Contribute to the Urban Solutions Journal: Stories that Make Cities Better
Whether you are an urban planner, architect, designer, activist, researcher, or resident: if your story fits the criteria, this could be a great place to share it.
Seeing It Through Their Eyes: Sparking Public Interest in Urban Planning
Urban planner and communicator Lisa Vlasak shares how empathy, clarity, and creativity can make planning processes more inclusive – and spark genuine public interest.
Reclaiming Sacred Ground: How a Forgotten Churchyard Became a Public Space for Play and Belonging
A bold redesign in Wehrheim, Germany, shows how religious spaces can evolve into inclusive, intergenerational places for community life.
Why Urban Solutions Journalism?
1 million trees planted in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in just a few years. A new park in Madrid, Spain, with a natural structure to cool down the neighbourhood by up to 4°C. Participatory budgeting of up to 25 % of the city’s budget in Porto Alegre, Brazil. A 10-km-long riverfront restoration in Seoul, South Korea. […]
Addressing Environmental Justice in East Birmingham: Firs & Bromford Pocket Park
East Birmingham is a deprived area of the post-industrial city, with over 60 % of people living in the most deprived percentile. Improving living conditions and access to green space is a priority for Birmingham City Council, for example by providing four new pocket parks. However, when the Council had to declare bankruptcy just after […]
