The guide outlines “best practices, programs, strategies and policies” for creating safe, enjoyable and inspiring street spaces for children and their carers. It looks at streets that are “safe and healthy, comfortable and convenient, inspirational and educational – streets that better serve everyone.”
Global Designing Cities Initiative permanent chair, Janette Sadik-Khan, writes, “This guide integrates the best of what works in different countries and cultural contexts to create universal principles for streets based on their most vulnerable users.”
She says, “If you design a street that works for kids, you design a street that works for everyone. Designing, or redesigning urban streets through the lens of children shows why it is necessary to raise the bar for safety, accessibility and enjoyment.”
The authors explore children’s needs in urban streets, current challenges and how different ideas can create friendly streets to play, rest, and create.
“An environment rich with stimulation such as colors, patterns, and textures is a foundation for a child’s cognitive skills.”
The City of Newcastle, a harbour city in New South Wales, Australia, is announcing plans to develop a pollinator-friendly urban landscape that reconnects biodiversity corridors.
Newcastle Councillor Dr Elizabeth Adamczyk, also a lecturer in planning at Macquarie University with a PhD in human geography, shared her vision on ABC News.
“We are the first city in Australia to commit as a local government to being a pollinator-friendly city,” she said.
Adamczyk says Newcastle aims to support and enhance its biodiversity by bridging gaps in fragmented biodiversity networks through its Environment Strategy. She has tabled a proposal – unanimously supported by Council – to ensure the rapidly growing city is built with pollinating species in mind.
The proposal supports creating safe, friendly spaces for pollinators with native foliage corridors throughout the city, including on roadways, median strips, walls, balconies, rooftops, in gardens and parks, and along transport corridors.
The Street Furniture Australia factory, in Regents Park, Western Sydney, is both a manufacturing hub and R&D studio for our Australian-designed and made street furniture products. We run fun and informative group events for customers throughout the year, to share how products are designed, tested and built, and the latest products and projects. Director of Tract Julie Lee said: “It was a great opportunity for our team to look behind the scenes and understand the innovation, research and climate positive outcomes Street Furniture Australia is focusing on. Thank you for having us!” Place Design Group Associate, Liam Isaksen, said: “The factory tour is a fun experience to learn about the design and manufacturing process of public furniture we use in landscape architecture design. Seeing the work behind the scenes and …
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