Such physical or psychological barriers are known as ‘community severance’ or as ‘the barrier effect’. The causes are large infrastructure, large volumes of traffic or traffic with high speed.

The Street Mobility and Network Accessibility project, is an on-going research project overcome barriers to walking among older people. This autumn, the project studied four cases of community severance in the UK, including in SUNRISE partner Southend-on-Sea. This has resulted in a toolkit on overcoming community severance which is now available.

The projects researchers have different backgrounds: public health, epidemiology, statistics, economics, transport geography, planning, space syntax, anthropology, and participatory action research. To learn about pedestrian behaviour and infrastructure, they used methods such as video analysis, infrastructure auditing, mapping workshop, surveys and space syntax analysis.

Find the toolkit here

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The gendered landscape philosophy of Umeå lays at the heart of urban planning decision making and is seen by them as ”a way of making statistics come alive and demonstrate concrete effects of striving for gender equality”. The planners in this city think that the effects of having gender in mind when planning, will then have positive repercussions on the entire society. 

Amongst other improvements and small local community projects, a new city passage between the city centre and the neighbourhood Haga is an example of gender mainstreaming in physical planning. The architects have worked with space, height, daylight, rounded edges, gradual gradient, artwork and maximal transparency. Working with gender mainstreaming meant awareness raising on issues of safety, fear, violence and power in public spaces. 

According to Urbact ”the method raises important questions about the city’s development and identity issues that are critical norms and, in some cases, provocative as well as challenging and dynamic. How do we build new tunnels, playgrounds, meeting places, recreation centres? Do we plan our public transport for those who use it or for those we wish would use it? Why are women using public transport more frequently than men? Who has the power to decide? What knowledge do we use when we are working on developing the city and our public spaces?”. 

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Recommended listening: Seeing better cities through your urban diary, with Chuck Wolfe 

In his book, ”Seeing the Better City: How to Explore, Observe, and Improve Urban Space”, author Chuck Wolfe weaves together street photography insights with creative use of the camera for urban diaries and documentation. These insights can be useful when co-opting people into a co-creation project. Listen to this interview here. 

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A few recommended episodes: 

The Anatomy of an Urban Cell – how urban areas can be improved with planner Robin Renner, author of “Urban Being: Anatomy and Identity of the City.”

Setting Real Goals and Accelerating Change – different patterns of urbanism and a bottom-up approach to changing cities.

Full episode list available here. 

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”Building Better Cities: Barcelona”

This episode explores how the city has changed along time, from the early 20th century to nowadays, its longstanding tradition with rebellion and what lessons it has learned for nowadays and the future. Listen here. 

Book Club from 16 august – Two new books Alexandra Langue’s ‘’The design of childhood’’ and Kelvin Campbell’s ‘’Making massive small change’’. Listen a short talk with the authors here. 

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Listen here. 

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Find here the case studies for Liège, Ostend and Hasselt. They have used the app to inquire about suggestions for improvement, the redesign of a park and policy priorities.

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This toolkit has been written primarily for those working in local mobility departments within the CIVITAS network, but can
be useful to anyone interested in achieving sustainable urban mobility. It is aimed at those who are involved in planning
and implementing transport measures and explains how stakeholder engagement can be achieved and how it can help
them in their work.

This stakeholder consultation toolkit provides guidelines, tips and checklists to help you with the planning and execution
of a range of consultation activities.

Find the toolkit here: Involving stakeholders – Toolkit on organising successful consultations

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A priority list of actions is drafted to enhance the accessibility on a neighbourhood scale. The special needs of more vulnerable groups such as the disabled, older people and children are particularly taken into account.

Despite its high relevance and potential to not only improve daily mobility but also social interaction in a neighbourhood, the concept is still the exception in Europe.

Find the guidelines here: Guidelines Neighbourhood Accessibility Planning 2010

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This video is part of the online course Co-creating Sustainable Cities, offered by the Wageningen University a Research and TU Delft.

Watch the video here.

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