For and from citymakers around the globe

In Cuenca, women waste pickers keep the city's recycling system running, often at the cost of their own health. RUMBOS worked with them to change that, through research, cooperative-building and policy change.

An essay by Edmundo Werna outlining how urban cooling investments in low-income settlements can simultaneously reduce heat exposure and generate local employment, skills and enterprise development.

Facing habitat loss, heat stress and limited space, Paris has managed to make biodiversity a structural element of its urban planning, by incorporating it in building regulation, green roofs and façades, in citizen-led initiatives, and in the shift towards a sponge-city model.