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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

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 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

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

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

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

In September, each pilot city organised a Quadruple Helix Stakeholder meeting to select the most promising interventions to be scaled up. The QHS concept refers to the four main category of stakeholders we aim to include in the co-creative process of the project, notably: public authorities and policy makers, researchers and academics, industry representatives, and,Read more

After the Presentation Day and QHS meeting, the team in Üsküdar selected the “I own my Garden” pilot for the scale-up phase. A new park was identified for the pilot scale-up, Nakkaştepe Millet Bahçesi Park, which connects multiple transportation points. Several green areas in Üsküdar are affected by mobility issues similar to those tackled byRead more

Scaling-up in Trikala will focus on the provision of electric wheelchair scooters for people with disabilities. The service introduced during the first round of pilots will be now further improved and expanded. To do so, during the prototyping event, our team in Trikala aimed to point out and successfully resolve potential risks or obstacles thatRead more