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A Contributor’s Guide to CityChangers.org

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr -
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...
Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Safaa Charafi: Creating Fair & Sustainable Cities with Intersectionality

Karl Dickinson -
Cities aren’t inclusive. It’s evident in how they’re laid out, the policies that govern us, and the mindsets of inhabitants. There’s a way to change this. Mainstreaming gender and intersectionality results in more inclusive,...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Giving Łódź’s Abandoned Industrial Land New Life: Urban Future Podcast #3 – Fuzja

What's That Green -
How did Łódź, Poland, turns eight hectares of abandoned factory land into a green, multifunctional, and inclusive neighbourhood? In this episode of the What’s That Green? podcast, recorded LIVE at the Urban Future conference,...
Architecture & Design

Graphic Rewilding: Plugging Urban Nature Deficits with Large-scale Art

Karl Dickinson -
Humans crave connection with nature that cities disconnect us from. Graphic Rewilding proves that art is a viable alternative, or even enhancer of, ecological spaces. Sides of buildings in cities around the world have been...
Architecture & Design

Bins of Congleton: Finding the Fun in “Basic” Urban Infrastructure

Karl Dickinson -
Social media sensation Bins of Congleton uses humour to generate a new appreciation for local waste infrastructure, also encouraging people to keep the town litter-free. A short distance from Manchester, UK, lies the small market...
Circularity

What is a Lending Library? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson -
A Lending Library allows citizens to borrow… well, anything. It’s emerging as an increasingly popular cost-saving, community-boosting, emission-reducing stalwart of the sharing economy. Could there be a greater neighbourly gesture than sharing your possessions? Lending someone...
Skill

Young Leader Fruzsina Nagy: How To Create Change Like A Sustainability Consultant

Karl Dickinson -
A new breed of professionals is using their hotly sought after skills to bring about social and environmental impact. Impact-oriented values are fast becoming the deciding factor in career choices, over more traditional drivers...
Skill

Living Heritage: Using Traditional Knowledge to Reach Sustainability Targets

Karl Dickinson -
Using transition design to utilise the knowledge of living heritage provides cost-effective opportunities to reach sustainability targets. If only we can learn to communicate it effectively. Communication is the lynchpin to change. Fail to express...
Research

The Scale of Endeavour: Where Do CityChangers Make an Impact?

Karl Dickinson -
Urbanism is not uniform. Understanding how CityChangers work at various scales is fundamental to forming communities that pull together to advance change that benefits everyone. At what scale does an urban change-maker work? Knowing the answer...
Climate Adaptation

Why Community Gardens Need Co-Creation: Urban Future Podcast #2 – Pelgu, Tallinn

What's That Green -
How can a municipality encourage local residents to lead their own community garden project? In this second episode of the What’s That Green? podcast to be recorded LIVE at the Urban Future conference, Fanny...
Car-Free

What is the 15-Minute City? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson -
Having everything we need a stone’s throw from our front door would surely make life much easier. But the 15-minute city isn’t just about proximity. Imagine an elderly person unsteady on their feet. If that’s...
Greenery & Biodiversity

The Psychological Effects of Greenery on Modern City Dwellers

Metka Novak -
We may be modern individuals living in civilized cities, but we are still creatures of nature at heart. So, how does greenery play a part in our mental well-being? Why do we seem to...
Housing

Coliving – Saving, Sharing, Caring

Tanja Polonyi -
Living in one apartment with 10 others – for some a nightmare but for many the perfect alternative living model in times of a housing affordability crisis, mass urbanisation, and increasing loneliness. This article...
FWE Nexus

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

Metka Novak -
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...
FWE Nexus

Challenges of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

Metka Novak -
While the food-water-energy nexus offers great advantages on one hand, on the other it’s important to keep in mind this system is not yet widely acknowledged, so it naturally comes with some hurdles. Read...
Migration

Exactly What Is Urban Migration?

Karl Dickinson -
For two years from January 2021, eight research projects supported by JPI Urban Europe’s Urban Migration call looked into the state of migration in the context of Europe’s cities: who it involves, what their...
Migration

Why is the Integration of Migrants Important in European Cities?

Karl Dickinson -
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...
Migration

The Challenges of Urban Migration in European Cities

Karl Dickinson -
Migration is a complex and divisive topic. Multiple political, economic, social, even environmental factors contribute to the discourse – not to mention a minefield of misinformation. For better or worse, these influences affect migrants’...
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