One more week left to apply for our #RemakingTheStreet Summer School! Yes, exactly, you read it right: register before May 17th or you will (quite likely) regret it forever.
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See you in Rotterdam and Munich?
👀Eyes on the Street👀
Today we celebrate the birthday of Jane Jacobs, a visionary who reshaped how we think about cities, streets, and the people who bring them to life.
At a time when top down, car centric planning dominated, Jacobs reminded us that cities are not machines. They are ecosystems of human interaction.
Her advocacy for walkable neighborhoods, mixed use development, and #eyesonthestreet continues to influence human centred urban planning across the world. She showed us that vibrant cities emerge not from grand designs, but from the everyday rhythms of community life.
#JaneJacobs legacy is a powerful reminder: when we design for people, cities thrive.
And if you would like to express your love for human centred urban planning and design, the homies at @humankindcity got you covered with these beautiful Jane Jacobs caps stylishly presented by Ana, George & Maximilian!
From Street Experimentation to Urban Transformation: The Role of #TacticalUrbanism and #StreetExperiments in #UrbanMobility.
Excited to share the newly published editorial by Enrica Papa, Luca Bertolini and myself in the #JournalOfUrbanMobility:
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This special issue explores street experiments, intentional, temporary changes to street use aimed at testing pathways toward more sustainable, people-centered cities.
Across cities worldwide, such experiments are increasingly used to reallocate space, foster public life, and accelerate urban transitions.
Across diverse contexts from Munich to Bologna to Hong Kong to Barcelona these contributions show that street experiments are not just temporary interventions, but powerful socio-political processes enabling learning, governance innovation, and long-term transformation.
As cities face urgent challenges from climate neutrality to livability, experimentation is becoming central to planning practice for #urbantransitions.
Got summer plans?
📣 Registration for the #RemakingTheStreet Summer School 2026 is now OPEN!
Join us for a two-week learning journey from theory to practice in Munich 🇩🇪 and Rotterdam 🇳🇱.
Together with EIT Urban Mobility, the TUM Chair of Urban Structure and Transport Planning, humankind, and Street Experiments for Transitions (SET), we have designed an immersive programme featuring inspiring lectures, workshops, site visits, and hands-on activities on topics such as:
🌳 Street experiments: planning, design, and implementation
🚶🏻♀️ Sustainable mobility and public space
🗣️ Citizen participation and communication strategies
📊 Monitoring and evaluation of interventions
🚴 Proximity-centred accessibility and the 15-minute city
♟️ Long-term urban transformation strategies
📅 20–24 July in Munich / 27–31 July in Rotterdam
🔗 Learn more and apply:
🎟️ Don’t miss out — register by 19 April to secure the early-bird rate
See you this summer!
Cities across the world, including in South Africa, have surrendered 80% of public space to privte cars, resulting in...
❌ Public transport users walking in dangerous conditions
❌ Less space for informal traders
❌ Pedestrians pushed to narrow sidewalks
❌ Cyclists risking their lives daily without any protected cycling lanes
❌ Kids who’ve never played on their own streets due to speeding cars
❌ Communities divided by highways
But here’s the truth: streets don’t belong to cars.
They never did. They belong to all of us.
This is not only good for us as South Africa, or for the environment, but good for the economy too.
400+ cities worldwide are waking up to this.
Bogotá. Paris. NYC. Cape Town... and now, Jozi
Main Street Sundays: 12 April.
RECLAIM THE STREETS.
#ReclaimTheStreets #StreetsForPeople #MainStreetSundays
𝗔𝗻𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵, 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 👩🏻🔬
Through Street Experiments for Transitions (SET) in Germany, Ana Rivas de Gante turns ideas into quick, low-cost street trials that get neighbours trying something new right outside their door.
In Munich, her work on the Steinhuber Miniblock opened streets to people and tested calmer, safer mobility. One small experiment sparked big neighbourhood conversations.
With roots in architecture and a love for hands-on change, she knows streets can change fast, and she just makes it happen.
Do you dare to change your street, too? 🤟
🚸 Find out more about @street_experiments
🎟️ Join us for Urban Future in Ljubljana. Tickets are available now. Early Bird Flash sale only until midnight! #linkinbio 🔥
Pᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ Mᴀᴋᴇ Cɪᴛɪᴇs 🩷
Before and after. Which open street experiment is your favourite. Langa or Bree?
Comment with ‘Jozi’ and we will send you a link to register for your free ticket.
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#OpenStreets #MainStreetSundays #StreetsForPeople #reclaimthestreets #UrbanMobility JoziMyJozi YoungUrbanists StreetExperiments
Bree St Sundays is coming back to the Inner City right in time for summer on the 2nd of November.
The weekly open street experiments is a new way of testing how a road could function for people instead just for cars and speed.
Comment with a 🦓 for us to send you more information of this non-event, street experiment that will happen on a weekly basis until the 29th of March.
Bree Street Sundays are brought to you by @young_urbanists , @geordin.hill.lewis and @cityofct with support from @safepassageza and @missionforinnercityct .
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Videos from @newstreetssa , @sollynotsorry_ and edit by Solly
We will be presenting our work at #PlacemakingWeekEurope2025 this week in📍Reggio Emilia! 🤩
Ana Rivas and Marcos Gold from Fitzrovia, we’ll be sharing the projects #SteinhuberMiniblock and #FitzAndSitz, part of the session “The power of #StreetExperiments”.
Will be happy to connect if you are around!
📅 Thursday at 14:30
📍Officine Credem - Conference Room B
Excited that my talk “From Mobility Justice to Street Experiments: Game Changers in Public Space Transformations?” will open the course Accesibilidades, Ciudad y Movilidad tomorrow at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid!
I’ll be sharing perspectives from our work at the @tu.muenchen on how principles of accessibility (#TUMAccessibilityPlanning), mobility justice (#TUMobilityJustice), and street experiments (@street_experiments ) can drive meaningful change towards human-centred planning in our neighborhoods and cities.
If you are in Madrid, I would love to see familiar faces and new ones alike. Come join the conversation on how we can rethink our cities to be more inclusive, sustainable, and liveable.
#UPM 🤝 #TUM
🚧🌳MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!🌳🚧
After an intense day at Remaking the Street Summer School, 2 lovely parkets have transformed 4 🚗🚗🚗🚗 parking spaces into beautiful places to meet people, relax, enjoy, work, take a call, connect, etc…you name it!
Hear firsthand experiences from our 2025 changemakers! 🎥 starring (in order of appearance) 🌟 Yifei Wang 🌟Paul Brauneis, 🌟Lucía De Zan, 🌟Hashan Perera, 🌟Nicholas Russo, 🌟Benedict Wonder Dargbeh, 🌟Mara Blersch, and 🌟Francisco Sousa
Thank you all for your energy, creativity, and teamwork 👊🏼💥during our Parklet building marathon! Applause from all of us to every participant who made this possible!
Special thanks to @wow.urbaneutopien@benni.zimmer@elisa.maschmeier@anichely@moeneeee@benjaminbutton089 and TV host 🎤 @georgeliu_phd
behind the camera 🎥 Christopher Piras
#RemakingTheStreet Summer School is an academic program hosted by @tum_school_ed and @humankindcity
Funded by: @eiturbanmob part of @eiturbanmobility_masterschool
