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Green Finance Institute: Accelerating Retrofits Through Investment

Karl Dickinson -
Retrofitting Europe’s built environment would drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and position us closer to climate goals. It’s a tantalisingly tangible but costly outlook, and progress is slow. To change this, the Green Finance...
Construction

How Cities Can Build with Timber… Responsibly

Karl Dickinson -
Biobased materials can deliver buildings that are both low-carbon and fit residents’ needs: robust, resilient, and pleasant to be in. They can allow us to ‘partner’ with the natural world too, supporting the forest...
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...
Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Hanah Lahe: Healing Political Divides to Unite Citizens in Climate Action

Karl Dickinson -
In ageing societies like Europe, young people have little of the political power needed to influence decisions that impact their lives. As a group for whom sustainability is a prominent concern, futureproofing cities relies...
Car-Free

Train Drain: Why We Shouldn’t (Always) Travel Sustainably

Karl Dickinson -
Sustainability needs a warning label. The somewhat tongue in cheek Godwin’s law suggests that in any online discussion going on long enough, someone will make a comparison with the Nazis. In a similar way, it...
Car-Free

Young Leader Jamie Wylie: How to Build Prosperous Cities Through Creative Mobility Solutions

Karl Dickinson -
Sustainable urban mobility is about so much more than halting climate change. Cities are rife with societal and economic challenges; finding better ways to move offers chances to level the playing field. We spoke...
Car-Free

Fuelling the Way Forward: Is Electric Really the Way to Go?

Lauren McAskie -
The electric car revolution is already underway on a global scale. Everywhere we look we are told that electric vehicles are green vehicles. But should we really be including ‘clean vehicle’ infrastructure in future...
Car-Free

The World on Your Doorstep: The 15-Minute City and Why We Should Be Creating It

Lauren McAskie -
A 15-minute city is simply a place where all basic amenities are available within a short journey by foot or bike. But what is the idea behind it, what does it mean for reducing...
Car-Free

Recycling Highways: A New Perspective on Car-Free Cities

Lauren McAskie -
"In the 1950s we thought the car would save our cities, now we have to reverse it." We spoke to Senior Urbanist and expert city planner Paul Lecroart to find out more about what...
Car-Free

“20 Minute Neighbourhoods” With James Mant | Moments of Clarity

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Moments of Clarity is a podcast that aims to gather personal and collective insights through conversations that explore the values and beliefs that unite us. In his 29th episode, Mattew Sortino speaks with...
Car-Free

Cars Almost Killed Our Cities, But Here’s How We Can Bring Them Back | Gabe Klein | TEDxMidAtlantic

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Our cities are making us – and the planet – sick, and the problem lies in the automobile, which has taken over how we live and use space. Thankfully, new technology like autonomous vehicles...
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...
Car-Free

Reducing Car Dominance in Cities: How to Get Started

Lauren McAskie -
You know your city has a problem with car use but don’t know where to begin trying to fix it? Look no further! Our How to Get Started guide tells you everything you need...
Car-Free

Perspectives on the 15-Minute City: How to Turn a Utopia Into a Reality

Lauren McAskie -
You may have already heard of the concept of a ’15-minute city’, but what do urban planners really think about the feasibility of making cities time-scaled, is this mere design fantasy, or is this...
Architecture & Design

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

Karl Dickinson -
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...
Climate Adaptation

Daylighting Rivers: A Hidden Gem of Climate Adaptation

Karl Dickinson -
Urbanisation in the post-industrial age led to the burial of waterways to make way for buildings, roads, and public spaces. Water, though, cushions the blow of climate change, so many cities are raising channels...
Architecture & Design

Does Indigenous Architecture Hold the Secrets to Sustainable Construction?

Karl Dickinson -
Diversifying cultural representation in architecture extends a sense of belonging to communities that have long been hidden. Reanna McKay tells us how Indigenous urban design and place markers are rolling back centuries of exclusion...
Construction

Six Steps to Decarbonising Buildings

Irene Garcia and Michael Shank -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Irene Garcia, Built Environment Lead, and Michael Shank, Director of Engagement, both with the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance. In it, they outline a six-step plan – illustrated...
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