Publications

Reset series

Getting on your bike

The climate-friendly bicycle – still overlooked by many city planners – enjoyed a revival throughout lockdown. Bike suppliers struggled to keep up with...

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Slowing down fast fashion

During the pandemic, so many people had extra time because they stopped commuting to work or attending social functions that it caused a huge shift in...

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Contagious Tales

This book is part of an ongoing project begun by the New Weather Institute to find more imaginative ways to tell the stories of the challenges faced by our...

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The death of business travel

The global pandemic may have sounded the death knell for business travel. While it’s too soon to tell for certain, the initial numbers suggest that we may...

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Glimpsing a different kind of streetscape. How claiming back urban space for people from cars makes healthy spaces

Throughout the numerous lockdowns, streets around people’s homes and town centres were rapidly transformed and repurposed. The most obvious change was...

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The Reset series

After capturing lessons from the first lockdown at the start of 2020, the Rapid Transition Alliance began in early 2021 to examine the trends in behaviour...

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Repair and maintenance – how we learned to use our hands again

The human urge to mend, repair and improve is nothing new – it has just been forgotten and gone untrained, buried under an avalanche of mass produced...