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The first autumn winds are blowing away the summer memories but the great achievements of C4P over the summer stay. We have been keeping up the good work in Barton, where on Friday 16th August our Mobility Community members, pilot participants and experts came together at the Makerspace in the County Library, in the WestgateRead more

If you are curious about the results of the assessment of the interventions that were carried out in Barton last spring, you don’t need to look much futher. Just follow the links below! For the outcomes of the Concessionary Pass intervention, click here For the results from the face-to-face mobility app training, click here ForRead more

At the end of June 2019 it was time for our consortium to meet again. After having visited Amsterdam, Budapest, Hamburg and Trikala, our next gathering took place in Oxford. A picturesque city from the 12th century, house to Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll (among others) and renowned for its highly selective university, Oxford hosted Cities-4-PeopleRead more

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

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