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Greenery & Biodiversity

Safety in Green Areas: It’s About People

Metka Novak - January 17, 2022

Green areas are great; they have the potential to attract a city’s residents to enjoy nature, relax, and get some much-needed fresh air. Safety, though, is a large element of that enjoyment; so how...

Greenery & Biodiversity

Creating Safer Cities: Considerations for Gendered & Nighttime Design

Karl Dickinson - August 20, 2024

If the design of urban spaces does not make us feel safe, it limits how we move around, engage with, and enjoy the city. This impacts women disproportionately, and even spaces that seem welcoming...

Greenery & Biodiversity

The CityChangers Podcast #12: The Gendered City

The CityChangers Podcast - August 22, 2024

After centuries in charge, men have made a mess of our cities! Gender bias is present in almost every element of urban planning and design, from mobility networks right down to the way we build...

Podcast

The CityChangers Podcast #16: Why Politics Needs Young People

The CityChangers Podcast - January 2, 2025

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...

Car-Free

Mums for Lungs: The Campaign for School Streets Powered by Coffee

Karl Dickinson - April 1, 2025

The benefits of school streets are numerous. So too are the triggers that prompt people to set them up. For campaign group Mums for Lungs, it’s urban air pollution. We explore how their mission...

Inclusive Cities

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

Karl Dickinson - January 28, 2025

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...

Inclusive Cities

Gendered Issues in Urban Migration & Integration in European Cities

Karl Dickinson - January 10, 2024

It’s a fact! Cities are designed by men for men. This skews power relations in the built environment and the systems that govern them, curtailing women’s social and economic mobility. Added to this, intersectional...

Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Kalpana Viswanath: Technology for Safety – How an App Is Giving Women a Sense of Security

Tanja Polonyi - April 14, 2021

There is one thing women all over the world have in common – fear. Fear of harassment and violence as soon as they enter public spaces. How to conquer this global issue? CityChanger Kalpana...

Water

CityChanger Panchali Saikia: Guardian of Urban Water Governance

Karl Dickinson - June 13, 2023

Water democracy has implications for health, safety, and life opportunities. Nowhere is this more apparent than among the large informal settlements in Indian cities. This is where the work of Panchali Saikia makes a...

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