Streets impact
health and wellbeing
public health and safety
quality of life
environmental sustainability
economic sustainability
social equity
multimodal access
The Global Designing Cities Initiative transforms streets for the people who use them, shaping cities that allow everyone to prosper.
Our team of designers, planners, and urban strategists seeks to inspire leaders, inform practitioners, and invite communities to imagine what is possible when we design streets that put people first.
The Global Street Design Guide supports practitioners in redefining the role of streets in cities around the world. Created with the input of experts from 72 cities in 42 countries, the Guide offers technical details to inform street design that prioritizes pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders.
Designing Streets for Kids captures international best practices, strategies, programs, and policies that cities around the world have used to design spaces that enable children of all ages and abilities to utilize cities’ most abundant asset – streets.
This guide provides direction on managing speeds in cities, outlines key design parameters and strategies to achieve safe speeds, showcases inspirational transformations, highlights case studies from around the world, and offers a valuable set of tools to help cities create safer, more livable streets for everyone.
Introducing BICI Global Advisor Cities: Learning from the world’s leading cycling cities to shape the next generation of safe, connected cycling networks.
Drawing on their cities’ experience in advancing cycling, the BICI Global Advisors advisors will bring valuable perspectives on what it takes to build safe, connected, and accessible cycling infrastructure—and how cities can turn ambition into lasting change.
Introducing the Selection Committee for the Bloomberg Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure (BICI)
The Global Designing Cities Initiative is pleased to announce the Selection Committee for the Bloomberg Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure (BICI). The Selection Committee members bring decades of diverse experience working in transportation and urban design in cities around the world. Together they will advise the city selection process, including reviewing and providing feedback on BICI’s application finalists.
Bloomberg Philanthropies and Global Designing Cities Initiative Open Applications for Next Phase of Cycling Infrastructure Program
Announcing the next round of the Bloomberg Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure, a program helping cities around the world rethink their streets through safer, more connected cycling infrastructure.
