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Looking to make a new friend? Try not telling them your name.

It’s about more than keeping quiet.

Sharpen these seven skills.

When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations.

Möt teamet bakom MuteBox. Det danska företaget, som bland annat är känt från det danska tv-programmet Draknästet.

Ett senioruniversitet i Turkiet, grundat för att skydda pensionärer från ensamhet, har blivit en sådan succé att studenterna inte vill lämna skolan.

Den svenska stadsmiljön – hur väl passar den invånarna? Är den välkomnande och inkluderande eller finns det hinder som försvårar för medborgarna? Ny forskning från Lunds Tekniska Högskola, LTH, visar att städernas utformning och bebyggelse inte alltid lever upp till gällande lagstiftning. Men med universell utformning under planeringen kan stadsmiljön bli mer tillgänglig.

The Ohio city shows that transforming America’s downtowns into a mixed-use neighborhood is possible.

"Start Here" took a look at how some cities like New York and San Franciso are trying to fill the costly void left by empty offices by turning them into new apartments.

Brooklyn, N.Y., has one of the most innovative courts in the country -- not just for its approach toward defendants but also for its success in reducing recidivism.

Teen girls have unique needs and experiences that are often left out of our built environment. Explore three projects across the world as they share how they are transforming public spaces for teen girls (and how you can too!)

A new local music venue proves that when communities invest in themselves they don't need to settle for Walgreens and Applebees.

The 330m long steel structure has been transformed over the past five years by Salford-based contractor MC Construction. Stretching 330m long the former

New Jersey nonprofit Cohome practices a co-housing model, where neurotypical residents and people with disabilities live side-by-side.

It's sad to say that in 2022, homelessness is still a thriving and ever-growing dilemma we face as a modern society. It's a social problem that is always visible, and almost impossible to turn a blind eye to. And, thankfully it is something that we as a society are taking considerably seriously. Nowadays, housing solutions

Private companies have long focused on ‘customer experience’ as central to success, especially as digitalisation has accelerated.Although they have very different goals, cities are starting to use some of the same tactics to improve services and meet residents’ rising expectations. And they’re appointing senior leaders to get the job done.

This is how to facilitate an ecosystem of public-private collaborations to create future-ready cities.

If cities want to revive their office districts, they must adapt to the age of hybrid work.

The Roques Blanques Metropolitan Cemetery is contained with Collserola’s Natural Park at El Papiol, Barcelona. The cemetery expanded over the last 30 years since its founding in 1981. The changes allowed the cemetery to create new burial options that follow the needs of modern community members. Now, the Roques Blanques Cemetery is offering a new ecological burial area that is 100% biodegradable to protect the environment.

What began in 2005 as Park(ing) Day evolved into part of a global movement for transforming city streets.

When it comes to community planning, we’re doing public engagement all wrong.

One Wall Street provides a timely model for converting empty office buildings into residential units. The question now is how to create affordable adaptive reuse housing that won’t just cater to the elite.

They can’t go to classes or prison jobs, and they don’t have tablets or televisions. But they do have radios.

”Det är som reggae, två steg framåt ett steg bakåt.” Arkitekten Björn Hellström skapar Duvedmodellen och spår stora samhällsförändringar.

Sounds like a ribbiting good time!

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How everyday infrastructure and street furniture can stoke human imagination — and contribute to residents’ well being.

More proof that we can fight global warming . . . but it’s going to require work.

Like hotels, apartment owners now need to focus on end-user experience or face becoming commoditized.

Lemoal Lemoal has built a sports hall near Paris from hempcrete blocks, which the country's first public building built from the material.