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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...

Architecture & Design

Does Indigenous Architecture Hold the Secrets to Sustainable Construction?

Karl Dickinson - January 14, 2025

Diversifying cultural representation in architecture extends a sense of belonging to communities that have long been hidden. Reanna McKay tells us how Indigenous urban design and place markers are rolling back centuries of exclusion...

Architecture & Design

Young Leader Omar Zahran: Architecture as a Tool for People-Centred Cities

Karl Dickinson - July 10, 2023

How does so much historic architecture endure the ravages of time? It’s because the architects of yore knew how to build cities to suit their environment, and they did so to meet the needs...

Architecture & Design

CityChanger Carlo Ratti: Designing Natural-Artificial Cities

Karl Dickinson - July 26, 2022

Technology and greenery will be more synergetic in cities of the future. Leading the charge for melding nature and the artificial is Professor Carlo Ratti, who is pushing the frontiers of innovation in urban...

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

CityChanger Luca Ballarini: Empowering People Through City Imaging

Karl Dickinson - September 26, 2022

When Luca Ballarini came up with the idea of ‘city imaging’, he didn’t yet know the impact it could have. Within less than a decade, the concept has become a powerful tool that anyone...

Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Santiago Uribe Rocha: “City Changes Take Place on a Daily Basis”

Karl Dickinson - May 23, 2022

Tragedy can break us, or it can spark a fire of determination, resilience, and growth. This statement is as true for the Colombian city of Medellín as it is for the person who made...

Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Jan Gehl: Creating Liveable Cities

Karl Dickinson - June 20, 2022

Renowned Danish architect Jan Gehl changed our understanding of what urban space should be. Shunning the traditional school of planning in favour of liveable cities, he pioneered the movement of designing places for people....

Editorial

Colonial Urbanism: Polycrisis Guaranteed by Design

POSSIBLE FUTURES - August 17, 2023

Cities across the Global South remain firmly in the grips of their colonisers’ “innovations”, hosting entrenched centuries-old systems and practices of abuse and exploitation that disrupt health and life across the planet. Approaches to...

Young Leaders

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

Karl Dickinson - August 21, 2023

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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