Nantes’ new speed limits mean child-friendly roads
Baby steps they may be but the introduction of new speed restrictions means the French city of Nantes is today just that little bit more child-friendly than it was yesterday.Read more
New NGO is creating safer streets for Nairobi schoolchildren
The journey to school – on foot or bicycle – for children in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is no longer as hazardous as it once was thanks to a new development project aimed at creating...Read more
UNICEF USA launches first Child Friendly Cities scheme
Houston, San Francisco and Minneapolis are part of the first cohort of cities to officially work towards the USA’s first-ever UNICEF Child Friendly Cities status.Read more
Designing Streets for Kids guide will be ‘global benchmark’ for change
A major new design initiative aims to establish a global baseline for planning urban streets with the needs of children as number one priority.Read more
With fewer cars on US streets, now is the time to reinvent roadways and how we use them
Sticking closer to home because of COVID-19 has shown many people what cities can be like with less traffic, noise, congestion and pollution.Read more
If we love our cities, we’ll make better decisions about their future after the pandemic
It’s the most famous city slogan in the world: I Love New York. And yet, surprisingly, love doesn’t seem to play a part in how urban planners build cities.Read more
Vancouver’s youth urged to help shape the city’s future
How do you map out a city’s future? For decision-makers in Vancouver, it could turn out to be as easy as child’s play.Read moreYoung Planners Vancouver DRAFT
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Shaping kids’ futures from their experiences of COVID-19
Children’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic are being sought by researchers investigating how youngsters have adapted to their situation. Dr Justin Spinney and Dr Matluba Khan of Cardiff University, and Muntazar Monsur of Texas Tech University,...Read more
Australia and UK partner to build better cities
Australia and the UK have brought together the very best minds in urban planning to offer a vision of healthier and sustainable cities for the future.Read more
Slovak city challenges children to model the city in Minecraft
The Slovak city of Trnava is letting its creativity flow by using kids’ computer gaming prowess to encourage them to play a role in local planning.Read more
Bernard van Leer Foundation report highlights Urban 95 successes
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We’re at a fork in the road: do we choose neighbourhoods to live, work and play in?
Living, working and playing in the one neighbourhood has often been touted as the ideal outcome for well-planned cities. Yet this goal has been elusive. For most of us, our daily activities are segregated into...Read moreWhat is there to learn from ‘street experiments’?
‘Street experiments’ are becoming an increasingly helpful tool for examining how cities can be designed for people, not vehicles. This, says urban researcher Luca Bertolini, is especially relevant given the radical changes in how we...Read more