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Construction

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

Karl Dickinson -
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...
Car-Free

Barcelona’s Superblocks: Putting People at the Centre – Literally

Michele Castrezzati -
A few weeks back, during an ECIU Challenge in Barcelona, I talked with the Office for Urban Ecology of Barcelona's municipality. They showed me the city's plan to win its war on cars. The plan is...
Car-Free

Superblocks – the Spanish Idea That Is Conquering European Cities

Tanja Polonyi -
Giving the streets back to the people: The Spanish idea of creating city blocks where cars are only allowed as guests is spreading across Europe. But what’s the story behind the superblocks, and how...
Water

The Secrets of Vancouver’s Rain City Strategy

Karl Dickinson -
Vancouver has undergone a blue-green infrastructure revolution. Its Rain City Strategy integrated nature making the city more resilient to fluctuations in rainfall. Behind it all is Melina Scholefield, a CityChanger with an impressive portfolio...
Greenery

Micro-Gardening in Dakar: Fighting Food and Climate Insecurity

Metka Novak -
In lands where proper growing soil is scarce, water supply is low, and food shortage is prevailing, cities need to resort to innovative means of obtaining the needed resources. The city of Dakar managed...
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...
Architecture & Design

Young Leader Omar Zahran: Architecture as a Tool for People-Centred Cities

Karl Dickinson -
How does so much historic architecture endure the ravages of time? It’s because the architects of yore knew how to build cities to suit their environment, and they did so to meet the needs...
Retrofitting

Lyon Confluence: How a District is Retrofitting Heritage Buildings

Karl Dickinson -
SPL Lyon Confluence is carrying out a stand-out urban renewal project in a once-deprived district of central Lyon. Project Manager Etienne Vignali describes how this offers a significantly chance to undertake a large-scale decarbonisation...
Retrofitting

How to Excite People About Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson -
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....
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...
Water

Preventing Day Zero: Lessons from Cape Town

Karl Dickinson -
Day Zero: the moment a city’s water dries up completely. For Cape Town, this deadly scenario came too close, but it was averted thanks to collective action and decisive leadership. This story serves as...
Inclusive Cities

Notable City: Tanga – Generating City-Wide Benefits by Boosting Youth Social Mobility

Karl Dickinson -
Through population growth and in-migration, cities are only going to increase in number and size. This presents a challenge: how do we ensure citizens’ needs are addressed adequately as urban environments sprawl at an...
Car-Free

From Emissions to Edens: Our Top 5 Car-Free Urban Transformations

Lauren McAskie -
Our cities have been constructed almost entirely around private cars. But what's happening now? Cities are realising that infrastructure for motor vehicles in urban areas often leaves them looking grey, industrial and not very...
Cycling

Good Things Happen to Those Who Hustle – A Story of Cycling Advocacy in the City That Never Sleeps

Tanja Polonyi -
When you think of New York, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Cycling is probably not on top of your list. It seems dangerous, especially for outsiders, but this is...
Food

Notable City Paris: The Cultivated Capital

Mariano Trevino -
The French capital’s ambitious vision for urban agriculture is in full bloom. We take a look at the city’s signature Parisculteurs programme to understand why its unique approach is receiving world-wide attention. From ‘the city...
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...
Walking

From Creating Momentum for Pedestrians to Turning It Into Policy – How Rotterdam Made It Happen

Cornelia Forsthuber -
It’s a long way from one person having an idea to a city fully implementing it on policy-level – Rotterdam’s story shows that it can be done, and how. We sat down with José...
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...
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