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How Do Kids Experience Streets? A Reverse Periscope Companion Guide

The Streets for Kids Reverse Periscope is a do-it-yourself tool that encourages planners, city officials, and others to experience the obstacles and attractions of city streets from a child’s perspective.

How Do Kids Experience Streets? A Reverse Periscope Companion Guide
How Do Kids Experience Streets? A Reverse Periscope Companion Guide

GDCI Projects

How Do Kids Experience Streets? A Reverse Periscope Companion Guide

The Streets for Kids Reverse Periscope is a do-it-yourself tool that encourages planners, city officials, and others to experience the obstacles and attractions of city streets from a child’s perspective.

Jardim Monte Verde

GDCI Projects, Videos

Jardim Monte Verde

At the end of 2021, Jardim Monte Verde, a community in the outskirts of Recife, Brazil, reclaimed almost 800 square meters of road space for people. This transformation project included creating 11 new, safer crossings, as well as road safety measures such as speed humps, narrow traffic lanes and extended sidewalks. The new space also included vibrant colors and a place for people to gather.

PIAZZE APERTE: A Public Space Program for Milan

Case Studies, GDCI Projects

PIAZZE APERTE: A Public Space Program for Milan

As part of a collaboration between Agenzia Mobilità Ambiente Territorio (AMAT), Bloomberg Associates and the Global Designing Cities Initiative, the City of Milan has developed an innovative public space program named Piazze Aperte or “Open squares.”

Live Launch Event: How to Implement and Evaluate Street Transformations

GDCI Projects, Webinars

Live Launch Event: How to Implement and Evaluate Street Transformations

These handbooks distill GDCI’s experience implementing and evaluating street transformation projects in cities around the world, and are an important step in changing the decades-long embedded practice of implementing and evaluating street transformations from a car-centric point of view.

A Vision for Safer Streets

GDCI Projects, Videos

A Vision for Safer Streets

GDCI Celebrates Partnership with 5 Global Cities—and Announces 8 New Cities—as Part of the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety

Lebu-Jemo Interim Cycling Corridor

Case Studies, GDCI Projects

Lebu-Jemo Interim Cycling Corridor

A project snapshot of Addis Ababa’s launch of its first cycle lane under the Safe Cycling Program.

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