We posted before about this funded PhD opportunity into digital co-design for urban spaces with teenage girls but the person appointed has had to pull out. So if you - or anyone else - wants to do this very important and ground-breaking work, please apply! bcu.ac.uk/built-environm…

Tirana still has far to go on its journey to becoming a livable city. But it has taken big strides with little actions in recent years. It proves good urbanism doesn’t require big budgets and visions; more important is political leadership and a desire to improve people’s lives.

Don't park on the footpath or you'll push vulnerable pedestrians into traffic. Disgraceful to see this behaviour. It's rush hour and everyone should get home safely. Saw this from the bus just now and I'm furious. An Garda Síochána Dublin City Council

Study: a 50% reduction in crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists and a 27% increase in drivers yielding to pedestrians with the right of way, as a result of....paint. Yes, a splash of paint = safer streets for pedestrians. This is the power of visual disruption in slowing

In Paris, just 4.3% of all of the transportation trips occurring within the colored areas on the map below now occur in private cars. It wasn’t always this way. It’s actually a result of deliberate leadership and smart planning. institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-tr…

It’s amazing what great lighting can do for a streetscape.

Same energy

This has certainly brightened up my day! The hand holding, dog in the back, cycling despite the rain! Amazing

📷 artsofficegalwaycity Design Lab Bursaries: Open Call for Applications 2024 @archattheedge with Galway Culture Company ..three bursary awards for creative practitioners championing youth ideas for a better built environment. 16 May 24. Architecture Edge or Galway Culture Company

Cars parking in the bike lane radicalized me 13 years ago, and these days my willingness to "just go around" has hit rock bottom. It feels more important than ever to make it safe for ALL of us to walk and bike. #PreciousCargo

Love to see it!

Philly could use this technique to introduce trees and slow down would-be speeding drivers. These two streets are about the same width:

Just 20 years ago, drivers could freely enter and park in Delft’s historic core. Then a broad coalition narrowly (19 to 18 votes) passed an autoluwe binnenstad (‘low-car city center’) policy. Now not a single resident or merchant misses the days when cars choked their streets.

The beauty of "small": narrow streets, tiny stores, cozy homes, pocket parks.

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Sadly, I have to leave my home office with a view of my street to go into actual work - but I’ve already spotted 8 hopscotchers this morning - young and old 😍 - I’ll imagine people are playing all day #InternationalDayofPlay

Today is the first-ever UN International Day of Play. What's stopping us from making play the priority on the streets where we live? (photo: Steve Cranley)

This is what our teenage girls want. Hanging in hammocks in the wilder area of Rowntree Park - chat, relax and take in nature. As well as our ‘Make Space for Girls’ Festival of events, we have been running weekly woodland hangouts for over two years and they are well loved!

Very happy to mark the first ever #InternationalDayofPlay with a cheer to children and young people everywhere, and to the adults in their lives who create the conditions for them to play freely.

If you have a few moments to listen to this interview as a parent with your child. Possible one of the best post race interviews I have ever watched #PlayOn