A City Made By People Journal

Welcome to the stories shared by the international network of
cities and correspondents.

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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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Photography, Latest

PERSPECTIVES

FROM OUR CITIES

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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.

Melbourne
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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?

Melbourne
Melbourne’s 100% Renewable Energy Charged Music Festival – The Future Of Events In The City
Melbourne
Melbourne’s 100% Renewable Energy Charged Music Festival – The Future Of Events In The City
Melbourne
Melbourne

CHICAGO

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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.

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.

Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Chicago
Briefing
The City of Neighborhoods, rich in Culture and Diversity - Hello Chicago
Chicago
The City of Neighborhoods, rich in Culture and Diversity - Hello Chicago
Chicago

The city of Chitown, also called best of the midwest mentality & the windy city. Captain Touly welcomes us to his hometown, Chicago.

Chicago
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Locales - Local - Locaux
Paris
Support your local
Locales - Local - Locaux
Paris
Support your local

With this short series of photos I play the local in Paris, highlighting that the influences our neighbourhoods have, in turn play a role of support and consciousness in society.

Paris
Support your local
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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.

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.

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.

Hong Kong
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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.

January Briefing - What Are The New Years Resolutions For Your City?
January Briefing - What Are The New Years Resolutions For Your City?

Here are ideas and thoughts to make Madrid, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Bucharest become better cities in 2019.

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FORMAJE - cheese activism that proves there’s hope beside this pandemic
Madrid
Support your local
FORMAJE - cheese activism that proves there’s hope beside this pandemic
Madrid
Support your local

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

Madrid
Support your local
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A Hopeful Christmas in Berlin
Berlin
A Hopeful Christmas in Berlin
Berlin

“It is our responsibility this year to bring joy and love everywhere we can, being hopeful that one day everything that we cannot enjoy this year will be brought back. Maybe the key is to carry that Christmas spirit inside of us, and spread it around. Here is my way of doing so.”

Berlin
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The story of JADE Activity Centre - Supporting and empowering elderly migrants
Helsinki
The story of JADE Activity Centre - Supporting and empowering elderly migrants
Helsinki

JADE is a meeting place that “promotes inclusion, participation, and wellbeing” of the ageing migrants by organizing weekly social, recreational, and educational activities and providing help with some of the practical obstacles that they might face living in Finland.

Helsinki
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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.

Lisbon
Food, Sustainability
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.

Lisbon
Construction of the Memory - The Jasmim Project by Simone Matos
Lisbon
Construction of the Memory - The Jasmim Project by Simone Matos
Lisbon
Lisbon