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A Contributor’s Guide to CityChangers.org

Cornelia Forsthuber -
Ready to hit the keys and share your story? Believe us, we’re just as excited as you are! Here’s a little guide on how to structure your knowledge and the story you’re telling, to...
Inclusive Cities

Urban Design Lessons We Must Learn from Communities in the Global South

Karl Dickinson -
Implementing spatial changes that benefit citizens isn’t a straightforward process. In many cities, there’s not a process for it at all! Or is there? The case of Muscat, in Oman, shows us that it...
Podcast

#9 Honest Mistakes

The CityChangers Podcast -
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...
Inclusive Cities

Tactile Paving: Improving Accessibility Through Design

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If you ever happen to look down while walking city streets, you may have noticed that there’s a whole world of design beneath our feet. Blind and partially sighted people face barriers and dangers while...
Housing

Five Truths About Housing We Don’t Discuss

Iris Fiebiger -
In the heated discussion about housing and the housing affordability crisis, it is easy to lose track. What points should we consider when talking about housing? What do we need to raise awareness of?...
Walking

Infrastructural Changes for Pedestrians: What to Consider

Metka Novak -
Changing the infrastructure is never an easy task. A lot of thought goes into designing an efficient transport system – but does it consider all modes of transport? Learn about the most important elements...
Greenery

Useful Tools and Guides for Greening

Metka Novak -
If our articles have lit the fire for greening in you, we suggest getting even more information and details here! Find and collect all the needed knowledge, information, and guidance in this list of...
Greenery

CityChanger Balin Koyunoglu: Creating Resilient Cities Through Rewilding

Karl Dickinson -
Humans and wildlife have much in common. Urban sprawl deprives both of the resources, protection, and environmental stability that the natural world offers. Rewilding cities can reverse these fortunes. We explore what’s to gain...
Car-Free

Metamorphosis: An EU Project Where Children Are the Central Force Behind Change

Metka Novak -
When was the last time you saw children playing on the streets of your neighbourhood or heard their carefree, joyful laughter? Probably a long time ago. We seem to live in a society where...
Car-Free

Cars or Kids, Who’s King? How to Put Children Before Cars in City Planning

Lauren McAskie -
For the last century, there’s been an ongoing battle for city space between cars and children, which, for the most part, has been won by the former. Kids no longer have the right to...
Car-Free

CityChanger Tim Gill: Back to the Future of Child-Friendly Car-Free Cities

Lauren McAskie -
Tim is an independent scholar, consultant and global advocate for child-friendly cities. He is passionate about making car-dominance a thing of the past and achieving a better balance between the needs of car drivers...
Cycling

From Enemy to Ally? How to Share Bike-Lanes With E-Scooters

Tanja Polonyi -
They endanger pedestrians, they are annoying, and people throw them away like garbage: E-scooters. Many citizens, especially pedestrians and cyclists, do not care for them. But let’s be clear: the potential of e-scooters is...
Inclusive Cities

#5 The Unlikely Urban Planners

The CityChangers Podcast -
What would a city designed entirely by children look like? And what could it tell us about the cities we live in now – the good things and the bad? Academic Christina Ergler’s research into...
Inclusive Cities

Gendered Issues in Urban Migration & Integration in European Cities

Karl Dickinson -
It’s a fact! Cities are designed by men for men. This skews power relations in the built environment and the systems that govern them, curtailing women’s social and economic mobility. Added to this, intersectional...
Inclusive Cities

Vienna Calling: A Story of Gender Equality, Funding Structures, and School Streets

Cornelia Forsthuber -
For the 10th consecutive time, Vienna was named the world's most liveable city in the Mercer Rankings of 2020. But does that also mean that the city is particularly pedestrian-friendly? We talked to Petra...
Car-Free

How to Build a City for Women – and Why Cars Take a “Back Seat” in Feminist Urban Planning

Lauren McAskie -
Have our cities really been built with gender bias in their design? How did this happen, what does a "feminist" city really look like, and how can a female perspective in urban planning be...
Inclusive Cities

Policy Recommendations & Mechanisms That Support Urban Migrant Experiences

Karl Dickinson -
The challenges for migrants arriving in a new country seem endless. The more vulnerable their situation, and precarious their legal status, the deeper these problems run. Social and structural barriers and discrimination prevent newcomers...
Skill

How to Make Your Project Inclusive

Tanja Polonyi -
If change in your city is exclusive, it’s simply not good enough. Change needs to be beneficial for every single citizen in your city. As this is a complex issue and certain perspectives are...
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