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Architecture & Design

Targeted Participation: A Toolkit for Involving Disengaged Groups

Karl Dickinson -
From targeted participation to making it fun, the Urban Minded project shows what strategies and activities really work to involve people usually excluded from engagement processes. “One of the pitfalls of citizen participation is that...
Architecture & Design

Urban Minded: Designing Cities that Support Mental Wellbeing

Karl Dickinson -
Poor city design correlates with poor mental health. Urban Minded sought to involve young women, among those worst affected, in determining how planning can support wellbeing. Even a small space can produce a lot of...
Inclusive Cities

Football Centrism: Where Schoolyard Design & Culture Gender Divisions Converge

Karl Dickinson -
Honorata Grzesikowska explains how football centrism, where schoolyards are built around sports fields, excludes girls from accessing and enjoying sport and shared spaces. Culturally revered and a money-making machine, football – or soccer – is...
Food Systems

CityChanger Betina Bergmann Madsen: Good Food and the Power of Procurement

Mariano Trevino -
From lab-grown meat to farming underground, there are plenty of bold new ideas promising to revolutionise our food system. But what can we do today? The city of Copenhagen is leading the way in...
Food Systems

Reducing Food Waste Through Packaging: An Unwrapped Opportunity?

Mariano Trevino -
How can changing the way we store and preserve our food reduce waste in the interests of a more sustainable future? And what do cities have to do with it? We unpack these questions...
Urban Farming

Back to the Farms of the Future: A Viennese Vision for Urban Agriculture

Mariano Trevino -
What will the farms of the future look like in an increasingly urbanised world? We take a trip to the Zukunftshof, a pioneering initiative in Austria that wants to model a more sustainable approach...
Food Systems

Notable City Haarlem: Advertising a Better Food Future

Mariano Trevino -
In 2021, the city of Haarlem, in the Netherlands, submitted a draft to became the first city in the world to ban meat advertising in public spaces. The move was a lightning rod for...
Food

The Case for Sustainable Food Systems

Karl Dickinson -
Food is a funny, fickle friend... or is that foe? While we all need it, the industries concerned with producing, packing, distributing, and clearing up after foodstuff can make this dependency majorly problematic - for...
Food Waste

From the Linear to the Circular: How Guelph-Wellington is Closing the Circle on Food Waste

Mariano Trevino -
What would it take to create the first truly circular food economy? In Southwestern Ontario, Canada, the small city of Guelph and the surrounding county of Wellington have set themselves the goal of finding...
Editorial

Just What is the Beef with Meat?

Karl Dickinson -
There’s a lot to be said for going vegan. That must be why they drone on about it all the time! Like other drones, don’t you wish they would just fly off? But let’s give...
Editorial

Salary Without a Job: The Dream of Supposedly Work-Shy Gen-Z

Jacqueline Maier -
Those born between 1997 and 2012 represent the first generation growing up with smartphones – and are considered by some not to be big fans of (hard) work. If true, they’d surely welcome the introduction...
Food Systems

Food Trails: A Framework to Drive Change in European Urban Food Systems

Siobhan Maderson -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Siobhan Maderson, Food Trails Research Associate at Cardiff University, Wales. In it, she explains how the Food Trails project (of which Cardiff University is a partner) has...
FWE Nexus

Making Sense of Systemic Change

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Systemic change is like a birthday present: everyone wants it, but no one is quite sure what’s inside. Or so the saying goes. The concept feels just beyond comprehension. What does it look like to change everything,...
Editorial

How an Artist Will Improve Inclusion, Environmental & Communication Strategies

Michael Shank -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Dr. Michael Shank, Director of Engagement with the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance. In it, he argues that it’s high time that creatives be brought in as a...
Farm to Fork

A Match Made in the Garden: The Platform Connecting Urban Gardeners With a Place to Grow Their Own

Mariano Trevino -
How can cities unlock more land for urban agriculture when space comes at such a premium? For London based platform AllotMe, the solution starts with looking more closely at our own backyards. As any city...
Food

CityChanger Ronni Kahn: Don’t Waste Food – Use It Up!

Karl Dickinson -
While people go hungry, there’s no justification for food waste – itself a massive contributor to destructive climate change emissions. What began as a one-woman mission to redistribute unwanted food has become a global...
Housing

Building a Better Housing Model with the European Community Land Trust Network

Karl Dickinson -
Fulfilling the need for quality, affordable, future-proofed housing is one of our cities’ biggest challenges. Marginalised and low-income populations need the current system to change the most. Community Land Trusts offer an equitable and...
Young Leaders

Young Leader Khate Torres: Using Environmental Psychology to Create Healthy Urban Spaces

Karl Dickinson -
Achieving climate and sustainability goals requires a willingness to change. Without this, the urban transformation would lack substance. We already have so much of the knowledge we need to make a significant impact, but,...

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