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Anni Sinnemäki – How to Play the Political Game (And Win) | CityChangers in Conversation

Metka Novak -
“It’s really nice to see that things get done, even the smaller things,” says Anni Sinnemäki, Deputy Mayor for Urban Environment in Helsinki. Listen to her advice when it comes to car-free cities, politics,...
Greenery & Biodiversity

The Challenge to Making Cities Greener

Metka Novak -
The thing about greenery is there’s more to it than just planting a bunch of trees. Peeking behind the scenes, a lot of urban planning, designing, technical research, and policy writing goes into realising...
Climate Adaptation

How to Avoid Heat Islands with Greenery

Metka Novak -
Have you noticed the extremely high temperatures this summer? Especially when walking around a larger city? That is because city concrete and rooftop tar contribute to temperature increase and creating what is today known...
Greenery & Biodiversity

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...
Urban Farming

Improving Cities Through Technology: Aude Vuilliomenet

Metka Novak -
When it comes to transforming cities, most think of implementing green spaces, retrofitting buildings, pedestrianising streets. It makes sense, when the bigger, tangible improvements are easily perceived by the eye. But what about microcontrollers?...
Greenery & Biodiversity

The Psychological Effects of Greenery on Modern City Dwellers

Metka Novak -
We may be modern individuals living in civilized cities, but we are still creatures of nature at heart. So, how does greenery play a part in our mental well-being? Why do we seem to...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Green Gentrification: Why, How & Who?

Metka Novak -
Lately, it seems ‘climate justice’, ‘eco-gentrification’, and ‘green gentrification’ are the most used terms in the realm of sustainability. Whatever the phrase, gentrification is not an easy matter for discussion. Why that is the...
Editorial

Are Public Festivals Damaging Urban Parks?

Karl Dickinson -
Because of the population density, cities are a concentration of the best and worst of everyday human behaviour. Nowhere is this more evident than at celebrations that infringe on urban parks. With the warmer weather of...
Greenery & Biodiversity

CityChanger Chris Kaiser: Putting the Elephant into Entrepreneurship

Karl Dickinson -
What links an elephant habitat and sustainable cities? Today we’re challenging the way we look at urban sustainability by standing at the vantage point of outwards looking in – from the forest to the...
Podcast

The CityChangers Podcast #16: Why Politics Needs Young People 

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Urban Future’s Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr talks to Maral Koohestanian – former Young Leader and now the youngest ever Deputy Mayor for the city of Wiesbaden, Germany – about everything from why we need more young...
Inclusive Cities

The CityChangers Podcast #8: Citizens, Assemble!

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Elected officials make decisions that affect millions of people, but beyond voting every few years, what say do citizens really have? Maybe democracy needs a tune-up. Citizens’ Assemblies – a sort of lottery promising better representation...
Inclusive Cities

The CityChangers Podcast #5: The Unlikely Urban Planners

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What would a city designed entirely by children look like? And what could it tell us about the cities we live in now – the good things and the bad? Academic Christina Ergler’s research into...
Podcast

The CityChangers Podcast #1: Rotterdam Rooftops

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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...
Inclusive Cities

The CityChangers Podcast #11: Night, Gov!

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Life goes on after the sun goes down, so why should our cities stop? With more cities around the world creating night offices and appointing night mayors – we take a look at the potential...
Mobility

The CityChangers Podcast #19: Just Streets

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We sit down with Marco te Brömmelstroet and Adrian Fratila from the Just Streets project to talk about what justice has to do with city streets, how to deal with the naysayers, and whether...
Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Safaa Charafi: Creating Fair & Sustainable Cities with Intersectionality

Karl Dickinson -
Cities aren’t inclusive. It’s evident in how they’re laid out, the policies that govern us, and the mindsets of inhabitants. There’s a way to change this. Mainstreaming gender and intersectionality results in more inclusive,...
Climate Adaptation

Underground Space: The Lesser-Known Champion of Climate Resilience

Mahak Agrawal -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Mahak Agrawal, Steering Board Member of ITACUS and Founder of All Bits Count (ABC). In it, she explores how cities around the world are looking, and ought...
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...
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