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How to Change Behaviour Around Personal Car Use: The Challenge

Lauren McAskie - August 15, 2022 0

It’s a challenge in itself to know where to begin when trying to get people out of their cars. But maybe by looking at what the obstacles to greener mobility changes are, and with...

General

How to Engage Socially Deprived Neighbourhoods

Karl Dickinson - August 8, 2022 0

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...

Retrofitting

What No One Tells You: How to Frame Messages Around Retrofits

Karl Dickinson - June 27, 2022 0

Retrofitting provides the tools to make older buildings airtight, temperate, pleasant places. It also decreases emissions and helps halt the damaging impact on the climate. There’s no disguising the fact that we need to...

General

Collaboration: How to Work Together to Change Your City

Karl Dickinson - June 7, 2022 0

Plenty of professionals and residents in your city are hungry for change, just like you. It makes sense to combine forces. Together you can achieve more, faster. But it takes a specific skill set...

Housing

Ending Youth Homelessness Through Mindset & System Shifts

Metka Novak - May 30, 2022 0

Youth homelessness is often an overlooked topic. There are public institutions helping young adults and minors in need, right? Well, sadly, that’s not always the case. We spoke with the Co-Founder of Point Source...

Greenery

How to Avoid Heat Islands with Greenery

Metka Novak - April 25, 2022 0

Have you noticed the extremely high temperatures this summer? Especially when walking around a larger city? That is because city concrete and rooftop tar contribute to temperature increase and creating what is today known...

Retrofitting

Renovating Makes Cents: How to Retrofit on a Budget

Karl Dickinson - April 11, 2022 0

Realistically, for a shot at halting climate change, we need to make buildings more efficient, big time, with widespread retrofit rollouts in the next few years! Regardless of good intentions, that’s not easy without...

Cycling

Dismounted, Discounted: How to Make Cycling Inclusive For All Abilities

Jo Helme - March 30, 2022 0

‘Cyclists Dismount’. An instruction that seems reasonable, pretty agreeable. It’s probably placed in front of a school, or in a park, or before a pedestrianised shopping street. Best not to scatter the crowd by...

Greenery

How to Green and Maintain Your Sustainable Roof

Metka Novak - March 24, 2022 0

Wouldn’t it be nice to go on your roof on a hot summer’s day, bringing a book and fresh lemonade with you, lying back in a deckchair and enjoying the sunny day – without...

Car-Free

Cars or Kids, Who’s King? How to Put Children Before Cars in City Planning

Lauren McAskie - March 16, 2022 0

For the last century, there’s been an ongoing battle for city space between cars and children, which, for the most part, has been won by the former. Kids no longer have the right to...

Energy

How to Motivate the Transition to Community Energy

Karl Dickinson - March 2, 2022 0

Community energy is an agent of decarbonisation. Transition in the sector is gaining momentum. How can we motivate people to get involved and maintain that trajectory? We asked Éva Goudouneix, Community Development Manager with...

Cycling

Rush to Hush Hour: How to Get People Cycling to Work

Jo Helme - February 24, 2022 0

From helmet hair to soaked suits, cycling to work isn’t always appealing. Here’s why paying commuters to cycle to work is misguided and how employers, employees and policymakers can all play their part. Making Cents...

City Logistics

Making City Logistics More Efficient (and Green) – How to Get Started

Sarah Konrad - February 7, 2022 0

City logistics is a complex playing field with a multitude of actors involved. Increasing efficiency and greening last-mile logistics can only be achieved if all these actors play their part, governments included. This is...

Walking

Pedestrian Policy – How to Create a Walking Strategy for Your City

Tanja Polonyi - January 31, 2022 0

Making a city pedestrian-friendly is no easy task. You need the policies to back you up, you need a strategy for your city that outlines exactly what you want to achieve and the actions...

City Logistics

Cutting Back on Construction Traffic: How to Get Started

Mathis Hampel - January 24, 2022 0

Construction traffic is costly, dangerous and awfully polluting. A promising tool to radically reduce traffic are construction consolidation centres (CCC) or urban logistics hubs. At CCCs, construction materials are stored, traffic in and out...

Car-Free

How to Create a Low Traffic Neighbourhood

Lauren McAskie - January 13, 2022 0

The idea behind Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) is a straightforward one: it means closing off local streets to private cars and through traffic. Yet this seemingly ‘simple’ change can completely transform a residential area...

Greenery

Bringing Homes to Life: How to Green Your Walls

Metka Novak - January 3, 2022 0

Greening your walls just may be easier than you think. We have gathered guidelines, recommendations, costs, benefits, and everything you need to consider in this compact, easy-to-follow guide. Whether you’re a lover of vegetation or...

Cycling

How to Get People Head Over Wheels About Cycling

Jo Helme - December 30, 2021 0

The humble bicycle may just be the cure we need for our suffocating planet, sickly air and illnesses stirred by static lifestyles. Divided into four arguments, this article hopes to illuminate why cycling cities...

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