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How to Create a Pop-Up Car-Free Zone in Your City

Lauren McAskie -
Once every year a ‘World Car Free Day’ takes place in various big cities around the world. If your city does not yet host a car-free event, keep reading this guide on how to...
Food

Cooking Up Community: Transforming a Town Square into an Open Air Kitchen

Jeroen Beekmans -
This article is part of a paid collaboration between Urban Future and Pop Up City Amsterdam, implemented in the run-up to UF24 in Rotterdam. The featured "recipe", the Open Air Kitchen, is one of...
City Logistics

Cutting Back on Construction Traffic: How to Get Started

Mathis Hampel -
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...
City Logistics

How Two Bold Decisions Helped Stockholm Save Emissions and Money

Mathis Hampel -
Construction consolidation centres are tools for city administrations to reach emission targets through cutting back on the most polluting traffic: heavy goods vehicles. Stockholm’s Fredrik Bergman implemented Sweden’s largest CCC, the Bygglogistikcenter, which serves...
Cycling

The Missing Link: How to Make Intersections Bike-Friendly

Jo Helme -
Safe intersections are critical to any cycling city, yet are often the last link to be thought about. Here is a beginner’s overview to bike-friendly intersections, based on advice from three experts in the...
Cycling

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

Jo Helme -
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

How to Cut Back on Construction Traffic: The Challenge

Mathis Hampel -
European construction activities are predicted to grow by 3% per year. Housing, office and retail space need to be built and refurbished, roads must be repaired, resealed or dug up to renew pipes, or...
Green Buildings

Bringing Homes to Life: How to Green Your Walls

Metka Novak -
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...
Green Buildings

How to Green and Maintain Your Sustainable Roof

Metka Novak -
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...
Climate Adaptation

How to Avoid Heat Islands with Greenery

Metka Novak -
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...
Greenery & Biodiversity

How to Finance Green Roofs

Metka Novak -
Let’s be honest, greening your home is never cheap. It may pay off in the long run, but in the short run, gathering all necessary financial means may present many a challenge. There are...
Greenery & Biodiversity

How to Include Greenery in Strategic Planning

Metka Novak -
Everyone wants some sort of a green nook in their city. A place to relax, cool down and simply enjoy the fresh air. Perfectly fine, but the problem occurs when cities are too dense,...
Green Buildings

Green Is the New Black: How to Get Started

Metka Novak -
You want to start greening your city but don’t exactly know where to start or how to go about it? Well, lucky you! Below is a neat step-by-step guide to making your change-making path...
Podcast

The CityChangers Podcast #1: Rotterdam Rooftops

The CityChangers Podcast -
Facing their fair share of challenges on the ground (from housing shortages to climate change) cities like Rotterdam are looking skywards for solutions – to the rooftops. There’s plenty of opportunity but also headwinds...
Retrofitting

The Art of Persuasion: How to Involve Residents in Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson -
Why aren’t we retrofitting more? There’s an unarguable case in favour, after all. Something must be holding us back. The problem is that property owners are just not that engaged in the movement. It...
Inclusive Cities

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

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr -
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...
Car-Free

Ideas Into Actions: 7 Steps to Advocate for Car-Lite Cities

Lauren McAskie -
Ever had a desire to become an activist for reclaiming car space for people but don’t know where to begin? Ever looked to places with car-free centres like Amsterdam and Oslo and wondered how...
Car-Free

How to Get Politicians on Board With Car-Free Measures

Lauren McAskie -
Taking space away from the dominant road user — a.k.a. private cars — is a politically sensitive subject and a brave decision for any politician to make. But getting a political buy-in could be...
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