A City Made By People Journal

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Is This The Happy Street?
The Hague
Photography, Latest
Is This The Happy Street?
The Hague
Photography, Latest

Photography helps me to connect with my surrounding, be present in the moment and meet new people along the way. Here’s my newest photo walk!

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The Hague
Photography, Latest
Exploring the streets of The Hague
The Hague
Photography, Neighbourhoods, Latest
Exploring the streets of The Hague
The Hague
Photography, Neighbourhoods, Latest

It’s just great to explore a new city through photography. Join my first street photo walk.

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The Hague
Photography, Neighbourhoods, Latest
Do you want to move to a new city?
All
Photography, Latest
Do you want to move to a new city?
All
Photography, Latest

I had that feeling a couple of months ago… After 15 years in Amsterdam, I felt it was time to change my scenery. But changing your scenery help to change your situation? Well, sometimes there’s only one way to find out.

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PERSPECTIVES

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Do you want to move to a new city?
Photography, Latest
Do you want to move to a new city?
Photography, Latest

I had that feeling a couple of months ago… After 15 years in Amsterdam, I felt it was time to change my scenery. But changing your scenery help to change your situation? Well, sometimes there’s only one way to find out.

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Photography, Latest
How to Build a Better City?
Briefing
How to Build a Better City?
Briefing

From those insights of 40+ changemakers, we’ve created a 15 page long digital guide on how to build a better city. Download it for free and be inspired!

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Briefing
Our 10 Local Heroes of 2020
Local Heroes
Our 10 Local Heroes of 2020
Local Heroes

Plentiful of great things have been happening in our cities all around the world. We would like to look back on the last year with you and present the top 10 A City Made By People Local Heroes.

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Local Heroes
Learn with Farmed Today - The Impact of Eating Local
Courses
Learn with Farmed Today - The Impact of Eating Local
Courses

Meet Farmed Today, a game-changer in the subscription box industry helping consumers buy food directly from the farmers who grew them. Follow along to discover how buying local food is far more sustainable than eating fruits and vegetables that have travelled farther than any of us did this pandemic season.

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Courses
How have friendships changed during the pandemic?
Events
How have friendships changed during the pandemic?
Events

We have drafted 7 tips on how to sustain friendships during the pandemic.

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Events
5 Tips to Support Your Local Business
5 Tips to Support Your Local Business

Cities are entering a second lockdown. As small/local businesses try to navigate this crisis, there are still a few ways we can show our support while staying safe in the city.

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Better Citizen - Explore your neighbourhood
Challenge
Better Citizen - Explore your neighbourhood
Challenge

Here are the results of the Day 1 Better Citizen Challenge - Explore your neighbourhood.

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Challenge
Perspectives From Our Cities in Lockdown
Briefing
Perspectives From Our Cities in Lockdown
Briefing

Some perspectives from our affected cities by the COVID-19 Coronavirus: Melbourne, Bucharest, Innsbruck, Amsterdam, Madrid, Lisbon, and Chicago

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Briefing
November Briefing - The Latest Positive Change In Your City?
Briefing
November Briefing - The Latest Positive Change In Your City?
Briefing

We asked our cities: what’s has been the latest positive change you’ve seen in your city? Here some great findings by Chicago, Madrid, Hongkong and Amsterdam, mainly around Architecture and Mobility.

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Briefing

FROM OUR CITIES

Bucharest
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Which local businesses need our support & how can we learn from them?
Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, Chicago
Support your local
Which local businesses need our support & how can we learn from them?
Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, Chicago
Support your local

A combined list of projects and businesses from Bucharest, Lisbon, Vienna, Chicago & Amsterdam.

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Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, Chicago
Support your local
Being A Hospitality Entrepreneur In Bucharest Lockdown
Bucharest
Being A Hospitality Entrepreneur In Bucharest Lockdown
Bucharest

Meet Alexandra Gaisteanu, a hospitality entrepreneur, sharing her challenges running a local business during the lockdown in Bucharest.

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Bucharest
Bucharest Finds Connections
Bucharest
Events
Bucharest Finds Connections
Bucharest
Events

A great recap of Bucharest Talks in February, where they talked about Connections.

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Bucharest
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Melbourne
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A Rascal approach to overcoming a pandemic through supporting local
Melbourne
A Rascal approach to overcoming a pandemic through supporting local
Melbourne

The approach from Rascal, of adjusting their business model, staying strong and overcoming the challenge faced is admirable.

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Melbourne
The Banana Peel Tagger Of Melbourne
Melbourne
The Banana Peel Tagger Of Melbourne
Melbourne

Hidden down laneways, high up on buildings, squished onto lamp-posts and road signs, you may have noticed a simple yellow banana peel street art shape scattered around Melbourne. Who and what is it?

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Melbourne

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Chicago

CHICAGO

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Which local businesses need our support & how can we learn from them?
Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, Chicago
Support your local
Which local businesses need our support & how can we learn from them?
Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, Chicago
Support your local

A combined list of projects and businesses from Bucharest, Lisbon, Vienna, Chicago & Amsterdam.

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Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, Chicago
Support your local
Deep Freeze Brings The City To its Knees - Stay Warm Chicago!
Chicago
Deep Freeze Brings The City To its Knees - Stay Warm Chicago!
Chicago

Chicago is warning all residents to stay indoors and check on elderly neighbors, since the freezing cold has hit the city.

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Chicago
December Briefing - What Are The Christmas Caring Initiatives In Your City?
Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Chicago
Briefing
December Briefing - What Are The Christmas Caring Initiatives In Your City?
Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Chicago
Briefing

What social & caring initiatives are launched in your city around Christmas? Our correspondents in Melbourne, Hong Kong and Amsterdam shared their observations.

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Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Chicago
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Paris
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Theories, Pro Tip, Day Trip
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Handmade, Cats, Love
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Hong Kong
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With F For: a New Bookazine, Hong Kong Protest Music Gets Its Own Platform
Hong Kong
With F For: a New Bookazine, Hong Kong Protest Music Gets Its Own Platform
Hong Kong

F For: highlights the importance of music for the movement in Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong
How Do You Move an Immovable Object? An interview with Mr. Giulio Quaggiotto
Hong Kong
How Do You Move an Immovable Object? An interview with Mr. Giulio Quaggiotto
Hong Kong

Interview with Giulio Quaggiotto, Head, Regional Innovation Center, United Nations Development Programme.

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Hong Kong
Sai Ying Pun in Hong Kong - The Trendy, the Dynamic and the Historic District revitalized
Hong Kong
Sai Ying Pun in Hong Kong - The Trendy, the Dynamic and the Historic District revitalized
Hong Kong

Here is what this best dynamic neighborhood has to offer for a young man spending his day in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong

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Amsterdam
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Reconnecting, a Cup of Tea and a Dream: “I formed a Band” - Olympe Bille
Reconnecting, a Cup of Tea and a Dream: “I formed a Band” - Olympe Bille

Navigating through 2020’s turbulent waters also meant taking the plunge and realising a lifelong dream. Olympe formed a band - Read the story here!

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The Empty City - Amsterdam Nightlife in Lockdown
The Empty City - Amsterdam Nightlife in Lockdown

An empty city photographed by Paul Bakker. Enjoy the series and let’s hope it will be over soon.

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Giving back this year – more than just a thought
Giving back this year – more than just a thought

It’s not just the thought that counts this year, it’s the gesture that follows too. With the most vulnerable in our communities isolated, all odds are against inclusive festivities this year and for the most able among us, it’s time to step up.

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Madrid
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Inside Nico Casal’s Studio - A Creative Escape Outside The City
Inside Nico Casal’s Studio - A Creative Escape Outside The City

Nico, his piano and multiple keyboards, moved outside the city. From a tiny apartment on a high floor of a building in crowded Madrid, to a stone little house, with a garden with huge windows. Let’s get to know more about this talented musician.

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FORMAJE - cheese activism that proves there’s hope beside this pandemic
FORMAJE - cheese activism that proves there’s hope beside this pandemic

Cheese runs through Clara’s veins, and within a short time, she’s already become the face of a new generation of cheese artisans.

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Lisbon
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Want to Fight Food Waste? Check out the Project Equal Food from Lisbon!
Lisbon
Food, Sustainability
Want to Fight Food Waste? Check out the Project Equal Food from Lisbon!
Lisbon
Food, Sustainability

Lukas and Alberto are the two founders of The Equal Food Co, fighting food waste in Lisbon.

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Food, Sustainability
Which local businesses need our support & how can we learn from them?
Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, Chicago
Support your local
Which local businesses need our support & how can we learn from them?
Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, Chicago
Support your local

A combined list of projects and businesses from Bucharest, Lisbon, Vienna, Chicago & Amsterdam.

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Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, Chicago
Support your local
A Scientific Approach From Lisbon - Immunologist Ana Barros
Lisbon
A Scientific Approach From Lisbon - Immunologist Ana Barros
Lisbon

A Q&A with immunologist Ana Barros around the Coronavirus that has captivated Lisbon and the world.

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Vienna
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Which local businesses need our support & how can we learn from them?
Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, Chicago
Support your local
Which local businesses need our support & how can we learn from them?
Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, Chicago
Support your local

A combined list of projects and businesses from Bucharest, Lisbon, Vienna, Chicago & Amsterdam.

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Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, Chicago
Support your local