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Migration

The Role of NGOs in Facilitating Migrant Integration in European Cities

Karl Dickinson - January 17, 2024

JPI Urban Europe put out a call for projects researching urban migration in Europe. The outcome is a current knowledge base that gives insights into how migration impacts the lives and workings of a...

Food

Cooking Up Community: Transforming a Town Square into an Open Air Kitchen

Jeroen Beekmans - July 9, 2024

This article is part of a paid collaboration between Urban Future and Pop Up City Amsterdam, implemented in the run-up to UF24 in Rotterdam. The featured "recipe", the Open Air Kitchen, is one of...

Housing

Coliving – Saving, Sharing, Caring

Tanja Polonyi - July 29, 2021

Living in one apartment with 10 others – for some a nightmare but for many the perfect alternative living model in times of a housing affordability crisis, mass urbanisation, and increasing loneliness. This article...

Retrofitting

Decarbonising Cities to Reverse Climate Change

Karl Dickinson - July 14, 2021

Cities emit seemingly endless cascades of greenhouse gasses. Carbon dioxide is the number one offender. Rectifying this is pivotal to halting global warming and preventing irreversible climate damage. But decarbonising cities at a mass...

City Logistics

Cutting Back on Construction Traffic: How to Get Started

Mathis Hampel - January 24, 2022

Construction traffic is costly, dangerous and awfully polluting. A promising tool to radically reduce traffic are construction consolidation centres (CCC) or urban logistics hubs. At CCCs, construction materials are stored, traffic in and out...

Construction

A Just Transition: Raising Workers’ Rights in the Built Environment’s Transformation

Karl Dickinson - June 27, 2023

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...

City Logistics

How Two Bold Decisions Helped Stockholm Save Emissions and Money

Mathis Hampel - January 26, 2021

Construction consolidation centres are tools for city administrations to reach emission targets through cutting back on the most polluting traffic: heavy goods vehicles. Stockholm’s Fredrik Bergman implemented Sweden’s largest CCC, the Bygglogistikcenter, which serves...

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