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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...
Car-Free

Od-Nowa: How Łódź is Creating Its First School Street

Karl Dickinson -
Karolina Taczalska was appalled by the density of traffic outside her son’s school, so she and Mateusz Cyganek started a project that aims to make the street child friendly by implementing small but effective...
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...
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...
Climate Adaptation

Water/Cooler Moments in the Age of Extreme Heat

Karl Dickinson -
As heatwaves become more frequent, we grow reliant on cities taking measures to provide relief. From fountains to pools to games, there are plenty of ways water offers comfort from rising temperatures. There is...
Circularity

Pioneering Sustainable Solar Panels: Amsterdam’s Move Towards Circularity

Tabita Slimmens and Lukas Sloet -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Lukas Sloet, Policy Officer for Solar Energy, and Tabita Slimmens, Communications Specialist in Sustainability, both working for the City of Amsterdam. They explore the often-overlooked harmful implications...
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...
Inclusive Cities

Kids’ Court: How Children & Traffic Police Are Making School Streets Safer

Karl Dickinson -
When drivers don’t observe – or know! – traffic laws, people can get hurt. A quirky idea expanding through Africa is making streets safer by educating motor users about courteous driving. It’s called the...
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...
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

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...
Circularity

How Urban Manufacturing Can Contribute to a Circular Economy

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr -
Increasingly, cities have become aware of the fact that the current linear use of resources (taking raw materials from the environment, making products from them, and eventually throwing them away as waste) is no...
Circularity

Revitalising Inner City Districts: Brussels’ Many Faces of Circularity

Karl Dickinson -
Economic hardship drives many struggling city centres to relent and force manufacturing and commerce to give way to residential developments. But some cities are resisting. The historic Abattoir site in Brussels is proof of...
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...
Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Sophie Mirpourian: Creative Ways to Listen

Karl Dickinson -
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 -...
Circularity

CityChanger Sepp Eisenriegler: Eliminating Planned Obsolescence

Karl Dickinson -
Spend less and save the environment: these are the benefits of repairing durable household electrical appliances over buying cheap replacements every few years. The fact we even can give products a second lease of...
Inclusive Cities

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

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr -
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 -
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...
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