GDCI marks this World Children's Day with the release of two new booklets, “How to Engage Kids in Street Design” and “How to Evaluate Street Transformations Near Schools.”
From More Open Spaces to Safer School Streets in Milan
In May, the City of Milan, in collaboration with GDCI and Bloomberg Associates, launched Piazze Aperte per Ogni Scuola (Open Squares for Every School). After the launch, there was an event to promote a pedestrianized school street where kids and caregivers got to enjoy the vehicle-free space.
Join us at Velo-city 2023 where GDCI will present at five sessions covering everything from how cycling can foster inclusion, better cycling initiatives for children and caregivers, and how tactical urbanism can change the world. Don't forget to visit us at our booth where you can learn more about our projects in-person.
GDCI’s Streets for Kids Program Helps Create Tirana, Albania’s First School Zone
At the end of 2020, GDCI selected Kahreman Yili—a busy street home to Gjon Buzuku school—as a Streets for Kids project site. The project's main objective was to address a number of issues in the area—including air pollution from vehicular exhaust, and wide lanes that enabled high travel speeds. The success of the Gjon Buzuku interim project led to the capital construction project at Edith Durham—a school located in Rruga Pjeter Bogdani, in the city center of Tirana.
A street transformation in Sumgayit City, Azerbaijan, aims to reduce speeding and protect pedestrians
EASST, AMAK, and GDCI worked with the Sumgayit City Police and local engineers to develop plans for temporary road infrastructure changes around a school entrance
Piazze Aperte: Come Milano ha restituito le sue piazze ai suoi abitanti
A maggio 2022, il Comune di Milano ha implementato 38 interventi di urbanistica tattica e continua a progettarne di nuovi, con un residente milanese su due a 15 minuti (800 metri) da una delle Piazze tattiche.
Piazze Aperte: How Milan Gave its Piazze Back to the People
As of May 2022, the Municipality of Milan has now implemented almost 40 tactical interventions and continues to plan new ones—with one in two Milanese residents now living within 15 minutes (800 meters) of the Piazze.
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