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Enrique Peñalosa: “An Advanced City Is One Where the Rich Take Public Transport”

Jo Helme -
Bogotá’s former mayor, Enrique Peñalosa, redrew the capital’s cityscape. Surviving two recall elections, he built hundreds of parks, bike tracks, bus lanes and sidewalks. For him, a bus stuck in traffic does not represent inefficiency – it represents inequality.  How Peñalosa Changed Bogotá  The sheer scale of construction...
Guest Article

How Feedback Can Help You Flex Your Problem-Solving Muscles

External Content -
This article was written by Klaudia Bencze, Social Media Team Leader, European Committee of the Regions in Brussels, and was originally published on Apolitical, the global learning platform for government. It was originally published here in July 2020. We’re featuring the article with kind permission by Klaudia Bencze...
Car-Free

The Streets Are Alive In Ghent: It’s More Than Just Removing Traffic, It’s Bringing People Together

Lauren McAskie -
In the last decade, Ghent has completely revived its urban landscape into a place for people to thrive. Through spatial planning, tactical urbanism, and improved cycling and walking infrastructure, this Belgian city has become a leader for car-free developments in Europe. We took a...
Greenery

Bring Greenery Indoors: How to Green Your Home

Metka Novak -
There’s more to indoor plants than just succulents. With the following simple ways, you can enrichen your plain rooms with a little bit of nature. Whether a simple plant in a pot, or a more ambitious project of green walling, here are the ways...
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 like working for the most prestigious companies. This is what...
Construction

Straw: Fact File

Abbie Harby -
Are you familiar with the fairy tale of the big bad wolf blowing the little piggies’ straw house down? Well, despite how this story ends, straw is actually surprisingly strong, and we’ve got a lot of it. So, we collated all there is to...
Car-Free

Infrastructure for Car-Free Cities: The Challenge

Lauren McAskie -
The idea of a ‘car-free’ city sounds pretty straightforward… just ban the cars, right? Well, it’s not quite that simple. Several challenges stand in the way of reducing car dominance in cities and building the infrastructure to accommodate it. Keep reading to find out...
Greenery

How to Finance Green Roofs

Metka Novak -
Let’s be honest, greening your home is never cheap. It may pay off in the long run, but in the short run, gathering all necessary financial means may present many a challenge. There are ways past this, though, and it doesn’t all have to...
Car-Free

Ideas Into Actions: 7 Steps to Advocate for Car-Lite Cities

Lauren McAskie -
Ever had a desire to become an activist for reclaiming car space for people but don’t know where to begin? Ever looked to places with car-free centres like Amsterdam and Oslo and wondered how your city could do it too? This 7-step guide tells...
Housing

Housing: How to Get Started

Iris Fiebiger -
Improving the housing market is no easy task and getting the ball rolling requires a lot of time and persistence. The beginning is always the hardest, after all. To help you out, we have created this handy step-by-step guide of how to get started...
Retrofitting

What Not to Do: How to Avoid Common Retrofitting Mistakes

Karl Dickinson -
Are you keen to retrofit? That’s what we like to hear. But hold your horses! Do you know what you’re doing? We mean, really know. Being ill-prepared may result in not-so-efficient changes, wasting more time, money, and energy than is necessary. So, whether you’re...
Housing

Community Land Trusts: Guaranteed Housing Affordability

Iris Fiebiger -
Everyday people can make a difference in their communities. This is the vision that Community Land Trusts (CLTs) build upon. They are groups of local people who create community assets. And they provide an innovative solution to the housing affordability crisis. Sounds pretty cool,...
Housing

Toronto: Diverse Residents in Complete Communities

Iris Fiebiger -
Accommodating diverse groups of people within the same city poses a challenge. Toronto has managed to overcome it and continues to strive for a more inclusive and affordable housing market. We caught up with Jennifer Keesmaat, Toronto’s former Chief Planner, who served us up...
Cycling

Cyclin’ in the Rain? What a Glorious Feeling!

Tanja Polonyi -
It’s minus 30 degrees. Not the ideal temperature to cycle to work, is it? The enthusiasm to get on a bike while it is freezing cold or insufferably hot might, understandably so, be rather low. So how can we activate more people to cycle...
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 affordable alternative to traditional housing models, giving rise to their...
Car-Free

How to Create a Low Traffic Neighbourhood

Lauren McAskie -
The idea behind Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) is a straightforward one: it means closing off local streets to private cars and through traffic. Yet this seemingly ‘simple’ change can completely transform a residential area by reclaiming space formerly used by cars to give it...
Skill

How to Overcome Opposition and Face Backlash

Tanja Polonyi -
Convincing the “other side” of your idea can be exhausting and frustrating. And if you finally persuade the opposition and continue with implementation, there are still going to be people criticising your idea. How to deal with that?  Have you heard the expression haters always gonna...
Cycling

What Makes or Breaks Bike Sharing Schemes

Jo Helme -
“Many cities think bike sharing is this easy, ready-to-insert scheme: it’s not.” We spoke to two of Europe’s leading bike sharing experts to find out what five things you need to get right when setting up bike sharing schemes. Bike Sharing: More Complicated Than You'd...
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