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Cycling

Cycling: How to Get Started as an Intermediate City

Cornelia Forsthuber - March 26, 2021

In your city are many people who love cycling, but a real cycling culture does not yet exist, as the existing cycling infrastructure is still insufficient for many? Here you'll find the steps to take to increase cycling further. Intermediate cities have a committed number...

Cycling

Encouraging Cycling Tourism with Digital Storytelling

Kresimir Herceg - May 16, 2023

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 cultural and natural significance. Krešimir is the founder of Bikademy,...

Walking

Why Are We Not Talking About Walking? The Challenge to Make Cities Walkable

Tanja Polonyi - May 3, 2021

Walking comes naturally to most people; hence, many of us don’t view it as an issue to consider in city planning. We’ll take a look at all the challenges walking activists are facing to understand why walking has, unjustifiably, been put in the backseat...

Construction

CityChanger Dominik Campanella: Accelerating Circularity with Data

Karl Dickinson - April 28, 2022

Digitisation of the construction sector is an important step. It will simplify and streamline material reuse and carbon emission reduction. But this takes brains, cooperation between computing and construction, and a personal determination to create a circular economy regardless of how hard the journey...

Housing

How to Organise a Productive Debate on Housing

Iris Fiebiger - November 8, 2021

Debates about housing can be frustrating. People point fingers, refuse to listen, or simply aren’t interested at all. The International Social Housing Festival (ISHF) addresses this problem. Its aim: organise a productive debate on housing and engage everyone. We sat down with Sina Rasilainen,...

Housing

Housing: How to Get Started

Iris Fiebiger - December 1, 2021

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...

Cycling

Plan Cycling With the City’s Youngest In Mind

Jo Helme - January 18, 2021

“If you are considering cycling as an option for your city, please consider this group,” says Alex Baum, co-author of the ‘Cycling Cities for Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers’ Report. He told us why it is important to include this neglected group and how to...

Water

How Water Companies Can Innovate Wastewater Services & Customer Engagement

Karl Dickinson - October 30, 2023

Keeping the water flowing is a complex business. Water companies can take a lot of flak if they appear to fail in their responsibilities. But, as we learn from the experiences of Northumbrian Water Group, the lengths they really go to may be underestimated,...

Car-Free

Infrastructure for Car-Free Cities: The Challenge

Lauren McAskie - January 18, 2021

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...

Guest Article

Fail Better! Lessons from Effective Climate Action

External Content - January 31, 2023

Cities have been identified as key actors for reaching adequate emissions reductions, but still fall short on the effectiveness of their actions. The City of Helsinki is no exception. But we have recently begun to pay attention to these notions by critically reviewing and...

Car-Free

CityChanger Clare Rogers: “Put the Needs of Children First. Cities That Work For Children, Work For Everyone.”

Lauren McAskie - February 16, 2021

After waking up one day and ‘smelling the petrol’, activist, mother, and neighbour Clare Rogers decided to turn her dream of child-friendly streets into a reality. From swapping her car for a tandem bike on the school run to getting politicians on board for...

Car-Free

Reducing Car Dominance in Cities: How to Get Started

Lauren McAskie - February 16, 2021

You know your city has a problem with car use but don’t know where to begin trying to fix it? Look no further! Our How to Get Started guide tells you everything you need about how to get the ball rolling to reduce cars...

Greenery

CityChanger Balin Koyunoglu: Creating Resilient Cities Through Rewilding

Karl Dickinson - March 19, 2024

Humans and wildlife have much in common. Urban sprawl deprives both of the resources, protection, and environmental stability that the natural world offers. Rewilding cities can reverse these fortunes. We explore what’s to gain from welcoming wildlife into urban spaces and how easily it...

Greenery

The Case for Green Roofs

Metka Novak - June 28, 2021

How to incorporate greenery into urban spaces? Where to put green spaces in a densely populated area? Putting them on a roof is a way to go! The benefits of green roofs are being increasingly appreciated, as rising numbers of people started valuing natural...

General

Maptionnaire: A Smart Lesson in Democratising Engagement the Fun Way

Karl Dickinson - February 21, 2023

Public participation matters. It brings democracy and diverse perspectives to city design. But it can be difficult to get right. Smart technology hands us new opportunities for engagement. Today we learn about one of the pioneering tools in this field – Maptionnaire – and...

Construction

How, When, and Where to Incorporate Participation into Urban Development

Abbie Harby - August 23, 2021

Constructing sustainable buildings in our cities is all well and good, but sometimes you’ve got to step back and look at the bigger picture: urban development. In order to create a city suitable for the present and the future, who better to consult than...

Cycling

CityChanger Heinrich Strößenreuther: Founder of Climate & Cycling Referendums

Karl Dickinson - October 10, 2022

If we seriously intend to limit global warming, we need more people like Heinrich Strößenreuther. This cycling and climate activist and serial NGO founder specialises in street-level change, and he’s using the political system to do it. The beauty of Heinrich’s methods – cycling...

Housing

CityChanger Alice Haugh: A Just Transition Towards Decarbonisation

Karl Dickinson - September 5, 2022

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 Foundation, she explores new economic models and how changing the...

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