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Ljubljana: An Early Mover for Pedestrianisation

Laura Puttkamer -
This article is reproduced with the kind permission of Urban Solutions Journal. In it, Laura Puttkamer shares what she learnt about making transformation happen at the Urban Future conference in March 2026 and draws on...
Greenery & Biodiversity

CityChanger Emma Cutting: Improving Neighbourhoods with Street Gardening

Karl Dickinson -
Street gardening gives city-dwellers a way to reconnect with nature. In Melbourne, it is also helping Australia’s wildlife and makes people feel safer in the street. Little did Emma Cutting realise when she broke ground...
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...
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...
Architecture & Design

Dialogue & Redesign: How Business is Booming Again on Leyton’s High Streets

Karl Dickinson -
It took just months to spruce up High Road Leyton, once again filling what was a declining town centre with businesses, people, and pride. London’s atmosphere was electric. In the run-up to the 2012 summer...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Taking Root: The Tale of London’s Transient Story Garden

Karl Dickinson -
London’s mobile Skip Garden was co-constructed by local communities from construction waste. Now named the Story Garden, it has finally found a permanent home. The Story Garden gives people in and around the busy King’s...
Cycling

CityChanger Heinrich Strößenreuther: Founder of Climate & Cycling Referendums

Karl Dickinson -
If we seriously intend to limit global warming, we need more people like Heinrich Strößenreuther. This cycling and climate activist and serial NGO founder specialises in street-level change, and he’s using the political system...
Walking

CityChanger Eugene Quinn: Opening a Dialogue Through Walking Tours

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr -
Eugene Quinn is a man of many professions: he’s an urbanist and a DJ, a fantastic storyteller, a creative mind, and above all, a passionate walker. Eugene created more than 60 walking tours in...
Circularity

How Sharing Libraries Give Us More of What We Need

Karl Dickinson -
Borrowing may not seem an obvious action for cutting our carbon footprint, but Sharing Libraries are emerging as a popular arm of the circular economy. Like most of the world, Iceland’s population stayed indoors during...
Circularity

What is a Lending Library? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson -
A Lending Library allows citizens to borrow… well, anything. It’s emerging as an increasingly popular cost-saving, community-boosting, emission-reducing stalwart of the sharing economy. Could there be a greater neighbourly gesture than sharing your possessions? Lending someone...
Skill

CityChanger Katharina Schätz: How Positive Energy & Fighting Fear Enable Change-Making

Karl Dickinson -
In the world of sustainability, there’s an assumption that we all want the same change. Even for those of us who share this mindset, behaviours often don’t match, which can stall positive transitions. Katharina...
Retrofitting

Community Sociologist Jeni Cross: Building Better Retrofitting Behaviours

Karl Dickinson -
A toxic mix of bad habits and infrastructure that prevents change is holding sustainability back. This is as true for retrofitting as anything. Community sociologist Doctor Jeni Cross has dedicated 20 years to researching...
Construction

Six Steps to Decarbonising Buildings

Irene Garcia and Michael Shank -
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...
Editorial

How Cities Can Shift Power to the Youth

Michael Shank -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Dr. Michael Shank, adjunct faculty at New York University and George Mason University. In it, he argues that cities stuck in the business-as-usual rut can hand the...
Podcast

The CityChangers Podcast #4: Orange Sky

The CityChangers Podcast -
Turning big ideas into reality is what CityChangers do. But what happens when, against the odds, you finally achieve your goal? What next? Nicholas Marchesi, of charity Orange Sky, launched the world’s first mobile laundry, helping...
Skill

CityChanger Miriam Staley: Presenting Masterclass

Karl Dickinson -
CityChangers have the know-how, stress-tested projects, and innovative policy ideas worth shouting about, but it takes more than being an expert to influence our peers. Captivating presentations take practice – and it’s a different...
Climate Adaptation

Krater: An Untamed Oasis Built by Nature, Creativity & Socialist Commons

Karl Dickinson -
Krater is a feral site reshaping Ljubljana’s ecological stewardship by embedding it in creative practices. It’s also changing the way international communities perceive invasive species. Less than a 30 minute walk from the Old Town...
Architecture & Design

The CityChangers Podcast #12: The Gendered City

The CityChangers Podcast -
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...
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