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Mums for Lungs: The Campaign for School Streets Powered by Coffee

Karl Dickinson - April 1, 2025

The benefits of school streets are numerous. So too are the triggers that prompt people to set them up. For campaign group Mums for Lungs, it’s urban air pollution. We explore how their mission...

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What Are School Streets? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson - March 4, 2025

There has been a lot of talk about school streets in the sustainable cities sphere of late, but what does the term really mean, and why are school streets necessary? We gen up on...

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Od-Nowa: How Łódź is Creating Its First School Street

Karl Dickinson - March 11, 2025

Karolina Taczalska was appalled by the density of traffic outside her son’s school, so she and Mateusz Cyganek started a project that aims to make the street child friendly by implementing small but effective...

Inclusive Cities

Kids’ Court: How Children & Traffic Police Are Making School Streets Safer

Karl Dickinson - January 28, 2025

When drivers don’t observe – or know! – traffic laws, people can get hurt. A quirky idea expanding through Africa is making streets safer by educating motor users about courteous driving. It’s called the...

Architecture & Design

Young Leader Luisina Perassi: Enabler of Child-Inclusive Urban Design

Karl Dickinson - January 7, 2025

Understanding children’s experiences of cities exposes new opportunities for inclusive design. The trick is knowing how to properly engage them. Gold Coast transport planner Luisina Perassi has made it easy – even collating a...

Cycling

School-Proof Ways of Getting Children Cycling to Class

Jo Helme - February 16, 2021

Trying to encourage children to cycle to school? Follow these tried and tested ideas, and you’ll be sure to pass with flying colours! Why Cycling Comes Top of the Class Although convenient, driving to school by...

Inclusive Cities

Vienna Calling: A Story of Gender Equality, Funding Structures, and School Streets

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr - February 14, 2022

For the 10th consecutive time, Vienna was named the world's most liveable city in the Mercer Rankings of 2020. But does that also mean that the city is particularly pedestrian-friendly? We talked to Petra...

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