What to search?

TAG

businesses

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...
General

A Contributor’s Guide to CityChangers.org

Cornelia Forsthuber -
Ready to hit the keys and share your story? Believe us, we’re just as excited as you are! Here’s a little guide on how to structure your knowledge and the story you’re telling, to...
Guest Article

DearNeighbour: Cohesive Communities As the Driving Force of a Just Green Transition

Eliza Barnea -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Eliza Barnea, Policy and Government Affairs Coordinator for IntreVecini, a Bucharest-based non-profit that empowers citizens to lead their own urban improvements. Using residents of urban condominiums as...
Retrofitting

Green Finance Institute: Accelerating Retrofits Through Investment

Urban Future -
Retrofitting Europe’s built environment would drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and position us closer to climate goals. It’s a tantalisingly tangible but costly outlook, and progress is slow. To change this, the Green Finance...
Construction

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

Urban Future -
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...
Podcast

#9 Honest Mistakes

The CityChangers Podcast -
Why do we fear failure? Sustainability is an iterative process. There are no shortcuts. But in a world focussed on success, we often hide from our mistakes. Recognising this, Gerald Babel-Sutter set out to unite urban...
Car-Free

Train Drain: Why We Shouldn’t (Always) Travel Sustainably

Karl Dickinson -
Sustainability needs a warning label. The somewhat tongue in cheek Godwin’s law suggests that in any online discussion going on long enough, someone will make a comparison with the Nazis. In a similar way, it...
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...
Food

CityChanger Ronni Kahn: Don’t Waste Food – Use It Up!

Karl Dickinson -
While people go hungry, there’s no justification for food waste – itself a massive contributor to destructive climate change emissions. What began as a one-woman mission to redistribute unwanted food has become a global...
Climate Adaptation

CityChanger Katharina Schätz: How Positive Energy & Fighting Fear Enable Change-Making

Karl Dickinson -
In the world of sustainability, there’s an assumption that we all want the same change. Even for those of us who share this mindset, behaviours often don’t match, which can stall positive transitions. Katharina...
Water

How Water Companies Can Innovate Wastewater Services & Customer Engagement

Karl Dickinson -
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...
Cycling

From Enemy to Ally? How to Share Bike-Lanes With E-Scooters

Tanja Polonyi -
They endanger pedestrians, they are annoying, and people throw them away like garbage: E-scooters. Many citizens, especially pedestrians and cyclists, do not care for them. But let’s be clear: the potential of e-scooters is...
Editorial

From Nero to Zero – The Unspoken Exclusion of Smartphones

Karl Dickinson -
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. During a recent trip, my enquiry into departure times for the shuttle bus connecting sites of Pompeii was met with a bark of, “Check the...
Editorial

Hypocritesmas: The Seasonal Scourge of Light Pollution

Karl Dickinson -
Oh joy! It’s that time of year again. For what feels like months already we’ve been wading through the drawn-out build-up to Christmas. Shops are once again subjecting their staff to the saccharin mental torture of...
City Logistics

Mobility As a Service: Why and How?

Rita Prior Filipe -
This article was written for CityChangers.com by Rita Prior Filipe, a PhD student at the Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Bath, UK. Rita is currently researching the...
Water

Case For Urban Water Management

Karl Dickinson -
The more we build, the more we disrupt natural water systems, calling into question whether we’ll have enough to sustain growing city populations. Prioritising water management and blue infrastructure will enable urban environments to...
Construction

The Challenges of Sustainable Construction

Abbie Harby -
Encouraging people to change the way they’ve always done things is never going to be easy. While calls to construct buildings more sustainably may be met with scoffs and points to the price tag,...
Construction

Sustainable Construction: Facts & Figures

Abbie Harby -
It’s always important to know your stuff and be able to back it up with solid data. That’s why we’ve collated all the essential facts and figures on sustainable construction that you CityChangers might...
1234Page 1 of 4

Follow us on

Sign up to our Newsletter

UFGC GmbH

Grillparzerstraße 26
8010 Graz / Austria

Firmenbuchnummer: FN 445350b
UID Nummer: ATU70187068


Imprint   |   Privacy Policy    |    Terms

About us

CityChangers.org

Home Base for Urban Shapers.
Created by Urban Future.

Read our Story

Be part of it!

Imprint   |   Privacy Policy    |    Terms