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Guests: Skye Duncan and Fabrizio Prati, Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) Key Takeaways Streets are the largest continuous public spaces in cities. They are an underused asset for health, equity, and climate goals. Treat streets as places for people first,...
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Guest: Gil Penalosa Key Takeaways Built environment, such as protected lanes, nearby shops, open schoolyards, tree canopy, etc., shapes human behaviour and daily choices. Good intentions, campaigns, policy advice, etc, fail unless the situation is changed to make...
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Guest: Ilana Altman, CEO, The Bentway Key Takeaways Public space can be framed as a public-health tool and investment to promote well-being. Pilots including lighting, murals, intersection experiments should be paired with long-term standards for wayfinding,...
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Guest: Angie Schmitt, Founder and principal, 3MPH Planning and Consulting, USA Key Takeaways Policy choices that continue giving priority to right-of-way for cars make streets more unsafe. Most safety tools and design solutions already exist, but political will and...
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Guest: Kristian Villadsen, Co-Creative Director at BRIQ. Key Takeaways Cities should be assessed for their urban spaces’ potential to invite people: does a project make walking, cycling, local shopping, and using shared facilities the easiest option? Urban design that...
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Guest: Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director of the MS in Urban Design, Georgia Tech. Atlanta, USA Key Takeaways Three principal retrofit strategies: redevelopment, re-inhabitation / adaptive reuse, and regreening. Vast underused parking lots, dead malls and low-rise office...
