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Retrofitting

How to Excite People About Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson - January 24, 2023

Big cities can learn a lot from smaller communities. Dunleer, a town in the northeast of the Republic of Ireland, has managed what many larger places have struggled to do: excite people about retrofitting....

Car-Free

Od-Nowa: How Łódź is Creating Its First School Street

Karl Dickinson - March 11, 2025

Karolina Taczalska was appalled by the density of traffic outside her son’s school, so she and Mateusz Cyganek started a project that aims to make the street child friendly by implementing small but effective...

Circularity

How Urban Manufacturing Can Contribute to a Circular Economy

Cornelia Forsthuber - February 11, 2025

Increasingly, cities have become aware of the fact that the current linear use of resources (taking raw materials from the environment, making products from them, and eventually throwing them away as waste) is no...

Urban Manufacturing

How to Establish a Curator in Your City

Karl Dickinson - February 11, 2025

A Curator has the power to unlock a city’s manufacturing potential, but how exactly can we go about getting one in place? We look at who best fits the role in your city, set...

Urban Manufacturing

Why Your City Needs a Curator

Karl Dickinson - February 11, 2025

Cities of Making advocates for establishing the role of a city Curator to change perceptions, fight urban manufacturing’s corner, and facilitate its growth. But what exactly can this champion achieve, and how can you...

Urban Manufacturing

Urban Manufacturing: Key Terms & Definitions

Iris Fiebiger - February 11, 2025

To help navigate the sometimes alien world of city-based production, we've compiled a quick-reference guide to some of the most common urban manufacturing terms and definitions used by the Cities of Making project and...

Water

Notable City: São Paulo – Water Challenges Along the Class Divide

Karl Dickinson - February 16, 2023

São Paulo is a tale of two cities. A broken relationship with water has created a litany of challenges, which hit the sprawling favelas harder than the wealthy centre. The Secretary of Urbanism is...

Young Leaders

Driving Change on a Local Level: Mathis Dippon

Iris Fiebiger - October 27, 2021

Young Leader Mathis Dippon is convinced that change is best driven on a local level. This conviction motivates him to design, plan, and constantly re-imagine events that help communities tackle current and future challenges....

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