Animal welfare in Montréal, Munich reaches for the sky, tourism in Slovenia that’s the bee’s knees and Warsaw city councillor Jan Spiewak has his say.

Urban transformation often begins on a local scale, as these inspiring initiatives prove

Moscow has been undergoing a massive programme of urban renewal but this scheme to make the city more liveable isn’t without its costs.

Be it Brazil or Beirut, effective urban regeneration needs ideas from residents who understand their city’s problems and potential. Here’s a global line-up of innovative citizen initiatives.

A school of cities in Toronto, São Paulo tries to do dockless bikes right and can a park in South Carolina bridge racial divides?

The duo connecting city-dwellers with nature and Athens’ city hall asks residents for ideas.

Busan’s industrial waterfront gets a makeover and Portland looks to integrate nature.

Negotiating new civic spaces in Tirana, how Amsterdam’s calamitous North-South metro line got back on track, and British artist Stuart Semple takes councils to task over hostile design.

The mayor of Tbilisi moves from the football pitch to transport talk, and Australia opens up college towns.

Singapore puts a cap on cars, a new development with newshound history and we tour the original media clusters, from Fleet Street to Park Row.

Zürich is considering artificial islands to house its growing population and there’s a global push to unearth forgotten rivers.

A tale of two disaster-ready cities, the view on participatory urbanism from Aarhus and LA’s inventive way of dealing with the hot, hot heat.

Detroit is set to witness its first population growth since the 1950s. This is how the city used urbanism to press restart.