The Urban Solutions Journal publishes innovative solutions from cities all over the world for urban planners, architects, governments, and anyone interested in more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient cities – from participatory budgeting and street art projects in Latin America to car-free neighbourhoods in Europe.  

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Edited by Laura Puttkamer, journalist with ten years experience reporting on how to create better cities – always focused on bringing nature into human-centric spaces 

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Book Review: Funding the Cooperative City

This free e-book presents countless examples from all over Europe to help you and your organisation to better fund civic ...

Participatory Methods: Mapping

Using mapping, you can combine the results of auto-photography and transect walks into a great visualisation of the urgent urban ...

Voices from Hamburg

In an interview, the volunteers of Hamburg's donation fence (Gabenzaun) for the homeless explain their work and also talk about ...

Subverting the City with Adbusting

A guest author introduces the practice of busting ads in order to #subvertthecity ...

Voices from Accra

Based on my own Master's dissertation, this article focuses on how to prevent evictions, using the example of the Old ...

Conference on Mapping in Berlin on December 1

An invitation to a conference on mapping in Berlin on December 1, 2017 ...