Resources

Webinar: How to Make and Use a Streets for Kids Reverse Periscope

A Streets for Kids Reverse Periscope is a simple DIY tool that can help adults experience streets from a child’s height. Watch this recorded webinar about how to create and use a Reverse Periscope in your community.

Webinar: How to Make and Use a Streets for Kids Reverse Periscope
The Playful City: Designing Streets for Kids

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The Playful City: Designing Streets for Kids

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

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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.

Setting Safe Speeds on City Streets

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Setting Safe Speeds on City Streets

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

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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.

Reviving Waterfront Streets: Lessons from Toronto and Auckland

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Reviving Waterfront Streets: Lessons from Toronto and Auckland

In this edition of our webinar series, we heard from Pina Mallozzi, Vice President of Design at Waterfront Toronto, about her work on the revitalization of Queens Quay and other high profile projects along Toronto's waterfronts. We also watched a video presentation by Panuku Development Auckland, the council-controlled organization that delivers urban regeneration in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).

Streets for People: The Case for Open Streets

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Streets for People: The Case for Open Streets

In this edition of our webinar series, we heard from Leticia Sabino, founder and director of SampaPé! in São Paulo, which works to improve the walking experience in cities, and head organizer of open street events in São Paulo, Brazil. We also heard from Aaron Paley, president and co-founder of Community Arts Resources (CARS), and founding executive director of CicLAvia in Los Angeles, the largest car-free open streets event in the United States.

Measuring People-Friendly Streets

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Measuring People-Friendly Streets

For decades, the performance of our streets has been measured using metrics that focus on improving safety and throughput for vehicles. But that's finally changing--cities and organizations around the world have developed new metrics and tools to measure streets based on how they perform for pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders. These free online tools can help you to build support for people-friendly streets in your city. 

From Pop-Up to Permanent

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From Pop-Up to Permanent

In this webinar, Skye Duncan, Director of Global Designing Cities Initiative, spoke about lessons learned from GDCI interim interventions including how to engage local communities and move from project to program. Michael Lydon, Principal of Street Plans Collaborative, shared his experience on the role of tactical urbanism in gathering public support for urban projects.

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