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Austria

Mobilitätsagentur Wien

Zu-Fuß-Gehen und Radfahren machen Städte smart – also, intelligent und energieeffizient. Auch deshalb hat sich Wien zum Ziel gesetzt, den Fuß- und Radverkehrsanteil auf hohem Niveau zu halten bzw. zu erhöhen. Die Mobilitätsagentur Wien arbeitet daran, dieses Ziel zu erreichen.

Mobilitätsagentur Wien

Fratz Graz

Fratz Graz's area of responsibility deals with the implementation, improvement and conservation of children friendly spaces . The aim of the organisation is to participate children and young people in planning decent spaces for living and playing.

Fratz Graz

Kinderbüro Graz

The vision of the Kinderbüro Graz is to ensure the rights of the child (UN, 1989). They are supporting adults and children to create their daily life situations in a conscious and child friendly way.

Kinderbüro Graz

Urban Gardening

The main focus is to raise awareness on sustainability issues and the creation of an open space in respect to a focal point where people can meet.

Urbanes Gärtnern

General

The Active City

Summary: A lot is spoken about healthy, active friendly cities, but how can you make them? A city with pleasant places to play, a city that functions as one big sports school, a city where you can grow up safely, a city where you can easily grow old, and a city where you can naturally cycle everywhere. The Active City shows how such a city looks like. It offers inspiring examples and design tools and includes articles from various experts.

The Active City

Making Cities For People

The link below gives you an overview of Gehl architects international cases.

Gehl - Making Cities For People

Ten Strategies for Transforming Cities and Public Spaces through Placemaking

For a city to be successful, there is a need for good public spaces. This fact is also more and more recognized as an important factor for prosperous city-by-city administrations across Europe. Furthermore, public spaces have the ability to revitalize and create economic and social development opportunities. But for many municipal governments it is hard to find ways to build and maintain healthy public spaces. Hence there is a need to improve public spaces to gain back a higher quality of life and to make a city more attractive.

Project for Public Spaces

Transform Parking spaces into Parklets

It is very difficult to find a place to sit and relax in an urban environment primary designed for transport with asphalt roads, concrete sidewalks and built-up buildings. Hence, towns and cities are transforming parking spots and similar spaces into ‘parklets’ - public seating platforms that convert curb-side parking spaces into vibrant community spaces. The National Association of City Transportation Officials, short Nacto, will give you an overview of important facts for implementing parklets.

Nacto

The Treemail Phenomenon - Melbourne

‘Treemail’ is an initiative undertaken in Melbourne, Australia, which has given trees around the city their own personal email address and biography. The goal of the project was for the city to try and manage the urban forest decline, raise awareness of the importance of trees, and also making it a fun subject, i.e. trees with an email address. The project initially started when a large amount of trees around the country were becoming unhealthy or at the risk of dying. The country risked losing 50% of their beautiful trees, and this would result in a very different environment for Australia (and Melbourne).

Treemail

Urban Farming

Understanding the role that urban farmers play in our food systems is key to envisioning what a vibrant, abundant future can look like. By the seemingly simple act of fostering healthy, local food within the community, these farmers are tackling monumental topics like environmental degradation, resource scarcity, public health, poverty, and more.

The Ecology Center

Urban Agriculture - Detroit

Urban Agriculture redevoloping Detroit, best practice example. The city of Detroit is unique in comparison to other major cities in the United States because, over the past sixty years, it has transformed from the world capital of car manufacturing into a blighted city typified by vacant lots.

University of San Francisco

Traffic Snake Game

The Traffic Snake Game aims to break the vicious cycle of parents driving their children to school, by encouraging schools, children and parents to adopt walking, cycling, car sharing or public transport when travelling to and from school. The Traffic Snake Game is being implemented in 18 EU countries.

Traffic Snake Game

Piano Stairs

‘Piano stairs’ have been implemented in several cities around the world. The idea behind this playful intervention is to let more people use the stairs instead of using the escalator or lift. These technological inventions make life comfortable. However, the other side of the coin is that more and more people have an inactive lifestyle. Piano stairs are therefore a successful example of gamification in Cities in order to stimulate an active lifestyle

Piano Stairs

Critical Mass

Critical mass is a regularly-happening non-violent direct-action event of bikers to reclaim the streets whereby a big number of people meet to have a bike tour, especially using the space dedicated for cars. It aims to reconquer rights and space for bike(r)s and people, and address issues e.g. regarding traffic security, the priority of different modes of transport (cars overs bikes), space consumption of cars, and also health and environmental issues. It happens in many cities worldwide.

Critical Mass

N55 HOME

This is a Danish Plattform that originated from a non-commercial exhibition space for art and now has evolved into a platform for persons who wants to work together, share places to live, economy and means of production. N55 pubishes and shares manuals for things that can be implemented in vatious situations around the world, by N55 alone or in collaboration with different persons and istitutions. Most of N55 works are Open Source provided under the Creative Commons. Any use of N55's works must include proper credits to N55 and a link to www.N55.dk. N55 is financed by selling durable, environmentally and socially sustainable products, based on homemade Open Source systems and by exhibitions, grants and educational work. The second part of the website of N55 is dedicated to NEWS in the form of a blog.

N55 Home

Switzerland

Kinderfreundliche Stadtentwicklung

«Auf Augenhöhe 1,20 m» heisst der Leitfaden für eine kinderfreundliche Stadt- und Quartierentwicklung. Er bietet Impulse für eine kindergerechte Entwicklung des öffentlichen und privaten Raums.

Kinderfreundliche Stadtentwicklung

Children-guided Playground Design

A playground in the city of Basel no longer met the security standards and therefore had to be redesigned. When the residents of the neighbourhood approached the municipality, it was quickly agreed that the residents and especially children should participate in the redesign process. The association ‘Kinderbüro Basel’ (‘children’s office Basel’) was mandated to lead the participation process.

Kinderbüro Basel

Germany

Play-able city - Darmstadt

The city of Griesheim is an good practice example to redesign neighbourhoods areas for children. On the basis of Griesheim, Darmstadt installed mostly along school ways over one hundred open-ended objects for playing.

Verkehrswende Darmstadt

Own-able city - Griesheim

The aim of this project was to give back urban space to people who were usually mostly ignored with regard to city design – like the elderly, disabled and ill people. The city of Griesheim wanted to be more attractive for people with special needs. They intended to change and redesign the city to give people with needs the opportunity to meet and be part of public life, as well as places to rest and relax for a brief time.

Besitzbare Stadt

Street Library - Berlin

Street libraries have also started to appear in many public space across the world. The Street Library supports unprivileged citizens in a Kiez (which is the name for a district or neighbourhood in Berlin), especially by fulfilling the parents’ dreams that their children get the opportunity to learn. The aim is to give children confidence, courage and to support their ability of studying through illustrated books, creative activities and games.

Straßenbibliothek

Play Street - Frankfurt

‘Play Streets’ now occur in many cities in Europe, including Bristol and London in the UK, Frankfurt in Germany and Vienna in Austria. The temporary play street in Frankfurt started in 2008 as a part of the project ‘Vernetzte Spiel- und Begegnungsräume’ (‘Networked play and public places’), with the aim of increasing the quality of stay for children.

Spielstraße Frankfurt

The Walking Bus - Munich

Like a real bus, the “Walking Bus” takes a predefined route to school with fixed stops and departures where one after another child board the bus. But the difference is: every passenger is on foot

The Walking Bus

Spain

How A City Got Rid Of Cars

Pontevedra is located in the northwest region Galica in Spain, and was like many other western cities flooded by cars during the second half of the 20th century. By the end of the 1990s about 52.000 vehicles circulated in the city every day. This changed as Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores, head of a leftist political party, became the mayor of Pontevedra. Lores intended to give the streets back to the people and to pedestrianize the city.

Pontevedra, Spain

United Kingdom

Children's Mayor in Leeds

Annually, several cities in the world are holding elections to appoint a new children's mayor. The elections have been established to involve children in cities and in their governance. The children's mayors are allowed to work with the city councils for one year, with a view to their ideas and activities being implemented in the cities.

Children's Mayor in Leeds

Bristol Street Pockets

The project is led by the Bristol Green Capital Partnership (which has over 800 member organisations) to encourage communities to plan, coordinate and communicate ideas for their ‘street pockets’. These pockets can be a number of things, from social areas for playing or sitting, art works, greenery (trees flowers, etc.) or bicycle parking, and are permanent installations. As these are essentially community planned and designed, they reflect the needs and/or wants of the respective community.

Bristol

'Mini Holland'

The live trial Between 26 September and 13 October 2014 we carried out a live trial in Walthamstow Village and closed roads to motor vehicles at key locations. This live trial, a first for the Council and the UK, meant that we could give residents and businesses first-hand experience of what it could feel like living and working in a low traffic neighbourhood.

Waltham Forest

France

Vegetable Streets in Paris

Under the motto: streets should offer the possibility to be lived in, Paris is trying to transform some selected areas to provide a more healthy and liveable way of street life, even in crowded cities. In two out of 20 districts of Paris, the project has already been implemented, further such streets will follow soon, in four other districts.

Rue Vegetales

Denmark

Play and School Street - Odense

In order to be a health-promoting city, and to stimulate the citizens’ taste for physical activity, instead of promoting diseases through noise and air pollution, the City of Odense decided to create three new urban spaces during 2010, with the vision ‘to play is to live’.

Cycling Embassy of Denmark

Netherlands

Child Route in Amsterdam

In 2007 the first Kindlint (‘child route’) in The Netherlands was implemented in Spaarndammerbuurt, Amsterdam. A Kindlint is a child friendly route which connects playgrounds, schools and other locations for children, and marked by tiles at traffic crossings. They are characterized as safe, fun and attractive with as little crossings as possible.

Kindlint

Veilig Naar School - Tilburg

‘Tilburg veilig naar school’ is a project which translates into English as, ‘Tilburg safely to school’. The project is an initiative taken by the city council and the primary schools of Tilburg in order to approach the theme of safety in regard to children travelling to and from school.

Veilig Naar School

'Fiets forum Tilburg'

‘Fiets forum Tilburg’ is an initiative undertaken in the city of Tilburg about biking in the city. It involves a company which has created a website that everyone can access to be able to find information about anything to do with biking in Tilburg. The website allows users to find and post anything to do with the current, future or past situations or initiatives of biking.

Fiets forum Tilburg

Romania

Skirt Bike

You can tell how bike-friendly a city is by the number of women on bikes. In a city where bike riding in general is not always a bliss, Skirt Bike aims to celebrate the independence and empowerment that cycling can provide to all women and to encourage those who don’t already cycle.

Skirt Bike Romania

Links

Mobilitätsagentur Wien

Fratz Graz

Kinderbüro Graz

Urban Gardening

The Active City

Making Cities For People

Ten Strategies for Transforming Cities and Public Spaces through Placemaking

Transform Parking spaces into Parklets

The Treemail Phenomenon - Melbourne

Urban Farming

Urban Agriculture - Detroit

Traffic Snake Game

Piano Stairs

Critical Mass

N55 HOME

Kinderfreundliche Stadtentwicklung

Children-guided Playground Design

Play-able city - Darmstadt

Own-able city - Griesheim

Street Library - Berlin

Play Street - Frankfurt

The Walking Bus - Munich

How A City Got Rid Of Cars

Children's Mayor in Leeds

Bristol Street Pockets

'Mini Holland'

Vegetable Streets in Paris

Play and School Street - Odense

Child Route in Amsterdam

Veilig Naar School - Tilburg

'Fiets forum Tilburg'

Skirt Bike

(Re)animation of “Wohnstraßen” (residential streets)

Skirt Bike

Upscaling and SUMP

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