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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...
Greenery

Via Verde: How Mexico City’s Biggest Highway Became Its Green Lungs

Karl Dickinson -
In response to the collective demands of 100,000 people, Via Verde has transformed Mexico City’s two-story highway from symbol of bad decision-making to a green space that supports citizens’ wellbeing. The greater metro area of...
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....
Retrofitting

Notable City: Decarbonising Vienna

Karl Dickinson -
Vienna is a pragmatic city, bursting with exuberance, diversity, and political action. In terms of decarbonising, it’s a place where people are making definite, positive urban change at the street and policy levels. We...
Retrofitting

Lessons from Edinburgh’s Retrofit Programme, Which Runs Hot & Cold

Karl Dickinson -
Inefficient building envelopes are huge carbon emitters. Retrofitting promises results but the time left to attain climate targets is narrowing. This calls for urgent, scaled-up action. With an abundance of social housing, city authorities...
Car-Free

#17: Heart & Seoul

The CityChangers Podcast -
How did Seoul turn a backed-up expressway into a tranquil urban stream? We take a look at the landmark Cheonggyecheon River Restoration project and ask why, almost 20 year later, this peaceful pocket in...
Energy

Notable City London: The Transition to Community Energy

Karl Dickinson -
Widescale social housing retrofit projects led by local authorities are not uncommon. Yet many energy refits still tend to focus on changes at the microscale – in single buildings. Does it have to be...
Farm to Fork

Utilising Untapped Space: Food Security with Rotterdam’s Floating Farm

Karl Dickinson -
Space in cities is limited. Urban farming signals better times for food security but if there’s a future in it, we need to find ways to make it fit around existing land uses. When...
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...
Food Waste

From the Linear to the Circular: How Guelph-Wellington is Closing the Circle on Food Waste

Mariano Trevino -
What would it take to create the first truly circular food economy? In Southwestern Ontario, Canada, the small city of Guelph and the surrounding county of Wellington have set themselves the goal of finding...
Food Systems

Notable City Haarlem: Advertising a Better Food Future

Mariano Trevino -
In 2021, the city of Haarlem, in the Netherlands, submitted a draft to became the first city in the world to ban meat advertising in public spaces. The move was a lightning rod for...
Urban Farming

Back to the Farms of the Future: A Viennese Vision for Urban Agriculture

Mariano Trevino -
What will the farms of the future look like in an increasingly urbanised world? We take a trip to the Zukunftshof, a pioneering initiative in Austria that wants to model a more sustainable approach...
Urban Farming

The Grounded Community: East New York Farms!

Mariano Trevino -
From farming fish in high-tech warehouses to growing mushrooms under city streets, interest in urban agriculture is well and truly coming into season. But producing food in urban areas is nothing new, and there’s...
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...
Architecture & Design

d-Lab: Reviving Social Infrastructure via Architectural Design

Karl Dickinson -
Preserving historic architecture seems at odds with renovating buildings to meet modern sustainability standards. One Spanish university, however, is bridging these two worlds – by reviving traditional construction methods. It just so happens that...
Circularity

Waste to Resources: Tampere’s Triumphs With Trash and Trade

Abbie Harby -
The importance of good waste management is no secret, but how to do it can sometimes allude us. This is where the city of Tampere comes in. So, if you’re lacking innovative ideas and...
Circularity

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...
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...
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