# Gil Penalosa: Helping you create cities for everyone

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## Pages
- [Webinar](https://gpenalosa.ca/webinar/)
- [Masterclass 1](https://gpenalosa.ca/masterclass-i/)
- [Masterclass 2](https://gpenalosa.ca/masterclass-2/)
- [Home](https://gpenalosa.ca/)
- [Services](https://gpenalosa.ca/services/)

## Posts
- [Krista Nightengale • BUILDING BETTER BLOCKS](https://gpenalosa.ca/webinar/better-blocks/): Krista Nightengale, Executive Director of Better Block, discusses how after more than a decade of transforming streets and vacant lots into places people want to spend time, the organization has learned a few things about community engagement, urbanism, and life\. This talk explores the lessons, successes, and \(a few of the\) failures that have shaped Better Block's approach\. Along the way, Krista challenges some common assumptions about economic development, walkability, community engagement, and what it really takes to create places people love\.
- [Jim Burke • The Unexpected Power of Open Streets](https://gpenalosa.ca/webinar/open-streets/): Jim focuses on the community building aspect of opening our streets\. The programming, mutual aid, cultural celebrations, that then lead to connections, friendships and the “small town vibes” that have resulted from “opening” our streets in the densest city in the US has been something to behold and incredible to experience\.  
- [Doug Gordon \& Sarah Goodyear • Imagining a Life After Cars](https://gpenalosa.ca/webinar/life-after-cars/): Cars as we know them today are unsustainable—but there is hope\. Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, hosts of the podcast The War on Cars and the authors of the bestselling book Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, will unpack the scale of damage that cars cause, the forces that have created our current crisis and are invested in perpetuating it, and the way that the fight for better transportation is deeply linked to the fight for a more equitable and just society\.
- [Tim Gill • Last Child in the Street? Building the case for cities that truly put kids before cars](https://gpenalosa.ca/webinar/kids-before-cars/): The movement for more child\-friendly cities is growing fast, with local schemes numbering in the thousands, alongside multi\-million\-dollar global philanthropic programmes, and a handful of trailblazing municipalities including Paris and Barcelona\. Yet despite this progress, the vast majority of the world’s children are set to be reared in captivity, in car\-dominated places\. 
Tim argues that this will only change if we fundamentally reframe the way we think about cars, streets and neighborhoods\. 
- [Olivia Nielsen • Empty Homes, Crowded Cities: Exploring the Global Housing Paradox](https://gpenalosa.ca/webinar/global-housing-paradox/): Advocate for deeper human–nature connections in cities, and protect and design blue\-green infrastructure that supports both climate resilience and public health\.

## Categories
- [Webinar](https://gpenalosa.ca/category/webinar/)

## Tags
- [Environment](https://gpenalosa.ca/tag/environment/)
- [Parks](https://gpenalosa.ca/tag/parks/)
- [Walk \& Bike](https://gpenalosa.ca/tag/walk-bike/)
- [Health](https://gpenalosa.ca/tag/health/)
- [Children](https://gpenalosa.ca/tag/children/)

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