Janette Sadik-Khan, Chair of NACTO and the Global Designing Cities Initiative(GDCI), and Principal at Bloomberg Associates, unveiled a preview to the upcoming Global Street Design Guide at the CityLab Conference in London on the 20th of October. The session titled “Changing Streets, Changing the World” was accompanied by a conversation with Jan Gehl, Founding Partner, Gehl Architects and a discussion with Alfred Vanderpuije, Mayor, Accra, Ghana, to discuss challenges and opportunities around transforming streets in various corners of the world. The conference had representation from 45 countries and 31 international Mayors. Catch the full presentation and conversation below:
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.
GDCI has been proud to lead and support the design, delivery, and evaluation of safe street infrastructure across 16 cities in 10 countries as a Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) Partner. We look back at the last six years of achievements.
Both cities selected in a competitive process based on prior work prioritizing children in street redesigns in low-income neighborhoods.
