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In Istanbul, the municipality of Üsküdar brought together all the agents of its local community to think how they can shape the mobility future of their area. In Citizen Mobility Labs, municipal authorities, mobility experts, university students, disability-related social groups and many others came together to brainstorm on potential mobility solutions. Through a rigid communityRead 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

The Cities-4-People team in Üsküdar organised the Quadruple Helix Stakeholders workshop in combination with the Presentation Day. The event was kicked-off with a presentation held by our local team on the outcomes and impact of the three interventions piloted in the municipality. The presentation enabled a group discussion on lessons learned and challenges encountered byRead more

The Üsküdar Hack Day was held on 25 September at the Discover Üsküdar Office in the Municipality of Üsküdar and built upon the results of the Presentation Day and QHS Workshop that were held at the beginning of September. During the previous events, the Üsküdar Mobility Community selected the “I own my garden” intervention forRead more

On 9 September, our local team in Üsküdar organised the Presentation Day at the Discover Üsküdar Office in the Municipality of Üsküdar. The location was already known by the community since it hosted the Citizen Mobility Lab during the first iteration of the mobility concept development. Holding the Presentation Day in the same location wasRead more

Istanbul is not an easy city to live in: its size and the humongous number of inhabitants make mobility complicated, especially for vulnerable groups, such as elderly, children and people with impairments (e.g. visually impaired people, people on a wheelchair). The Citizen Mobility community in Üsküdar focused on these categories to provide some infrastructural support.Read 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

Üsküdar held a meeting with the so-called Quadruple Helix Stakeholders (that is citizens, people from academia, people from the industry and public authorities) on 26 September 2018. 21 invitees took part in activities that served to complement the online voting on YourPriorities. The dedicated page with all concepts to be ranked had been opened forRead more

The Hackday of Istanbul took place on 18 July 2018 at Keşfet Üsküdar, the official location of the Citizen Mobility Lab in the building of the Municipality of Üsküdar. 18 people from different backgrounds, including public authorities, students, citizens and a mobility expert contributed to the elaboration of 10 mobility concepts that could respond toRead more

As it was the case for the other two neighbourhood workshops (Aziz Mahmut Hüday and Mimar Sinan), the mobility workshop for the Ahmediye neighbourhood was organised in Keşfet Üsküdar. On 23 May, 5 citizens and representatives of the local administration came together with our team to learn about the Cities-4-People project and brainstorm about mobilityRead more