In October 2024, the Streets for Kids project was inaugurated in the Jordão neighborhood in Recife, Brazil, a community where children faced multiple challenges accessing safe and high-quality public spaces. Heavy rains, frequent flooding, and landslide risks often made their journey to school dangerous and unpredictable. Throughout the process, children, caregivers, school staff, and residents were engaged to co-create solutions that improve access to schools, supporte outdoor play and social connection, and set a precedent for future child-focused street transformations in Recife.
Community Led Processes Create Better Streets in Bogotá
This year, the city of Bogotá undertook a project to reclaim underutilized areas of the city and convert them into spaces for people. The first space to be converted was a surface parking lot located in the neighborhood of Chapinero at the intersection between Calle 80 and Carrera 9.
From the drawing board to the living world: Simple lines bring new life to Addis Ababa’s streets
The road to safer streets takes long-term vision, but it also requires smart planning and rapid action to transform dangerous streets today. As part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety in 10 cities in 3 continents, GDCI traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently for a series of traffic safety workshops with more than 120 city planning and transportation professionals.
BIGRS Cities – Technical Assistance for Safer Streets and Safer Mobility
The Global Designing Cities Initiative will be collaborating with WRI and IRAP as part of the Safer Streets and Safer Mobility group under the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety to provide technical assistance to the cities of Addis Ababa, Bogota, and Sao Paulo.
The Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) is pleased to announce that it has selected Sao Paulo as one of its three cities for technical assistance under the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety
The Global Designing Cities Initiative is pleased to announce that it has selected Addis Ababa as one of its three cities for technical assistance under the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety for 2016.
We are thrilled to announce that the city of Bogotá has been selected as one of the three cities in which the Global Designing Cities Initiative will provide technical assistance this year.
Global Street Design Guide previewed at CityLab 2015
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 upcoming Global Street Design Guide will be a timely resource that will set a global baseline for designing streets and public spaces while redefining the role of streets in a rapidly urbanizing world.
Transit streets are great streets. With ridership booming, cities are transforming their streets to actively prioritize transit, creating more effective service and unlocking opportunities for world-class public space.
