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City Centres

Notable City Darwin: Plausible Futures for Heat Mitigation in the Tropics

Karl Dickinson - April 6, 2026

As extreme weather becomes commonplace, the Darwin Living Lab evaluates what cities in the tropics can do to stay cool enough to be liveable. Temperatures in Darwin can easily reach above 30°C all year round...

Architecture & Design

What Images Reveal About the Stories of Cities We Rarely Hear About

Gosia Grzesikowska - January 27, 2026

This article was written for CityChangers.org by Gosia Grzesikowska, an urban designer and architect at Gehl, and the founder of Urban Photo Atlas, a professional reference archive documenting everyday urban life across cities worldwide....

Smart Cities

Hefei’s Three-Ring Strategy: A Blueprint for Flood-Resilient Urban Growth

Karl Dickinson - February 16, 2026

This article is reproduced with the kind permission of Urban Solutions Journal. In it, the urban planner behind “China in 5”, Lile Mo, explains how the Chinese city of Hefei came up with sustainable...

Circularity

How Cities Can Build with Timber… Responsibly

Karl Dickinson - May 14, 2024

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...

Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Santiago Uribe Rocha: “City Changes Take Place on a Daily Basis”

Karl Dickinson - May 23, 2022

Tragedy can break us, or it can spark a fire of determination, resilience, and growth. This statement is as true for the Colombian city of Medellín as it is for the person who made...

Podcast

The CityChangers Podcast #10: The Resilient City

The CityChangers Podcast - May 23, 2024

‘Resilience’ has become something of a buzzword these days – not just in terms of a desirable personality trait but also something companies and even cities can aspire to. But what does it look...

Podcast

The CityChangers Podcast #1: Rotterdam Rooftops

The CityChangers Podcast - January 17, 2024

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...

Climate Adaptation

Underground Space: The Lesser-Known Champion of Climate Resilience

Mahak Agrawal - February 4, 2025

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...

FWE Nexus

How to Make Cities Resilient With the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr - November 1, 2022

While the case for the FWE nexus concept is relatively clear to make in a theoretical, academic context, translating it to urban reality can be a struggle. Against a backdrop of climate change, urban...

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