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Greenery & Biodiversity

CityChanger Emma Cutting: Improving Neighbourhoods with Street Gardening

Karl Dickinson - March 2, 2026

Street gardening gives city-dwellers a way to reconnect with nature. In Melbourne, it is also helping Australia’s wildlife and makes people feel safer in the street. Little did Emma Cutting realise when she broke ground...

Climate Adaptation

Krater: An Untamed Oasis Built by Nature, Creativity & Socialist Commons

Karl Dickinson - February 9, 2026

Krater is a feral site reshaping Ljubljana’s ecological stewardship by embedding it in creative practices. It’s also changing the way international communities perceive invasive species. Less than a 30 minute walk from the Old Town...

Construction

CityChanger Gemma Jerome: Building with Nature in Mind

Karl Dickinson - July 4, 2022

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...

Greenery & Biodiversity

What is Urban Biodiversity? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson - August 27, 2025

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 diversity – more commonly shortened to biodiversity –...

Greenery & Biodiversity

Boosting Urban Biodiversity with Leicester’s Grassland Strategy

Karl Dickinson - August 18, 2025

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 Strategy 2023-2033, about 13.5% of all grassland in...

Greenery & Biodiversity

Urban Biodiversity and the EU Taxonomy

Metka Novak - September 13, 2021

It’s easy to forget we share our space in the city with other creatures. Either being small and almost invisible to the unobservant eye or being right there, planted in front of your front...

Greenery & Biodiversity

CityChanger Dusty Gedge: “A City Has the Responsibility to Deliver Real, Meaningful Biodiversity”

Metka Novak - June 23, 2021

A circus performer, an actor, and a birdwatcher – becoming the name in the field of green roofs certainly wasn’t on Dusty’s agenda. The current President of the European Federation of Green Roof and...

Editorial

Are Public Festivals Damaging Urban Parks?

Karl Dickinson - May 28, 2024

Because of the population density, cities are a concentration of the best and worst of everyday human behaviour. Nowhere is this more evident than at celebrations that infringe on urban parks. With the warmer weather of...

Greenery & Biodiversity

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...

Greenery & Biodiversity

CityChanger Chris Kaiser: Putting the Elephant into Entrepreneurship

Karl Dickinson - May 9, 2023

What links an elephant habitat and sustainable cities? Today we’re challenging the way we look at urban sustainability by standing at the vantage point of outwards looking in – from the forest to the...

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