Can Europe make its urban spaces more livable and sustainable?
Sign up to receive the weekly newsletter
About chapter 1
This chapter will examine the key ingredients of a livable city and the latest thinking on how to make them better. POLITICO’s specialist policy journalists will — with the help of experts and the Living Cities audience — explore topics including how to ensure affordable housing; how to attract and tame tourism; how to make cities more inclusive; and how to keep culture alive as more work shifts online.
In short: How do we redesign our cities to be more livable?
Presented by 
(Re)designing the city for women
Urban planning that caters to needs of female residents makes for fairer, greener cities, experts say.
Did you know? Across the EU, only 17.4 percent of city leaders are women. In Romania, that rate falls to 5 percent, while Finland counts nearly 40 percent.
Newsletter
Explore topics including how to ensure affordable housing; how to attract and tame tourism; how to make cities more inclusive; and how to keep culture alive as more work shifts online.
Living Cities: Cities for women — Clothesline defense — Vending machine revival
Living Cities: Equal access to Pride — Picnic on the bridge — Truly ‘social’ housing
Living Cities: New European Bauhaus fest — Early Danes — Is Brussels terrible?
Living Cities: Refugees strain Polish cities — Limassol’s Russian exit — Plant rehab
Living Cities: Barcelona’s digital twin — Made in Vienna — LGBTQ+ freedom zones
Living Cities Brain Trust
POLITICO has invited a group of experts on urban planning and living to help inform the Living Cities project.
