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Retrofitting

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

Karl Dickinson - June 27, 2022

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...

Cycling

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

Jo Helme - March 30, 2022

‘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...

Cycling

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

Jo Helme - February 24, 2022

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...

Cycling

How to Get People Head Over Wheels About Cycling

Jo Helme - December 30, 2021

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...

Housing

How to Organise a Productive Debate on Housing

Iris Fiebiger - November 8, 2021

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...

Cycling

How to Overcome Opposition to Cycling Initiatives – Lessons From London

Jo Helme - January 18, 2021

Cycling in London is still a new phenomenon. As the city trials cycling schemes, it repeatedly faces heated hostility. We learned from the London Cycling Campaign how to handle the heat and avoid backlash...

Walking

Stroll the City: How to Get Communities Walking

Karl Dickinson - May 3, 2021

Cities are still failing to cater for pedestrians and we’re struggling to get communities walking as a result. When it comes to implementing change, stakeholder backing greases the wheels and a coordinated bunch of...

Cycling

Cycling Posters: How to Campaign with Personality

Jo Helme - January 21, 2021

Awareness campaigns to promote cycling have been rolled out in countless cities, multiple times. Cycling campaigns have taken various angles –from letting us know how good cycling is for our health, environment, bank account...

Retrofitting

How to Make Energy Use More Efficient

Karl Dickinson - August 26, 2021

Using fossil fuels emits a lot of carbon dioxide. This enters the atmosphere and traps heat, warming the climate. Unless we curb our energy use, temperatures will rise beyond the 1.5 degree-maximum we’ve set...

Cycling

The Missing Link: How to Make Intersections Bike-Friendly

Jo Helme - March 22, 2021

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...

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