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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

Our Mobility Community in Hamburg decided to focus on the bike rack intervention for the scale up. The prototyping event in Hamburg took place on 26 August 2019, in the Goetheplatz walking street in Altona, a very busy pedestrian shopping street in the heart of the pilot area. For the prototyping workshop, a row of tentsRead more

In this second iteration round, the Cities-4-People team in Hamburg decided not to carry out a standard Quadruple Helix Stakeholder workshop but to use various participation channels to select the concepts that should be implemented. During the Hack Day, which took place in August 2019, participants came up with seven possible ideas for the scaleRead more

Each pilot city could choose the most appropriate way to engage with their citizens and other stakeholders to meet the Hack Day objectives based on the specific circumstances of the area. The Hack Day in Hamburg immediately followed the Presentation Day, on the 14th of August at the Louise-Schroeder School in Altona. The presentation ofRead more

This is the time of Presentation Days! The day during which pilot cities can showcase the work done, the steps and results of their efforts and collaboration with their citizens. In Altona the event was combined with the Hackday. On 14 August, our local team met its Mobility Community at the Louise-Schroeder public elementary schoolRead more

The show in Altona goes on: on 14 August, you are invited to join our Presentation Day, in which we’ll introduce you to the latest project development. The event is combined with an hackday for which your ideas and needs are the greatest priority: we want to know which pilot intervention should be improved andRead more

The Cities-4-People team in the District of Altona worked hard to promote sustainable mobility with the help of the local Citizen Mobility Community. First of all, a sharing mobility event was organised and held at the Altonale festival. Thanks to Cities-4-People, the Altonale included mobility as a domain for the first time. In one singleRead more

Remember our project video? Congestion, traffic, unsustainable mobility patters, poor accessibility, insufficient infrastructure definitely rang a bell in our five pilot areas. Through the Citizen Mobility Labs and Kit, our local teams conceived bold solutions to make the cities more suited for people – after all, that’s our project’s name. In Hamburg, we went theRead more

Sorry, this entry is only available in German. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. In the District of Altona, piloting is about to start and you can contribute to it once again. Place a marker atRead more

If you follow Cities-4-People, you may know that we have entered the prototyping phase, during which the pilot areas work on a prototype for each of the three selected concepts, for a total of fifteen prototypes. The prototypes will bridge the concepts to the actual piloting phase, when things will get (even more) real andRead more