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“The pandemic, through lockdowns and other movement restrictions, has changed the flow of cities almost overnight. For the first time, since the widespread city development focusing on automobiles, cities have had a chance to look at their now empty public spaces and rethink their use and purposes.” In her article published on “The Business ofRead more

COVID-19 brought about radical changes to the mobility landscape in the world. Many cities have seen traffic congestion to decrease and bikes frequent their roads. In a recent article, Guardian reports that during the pandemic, bikes appear to be the new toilet-paper, with bike-sales booming and citizens across the world calling governments to transform roadsRead more

How are cities responding to the pandemic? Since early March, OECD has been collecting local aimed at containing the spread of the virus and protecting residents and local economies. In the field of mobility, COVID-19 provided cities with a momentum to rethink their approach towards urban space and suggest alternative options.  For example, cities haveRead more

We are keeping track of what happens at Cities-4-People through our reports. Some of them are available on our website and you can read them online or download them for when you have some spare time. Here is the list of documents we added this year, notably: D6.5 Report on Cities-4-People communication activities and eventsRead more

What’s more? Cities-4-People is leading the organisation of a Joint Neighbourhood Conference that will be held on 5 May 2020, in Brussels, along with three other projects (Metamorphosis, Sunrise and Looper) to communicate the achievements and experiences that stemmed from co-creation at the neighbourhood level. The conference will build upon the results of the clusterRead more

Cities-4-People has entered its last semester and all efforts are now concentrated on improving and expanding selected mobility interventions in each pilot area. Which solutions have been selected by the different locations? Budapest will further support shared sustainable mobility, introducing more Mobility Points in different locations around the city to best meet the needs ofRead more

2019 has been an intense year for us at Cities-4-People. We have implemented three mobility interventions per pilot area and we have evaluated their outcomes and gathered the lessons learnt. Over the last semester, the pilot partners have engaged in a second round of co-creation events and workshops aimed at prioritizing and identifying the mostRead more

On 19 November 2019, INEA in cooperation with CIVITAS SATELLITE hosted a cluster workshop of the H2020 “neighbourhoods projects”, namely CITIES-4-PEOPLE, SUNRISE, MUV and METAMORPHOSIS. The event was moderated by Meia Wippoo, lead of the Co-creation Lab of WAAG, and our project partner at Cities-4-People. The event was opened by members of INEA, DG MOVERead more

After having visited Amsterdam, Budapest, Hamburg, Trikala and Oxford it was finally the time for our consortium to meet in Istanbul for the 6th Cities-4-People’s project meeting. On the 11 November, we were welcomed by our partners in charming Üsküdar, on the Asian shores of the Bosphorus. On the first day, our pilot partners presented theRead more

The second round of prototyping organized by our pilot cities was dedicated this time to the scale-up. Over the summer we have met with our communities to discuss the experience with the first round of pilots and to select and develope new concepts to improve one of the interventions. The results of these co-creation activitiesRead more