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Vienna Woman Bike Ride: A Demonstration of Solidarity

Karl Dickinson -
How can cities reduce their gender cycling gap? Organisers of the Vienna Woman Bike Ride believe it starts with improving visibility of female bikers. Every September for ten years, people on the streets of Izmir,...
Walking

Building Better Neighbourhoods: The Benefits of Walkable Cities

Karl Dickinson -
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...
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...
Climate Adaptation

Schoonschip: A Community-built Floating Neighbourhood

External content -
This article was written by Jose Rodriguez of the European Cultural Foundation, based in the Netherlands. It was originally published here on the website for the Creating Actionable Futures (CrAFt) project as part of the New...
Editorial

Why Controversy Matters: An Intro to Our Editorials

Karl Dickinson -
CityChangers.org has introduced this series of editorials as a chance for our writing team and guests to air personal opinions on the problems, solutions, and lived experiences in our urban spaces. In this first...
Revitalising Districts

The Hive: Permanent Placemaking Returns Unloved Land to the Community

Karl Dickinson -
When an alleyway became too undesirable to even walk through, play and tactical interventions helped residents address their neighbourhood’s trauma and reclaim the space. Alleyways don’t get much attention but can be a critical space...
Editorial

Urban Noise – Nuisance or Necessity?

Karl Dickinson -
Proving humans’ unparalleled capability for confounding logic, the daylight hours of 31 December in Graz were punctuated with the whizz-pop of fireworks. The magical glittery hues may have been lost to an unseasonal sunny backdrop,...
Housing

Reviving Thriving Communities Through Meanwhile Housing

Karl Dickinson -
We’re in the midst of a housing crisis: too few affordable homes for our growing population. Quick wins are usually synonymous with shoddy quality, but meanwhile housing bucks that trend. We spoke with Lorna...
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

Boosting Urban Biodiversity with Leicester’s Grassland Strategy

Karl Dickinson -
Leicester’s grassland strategy shows how diverse approaches to natural land management support biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and make cities more pleasant places to be. Since launching its Grassland Strategy 2023-2033, about 13.5% of all grassland in...
Editorial

Up in Smoke: Consequences of an Unhealthy Habit

Jeanelle Gladwish -
Inspired by an original post on LinkedIn, this article was written for CityChangers.org by Jeanelle Gladwish, founder of the first and only translation agency dedicated entirely to sustainability, sustainability translators. In it, she argues...
Retrofitting

How to Excite People About Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson -
Big cities can learn a lot from smaller communities. Dunleer, a town in the northeast of the Republic of Ireland, has managed what many larger places have struggled to do: excite people about retrofitting....
Food

Cooking Up Community: Transforming a Town Square into an Open Air Kitchen

Jeroen Beekmans -
This article is part of a paid collaboration between Urban Future and Pop Up City Amsterdam, implemented in the run-up to UF24 in Rotterdam. The featured "recipe", the Open Air Kitchen, is one 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...
Water

CityChanger Matt Stewart: Reviving River Recreation

Karl Dickinson -
Matt Stewart enjoys nothing more than taking a plunge. A native Aussie, he’s the outdoors type and in 2015 began a campaign to make Melbourne’s Yarra River swimmable again. We caught up with this...
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...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Safety in Green Areas: It’s About People

Metka Novak -
Green areas are great; they have the potential to attract a city’s residents to enjoy nature, relax, and get some much-needed fresh air. Safety, though, is a large element of that enjoyment; so how...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Bohemian Learning for Students: Sussex Roots

Metka Novak -
This group of students has decided to take matters – or shovels, to be precise – into their own hands. Students at the University of Sussex have established their own community garden, determined to...
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