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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...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Taking Root: The Tale of London’s Transient Story Garden

Karl Dickinson -
London’s mobile Skip Garden was co-constructed by local communities from construction waste. Now named the Story Garden, it has finally found a permanent home. The Story Garden...
Architecture & Design

CityChanger Deborah Saunt: Decent City-making with Social Value

Karl Dickinson -
Co-founder of DSDHA, Deborah Saunt, explains how social value optimises the investment in public spaces, and why redevelopment projects are improved by random conversations. When Deborah Saunt...
Guest Article

The Battle for Pedestrian Spaces: a Photo Essay from Ghent

Caroline Tilleman -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Caroline Tilleman, a communications expert and self-confessed avid pedestrian. In it, Caroline discusses how even street design with a...
Cycling

Vienna Woman Bike Ride: A Demonstration of Solidarity

Karl Dickinson -
How can cities reduce their gender cycling gap? Organisers of the Vienna Woman Bike Ride believe it starts with improving visibility of female bikers. Every September for...
Greenery & Biodiversity

What are Buzz Stops? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson -
Buzz stops are an example of how underutilised everyday spaces can be retrofitted simply, improving urban environments and creating habitats for biodiversity in the city. Commuters pass...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Paw-sitive Cities: Humane Free Roaming Cat & Dog Population Management

Karl Dickinson -
ICAM provides an ethical choice for population management of free roaming animals, an issue largely ignored by leaders but a priority for citizens. National responses to the...
Revitalising Districts

The Hive: Permanent Placemaking Returns Unloved Land to the Community

Karl Dickinson -
When an alleyway became too undesirable to even walk through, play and tactical interventions helped residents address their neighbourhood’s trauma and reclaim the space. Alleyways don’t get...
Smart Cities

What are Digital Twins? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson -
Digital Twins offer cities an affordable, low-risk chance to experiment, tweak, and reformulate potential plans and possible solutions in an easily understandable, life-like virtual environment. Imagine if...
Skill

CityChanger Alicia Johnson: A Guide to Urban Disaster Preparedness

Karl Dickinson -
A city that prepares for the worse is disrupted the least. We explore what disaster preparedness looks like and how municipalities should be planning. The 6.9-magnitude Loma...
Architecture & Design

Dialogue & Redesign: How Business is Booming Again on Leyton’s High Streets

Karl Dickinson -
It took just months to spruce up High Road Leyton, once again filling what was a declining town centre with businesses, people, and pride. London’s atmosphere was...
Retrofitting

What is Retrofitting? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson -
Retrofitting has the potential to improve efficiency in the built environment, one of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, and help cities meet net zero targets. It is...
Retrofitting

Promoting Heat Pumps: A Communication Strategy for Hard-to-Engage Groups

Karl Dickinson -
Conservatives fiercely resist behaviour change, but a six-point communications strategy designed to advance buy-in of heat pumps is a working model for engaging hard-to-convince groups. When Anja...
Green Buildings

The Case for Greener Cities

Karl Dickinson -
So beneficial is it to add more than a smattering of vegetation to urban spaces that we've had to separate the main cases in favour. Think...
Housing

Denver’s Collaboratory Model for Solving Entrenched Urban Challenges

Karl Dickinson -
Non-profits in Denver have redefined the city’s understanding of chronic homelessness. Now their Collaboratory model is empowering people with lived experiences to design systemic change. Change-making can...
Greenery & Biodiversity

What is Urban Biodiversity? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson -
Against the odds, cities host an incredible array of flora (vegetation) and fauna (animals). How can we ensure that they thrive and why should we bother? Biological...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Boosting Urban Biodiversity with Leicester’s Grassland Strategy

Karl Dickinson -
Leicester’s grassland strategy shows how diverse approaches to natural land management support biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and make cities more pleasant places to be. Since launching its Grassland...
Circularity

What is a Lending Library? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson -
A Lending Library allows citizens to borrow… well, anything. It’s emerging as an increasingly popular cost-saving, community-boosting, emission-reducing stalwart of the sharing economy. Could there be a...
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