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How to implement ‘School Streets’ safely in our cities
A leading cycling advocacy body has published guidance outlining some of the key benefits of ‘School Streets’ and how they can best be implemented on a global scale.Read more![1920px-Lisbon_(36831596786)_(cropped)](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1920px-Lisbon_36831596786_cropped-128x128.jpg)
‘Safe Streets’ could be introduced around Lisbon schools
‘Chaotic and anarchic parking’ around schools in Lisbon could soon be outlawed, if it becomes the next high-profile European city to bring in a ‘safe streets’ area.Read more![playful-hackney-discovering-hidden-play-spaces-of-hackney1_credit-hackney-play-association-2x1](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/playful-hackney-discovering-hidden-play-spaces-of-hackney1_credit-hackney-play-association-2x1-128x128.jpg)
Hackney asks: how can we become a ‘child-friendly borough’?
One of London’s most densely-populated boroughs is asking residents how it can best incorporate a set of child-friendly principles into its future development.Read more![England-play-street](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/England-play-street-128x128.jpg)
How ‘school streets’ could create safer, healthier cities
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, communities living in cities need cleaner air to breathe and outdoor public space to be social yet physically distanced.Read more![Denmark cycling](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Denmark-cycling-128x128.jpg)
European Mobility Week creates child-friendly city streets
Many European cities’ usually-busy streets will be car-free – and with it child-friendly – over the next few days as part of European Mobility Week.Read more![nairobi-2770340_1920](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/nairobi-2770340_1920-128x128.jpg)
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![Screenshot 2020-02-19 at 09.40.12](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Screenshot-2020-02-19-at-09.40.12-128x128.png)