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Architecture & Design

CityChanger Deborah Saunt: Decent City-making with Social Value

Karl Dickinson - December 8, 2025

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...

Housing

Denver’s Collaboratory Model for Solving Entrenched Urban Challenges

Karl Dickinson - September 1, 2025

Non-profits in Denver have redefined the city’s understanding of chronic homelessness. Now their Collaboratory model is empowering people with lived experiences to design systemic change. Change-making can be a funny business. A lot of the...

Editorial

How an Artist Will Improve Inclusion, Environmental & Communication Strategies

Michael Shank - September 19, 2024

This article was written for CityChangers.org by Dr. Michael Shank, Director of Engagement with the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance. In it, he argues that it’s high time that creatives be brought in as a...

Architecture & Design

Young Leader Luisina Perassi: Enabler of Child-Inclusive Urban Design

Karl Dickinson - January 7, 2025

Understanding children’s experiences of cities exposes new opportunities for inclusive design. The trick is knowing how to properly engage them. Gold Coast transport planner Luisina Perassi has made it easy – even collating a...

Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Sophie Mirpourian: Creative Ways to Listen

Karl Dickinson - February 7, 2023

Being heard makes us feel valued and identifies priorities for change, but municipalities struggle to do it well. CityChanger and creative Sophie Mirpourian tells us how her idea to use a portable townhall -...

Inclusive Cities

En Route to Changing the Conversation: How to Make Citizen Engagement Work

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr - April 29, 2021

How can you make authentic citizen participation work? Warren Logan, Policy Director of Mobility and Interagency Relations in the city of Oakland, has made a name for himself by not just superficially asking for...

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