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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...

Retrofitting

What Not to Do: How to Avoid Common Retrofitting Mistakes

Karl Dickinson - December 23, 2021 0

Are you keen to retrofit? That’s what we like to hear. But hold your horses! Do you know what you’re doing? We mean, really know. Being ill-prepared may result in not-so-efficient changes, wasting more...

Housing

How to Organise a Productive Debate on Housing

Iris Fiebiger - November 8, 2021 0

Debates about housing can be frustrating. People point fingers, refuse to listen, or simply aren’t interested at all. The International Social Housing Festival (ISHF) addresses this problem. Its aim: organise a productive debate on...

Construction

How to Revitalise Cities: Doughnuts in Urban Development

Abbie Harby - November 3, 2021 0

Urban development isn’t always about the brand spanking new. It’s all well and good to build new modern constructions, but it’s even more essential to give those run-down, if not abandoned areas some love...

Construction

How to Get Started with Sustainable Construction: City Authorities

Karl Dickinson - October 29, 2021 0

Sustainable construction offers us the means to create durable, desirable cities of the future; places that are socially beneficial, environmentally friendly, and economically viable. With decisive and informed policy, upskilling, and budget-setting, city authorities...

Construction

How to Get Started with Sustainable Construction: Contractors

Karl Dickinson - October 29, 2021 0

Builders, you provide one of our most basic needs: shelter. As a changing climate calls for more resilient properties, fulfilling this need requires new approaches both to retrofitting and fresh builds. Companies that adapt...

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