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Do you remember we wrote about the first neighbourhood workshop organised by the Municipality of Istanbul to raise awareness of Cities-4-People locally and to gather input on urgent mobility challenges? Here’s the second one: Mimar Sinan. The workshop was held on 22 May in Keşfet Üsküdar. As in the case of the previous workshop, severalRead more

The Presentation Day of the Üsküdar Mobility Lab took place on June, 6th as an “iftar” event, that is a dinner activity, on the Valide Sultan Ferry. The Ferry belongs to the Municipality of Üsküdar and takes citizens to the Bosporus. Passengers are entitled to a free sightseeing ride with a guide. The aim ofRead more

Üsküdar is one of the districts of Istanbul, but it is not small: it is composed by 33 different neighbourhoods. in order to raise awareness about the project at local level, the Municipality of Üsküdar has started a series of workshops engaging one neighbourhood at a time. These workshops are not only meant to introduceRead more

Üsküdar’s Citizen Mobility Lab is officially open! On the 3rd of May at 3 p.m. (local time) the Municipality of Üsküdar opened the doors of its Lab “Keşfet Üsküdar / Discover Üsküdar” to the citizens. The launch of the Lab involved participants to previous project activities, neighbourhood authorities, representatives of the civil society and experts. TheRead more

Three warm-up events were organised in the Municipality of Uskudar to invite different stakeholder groups and raise awareness on the Cities-4-People project. They took place during September, October and November attracting approximately 250 participants. These warm-up events were important in order to create a first pool of motivated citizens leading to the consultation workshop onRead more

On the 21st of December the co-creation workshop was successfully held in Üsküdar, following up the series of warm-up events. The event took place in the Idea and Art Center with the aim of concluding on the mobility challenges and the areas and districts where our mobility interventions will be implemented. Therefore, after a quickRead more