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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...
Circularity

How Sharing Libraries Give Us More of What We Need

Karl Dickinson -
Borrowing may not seem an obvious action for cutting our carbon footprint, but Sharing Libraries are emerging as a popular arm of the circular economy. Like most...
Inclusive Cities

Dignity by Design: How Kitty’s Laundrette is Reviving Anfield’s High Street

Karl Dickinson -
Faced with a decimated high street, residents of an Anfield neighbourhood created a community hub, reviving much needed services, decent jobs, and social infrastructure. There’s a wall...
Editorial

Up in Smoke: Consequences of an Unhealthy Habit

Jeanelle Gladwish -
Inspired by an original post on LinkedIn, this article was written for CityChangers.org by Jeanelle Gladwish, founder of the first and only translation agency dedicated entirely...
Climate Adaptation

Sustainable Art: Driving Climate Conversations and City Transformation One Brushstroke at a Time

Mahak Agrawal -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Mahak Agrawal, Steering Board Member of ITACUS and Founder of All Bits Count (ABC). In it, Mahak shares her...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Via Verde: How Mexico City’s Biggest Highway Became Its Green Lungs

Karl Dickinson -
In response to the collective demands of 100,000 people, Via Verde has transformed Mexico City’s two-story highway from symbol of bad decision-making to a green space...
Architecture & Design

CityChanger Siobhan Burger: How to Lead Social Design for a Better Future

Karl Dickinson -
The cities we build today will still be standing for generations to come, so we need to anticipate how these will form the physical and social...
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