Resources

A practical guide for urban practitioners looking to place caregivers at the center of local policy, services and infrastructure. Drawing on CHANGE’s experience transferring and adapting Bogotá's model to Freetown and beyond, this offers guiding questions, tools and examples to help cities adapt the Care Blocks to their own context.

Cities: Bogotá, Freetown, Melbourne

On January 7, 2025, as historic wildfires ripped through neighborhoods across the Los Angeles metropolitan area, early child care providers played an essential, yet often […]

City: Los Angeles

CHANGE partnered with Publica in 3 cities, using participatory feminist urban design methodologies to research and improve women and girls’ safety in public spaces.

Cities: Bogotá, Stockholm, Louisville

City Learning Labs is an action research initiative that brings together climate and care co-benefits in urban planning, centering caregivers at the heart of municipal climate adaptation and disaster preparedness.

Cities: Barcelona, Quezon City, Renca

What would transportation look like if it were designed around the trips that keep everyday life going? Every day, people move through cities not just […]

Cities: Barcelona, Bogotá, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Nairobi

About this collaboration This report was developed through a collaboration between CHANGE and a student research task force at Occidental College, working in partnership with […]

Cities: Barcelona, London, Tokyo, Louisville, Melbourne, Quezon City, Renca

Through CHANGE Caring Cities, the City of Melbourne conducted research to better understand the opportunities and challenges facing “older carers” or residents aged 55 and over […]

CHANGE is working with Freetown City Council to adopt and adapt the Care Blocks model from Bogotá to Susan’s Bay – Freetown’s largest informal settlement. This project is the first of its kind in Africa.

City: Freetown