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Greenery & Biodiversity

Taking Root: The Tale of London’s Transient Story Garden

Karl Dickinson - January 5, 2026

London’s mobile Skip Garden was co-constructed by local communities from construction waste. Now named the Story Garden, it has finally found a permanent home. The Story Garden gives people in and around the busy King’s...

Skill

CityChanger Jaakko Blomberg: “Addicted to Creating Something New”

Metka Novak - May 5, 2022

Specialising in new community-based urban culture, placemaking, street art, and co-creation, Jaakko Blomberg believes in the power of people; in their power to change cities. And his formula? “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than...

Circularity

Revitalising Inner City Districts: Brussels’ Many Faces of Circularity

Karl Dickinson - May 2, 2023

Economic hardship drives many struggling city centres to relent and force manufacturing and commerce to give way to residential developments. But some cities are resisting. The historic Abattoir site in Brussels is proof of...

Circularity

Lyon Confluence: How a District is Retrofitting Heritage Buildings

Karl Dickinson - September 13, 2022

SPL Lyon Confluence is carrying out a stand-out urban renewal project in a once-deprived district of central Lyon. Project Manager Etienne Vignali describes how this offers a significantly chance to undertake a large-scale decarbonisation...

Housing

CityChanger Mikaela Åberg: Drottninghög’s Neighbourhood Revival

Karl Dickinson - May 16, 2022

As an urban developer, Mikaela Åberg improves lives in one of Helsingborg’s most socially deprived districts: Drottninghög. Just a month before she is due to speak at the UF22 conference, this CityChanger tells us...

Revitalising Districts

Young Leader Luis Obregon: Unlocking Urban Regeneration in Truro

Karl Dickinson - October 8, 2024

In cities struck by economic downturn and decay, we might hear the term ‘urban regeneration’ bandied round as a catalyst for improvement. But it’s about more than just throwing money at a problem. Young...

Skill

How to Engage Socially Deprived Neighbourhoods

Karl Dickinson - August 8, 2022

Stakeholder engagement can be challenging at any time but initiating open, constructive dialogue with socially deprived neighbourhoods has its own set of obstacles. Urban Designer Mikaela Åberg has a decade of experience in creating...

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