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Greenery & Biodiversity

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

Karl Dickinson - January 5, 2026

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...

Guest Article

DearNeighbour: Cohesive Communities As the Driving Force of a Just Green Transition

Eliza Barnea - April 30, 2024

This article was written for CityChangers.org by Eliza Barnea, Policy and Government Affairs Coordinator for IntreVecini, a Bucharest-based non-profit that empowers citizens to lead their own urban improvements. Using residents of urban condominiums as...

Greenery & Biodiversity

Creating Safer Cities: Considerations for Gendered & Nighttime Design

Karl Dickinson - August 20, 2024

If the design of urban spaces does not make us feel safe, it limits how we move around, engage with, and enjoy the city. This impacts women disproportionately, and even spaces that seem welcoming...

Greenery & Biodiversity

The CityChangers Podcast #12: The Gendered City

The CityChangers Podcast - August 22, 2024

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...

Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Lior Steinberg: A Different Kind of Human

Karl Dickinson - January 10, 2022

Why are we obsessed with success and fearful of failure? Often, it’s the unexpected trials and tribulations that provide the most valuable learning opportunities. Lior Steinberg is a rarity: with so many irons in...

Skill

Urban Planning – “It’s Not Hard Science”

Karl Dickinson - March 28, 2022

With so many interest groups all wanting representation in the decisions that form our living cities, it isn’t easy getting it right. There will be those who are unrepresented, those involved but who do...

Architecture & Design

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

Karl Dickinson - September 29, 2025

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...

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