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Inclusive Cities

Inclusive Cities Glossary: Key Terms

Karl Dickinson - January 10, 2025

Create a more equal world is a lot of work. We not only have to build inclusive cities, but first dismantle the long-established and accepted systems that stand in our way. It can be...

Migration

Exactly What Is Urban Migration?

Karl Dickinson - December 6, 2023

For two years from January 2021, eight research projects supported by JPI Urban Europe’s Urban Migration call looked into the state of migration in the context of Europe’s cities: who it involves, what their...

Inclusive Cities

Gendered Issues in Urban Migration & Integration in European Cities

Karl Dickinson - January 10, 2024

It’s a fact! Cities are designed by men for men. This skews power relations in the built environment and the systems that govern them, curtailing women’s social and economic mobility. Added to this, intersectional...

Migration

The Role of NGOs in Facilitating Migrant Integration in European Cities

Karl Dickinson - January 17, 2024

JPI Urban Europe put out a call for projects researching urban migration in Europe. The outcome is a current knowledge base that gives insights into how migration impacts the lives and workings of a...

Migration

Tools for Cities to Facilitate Migrant Integration in European Communities

Karl Dickinson - January 24, 2024

In 2019, JPI Urban Europe established a call for research into urban migration in Europe, with the aim of understanding how it affects and is affected by the life and functioning of cities. As...

Inclusive Cities

Policy Recommendations & Mechanisms That Support Urban Migrant Experiences

Karl Dickinson - January 31, 2024

The challenges for migrants arriving in a new country seem endless. The more vulnerable their situation, and precarious their legal status, the deeper these problems run. Social and structural barriers and discrimination prevent newcomers...

Circularity

What is a Lending Library? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson - August 11, 2025

A Lending Library allows citizens to borrow… well, anything. It’s emerging as an increasingly popular cost-saving, community-boosting, emission-reducing stalwart of the sharing economy. Could there be a greater neighbourly gesture than sharing your possessions? Lending someone...

Circularity

How Sharing Libraries Give Us More of What We Need

Karl Dickinson - August 4, 2025

Borrowing may not seem an obvious action for cutting our carbon footprint, but Sharing Libraries are emerging as a popular arm of the circular economy. Like most of the world, Iceland’s population stayed indoors during...

Housing

Challenges & Solutions for Migrant Housing in European Cities

Karl Dickinson - December 13, 2023

In a hostile environment where migrants are denied access to the services and basic rights others enjoy, finding secure, quality, safe, and affordable long-term housing remains one of the biggest challenges. As where and...

Migration

The Challenges of Urban Migration in European Cities

Karl Dickinson - December 6, 2023

Migration is a complex and divisive topic. Multiple political, economic, social, even environmental factors contribute to the discourse – not to mention a minefield of misinformation. For better or worse, these influences affect migrants’...

Migration

Why is the Integration of Migrants Important in European Cities?

Karl Dickinson - December 6, 2023

The recent research conducted in response to JPI Urban Europe’s Urban Migration call offers a greater understanding of what the arrival of new populations means for the functioning of European cities, and what forces...

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