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Creating Safer Cities: Considerations for Gendered & Nighttime Design

Karl Dickinson - August 20, 2024

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...

Car-Free

CityChanger Katja Diehl: The Car Mobility Privilege and Why We Need to Restore City Justice

Lauren McAskie - February 4, 2021

Human-centric mobility advocate Katja Diehl shared with us some of her insights into the car-free movement, the story behind her business and podcast ‘She Drives Mobility’, and her personal motivations for activism. Katja focuses...

Cycling

How to Seal (and Heal) the Gender Cycling Gap

Jo Helme - January 18, 2021

The cyclist, geared up and lycra laden, darts through rush hour traffic. Tucks behind trucks and weaves past weary commuters. Races the lights with the ease of the breeze. Pulls straight into the workplace...

Inclusive Cities

Gendered Issues in Urban Migration & Integration in European Cities

Karl Dickinson - January 10, 2024

It’s a fact! Cities are designed by men for men. This skews power relations in the built environment and the systems that govern them, curtailing women’s social and economic mobility. Added to this, intersectional...

Cycling

Isabell Eberlein – the Cycling Activist Steering Germany’s Car Culture in a New Direction

Jo Helme - April 12, 2021

To tailor BMW’s catchphrase, Isabell Eberlein is the ultimate cycling machine. Her track-record of cycling advocacy is staggering – from Berlin’s bicycle referendum, to cycle rides against the patriarchy, to making businesses bike-friendly. She...

Inclusive Cities

Vienna Calling: A Story of Gender Equality, Funding Structures, and School Streets

Cornelia Forsthuber - February 14, 2022

For the 10th consecutive time, Vienna was named the world's most liveable city in the Mercer Rankings of 2020. But does that also mean that the city is particularly pedestrian-friendly? We talked to Petra...

Car-Free

How to Build a City for Women – and Why Cars Take a “Back Seat” in Feminist Urban Planning

Lauren McAskie - January 15, 2021

Have our cities really been built with gender bias in their design? How did this happen, what does a "feminist" city really look like, and how can a female perspective in urban planning be...

Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Safaa Charafi: Creating Fair & Sustainable Cities with Intersectionality

Karl Dickinson - May 23, 2023

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,...

Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Kalpana Viswanath: Technology for Safety – How an App Is Giving Women a Sense of Security

Tanja Polonyi - April 14, 2021

There is one thing women all over the world have in common – fear. Fear of harassment and violence as soon as they enter public spaces. How to conquer this global issue? CityChanger Kalpana...

Car-Free

Unplanned Urbanism and the Feminist City: Sharee Hochman

Karl Dickinson - April 6, 2022

What makes a CityChanger? Young Leader Sharee Hochman proves that it’s not an academic background or a position in city administration, but personal qualities like compassion coupled with good ideas and a desire to...

Inclusive Cities

Policy Recommendations & Mechanisms That Support Urban Migrant Experiences

Karl Dickinson - January 31, 2024

The challenges for migrants arriving in a new country seem endless. The more vulnerable their situation, and precarious their legal status, the deeper these problems run. Social and structural barriers and discrimination prevent newcomers...

Car-Free

CityChanger Seble Samuel: Open Streets, Women on Bikes and the Power of Art in Addis Ababa

Tanja Polonyi - April 20, 2021

When more than half of the population doesn’t own private vehicles, but the city still has no significant cycling infrastructure, change is overdue. We talked with CityChanger and Young Leader Seble Samuel, co-founder of...

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