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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...
Housing

CityChanger Alice Haugh: A Just Transition Towards Decarbonisation

Karl Dickinson -
What does a city of the future look like? For Alice Haugh, it is a regenerative and inclusive built environment that supports wellbeing and equality. In her work with the global philanthropic institution, Laudes...
Car-Free

CityChanger Katja Diehl: The Car Mobility Privilege and Why We Need to Restore City Justice

Lauren McAskie -
Human-centric mobility advocate Katja Diehl shared with us some of her insights into the car-free movement, the story behind her business and podcast ‘She Drives Mobility’, and her personal motivations for activism. Katja focuses...
Retrofitting

Green Finance Institute: Accelerating Retrofits Through Investment

Urban Future -
Retrofitting Europe’s built environment would drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and position us closer to climate goals. It’s a tantalisingly tangible but costly outlook, and progress is slow. To change this, the Green Finance...
Construction

A Just Transition: Raising Workers’ Rights in the Built Environment’s Transformation

Urban Future -
As the construction and manufacturing industries undergo a transformation to new and better ways of delivering the built spaces we need, a hidden majority is often overlooked: the sector’s workers. It’s right that we...
Podcast

#9 Honest Mistakes

The CityChangers Podcast -
Why do we fear failure? Sustainability is an iterative process. There are no shortcuts. But in a world focussed on success, we often hide from our mistakes. Recognising this, Gerald Babel-Sutter set out to unite urban...
Housing

Unusual Homes from Around the Globe

Iris Fiebiger -
If you think prefab houses are revolutionary, check this out! Homes produced by an advanced soft serve ice cream machine and houses floating thanks to an ancient Greek principle – these and other unusual...
Retrofitting

How to Make Water Use More Efficient

Karl Dickinson -
Showering, cleaning, drinking, flushing, and washing clothes all use water. A lot of water! As the climate changes and populations increase, supply is struggling to keep up with demand. Making our city’s buildings more...
Car-Free

CityChanger Tim Gill: Back to the Future of Child-Friendly Car-Free Cities

Lauren McAskie -
Tim is an independent scholar, consultant and global advocate for child-friendly cities. He is passionate about making car-dominance a thing of the past and achieving a better balance between the needs of car drivers...
Climate Adaptation

CityChanger Katharina Schätz: How Positive Energy & Fighting Fear Enable Change-Making

Karl Dickinson -
In the world of sustainability, there’s an assumption that we all want the same change. Even for those of us who share this mindset, behaviours often don’t match, which can stall positive transitions. Katharina...
Water

How Water Companies Can Innovate Wastewater Services & Customer Engagement

Karl Dickinson -
Keeping the water flowing is a complex business. Water companies can take a lot of flak if they appear to fail in their responsibilities. But, as we learn from the experiences of Northumbrian Water...
Walking

Addis Ababa: Lessons in Multi-modal Transport from an African Capital

Karl Dickinson -
America and Europe are awash with cities putting multi-modal transport at the forefront of cities’ policy and design. The voice of Africa doesn’t feel so prominent, but that’s misleading: Addis Ababa’s progressive transport plans...
Cycling

Isabell Eberlein – the Cycling Activist Steering Germany’s Car Culture in a New Direction

Jo Helme -
To tailor BMW’s catchphrase, Isabell Eberlein is the ultimate cycling machine. Her track-record of cycling advocacy is staggering – from Berlin’s bicycle referendum, to cycle rides against the patriarchy, to making businesses bike-friendly. She...
Inclusive Cities

Vienna Calling: A Story of Gender Equality, Funding Structures, and School Streets

Cornelia Forsthuber -
For the 10th consecutive time, Vienna was named the world's most liveable city in the Mercer Rankings of 2020. But does that also mean that the city is particularly pedestrian-friendly? We talked to Petra...
Car-Free

How to Build a City for Women – and Why Cars Take a “Back Seat” in Feminist Urban Planning

Lauren McAskie -
Have our cities really been built with gender bias in their design? How did this happen, what does a "feminist" city really look like, and how can a female perspective in urban planning be...
Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Kalpana Viswanath: Technology for Safety – How an App Is Giving Women a Sense of Security

Tanja Polonyi -
There is one thing women all over the world have in common – fear. Fear of harassment and violence as soon as they enter public spaces. How to conquer this global issue? CityChanger Kalpana...
Car-Free

Unplanned Urbanism and the Feminist City: Sharee Hochman

Karl Dickinson -
What makes a CityChanger? Young Leader Sharee Hochman proves that it’s not an academic background or a position in city administration, but personal qualities like compassion coupled with good ideas and a desire to...
Car-Free

CityChanger Seble Samuel: Open Streets, Women on Bikes and the Power of Art in Addis Ababa

Tanja Polonyi -
When more than half of the population doesn’t own private vehicles, but the city still has no significant cycling infrastructure, change is overdue. We talked with CityChanger and Young Leader Seble Samuel, co-founder of...
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