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Altona is the westernmost urban borough of Hamburg situated at the right bank of the Elbe river. In Altona, Cities-4-People brought together local citizens with their local politicians and relevant  stakeholders (such as Hamburg’s department of transport and innovation, traffic planner and bike coordinator, logistics and transport companies) to rethink mobility in the area. SimilarlyRead more

In Oxfordshire, current infrastructure and network cannot accommodate the high volumes of cars, causing traffic congestion. Despite that fact, there seems to be a lack of alternative options that are affordable, with e-bikes and walking being also hampered due to poor infrastructure. As a response to these issues, Oxfordshire came up with three prototype solutions,Read more

How can co-creation at the neighbourhood level help reshape urban development across Europe? This was the fundamental question that we aimed to answer during our Joint Neighbourhood Conference ‘Towards sustainable mobility – one neighbourhood at a time’ that took place online on October 20, from 14.00 – 17.00 CET. The webinar conference was included asRead more

The call for applications for the 9th EU SUMP Award is officially launched from 15 June 2020. For this award edition, the theme of the SUMP Award is “Zero emission mobility for all“. Applications should be submitted by 31 October 2020. In the framework of EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK, the European Commission annually presents the European SUMP Award to a planning authority which demonstrated excellenceRead more

Between 30 September and 2 October, the Urban Mobility Days 2020 took place as a fully digital event. About 1,400 policymakers, local authorities, academics, NGOs, urban transport practitioners, urban planners and urban mobility practitioners digitally came together to focus on solutions to make mobility in cities and towns more sustainable.  On Friday 2 October, theRead more

The Neighbourhood Projects are delighted to invite you to our final and joint event taking place October 20 from 14.00 – 17.00 CET. Sign up here!   The Joint Neighbourhood Conference showcases the processes and results of four European projects working towards better mobility solutions with people in their neighbourhoods. These four projects (Cities-4-People, Looper, Metamorphosis andRead more

  The Department of Arts and Design from the PUC-Rio University from Rio de Janeiro , Brazil has invited the coordinators of Cities-4-People to present in Rio as part of their Smart Cities Research programme. Based on the presentation, there has been an interest in developing a similar project in the city of Rio. As aRead more

Cities-4-People, along with the neighbourhood projects METAMORPHOSIS and SUNRISE and the related JPI project LOOPER, is organising a Neighbourhood Conference on 20 October 2020 – which is also Cities-4-People final conference. Due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemics, the conference will be hosted online to enable participants to join debates and exchange experiencesRead more

The Urban Mobility Days 2020 are taking place from 29th September to 2nd October. Due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemics, this year’s event will be held online to allow participants to join debates on the most important urban mobility topics from their homes. The theme of the conference is “Zero Emission MobilityRead more

On 25 June 2020, our Cities-4-People Team in Budapest organised an official opening ceremony for the Mobility Point network at Magyar tudósok körútja. Because of the risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was only targeted to representatives from the press this time. A bigger event for citizens will be organised in autumn. OverRead more