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Retrofitting

Green Finance Institute: Accelerating Retrofits Through Investment

Karl Dickinson - February 6, 2024

Retrofitting Europe’s built environment would drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and position us closer to climate goals. It’s a tantalisingly tangible but costly outlook, and progress is slow. To change this, the Green Finance...

Construction

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...

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...

Architecture & Design

Young Leader Luisina Perassi: Enabler of Child-Inclusive Urban Design

Karl Dickinson - January 7, 2025

Understanding children’s experiences of cities exposes new opportunities for inclusive design. The trick is knowing how to properly engage them. Gold Coast transport planner Luisina Perassi has made it easy – even collating a...

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...

Climate Adaptation

Daylighting Rivers: A Hidden Gem of Climate Adaptation

Karl Dickinson - January 21, 2025

Urbanisation in the post-industrial age led to the burial of waterways to make way for buildings, roads, and public spaces. Water, though, cushions the blow of climate change, so many cities are raising channels...

Construction

Six Steps to Decarbonising Buildings

Irene Garcia and Michael Shank - June 11, 2024

This article was written for CityChangers.org by Irene Garcia, Built Environment Lead, and Michael Shank, Director of Engagement, both with the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance. In it, they outline a six-step plan – illustrated...

Housing

CityChanger Alice Haugh: A Just Transition Towards Decarbonisation

Karl Dickinson - September 5, 2022

What does a city of the future look like? For Alice Haugh, it is a regenerative and inclusive built environment that supports wellbeing and equality. In her work with the global philanthropic institution, Laudes...

Retrofitting

How to Attract Considerable Investment for Large-Scale Sustainable Initiatives

Karl Dickinson - August 6, 2024

Finance is an unavoidable puzzle piece in making cities sustainable. With scaling a priority, leveraging enough money is a challenge. Too often, if forces us to focus on a single objective, when what we...

Podcast

#9 Honest Mistakes

The CityChangers Podcast - May 9, 2024

Why do we fear failure? Sustainability is an iterative process. There are no shortcuts. But in a world focussed on success, we often hide from our mistakes. Recognising this, Gerald Babel-Sutter set out to unite urban...

Retrofitting

Lessons from Edinburgh’s Retrofit Programme, Which Runs Hot & Cold

Karl Dickinson - December 3, 2024

Inefficient building envelopes are huge carbon emitters. Retrofitting promises results but the time left to attain climate targets is narrowing. This calls for urgent, scaled-up action. With an abundance of social housing, city authorities...

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