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CityChanger Luca Ballarini: Empowering People Through City Imaging

Karl Dickinson -
When Luca Ballarini came up with the idea of ‘city imaging’, he didn’t yet know the impact it could have. Within less than a decade, the concept has become a powerful tool that anyone...
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CityChanger Lan Marie Berg: How to Deal with Public Scrutiny

Karl Dickinson -
When Lan Marie Berg was thrust into the public eye as Oslo’s vice mayor, the constant scrutiny became an unexpected challenge. Her climate budget and car-free zones transformed the city, but the backlash ranged...
Retrofitting

Lyon Confluence: How a District is Retrofitting Heritage Buildings

Karl Dickinson -
SPL Lyon Confluence is carrying out a stand-out urban renewal project in a once-deprived district of central Lyon. Project Manager Etienne Vignali describes how this offers a significantly chance to undertake a large-scale decarbonisation...
Housing

CityChanger Alice Haugh: A Just Transition Towards Decarbonisation

Karl Dickinson -
What does a city of the future look like? For Alice Haugh, it is a regenerative and inclusive built environment that supports wellbeing and equality. In her work with the global philanthropic institution, Laudes...
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CityChanger Sophie Mirpourian: Creative Ways to Listen

Karl Dickinson -
Being heard makes us feel valued and identifies priorities for change, but municipalities struggle to do it well. CityChanger and creative Sophie Mirpourian tells us how her idea to use a portable townhall -...
Car-Free

How to Change Behaviour Around Personal Car Use: The Challenge

Lauren McAskie -
It’s a challenge in itself to know where to begin when trying to get people out of their cars. But maybe by looking at what the obstacles to greener mobility changes are, and with...
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How to Engage Socially Deprived Neighbourhoods

Karl Dickinson -
Stakeholder engagement can be challenging at any time but initiating open, constructive dialogue with socially deprived neighbourhoods has its own set of obstacles. Urban Designer Mikaela Åberg has a decade of experience in creating...
Retrofitting

CityChanger Frances Bean: Helping Public Bodies Decarbonise

Karl Dickinson -
Frances Bean joined the Carbon Trust, a mission-led sustainability consultancy in the UK, in 2018. As Manager in the Cities and Regions team, she supports municipalities and public bodies to understand and achieve their...
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CityChanger Carlo Ratti: Designing Natural-Artificial Cities

Karl Dickinson -
Technology and greenery will be more synergetic in cities of the future. Leading the charge for melding nature and the artificial is Professor Carlo Ratti, who is pushing the frontiers of innovation in urban...
Water

Water/Cooler Moments in the Age of Extreme Heat

Karl Dickinson -
As heatwaves become more frequent, we grow reliant on cities taking measures to provide relief. From fountains to pools to games, there are plenty of ways water offers comfort from rising temperatures. There is...
Retrofitting

The Social Benefits of Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson -
While marketing it as a decent money saver, we rarely focus on the social benefits of retrofitting. Does that mean that they’re so minute as to be obsolete or do we just need a...
Construction

CityChanger Gemma Jerome: Building with Nature in Mind

Karl Dickinson -
We claim a lot of land from the natural world to build ourselves places to live. What if we could construct in a way that works for humans and habitats? That’s the question which...
Retrofitting

What No One Tells You: How to Frame Messages Around Retrofits

Karl Dickinson -
Retrofitting provides the tools to make older buildings airtight, temperate, pleasant places. It also decreases emissions and helps halt the damaging impact on the climate. There’s no disguising the fact that we need to...
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CityChanger Jan Gehl: Creating Liveable Cities

Karl Dickinson -
Renowned Danish architect Jan Gehl changed our understanding of what urban space should be. Shunning the traditional school of planning in favour of liveable cities, he pioneered the movement of designing places for people....
Walking

Walking: The Key to Multi-Modal Success

Karl Dickinson -
Twentieth-century urban sprawl caused a shift in how we move around and between cities. Where walking was once the norm, private motors now claim the crown. But with recent focus on alternative transport, walking...
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Collaboration: How to Work Together to Change Your City

Karl Dickinson -
Plenty of professionals and residents in your city are hungry for change, just like you. It makes sense to combine forces. Together you can achieve more, faster. But it takes a specific skill set...
Housing

Ending Youth Homelessness Through Mindset & System Shifts

Metka Novak -
Youth homelessness is often an overlooked topic. There are public institutions helping young adults and minors in need, right? Well, sadly, that’s not always the case. We spoke with the Co-Founder of Point Source...
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CityChanger Santiago Uribe Rocha: “City Changes Take Place on a Daily Basis”

Karl Dickinson -
Tragedy can break us, or it can spark a fire of determination, resilience, and growth. This statement is as true for the Colombian city of Medellín as it is for the person who made...
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