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Architecture & Design

Young Leader Luisina Perassi: Enabler of Child-Inclusive Urban Design

Karl Dickinson - January 7, 2025

Understanding children’s experiences of cities exposes new opportunities for inclusive design. The trick is knowing how to properly engage them. Gold Coast transport planner Luisina Perassi has made it easy – even collating a...

Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Sophie Mirpourian: Creative Ways to Listen

Karl Dickinson - February 7, 2023

Being heard makes us feel valued and identifies priorities for change, but municipalities struggle to do it well. CityChanger and creative Sophie Mirpourian tells us how her idea to use a portable townhall -...

Inclusive Cities

En Route to Changing the Conversation: How to Make Citizen Engagement Work

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr - April 29, 2021

How can you make authentic citizen participation work? Warren Logan, Policy Director of Mobility and Interagency Relations in the city of Oakland, has made a name for himself by not just superficially asking for...

Inclusive Cities

Eurotowns: Big Enough to Cope, Small Enough to Care

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr - September 28, 2021

If you think that only big cities can substantially contribute to sustainability efforts, you couldn’t be further from the truth. A network of small- and medium-sized European cities shows you exactly what can be...

Inclusive Cities

Maptionnaire: A Smart Lesson in Democratising Engagement the Fun Way

Karl Dickinson - February 21, 2023

Public participation matters. It brings democracy and diverse perspectives to city design. But it can be difficult to get right. Smart technology hands us new opportunities for engagement. Today we learn about one of...

Skill

CityChanger Luca Ballarini: Empowering People Through City Imaging

Karl Dickinson - September 26, 2022

When Luca Ballarini came up with the idea of ‘city imaging’, he didn’t yet know the impact it could have. Within less than a decade, the concept has become a powerful tool that anyone...

Construction

How, When, and Where to Incorporate Participation into Urban Development

Abbie Harby - August 23, 2021

Constructing sustainable buildings in our cities is all well and good, but sometimes you’ve got to step back and look at the bigger picture: urban development. In order to create a city suitable for...

Inclusive Cities

Urban Design Lessons We Must Learn from Communities in the Global South

Karl Dickinson - May 21, 2024

Implementing spatial changes that benefit citizens isn’t a straightforward process. In many cities, there’s not a process for it at all! Or is there? The case of Muscat, in Oman, shows us that it...

Editorial

How Cities Can Shift Power to the Youth

Michael Shank - July 4, 2024

This article was written for CityChangers.org by Dr. Michael Shank, adjunct faculty at New York University and George Mason University. In it, he argues that cities stuck in the business-as-usual rut can hand the...

Young Leaders

Young Leader Eva de Bruijn: How Eindhoven’s ‘Idealists’ Are Saving City Politics

Karl Dickinson - July 24, 2023

Politics is one realm that can open a lot of doors to sustainability in our cities. But whether it’s because they are disillusioned, disinterested, or feel excluded, many people do not use their voices...

Housing

Guarantee It: The Right to Adequate Housing

Iris Fiebiger - September 22, 2021

Access to adequate housing is a human right. And yet, we are still struggling to accommodate everyone in our cities. To understand why – and ultimately resolve this issue – we need to take...

Construction

CityChanger Eugen Antalovsky: Participation, Inclusion, and Urban Development in Vienna

Abbie Harby - August 23, 2021

With an interest in architecture, cities, mobility, and society, it seemed like a natural step for Eugen Antalovsky to specialise in urban development, and for the last three and a half decades he’s been...

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