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Young Leader Hamza Amin: Shaping Equitable Communications for a Better Pakistan

Karl Dickinson -
The effects of climate change are not equal everywhere. Pakistan is one of the world’s lowest greenhouse gas emitters, but it is dealing with some of the harshest consequences. With projections that it will...
Editorial

A Conundrum of Common Courtesy: How Can Decency Deliver Better Cities?

Karl Dickinson -
In 2015, a London cyclist clashed with a pedestrian, knocking her unconscious and leaving her with scars and broken teeth. It sent the media into a frenzy. Front and centre of the story was the...
Construction

CityChanger Max Schade: Building a Future of Straw, Wood & Clay

Karl Dickinson -
With public demand for sustainability snowballing, it’s inevitable every sector will undergo a green transformation. Construction, however, may not be as advanced as we thought. Max Schade from STROHBOID acts as our guide today,...
Young Leaders

Young Leader Khate Torres: Using Environmental Psychology to Create Healthy Urban Spaces

Karl Dickinson -
Achieving climate and sustainability goals requires a willingness to change. Without this, the urban transformation would lack substance. We already have so much of the knowledge we need to make a significant impact, but,...
Editorial

Colonial Urbanism: Polycrisis Guaranteed by Design

POSSIBLE FUTURES -
Cities across the Global South remain firmly in the grips of their colonisers’ “innovations”, hosting entrenched centuries-old systems and practices of abuse and exploitation that disrupt health and life across the planet.  Approaches to...
Skill

Young Leader Fruzsina Nagy: How To Create Change Like A Sustainability Consultant

Karl Dickinson -
A new breed of professionals is using their hotly sought after skills to bring about social and environmental impact. Impact-oriented values are fast becoming the deciding factor in career choices, over more traditional drivers...
Young Leaders

Young Leader Eva de Bruijn: How Eindhoven’s ‘Idealists’ Are Saving City Politics

Karl Dickinson -
Politics is one realm that can open a lot of doors to sustainability in our cities. But whether it’s because they are disillusioned, disinterested, or feel excluded, many people do not use their voices...
Editorial

Do the Right Thing: Who’s Responsible for Climate Action?

Karl Dickinson -
It’s not always easy being responsible. As the (delayed) train journey home from the Urban Future conference in Stuttgart entered its eleventh hour, a creeping thought formed: had we taken a flight, we could have...
Construction

Young Leader Omar Zahran: Architecture as a Tool for People-Centred Cities

Karl Dickinson -
How does so much historic architecture endure the ravages of time? It’s because the architects of yore knew how to build cities to suit their environment, and they did so to meet the needs...
Housing

Building a Better Housing Model with the European Community Land Trust Network

Karl Dickinson -
Fulfilling the need for quality, affordable, future-proofed housing is one of our cities’ biggest challenges. Marginalised and low-income populations need the current system to change the most. Community Land Trusts offer an equitable and...
Construction

A Just Transition: Raising Workers’ Rights in the Built Environment’s Transformation

Karl Dickinson -
As the construction and manufacturing industries undergo a transformation to new and better ways of delivering the built spaces we need, a hidden majority is often overlooked: the sector’s workers. It’s right that we...
Editorial

Overpopulation Is No Laughing Matter

Karl Dickinson -
One of the rules of comedy, so I've been told, is to talk about what you know. That's why many stand-up routines over the past couple of years are based on personal accounts of COVID-19. I...
Water

CityChanger Panchali Saikia: Guardian of Urban Water Governance

Karl Dickinson -
Water democracy has implications for health, safety, and life opportunities. Nowhere is this more apparent than among the large informal settlements in Indian cities. This is where the work of Panchali Saikia makes a...
Young Leaders

Young Leader Kelly Delaney: Regulation’s Role in Effective Energy Efficiency Financing

Karl Dickinson -
For all the benefits it offers, retrofitting is still the poor cousin of actions that cut emissions. There seems to be just too little of the interest and energy efficiency financing needed to meet...
Skill

Young Leaders Academy: Applying Transformational Knowledge as a Catalyst for Change

Karl Dickinson -
Sharing knowledge is integral to scaling and speeding up the sustainability transformation. But are we doing it effectively? There’s a new generation of change-makers on the scene intent on improving the way knowhow is...
Skill

CityChanger Safaa Charafi: Creating Fair & Sustainable Cities with Intersectionality

Karl Dickinson -
Cities aren’t inclusive. It’s evident in how they’re laid out, the policies that govern us, and the mindsets of inhabitants. There’s a way to change this. Mainstreaming gender and intersectionality results in more inclusive,...
Editorial

Climate What? Choose Your Words Carefully

Karl Dickinson -
In the realm of climate change and sustainability, how much do the words we use matter? A lot. As any linguist will tell you, language shapes our relationship with the world around us. Recently, a colleague...
Cycling

Encouraging Cycling Tourism with Digital Storytelling

Kresimir Herceg -
This article was written for CityChangers.com by Krešimir Herceg, an entrepreneur aiming to enhance the leisure cycling experience. In doing so, he wants to help destinations reduce CO2 emissions and overcrowding at spots of...
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