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The Secrets of Vancouver’s Rain City Strategy

Karl Dickinson - March 21, 2023

Vancouver has undergone a blue-green infrastructure revolution. Its Rain City Strategy integrated nature making the city more resilient to fluctuations in rainfall. Behind it all is Melina Scholefield, a CityChanger with an impressive portfolio...

Greenery

Improving Cities Through Technology: Aude Vuilliomenet

Metka Novak - April 27, 2022

When it comes to transforming cities, most think of implementing green spaces, retrofitting buildings, pedestrianising streets. It makes sense, when the bigger, tangible improvements are easily perceived by the eye. But what about microcontrollers?...

Water

Preventing Day Zero: Lessons from Cape Town

Karl Dickinson - February 16, 2023

Day Zero: the moment a city’s water dries up completely. For Cape Town, this deadly scenario came too close, but it was averted thanks to collective action and decisive leadership. This story serves as...

Editorial

Are Public Festivals Damaging Urban Parks?

Karl Dickinson - May 28, 2024

Because of the population density, cities are a concentration of the best and worst of everyday human behaviour. Nowhere is this more evident than at celebrations that infringe on urban parks. With the warmer weather of...

Housing

Housing: Facts & Figures

Iris Fiebiger - September 2, 2021

Why is it important to improve housing and make our homes greener, safer, more socially inclusive, affordable, and just overall better? The following facts provide answers to this question. They illustrate what impact housing has...

Water

Case For Urban Water Management

Karl Dickinson - February 16, 2023

The more we build, the more we disrupt natural water systems, calling into question whether we’ll have enough to sustain growing city populations. Prioritising water management and blue infrastructure will enable urban environments to...

Water

Water Facts & Figures

Karl Dickinson - February 16, 2023

Water impacts on everything we do, so the problems that mount from handling it poorly are many and varied. To help contextualise the importance of H20 to populous places, we bring you some of...

Greenery

CityChanger Chris Kaiser: Putting the Elephant into Entrepreneurship

Karl Dickinson - May 9, 2023

What links an elephant habitat and sustainable cities? Today we’re challenging the way we look at urban sustainability by standing at the vantage point of outwards looking in – from the forest to the...

Greenery

A Natural Walker and Nature Enthusiast: Tamar Guberman

Metka Novak - April 13, 2022

Tamar Guberman is a young Urban and Environmental Planner from Israel. Having grown up in Tel Aviv, Tamar quickly realised “there is no other city like her in my country”. It is a safe...

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