In March 2026, GDCI will launch a series of open and global webinar sessions on Designing for Safe Speeds —our latest supplement to the award-winning Global Street Design Guide. The series will explore key principles from the guide, share practical design strategies, and highlight real-world examples that demonstrate how cities are managing speeds and saving lives.
Rethinking School Streets in the Time of COVID-19 | Part Two
In this webinar featuring city planning, education, and road safety experts from across the globe, participants will learn first-hand how to reset the practices for streets outside of schools, ensure physical distancing, adapt drop-off and pick-up zones, and identify quick and efficient solutions that can be rolled out at a larger scale.
Urban Renaissance: Placemaking and Mobility in Tirana with speaker Joni Baboci | Senior Advisor for Planning and Urban Development to the Mayor of Tirana
Learn to look at streets through the lens of children and caregivers, and to integrate play, joy, and beauty into safe street design. This interactive workshop builds on GDCI’s Designing Streets for Kids guidance, discussing street design strategies, how to engage kids, and why school streets are so critical to provide during the pandemic.
Pop-Up to Permanent: Delivering Lasting Impacts from Pilot Projects
To help city staff transition from pandemic response to recovery, this workshop examines how to evaluate which temporary pop-ups should be converted to permanent projects. Panelists discuss an equity-centered approach to exploring metrics used to evaluate and prioritize projects, as well as frameworks to help consider and decide which projects to take from pop-up to permanent.
If you’re ready to step through the process of setting contextually-appropriate speed limits on city streets, then this workshop is for you. In this session, NACTO and GDCI staff overview the technical guidance in NACTO’s City Limits and upcoming Safe Speeds design guide, and walk through its applications on sample streets.
Rethinking School Streets in the Time of COVID-19 | Part One
As part of our Streets for Kids webinar series, GDCI hosted an interactive webinar to discuss these issues and learn from successful practices and programs that have taken place in cities and school zones across the world—with an emphasis (in Part One) on North American contexts.
Global Launch of Designing Streets for Kids: Presenting New Design Guidance for Child-Focused Urban Streets
GDCI, in partnership with the Bernard van Leer Foundation, the FIA Foundation, Fondation Botnar, and Bloomberg Philanthropies hosted an online event discussing how cities can apply the guidance and strategies highlighted in Designing Streets for Kids.
