Downloads / source materials

In half an hour through the city and that's it? - Not so with the children from the district of Lend in Graz. This booklet should help children to walk, jump, sneak or linger through the streets and alleys with their eyes open. They will find ideas for games and interesting facts about squares, parks, buildings and much more that is interesting and exciting.
The special thing about this city guide is that it is by children for children. Many children and adults have worked together on this booklet. They went on field trips, visited shops, restaurants and businesses and tried out games and handicrafts.

At this time the download is only available in German.

METAMORPHOSIS starts from the premise that when a neighbourhood has many children on its public spaces, that this is a major indicator that it is a welldesigned sustainable neighbourhood

Metamorphosis includes trial implementation cities with completely different neighbourhoods. Each city participates with up to four different neighbourhoods, selected to have a wide variety: in size, structure, density and diversity.

Temporary street openings differ in duration: short time, one day, several days. The aim is to move from just once to regular, from short-term to long-term and from temporary to permanent change. Openings are organised througout the city and activities are held to show the potential of the space.

The aim is to create attractive neighbourhood spaces where people can congregate and in which children and parents are encouraged to spend more time outside and use sustainable mobility methods and tools. To create places where people are offered a formal or more informal opportunities for communication, exchange and sharing, to foster greater community interaction.

All METAMORPHOSIS partners aim to improve planning procedures in their cities and to integrate it into their local SUMP. This to ensure that the METAMORPHOSIS thoughts, planning procedures and ideas live onward in the future planning of the seven cities and to be an example for other cities as well.

Many people no longer have any idea what a residential street actually is. This playbook gives you all the information and inspiration you need!

A residential street is an area where people meet. Some want to relax and enjoy their peace and tranquillity, others want to play outside, chat or be out and about. It is important to be considerate of each other. THE STREET IS FOR EVERYONE!

It’s time to let children try to explore the level of traffic and other surroundings of their school in order to find out if there are enough measures being taken so that children and their friends are safe while being on the streets. They are going to be a real travel expert!

This handbook was created as a result of the execution of three School Environment Scans in the municipality of Tilburg. The School Environment Scan is developed as an answer to the challenge
that was created by the European Horizon2020 research project METAMORPHOSIS: to find new ways of translating the needs children in neighbourhoods and urban districts into mobility solutions and to find new ways to deliver these solutions in a process of co-creation. This handbook has been created by students of the Breda University of applied sciences, in the Netherlands, as commissioned by Inez Rastovac, project leader METAMORPHOSIS from the Municipality of Tilburg.

Brochure from Transport for London outlinig the vison for healthy living in London