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How to Open Urban Swimming to People with Disabilities

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This article was written for CityChangers.org by Laura Puttkamer, a writer, journalist, communications consultant, and founder of parCitypatory. In it, she explains how a lack of inclusive infrastructure is a barrier to independent recreational...
Cycling

Soft Factors to Encourage an Inclusive Culture of the Bicycle

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This article was written by Lucas Snaije, Community & Communications Manager at BYCS, an Amsterdam-based social enterprise driven by the belief that bicycles transform cities and cities transform the world. It was originally published...
Car-Free

How to Drive a Modal Shift From Private Vehicle Use to Public Transport, Walking and Cycling

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This article was written by and for the C40 Knowledge Hub, which delivers cutting-edge insights and practical resources from leading climate cities for others working in city government. It was originally published here in March 2019....
Cycling

How to Achieve a Walking and Cycling Transformation in Your City

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This article was written by and for the C40 Knowledge Hub, which delivers cutting-edge insights and practical resources from leading climate cities for others working in city government. It was originally published here in March 2019....
Architecture & Design

Smruti Jukur Johari: What if the Poor Were Part Of City Planning? | TED

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"Poverty only changes affordability not aspirations". In this thought-provoking and incredibly intelligent talk, Smruti Jukur Johari breaks down the myth about people living in slums and informal communities. She underlines the crucial necessity to...
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

Bloomberg Quicktake – Vienna’s Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All

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In many countries around the world, housing presents the single-highest household expense. Cities, in particular, are struggling to keep housing affordable. Amidst this crisis, there is one place that seems to handle the situation...
Climate Adaptation

Schoonschip: A Community-built Floating Neighbourhood

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This article was written by Jose Rodriguez of the European Cultural Foundation, based in the Netherlands. It was originally published here on the website for the Creating Actionable Futures (CrAFt) project as part of the New...
Car-Free

Is Your City for People or Cars? | Cornelia Dinca | TEDxJacksonville

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In the 21st century, we are witnessing the erosion of the “human” habitat. Too many American cities are designed in ways that instigate fear, isolation and insecurity. As an engineer and urban planner, Cornelia...
Car-Free

Cars Almost Killed Our Cities, But Here’s How We Can Bring Them Back | Gabe Klein | TEDxMidAtlantic

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Our cities are making us – and the planet – sick, and the problem lies in the automobile, which has taken over how we live and use space. Thankfully, new technology like autonomous vehicles...
City Logistics

City Logistics: Hub or No Hub?

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Walther Ploos van Amstel is lecturer for city logistics at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). The article was originally published on his website http://www.waltherploosvanamstel.nl. Countless books and articles have been written about urban distribution...
Car-Free

“20 Minute Neighbourhoods” With James Mant | Moments of Clarity

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Moments of Clarity is a podcast that aims to gather personal and collective insights through conversations that explore the values and beliefs that unite us. In his 29th episode, Mattew Sortino speaks with...
Mobility

4 Ways to Make a City More Walkable | Jeff Speck | TED

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Freedom from cars, freedom from sprawl, freedom to walk your city! City planner Jeff Speck shares his "general theory of walkability" -- four planning principles to transform sprawling cities of six-lane highways and 600-foot...
Mobility

Janette Sadik-Khan: New York’s Streets? Not so Mean Any More | TED

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In this funny and thought-provoking talk, Janette Sadik-Khan, former transportation commissioner of New York City, shares projects that have reshaped street life in the 5 boroughs, including pedestrian zones in Times Square, high-performance buses...
Cycling

How to Design Bicycle-friendly Cities | The Life-Sized City

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Here is a list of some of the key elements in designing a city for bicycles. Not a complete list, but the music track was finite so yeah. But here is some serious T4under2°...
Car-Free
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Oslo: The Journey to Car-Free | Streetfilms

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Founded in 2006, Streetfilms produces short films showing how smart transportation design and policy can result in better places to live, work and play. With currently around 600 Streetfilms being available to watch, share,...
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...
City Logistics

Mobility As a Service: Why and How?

Rita Prior Filipe -
This article was written for CityChangers.com by Rita Prior Filipe, a PhD student at the Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Bath, UK. Rita is currently researching the...
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