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Our three interventions in Budapest included the setup of a Mobility point at St. Gellért Square, at the exit of the Metro Line 4. St. Gellért Square is a busy public transport hub along the Danube river bank on the Buda side. The Mobility point was installed to help achieve urban micro-mobility objectives.  More precisely, itRead more

We have mentioned it over and over again: in the past year and a half, project partners in Cities-4-People have taken a co-creative approach to tackling local mobility issues. This approach is open ended – it involves first gathering a community, then facilitating the process as community members identify problems in their local area, decideRead more

On 16 March 2019, about 50 people came and went at the Barton Neighbourhood Centre between 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to attend the Pass It On event. What was it about? The goal of the Pass it on event was to raise awareness of the pilot interventions in Barton and sign people up to takeRead more

The calendar for 2019 is already filling up, so here’s a selection of mobility-related events you should look out for: URBAN FUTURE global conference from 22 May in Oslo – an exchange on sustainability and urban planning Changing Cities conference from 24 June in Chania, Creete,– a (smart) discussion on smart cities, smart environment, smartRead more

In the past six months we attended several academic and non-academic conferences to discuss the methodological approach we have adopted in Cities-4-People, talk about co-creation and exchange on participatory processes, collective intelligence and (digital) social innovation. We travelled to a large number of countries ranging from Italy to Delft, from The Netherlands to Germany, andRead more

On November 27, the Open Source Lab held an inaugural roundtable discussion at its newly opened office space in Berlin’s EUREF campus. The discussion, which was focused on the question “what is the future of shared open source mobility?” hosted experts from backgrounds in civic tech, the automobile industry, academia, unions, sustainable transportation, entrepreneurship, andRead more

Together with another 100 participants (planners, environmentalists, architects, engineers, policy-makers, economists and project managers), Cities-4-People attended the 10th International conference on Sustainable Development and Planning last September (4-6) at the University of Siena in Italy. Our presence at the event was not just mere attendance: we also wanted to talk about our People-Oriented Transport andRead more

In the past week, the Cities-4-People teams in the different pilot areas were busy organising meetings and events. It was not just the usual September frenzy, when everyone is back from holiday and life goes back to normal. For us it was a special moment: we were on the verge of selecting the concepts thatRead more

Do you still remember the beginning of last summer? Where were you and what were you doing? We were organising five Presentation Days, one per pilot area. Maybe you attended one of them and you know what we are talking about. Maybe you did not and you wonder what it was. We wanted to haveRead more

Between 15 and 18 October the whole Cities-4-People consortium met in Trikala to recap any progress made up to that moment and discuss the steps forward. Can you imagine that we are already midway in the project? Time flies! Reaching Trikala was a small adventure in itself for all the partners. Definitely fitting a projectRead more