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Cycling

Encouraging Cycling Tourism with Digital Storytelling

Kresimir Herceg - May 16, 2023 0

This article was written for CityChangers.com by Krešimir Herceg, an entrepreneur aiming to enhance the leisure cycling experience. In doing so, he wants to help destinations reduce CO2 emissions and overcrowding at spots of...

Retrofitting

How to Innovate Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson - April 4, 2023 0

With so many properties failing to meet contemporary energy efficiency standards, much needs to be done to save occupants from needless discomfort and expense. There are plenty of mainstream retrofit concepts, but what about...

FWE Nexus

What Is the Food-Water-Energy Nexus?

Karl Dickinson - October 25, 2022 0

Water, food, energy: in terms of creating sustainable cities, they are virtually impossible to separate. Optimising outputs for one relies on efficient resource management for all three, intrinsically locked as they are in the...

Sustainable Buildings

Sustainable Buildings Glossary: Key Terms & Technologies

Karl Dickinson - June 11, 2021 2

In case the world of sustainable buildings, planning, retrofitting, and construction is new to you, the CityChangers team has put together a quick-reference glossary to help you navigate some of the most common and...

City Logistics

Mobility As a Service: Why and How?

Rita Prior Filipe - April 4, 2022 1

This article was written for CityChangers.com by Rita Prior Filipe, a PhD student at the Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Bath, UK. Rita is currently researching the...

Food

Improving Cities Through Technology: Aude Vuilliomenet

Metka Novak - April 27, 2022 0

When it comes to transforming cities, most think of implementing green spaces, retrofitting buildings, pedestrianising streets. It makes sense, when the bigger, tangible improvements are easily perceived by the eye. But what about microcontrollers?...

Retrofitting

What Is Retrofitting? – Unlocking A Building’s Potential

Karl Dickinson - June 9, 2021 0

Ever-greener attitudes and regulations ensure new builds, that accommodate growing populations, are efficient and climate-ready. But what about the plethora of existing ones? We can’t just bulldoze them all and start again. So, how...

Construction

Notable City Skellefteå: The Sky’s the Limit… in Wood

Karl Dickinson - January 27, 2022 0

One city in Sweden has been getting a lot of attention. The 20-storey plyscraper Sara kulturhus is one example of how notable city Skellefteå is pioneering the realms of wooden construction, but there’s a...

Retrofitting

How to Make Energy Use More Efficient

Karl Dickinson - August 26, 2021 0

Using fossil fuels emits a lot of carbon dioxide. This enters the atmosphere and traps heat, warming the climate. Unless we curb our energy use, temperatures will rise beyond the 1.5 degree-maximum we’ve set...

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