot, considering how much vegetation and the outdoors positively affect us. So, why don’t we simply incorporate...
Housing

Coliving – Saving, Sharing, Caring

Tanja Polonyi -
Living in one apartment with 10 others – for some a nightmare but for many the perfect alternative living model in times of a housing affordability crisis, mass urbanisation, and increasing loneliness. This article...
Retrofitting

Notable City: Decarbonising Vienna

Karl Dickinson -
Vienna is a pragmatic city, bursting with exuberance, diversity, and political action. In terms of decarbonising, it’s a place where people are making definite, positive urban change at the street and policy levels. We...
Green Buildings

Flora Robotica: The Future of Growing Your Own House?

Metka Novak -
Let’s talk hypothetically – what if we had the ability to grow our own houses? Out of plants? No greenhouse gas emissions, no grey concrete, no building-material waste, no heat island effects. Wouldn’t it...
Architecture & Design

From Architecture to Urban Planning: Shweta Gandhi

Abbie Harby -
From a naïve 19-year-old architecture student to working on government projects and helping achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, Shweta Gandhi has already gathered a multitude of experiences. We spoke to this Young Leader...
Retrofitting

Do It Yourself: How to Start Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson -
The decarbonising effects of retrofitting older buildings will do a lot to slow or even prevent the global heating process. But where do we start? How do we know what measures individual properties require,...
Retrofitting

Decarbonising Cities to Reverse Climate Change

Karl Dickinson -
Cities emit seemingly endless cascades of greenhouse gasses. Carbon dioxide is the number one offender. Rectifying this is pivotal to halting global warming and preventing irreversible climate damage. But decarbonising cities at a mass...
Retrofitting

The Challenges of Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson -
Telling the average person on the street to upgrade their draughty, crumbling home to save energy and, ergo, the planet might be too abstract to inspire action, met with responses like: “What difference can...
Retrofitting

Retrofitting: Facts & Figures

Karl Dickinson -
Populations are rising. We cannot build fast enough to accommodate everyone. We need to utilise older buildings for our living, working, and leisure needs. Retrofitting makes them future-proof, efficient, and climate-friendly, shaping the urban...
Circularity

Waste to Resources: Tampere’s Triumphs With Trash and Trade

Abbie Harby -
The importance of good waste management is no secret, but how to do it can sometimes allude us. This is where the city of Tampere comes in. So, if you’re lacking innovative ideas and...
Retrofitting

Shallow & Deep – Different Dives into Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson -
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to decarbonising older properties. Each building has its own character, history, and flaws that need to be considered when choosing appropriate measures to make them energy efficient. These can...
Construction

Sustainable Schools – Education Fit for the Environment

Tanja Polonyi -
With the climate crisis growing, teaching children about sustainability should be an obvious addition to their education. However, there are big discrepancies in countries’ curriculums and the resources given to teachers. In this article,...
1...789Page 8 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