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Greenery & Biodiversity

CityChanger Emma Cutting: Improving Neighbourhoods with Street Gardening

Karl Dickinson -
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...
Food Systems

CityChanger Betina Bergmann Madsen: Good Food and the Power of Procurement

Mariano Trevino -
From lab-grown meat to farming underground, there are plenty of bold new ideas promising to revolutionise our food system. But what can we do today? The city of Copenhagen is leading the way in...
Editorial

CityChanger “Dog Poo Darren” Clark: Finding Meaning in Dirty Jobs

Karl Dickinson -
Environmental health officer “Dog Poo Daren” Clark found purpose in a job no one else wanted to do. He ended up improving public spaces nationwide. About a quarter of a century ago, a story emerged...
Inclusive Cities

4 Days 4 Lines: Improving Equitable Access to Public Transit

Karl Dickinson -
Omer Juma’s organisation 4 Lines 4 Days assesses the accessibility of metro stations. Findings in Montreal surprised city leaders, who have since commissioned improvements. Between 1984 and 2014, a succession of law changes related to...
Car-Free

Od-Nowa: How Łódź is Creating Its First School Street

Karl Dickinson -
Karolina Taczalska was appalled by the density of traffic outside her son’s school, so she and Mateusz Cyganek started a project that aims to make the street child friendly by implementing small but effective...
City Logistics

How to Consolidate for Last Mile – Learnings from a Small Dutch City

Sarah Konrad -
"Everybody was complaining, but nobody was working on a solution." As former Inner-City Manager of the City of Nijmegen, Birgit Hendriks was never planning to get into logistics. And yet, that is what she...
Architecture & Design

CityChanger Deborah Saunt: Decent City-making with Social Value

Karl Dickinson -
Co-founder of DSDHA, Deborah Saunt, explains how social value optimises the investment in public spaces, and why redevelopment projects are improved by random conversations. When Deborah Saunt was asked to design a landmark building for...
Car-Free

CityChanger Jason Roberts: A Coral Reef of Community

Tanja Polonyi -
Every neighbourhood has the potential to become a wonderful place to live - a city block with vibrant streets, romantic lights, bookstores and cafés! In a lot of communities, this potential is simply too...
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Jacob Hartmann – Getting Citizens to Do the Job | CityChangers in Conversation

Metka Novak -
Jacob Hartmann, Senior Advisor at Sharing Copenhagen, talks about getting started, building trust, and getting the youth on board.
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...
Cycling

CityChanger Heinrich Strößenreuther: Founder of Climate & Cycling Referendums

Karl Dickinson -
If we seriously intend to limit global warming, we need more people like Heinrich Strößenreuther. This cycling and climate activist and serial NGO founder specialises in street-level change, and he’s using the political system...
Walking

CityChanger Eugene Quinn: Opening a Dialogue Through Walking Tours

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr -
Eugene Quinn is a man of many professions: he’s an urbanist and a DJ, a fantastic storyteller, a creative mind, and above all, a passionate walker. Eugene created more than 60 walking tours in...
Skill

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...
Retrofitting

Community Sociologist Jeni Cross: Building Better Retrofitting Behaviours

Karl Dickinson -
A toxic mix of bad habits and infrastructure that prevents change is holding sustainability back. This is as true for retrofitting as anything. Community sociologist Doctor Jeni Cross has dedicated 20 years to researching...
Podcast

The CityChangers Podcast #4: Orange Sky

The CityChangers Podcast -
Turning big ideas into reality is what CityChangers do. But what happens when, against the odds, you finally achieve your goal? What next? Nicholas Marchesi, of charity Orange Sky, launched the world’s first mobile laundry, helping...
Skill

CityChanger Miriam Staley: Presenting Masterclass

Karl Dickinson -
CityChangers have the know-how, stress-tested projects, and innovative policy ideas worth shouting about, but it takes more than being an expert to influence our peers. Captivating presentations take practice – and it’s a different...
Architecture & Design

Creating Safer Cities: Considerations for Gendered & Nighttime Design

Karl Dickinson -
If the design of urban spaces does not make us feel safe, it limits how we move around, engage with, and enjoy the city. This impacts women disproportionately, and even spaces that seem welcoming...
Greenery & Biodiversity

CityChanger Hanah Lahe: Healing Political Divides to Unite Citizens in Climate Action

Karl Dickinson -
In ageing societies like Europe, young people have little of the political power needed to influence decisions that impact their lives. As a group for whom sustainability is a prominent concern, futureproofing cities relies...
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