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Urban Manufacturing

The Case for Urban Manufacturing

Cornelia Forsthuber - February 11, 2025

With cities growing and due to skyrocketing demand for housing, vast areas of industrial land have been rezoned. So, what is still being produced in cities? And why does it matter? Here’s why cities...

Food Waste

The Case for Reducing Food Waste

Mariano Trevino - August 27, 2024

Waste not, want not – why not? Changing the way we manage food waste is an important step toward improving the global food system and making the cities we live in more sustainable. A...

Farm to Fork

The Case for Changing The Way We Eat

Mariano Trevino - August 27, 2024

Will humans stomach a different diet to create a more sustainable future? And what can cities do to alter our eating habits? We take a look at the meat and potatoes of changing what...

Urban Farming

The Case for Urban Agriculture

Mariano Trevino - August 27, 2024

Can growing food in urban environments help to nourish an increasingly hungry world without sacrificing the planet in the process? As more and more of us discover the joys of a green thumb, we...

Food

The Case for Sustainable Food Systems

Karl Dickinson - August 27, 2024

Food is a funny, fickle friend... or is that foe? While we all need it, the industries concerned with producing, packing, distributing, and clearing up after foodstuff can make this dependency majorly problematic - for...

Car-Free

The Case for Car-Free – Why Should We Care About Our Car-Dependency?

Tanja Polonyi - March 23, 2021

Cars have been part of our cities and our lives for decades now. They’re comfortable, they can take us almost everywhere, they suit our lifestyle, and they are advertised to become more and more...

Walking

Building Better Neighbourhoods: The Benefits of Walkable Cities

Karl Dickinson - April 27, 2021

All of us are pedestrians. We’re born with all we need – legs – to participate and use them throughout our lives without even thinking. Walking makes our lives more convenient, enjoyable, affluent, and...

Water

Case For Urban Water Management

Karl Dickinson - February 16, 2023

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 Case for Sustainable Construction: Why Bother?

Abbie Harby - June 21, 2021

We’re all besotted with buildings. So much so that the average person spends 90% of their lifetime indoors. Buildings make our lives more comfortable and convenient; imagining a world without them is near-on impossible....

Retrofitting

Be Happy With What You’ve Got: The Case for Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson - June 14, 2021

What would your dream home look like? Some people will be lucky enough to build fanciful follies from scratch. The rest of us get to pick the choice cuts from pre-existing stock; but older...

Greenery

A Little Bit of Green Among the Grey: The Case for Greenery

Metka Novak - July 8, 2021

The United Nations’ article 'Cities and Pollution' states that cities use up 78% of the world’s energy and produce more than 60% of greenhouse gas emissions, all while covering less than 2% of our...

Migration

Why is the Integration of Migrants Important in European Cities?

Karl Dickinson - December 6, 2023

The recent research conducted in response to JPI Urban Europe’s Urban Migration call offers a greater understanding of what the arrival of new populations means for the functioning of European cities, and what forces...

FWE Nexus

The Case for the Food-Water-Energy Nexus: How Cities Benefit

Metka Novak - October 25, 2022

It’s about synergy of sectors – not competition – for sustainable use of given resources. We’re talking about the FWE nexus. Food, Water, and Energy “are highly interconnected: water is required for almost all...

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