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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...
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...
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...
Skill

CityChanger Alicia Johnson: A Guide to Urban Disaster Preparedness

Karl Dickinson -
A city that prepares for the worse is disrupted the least. We explore what disaster preparedness looks like and how municipalities should be planning. The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area...
Migration

The Role of NGOs in Facilitating Migrant Integration in European Cities

Karl Dickinson -
JPI Urban Europe put out a call for projects researching urban migration in Europe. The outcome is a current knowledge base that gives insights into how migration impacts the lives and workings of a...
Food Systems

Please Don’t Kale My Vibe – Piloting Edible City Solutions to Change Food Systems

Mirka Råberg -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Mirka Råberg and Olivia Fokeerah, who both work for Forum Virium Helsinki, the City of Helsinki’s innovation company, in Finland. In it, they explore how cities can...
Guest Article

All Bits Count: Making Sustainability Science and Communication Approachable and Actionable

Mahak Agrawal -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Mahak Agrawal, Steering Board Member of ITACUS and Founder of All Bits Count (ABC). In it, she argues that the most effective sustainability discourse for sparking behaviour...
Inclusive Cities

Dignity by Design: How Kitty’s Laundrette is Reviving Anfield’s High Street

Karl Dickinson -
Faced with a decimated high street, residents of an Anfield neighbourhood created a community hub, reviving much needed services, decent jobs, and social infrastructure. There’s a wall of washing machines constantly on the go at...
Greenery & Biodiversity

The Case for Green Roofs

Metka Novak -
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...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Via Verde: How Mexico City’s Biggest Highway Became Its Green Lungs

Karl Dickinson -
In response to the collective demands of 100,000 people, Via Verde has transformed Mexico City’s two-story highway from symbol of bad decision-making to a green space that supports citizens’ wellbeing. The greater metro area of...
Farm to Fork

Improving Urban Food Security with Community Supported Agriculture

Karl Dickinson -
Food security will be one of the greatest challenges that humans face in the years ahead. Urban agriculture reduces reliance on rural imports, but a bad harvest can threaten financial viability of small producers...
Food Systems

CityChanger Frank Holleman: Realistic Expectations for Sustainable Eating Habits

Karl Dickinson -
Meat may be one of the most controversial topics in sustainability discourse. It’s a major contributor to climate change emissions, for one, and vegan advocates have a hard time convincing diehard carnivores to change...
Inclusive Cities

Notable City: Tanga – Generating City-Wide Benefits by Boosting Youth Social Mobility

Karl Dickinson -
Through population growth and in-migration, cities are only going to increase in number and size. This presents a challenge: how do we ensure citizens’ needs are addressed adequately as urban environments sprawl at an...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Urban Biodiversity and the EU Taxonomy

Metka Novak -
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...
City Logistics

Cutting Back on Construction Traffic: How to Get Started

Mathis Hampel -
Construction traffic is costly, dangerous and awfully polluting. A promising tool to radically reduce traffic are construction consolidation centres (CCC) or urban logistics hubs. At CCCs, construction materials are stored, traffic in and out...
City Logistics

How Two Bold Decisions Helped Stockholm Save Emissions and Money

Mathis Hampel -
Construction consolidation centres are tools for city administrations to reach emission targets through cutting back on the most polluting traffic: heavy goods vehicles. Stockholm’s Fredrik Bergman implemented Sweden’s largest CCC, the Bygglogistikcenter, which serves...
City Logistics

Ömer Arslan – CityChanger With a Forklift

Mathis Hampel -
Ömer Arslan is Director of Operations at Bouwhub Amsterdam, Amsterdam’s first for profit construction consolidation centre. Find out how he turned a forklift on a piece of land into a fully fledged construction logistics...
Water

CityChanger Vincent Lee: Managing Water with Green Infrastructure

Karl Dickinson -
Few firms have the level of recognition that Arup enjoys. This has given Vincent Lee the chance to work on an impressive array of projects since joining the New York office in 2006. He...
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