Sustrans Scotland's Street Design program aims to improve streets through a community-led process. The program has completed 9 projects so far, engaging communities through public meetings, online platforms, and gathering input at all stages of design. Street Design uses a holistic approach to create concept designs that deliver infrastructure improvements and an engaged community. Projects are evaluated based on the quality of community engagement, the design process and iterations, and before/after data showing increased active travel and community cohesion.
Sustrans Scotland Raising the Standards Day 2017: Monitoring and EvaluationSustrans
Our research and monitoring unit specialists explain how they can help you get the data to answer the questions of what you should invest in to achieve active mobility, by understanding the impact of infrastructure and behaviour change programmes.
Sustrans Scotland Raising the Standards Day 2017: Community Engagement and Pl...Sustrans
Learn about the place standard, place vs. movement tools, the latest community engagement guidance and an overview of deign tools to help you identify priorities and create accessible designs.
Smart Citizens - Ethical Assessment & Artistic InterventionsPieter van Boheemen
Presentation of ethical assessment strategies and inspirational artistic interventions - Presented by Pieter van Boheemen at EID Rio de Janeiro on May 13, 2016
Mayor's Economic Development Commission presentationMatthew Crane
The mayor of Jasper presented on current and potential economic development projects and initiatives in the city. There are many ongoing and planned projects focused on improving infrastructure, developing a sense of place, and promoting the city. Projects include developing the downtown and riverfront areas, renovating old buildings, expanding trails and parks, conducting transportation and utility studies, and strengthening partnerships. The goal is to connect all projects and growth, avoid isolated initiatives, and continue building momentum to attract new residents and businesses to Jasper.
The document outlines principles for citizen engagement in co-creating future cities. It summarizes interviews with organizers of citizen engagement initiatives in cities like Aarhus, Santander, London, and Barcelona. 7 draft principles for citizen engagement are described. The principles emphasize empowering communities, designing for trust around change, facilitating ownership, debating across comfort zones, using challenges to drive innovation, choosing the right venues, and providing a clear process and visibility of outcomes. The document also outlines a proposed "Experimentation as a Service" journey from initial awareness and challenges to co-creation, experimentation, and examination over 17 months.
This document summarizes a workshop on Smart Places held by Socitm Ltd. It discusses how smart places focus on people, communities, and priorities rather than just technology. Smart places can improve many aspects of life through better connectivity, sustainability, and reducing environmental impact. The workshop included panels on digital advisors discussing issues like standards, data use, and location intelligence. It emphasized that everything happens somewhere and location-based data is key to connecting people, things, services and information in a locality. The summary outlines Socitm and LCIOC's policy asks of new governments around cyber security, counterterrorism, health/social care, and investing in digital skills and shared platforms.
The document outlines the vision of a corporate BI team to use data insights to support decision making at all levels of an organization. It discusses establishing dashboards for executive management and service areas. Next steps include developing additional dashboards, integrating data warehouses, and collaborating with universities on research projects analyzing impacts of initiatives like the night tube. The goal is for data-informed decisions to define processes and help the organization transform and thrive.
Sustrans Scotland Raising the Standards Day 2017: Monitoring and EvaluationSustrans
Our research and monitoring unit specialists explain how they can help you get the data to answer the questions of what you should invest in to achieve active mobility, by understanding the impact of infrastructure and behaviour change programmes.
Sustrans Scotland Raising the Standards Day 2017: Community Engagement and Pl...Sustrans
Learn about the place standard, place vs. movement tools, the latest community engagement guidance and an overview of deign tools to help you identify priorities and create accessible designs.
Smart Citizens - Ethical Assessment & Artistic InterventionsPieter van Boheemen
Presentation of ethical assessment strategies and inspirational artistic interventions - Presented by Pieter van Boheemen at EID Rio de Janeiro on May 13, 2016
Mayor's Economic Development Commission presentationMatthew Crane
The mayor of Jasper presented on current and potential economic development projects and initiatives in the city. There are many ongoing and planned projects focused on improving infrastructure, developing a sense of place, and promoting the city. Projects include developing the downtown and riverfront areas, renovating old buildings, expanding trails and parks, conducting transportation and utility studies, and strengthening partnerships. The goal is to connect all projects and growth, avoid isolated initiatives, and continue building momentum to attract new residents and businesses to Jasper.
The document outlines principles for citizen engagement in co-creating future cities. It summarizes interviews with organizers of citizen engagement initiatives in cities like Aarhus, Santander, London, and Barcelona. 7 draft principles for citizen engagement are described. The principles emphasize empowering communities, designing for trust around change, facilitating ownership, debating across comfort zones, using challenges to drive innovation, choosing the right venues, and providing a clear process and visibility of outcomes. The document also outlines a proposed "Experimentation as a Service" journey from initial awareness and challenges to co-creation, experimentation, and examination over 17 months.
This document summarizes a workshop on Smart Places held by Socitm Ltd. It discusses how smart places focus on people, communities, and priorities rather than just technology. Smart places can improve many aspects of life through better connectivity, sustainability, and reducing environmental impact. The workshop included panels on digital advisors discussing issues like standards, data use, and location intelligence. It emphasized that everything happens somewhere and location-based data is key to connecting people, things, services and information in a locality. The summary outlines Socitm and LCIOC's policy asks of new governments around cyber security, counterterrorism, health/social care, and investing in digital skills and shared platforms.
The document outlines the vision of a corporate BI team to use data insights to support decision making at all levels of an organization. It discusses establishing dashboards for executive management and service areas. Next steps include developing additional dashboards, integrating data warehouses, and collaborating with universities on research projects analyzing impacts of initiatives like the night tube. The goal is for data-informed decisions to define processes and help the organization transform and thrive.
Walking and Cycling: the next 40 years - Xavier Brice at Cycle City Active Ci...Sustrans
Sustrans is a charity working to enable people to travel by foot, bike, or public transport for more daily journeys over the next 40 years. The organization focuses on community engagement, individual behavior change, improving the built environment, and influencing policy to make active travel easier. Sustrans connects people and places to create livable neighborhoods and healthier commutes by foot or bike.
Sustrans matt winfield presentation at nla 2016 cycling under sadiq khanSustrans
Sustrans London Deputy Director, Matt Winfield, presents at the New London Architecture conference 3 August 2016.
NLA Annual Cycling Summit - Cycling in London under Sadiq Khan.
Investigating Cycle Safety - Martin Laban at Cycle City Active City Bradford ...Sustrans
One research project that considers accident data and perceptions of safety from a travel behaviour survey are evaluated as research approaches for building an evidence base.
Empowering Future Generations - Rosslyn Colderley at Cycle City Active City B...Sustrans
Sustrans works to empower future generations by promoting active travel to school. They have found that while 78% of young people want to travel actively like cycling, only 1-2% currently do so in the UK. Sustrans takes an integrated approach addressing individual behavior change, community engagement, the built environment, and policy to make active travel easier and more normal. Their programs like Bike It have helped dramatically increase the number of children cycling and walking to school.
Bike Life - Tim Burns at Cycle City Active City Bradford 2017Sustrans
Bike Life collects data on cycling provision, perceptions, behaviours and impact, and helps local authorities, city transport planners and wider industry professionals to make the case for everyday cycling in cities.
Ian Barrett's presentation for Festival of the Future City in BristolSustrans
Liveable city, Active City, Healthy City: A presentation about the work Sustrans has been delivering as part of Bristol Green Capital, and the opportunities for delivering sustainable and active travel.
The document outlines an agenda and project overview for a community meeting regarding the Cuyahoga County Greenway Plan. It introduces the project partners and consultants working on the plan. It provides an overview of the project purpose to develop a strategic plan for a network of interconnected greenways and trails across the county to serve all users. It discusses the structure and roles of teams involved, including a core team, project team, technical committee and steering committee.
The Midtown Plan outlines a vision for revitalizing a declining commercial corridor in Fort Collins, Colorado through transit-oriented development and urban design strategies. The plan area spans approximately 1 mile along College Avenue between Prospect Road and Harmony Road. The plan proposes creating distinct "character areas" along the corridor through architecture, public spaces, and streetscape improvements. It also recommends enhancing pedestrian and bicycle connections, prioritizing public transportation through a new bus rapid transit line, encouraging higher density development near transit stations, and implementing tools like tax increment financing to fund improvements and promote private redevelopment.
Presentation&workshop resultscb july 12 finalCrowdbrite
City of lemon Grove held an interactive workshop on July 12 to seek public input to create a 3 mile long greenway connecting neighborhoods and downtown.
An urban design presentation for staff and members at Wakefield MDC advocating the principles of good design, the economics and social benefits of good design.
This document summarizes community meetings being held to gather feedback on candidate routes for a proposed connected greenway and urban trail system across Cuyahoga County. The meetings will provide an overview of the project, discuss feedback received so far, and allow public input on an initial framework identifying potential routes. Attendees will learn about evaluation criteria to assess routes and provide questions and comments to help guide next steps, which include further developing and refining the route framework with additional analysis and stakeholder engagement.
Cleveland Avenue Bus Rapid Transit Public Meeting - July 15, 2014COTA BUS
COTA is conducting preliminary design, engineering and environmental clearance for the Cleveland Avenue Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Project. The proposed service will transport riders between downtown Columbus and Polaris Parkway/Africa Road, connect with existing bus routes, and include new stations. COTA is creating a unique identity for the proposed BRT/Enhanced Bus Service for Cleveland Avenue.
Bicycle Master Plan - Bicycle Boulevard Project - City of AustinBang the Table
This document discusses plans to develop a bicycle boulevard project along Nueces Street and Rio Grande Street in Austin. It provides an overview of the project, updates on public input received, and introduces a traffic consultant to analyze impacts. A design charrette and formation of a working group are proposed to finalize traffic calming measures and bicycle accommodations that balance the needs of all street users.
The document describes the Dublin Dashboard, an interactive online platform that provides real-time data and visualizations about Dublin to help answer questions about how the city is performing. It was developed by researchers at Maynooth University in partnership with Dublin City Council. The dashboard includes indicators of Dublin's economy, environment and society. It aims to make city data openly available to help with decision making, debate and policy. The researchers plan to continue expanding the dashboard's functions and encouraging others to build applications that utilize the data.
The document discusses green infrastructure and green streets as an approach to managing stormwater. Green street practices like stormwater tree trenches, curb bump outs, and permeable pavement allow stormwater to infiltrate into the ground where it falls or to be captured for reuse. Green streets provide environmental benefits like improved water quality and air quality as well as economic benefits like construction cost savings and higher property values. The document highlights examples of green street projects in New Jersey cities like Camden and Hoboken and provides resources for learning more about designing and implementing green streets.
Technology Tools for Transportation: Virginia's New River ValleyRPO America
Presentation by Elijah Sharp, New River Valley Planning District Commission, at the National Rural Transportation Peer Learning Conference, December 3 - 5, 2014 in Cincinnati, OH.
Walking and Cycling: the next 40 years - Xavier Brice at Cycle City Active Ci...Sustrans
Sustrans is a charity working to enable people to travel by foot, bike, or public transport for more daily journeys over the next 40 years. The organization focuses on community engagement, individual behavior change, improving the built environment, and influencing policy to make active travel easier. Sustrans connects people and places to create livable neighborhoods and healthier commutes by foot or bike.
Sustrans matt winfield presentation at nla 2016 cycling under sadiq khanSustrans
Sustrans London Deputy Director, Matt Winfield, presents at the New London Architecture conference 3 August 2016.
NLA Annual Cycling Summit - Cycling in London under Sadiq Khan.
Investigating Cycle Safety - Martin Laban at Cycle City Active City Bradford ...Sustrans
One research project that considers accident data and perceptions of safety from a travel behaviour survey are evaluated as research approaches for building an evidence base.
Empowering Future Generations - Rosslyn Colderley at Cycle City Active City B...Sustrans
Sustrans works to empower future generations by promoting active travel to school. They have found that while 78% of young people want to travel actively like cycling, only 1-2% currently do so in the UK. Sustrans takes an integrated approach addressing individual behavior change, community engagement, the built environment, and policy to make active travel easier and more normal. Their programs like Bike It have helped dramatically increase the number of children cycling and walking to school.
Bike Life - Tim Burns at Cycle City Active City Bradford 2017Sustrans
Bike Life collects data on cycling provision, perceptions, behaviours and impact, and helps local authorities, city transport planners and wider industry professionals to make the case for everyday cycling in cities.
Ian Barrett's presentation for Festival of the Future City in BristolSustrans
Liveable city, Active City, Healthy City: A presentation about the work Sustrans has been delivering as part of Bristol Green Capital, and the opportunities for delivering sustainable and active travel.
The document outlines an agenda and project overview for a community meeting regarding the Cuyahoga County Greenway Plan. It introduces the project partners and consultants working on the plan. It provides an overview of the project purpose to develop a strategic plan for a network of interconnected greenways and trails across the county to serve all users. It discusses the structure and roles of teams involved, including a core team, project team, technical committee and steering committee.
The Midtown Plan outlines a vision for revitalizing a declining commercial corridor in Fort Collins, Colorado through transit-oriented development and urban design strategies. The plan area spans approximately 1 mile along College Avenue between Prospect Road and Harmony Road. The plan proposes creating distinct "character areas" along the corridor through architecture, public spaces, and streetscape improvements. It also recommends enhancing pedestrian and bicycle connections, prioritizing public transportation through a new bus rapid transit line, encouraging higher density development near transit stations, and implementing tools like tax increment financing to fund improvements and promote private redevelopment.
Presentation&workshop resultscb july 12 finalCrowdbrite
City of lemon Grove held an interactive workshop on July 12 to seek public input to create a 3 mile long greenway connecting neighborhoods and downtown.
An urban design presentation for staff and members at Wakefield MDC advocating the principles of good design, the economics and social benefits of good design.
This document summarizes community meetings being held to gather feedback on candidate routes for a proposed connected greenway and urban trail system across Cuyahoga County. The meetings will provide an overview of the project, discuss feedback received so far, and allow public input on an initial framework identifying potential routes. Attendees will learn about evaluation criteria to assess routes and provide questions and comments to help guide next steps, which include further developing and refining the route framework with additional analysis and stakeholder engagement.
Cleveland Avenue Bus Rapid Transit Public Meeting - July 15, 2014COTA BUS
COTA is conducting preliminary design, engineering and environmental clearance for the Cleveland Avenue Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Project. The proposed service will transport riders between downtown Columbus and Polaris Parkway/Africa Road, connect with existing bus routes, and include new stations. COTA is creating a unique identity for the proposed BRT/Enhanced Bus Service for Cleveland Avenue.
Bicycle Master Plan - Bicycle Boulevard Project - City of AustinBang the Table
This document discusses plans to develop a bicycle boulevard project along Nueces Street and Rio Grande Street in Austin. It provides an overview of the project, updates on public input received, and introduces a traffic consultant to analyze impacts. A design charrette and formation of a working group are proposed to finalize traffic calming measures and bicycle accommodations that balance the needs of all street users.
The document describes the Dublin Dashboard, an interactive online platform that provides real-time data and visualizations about Dublin to help answer questions about how the city is performing. It was developed by researchers at Maynooth University in partnership with Dublin City Council. The dashboard includes indicators of Dublin's economy, environment and society. It aims to make city data openly available to help with decision making, debate and policy. The researchers plan to continue expanding the dashboard's functions and encouraging others to build applications that utilize the data.
The document discusses green infrastructure and green streets as an approach to managing stormwater. Green street practices like stormwater tree trenches, curb bump outs, and permeable pavement allow stormwater to infiltrate into the ground where it falls or to be captured for reuse. Green streets provide environmental benefits like improved water quality and air quality as well as economic benefits like construction cost savings and higher property values. The document highlights examples of green street projects in New Jersey cities like Camden and Hoboken and provides resources for learning more about designing and implementing green streets.
Technology Tools for Transportation: Virginia's New River ValleyRPO America
Presentation by Elijah Sharp, New River Valley Planning District Commission, at the National Rural Transportation Peer Learning Conference, December 3 - 5, 2014 in Cincinnati, OH.
This document outlines a collaborative project between New Jersey Future, the Village of Ridgewood, and Age Friendly Ridgewood to create an aging-friendly community in Ridgewood. It was funded by the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation. The project aims to improve pedestrian safety and mobility, expand housing diversity and affordability, and create a more vibrant downtown area. Main goals include engaging residents, improving intersections for pedestrians, exploring housing options for older residents, improving street furniture and lighting at bus stops, and implementing a phased plan for sidewalk and crosswalk improvements.
January 29, 2022 Grand Avenue Members Association l Community meetingPlanetCommunities
The document summarizes the planning process for greening Lower Grand Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona. It began with an EPA grant to the city. Consultants conducted a planning process that included stakeholder meetings, site visits, and a community charrette. The final design incorporated elements like gateways, hubs, links, and rooms, and features such as road diets, bike lanes, rain gardens, and public art. The design was implemented between 2012-2014. It was recognized for its urban design. The document also outlines short, medium, and long term policy and program recommendations for the city and partnerships to support the vision.
The document outlines the City of Vancouver's Complete Streets Planning initiative from 2017. It discusses that Complete Streets are designed to help achieve transportation targets by considering all users and modes of transportation. It also supports policies around sustainability, health, green infrastructure, and accessible transportation. Complete Streets are tailored for the local context and transportation network, balancing placemaking, green infrastructure, transportation needs, and adaptability. They are not a one-size-fits-all approach, and street typologies are informed by the transportation function, right-of-way, land use, and other unique factors of each street.
Emily Margot Lange has experience in both urban and regional planning and design. She holds a Master's degree in Regional Planning from UMass Amherst and a Bachelor's in Interior Design from Pratt Institute. Her experience includes internships with the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission evaluating municipal energy programs, the Boston Planning and Development Agency conducting community outreach, and The West Studio designing community engagement strategies. She also has experience in art direction for live television events working for ABC News, United Scenic Artists, and Sparks Marketing Group providing design services for clients such as Netflix, Google, and the Tony Awards.
INCEPTION enriches the European identity through the understanding of how European Cultural Heritage continuously evolves over long periods of time. INCEPTION’s Inclusive approach introduces novel solutions of 3D digital modelling:
1 - forever: INCEPTION “Time Machine” that represents an innovative use of timescale for dynamic 3D reconstruction;
2 - for everybody: portable, user-friendly and cost-effective hardware and software instruments for 3D capturing, modelling and analysis;
3 - from everywhere: INCEPTION’s proposed standard procedures for data acquisition and open-standard format for Cultural Heritage Building Information Modelling.
For further information visit the website: www.inception-project.eu
Walking and cycling network planning Simon PrattSustrans
This document discusses walking and cycling network planning in England. It outlines the government's ambition to make cycling and walking the natural choices for shorter journeys by 2040. It introduces Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs) as a long-term approach to developing local cycling and walking networks over 10 years. The LCWIP process involves 6 stages: determining scope, gathering information, planning cycling networks, planning walking networks, prioritizing improvements, and integrating outputs. Examples of LCWIPs for Basingstoke and East Sussex are provided.
Cycling: reducing the gender gap- Suzanne Motherwell & Tim BurnsSustrans
The document summarizes research by Sustrans, a UK charity, on gender differences in cycling. It finds that fewer women cycle compared to men due to motivations like safety concerns and family responsibilities. Women are interested in cycling more if infrastructure improves, such as protected bike lanes. The research calls for addressing inequalities to encourage more cycling overall and make it inclusive of all genders.
Cycling and walking to health- Rosslyn ColderleySustrans
The document summarizes the benefits of active travel (cycling and walking) based on a case study of the Stockton Active Travel Hub. The Hub saw a 12% increase in cycling to work, 9% decrease in car commuting, and 50% of respondents walking more. It engaged over 24,000 people through 400 led walks and 500 rides annually. Volunteer-led programs were highly valued, contributing an estimated £52k value each year. Initiatives targeted at older adults ("Silver Cyclists") saw increased participation when modified based on feedback to focus more on social aspects. The Director of Economic Growth and Development for Stockton-on-Tees praised the "profound impact" of the Hub and expressed interest in
This set of slides is from the Active Cities Summit, organised by Sustrans and Nike, and was delivered by Claire Craig.
Claire Craig is the Director for the Government Office for Science.
This presentation explores the Foresight Future of Cities study and active living in cities for economic success.
Chad Spoon - Building Active and Competitive CitiesSustrans
This set of slides is from the Active Cities Summit, organised by Sustrans and Nike, and was delivered by Chad Spoon.
Chad Spoon is the Communications and Partnership Manager for Active Living Research. His role is to communicate the research that ALR pulls together to promote healthy communities via built environment change. He tweets at @ALR_CSpoon.
The presentation explores research into building active and competitive cities to solve the problems of the 21st Century.
Francesca Racioppi - Why Are Active Cities Good for Business?Sustrans
This set of slides is from the Active Cities Summit, organised by Sustrans and Nike, and was delivered by Francesca Racioppi.
Francesca Racioppi is the Senior Policy and Programme Advisor for Environment and Health Policy and Governance at the World Health Organisation.
It explores why active cities are good for business, the challenges faced businesses, and the need for cities to become active cities for economic success.
This set of slides is from the Active Cities Summit, organised by Sustrans and Nike, and was delivered by Tim Stonor.
Tim Stonor is an architect and urban planner and is the Managing Director of Space Syntax and he tweets from @tim_stonor.
The presentation explores the future of active cities and looks at 5 important lessons from history for smarter ways to design our cities.
Bristol: Living city - Towards a Healthy City 2015, by Ian BarrettSustrans
Presentation by Sustrans' South West Regional Director.
Sustrans sees Green Capital 2015 as a unique, once in a lifetime opportunity to create healthier communities through changing transport habits and delivering new sustainable transport systems.
Scott Davidson Workplaces Smarter Travel ConferenceSustrans
Scott Davidson's presentation on Sustrans' Workplaces projects across the UK.
Our workplaces projects support employers across Wales to empower their staff to leave the car at home and travel to work by public transport, bike, foot or car share.
This presentation was for the 2015 Smarter Travel conference.
For more information on Sustrans' Workplaces project see http://www.sustrans.org.uk/wales/what-we-do/workplaces
Gary Shipp Access to Education Smarter Travel 2015Sustrans
This set of slides is from Gary Shipp's presentation at the Smarter Travel 2015 Conference.
It was delivered by Gary Shipp, National Projects Co-ordinator for Sustrans' Education and Young People team.
Delivering locally-tailored packages to enable people to travel by foot, cycle and public transport to school, college and university.
Read more about our work at http://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-services/who-we-work/education-sector
Flo Marshall Presentation for Smarter Travel 2015Sustrans
This set of slides is from the Smarter Travel 2015 Conference.
It was delivered by Flo Marshall, Senior Urban Designer in Sustrans' Community Street Design team.
Read more about the work at http://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-services/what-we-do/community-street-design
Travel behaviour change - Winning hearts and mindsSustrans
A presentation to Changing Gear: Active Travel Conference in Belfast, 16 October 2014, by Sarah Toy, Head of Workplace, Education & Community Projects, Sustrans.
We’re thinking big. And we hope this review goes some way to showing how our work is helping solve some of society’s most pressing issues.
Read the Annual Review online: http://www.sustrans.org.uk/about-us/annual-review
Presentation to Farrells By Finlay McNab for SustransSustrans
This set of slides is from a presentation to Farrells, and was delivered by Finlay McNab, Sustrans' National Projects Co-Ordinator for Street Design in September 2014.
It explores the key challenges faced by cities of the future, and the need to adopt a different and smarter way to design our cities. It also explores placemaking, and Sustrans' approach to Community Street Design.
Food safety, prepare for the unexpected - So what can be done in order to be ready to address food safety, food Consumers, food producers and manufacturers, food transporters, food businesses, food retailers can ...
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
UN WOD 2024 will take us on a journey of discovery through the ocean's vastness, tapping into the wisdom and expertise of global policy-makers, scientists, managers, thought leaders, and artists to awaken new depths of understanding, compassion, collaboration and commitment for the ocean and all it sustains. The program will expand our perspectives and appreciation for our blue planet, build new foundations for our relationship to the ocean, and ignite a wave of action toward necessary change.
Preliminary findings _OECD field visits to ten regions in the TSI EU mining r...OECDregions
Preliminary findings from OECD field visits for the project: Enhancing EU Mining Regional Ecosystems to Support the Green Transition and Secure Mineral Raw Materials Supply.
Working with data is a challenge for many organizations. Nonprofits in particular may need to collect and analyze sensitive, incomplete, and/or biased historical data about people. In this talk, Dr. Cori Faklaris of UNC Charlotte provides an overview of current AI capabilities and weaknesses to consider when integrating current AI technologies into the data workflow. The talk is organized around three takeaways: (1) For better or sometimes worse, AI provides you with “infinite interns.” (2) Give people permission & guardrails to learn what works with these “interns” and what doesn’t. (3) Create a roadmap for adding in more AI to assist nonprofit work, along with strategies for bias mitigation.
AHMR is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of Human Mobility in Africa. Through the publication of original research, policy discussions and evidence research papers AHMR provides a comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis of contemporaneous trends, migration patterns and some of the most important migration-related issues.
This report explores the significance of border towns and spaces for strengthening responses to young people on the move. In particular it explores the linkages of young people to local service centres with the aim of further developing service, protection, and support strategies for migrant children in border areas across the region. The report is based on a small-scale fieldwork study in the border towns of Chipata and Katete in Zambia conducted in July 2023. Border towns and spaces provide a rich source of information about issues related to the informal or irregular movement of young people across borders, including smuggling and trafficking. They can help build a picture of the nature and scope of the type of movement young migrants undertake and also the forms of protection available to them. Border towns and spaces also provide a lens through which we can better understand the vulnerabilities of young people on the move and, critically, the strategies they use to navigate challenges and access support.
The findings in this report highlight some of the key factors shaping the experiences and vulnerabilities of young people on the move – particularly their proximity to border spaces and how this affects the risks that they face. The report describes strategies that young people on the move employ to remain below the radar of visibility to state and non-state actors due to fear of arrest, detention, and deportation while also trying to keep themselves safe and access support in border towns. These strategies of (in)visibility provide a way to protect themselves yet at the same time also heighten some of the risks young people face as their vulnerabilities are not always recognised by those who could offer support.
In this report we show that the realities and challenges of life and migration in this region and in Zambia need to be better understood for support to be strengthened and tuned to meet the specific needs of young people on the move. This includes understanding the role of state and non-state stakeholders, the impact of laws and policies and, critically, the experiences of the young people themselves. We provide recommendations for immediate action, recommendations for programming to support young people on the move in the two towns that would reduce risk for young people in this area, and recommendations for longer term policy advocacy.
About Potato, The scientific name of the plant is Solanum tuberosum (L).Christina Parmionova
The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile
Synopsis (short abstract) In December 2023, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 30 May as the International Day of Potato.
25. Sustrans is the charity making it easier for people
to walk and cycle. We connect people and places,
create liveable neighbourhoods, transform the
school run and deliver a happier, healthier
commute.
Join us on our journey. www.sustrans.org.uk
Twitter @sustrans
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Editor's Notes
Street Design
Partnership project with local authorities and organisations
Completed 9 community led projects to date
We focus not just on Active Travel but place making and community strengthening
We know from experience and detailed monitoring that spaces designed around people 1st have positive benefits for active travel and also our social & mental health
We look at the whole environment when starting out on a project
Paul
Street Design - What do you get?
1. Through our work we bring people together, creating connections and empowering people
2. Through an iterative process of design development we produce ambitious concept designs that;
make the most of an areas physical and social assets
Identify opportunities to incentivise active travel locally
create a more people centred distinctive spaces that people want to spend time and money in and travel through actively
Emily
Stakeholder mapping - identifying representative groups and key contacts and champions within the specific area using a matrix - Public sector duty under the 2010 Equality Act
Desk top study and observation to working out what’s happening in a project area
Pre works data qualitative and quantitative data collection to benchmark projects inc;
Counts of pedestrian
Cyclist movements
Recording of vehicle speed and volume counts
Retail vitality studies
Community Involvement is vital to the quality of the Street Design process. We draw on the community's knowledge to propose designs responsive to local needs, ensuring the changes we make leave a long lasting legacy within communities.
In order to do this, our approach to engagement is in line with the National Standards for Community Engagement and Planning Aid Scotland’s SP=EED process. We use a co-design approach:
Inform: two-way process of us informing the community and, most importantly, the community informing us of their knowledge and ideas.
Involve: bring ideas to life using a 3D models
Consult: month long process to receive formal feedback on design proposals
Partner: in depth collaboration on the handover from concept design to detailed design
It’s important to support the engagement process by using a mixture of communication methods (face to face, paper, online and local media) to publicise and gain support for projects. For Balloch, this included:
Utilising the National Park’s communication channels such as ‘LIVE Park’ social media accounts and website which already had a great reach within the community;
Invitations and project newsletters regularly delivered to over 600 households by Sustrans, Community Council and WDC Community Payback team;
Regular press releases were picked up in the local media;
On street design boards which were eye catching;
Information displayed at venues; and
Through the project website, Commonplace
Commonplace was the project website that we used for Balloch. This interactive engagement tool was used to inform the design process, along with feedback received at events; showcase the design proposals; and summarise the findings of each engagement stage.
This allowed for a much wider engagement including the young, digital savy and hard-to-reach audiences. Approximately 600 people were engaged during Session 1 and 2 with a further 1,400 engaged during the consultation and handover.
Users could pin point their ideas and suggestions for the project on an interactive map, view comments made by other users (anonymously) and get up to date news from the website.
Information Gathering:
Desktop research allows us to build up the big picture of an area.
Allows us to scope out an area to get a feel for how it works for people as a place to live in, to work in, spend time in and move through.
This involves going out onto site and observing a spectrum of behaviours falling under the two broader fields of ‘Place’ and ‘Movement’.
(e.g. desire lines, lingering locations and times, lighting, street furniture, prevalent aesthetics, parking behaviour, vehicle movement etc.)
And of course, as a result we get lots of information and loads and loads and LOADS of photos.
We then begin to break down this big picture into more manageable sections
From the research and information gathering, we are then able to develop and gather resources that we will then be able to use at the point of engagement with communities.
As a project progresses, more and more information becomes available. This means that presentation of this information evolves over the course of a project, ranging from newsletters, leaflets and tri-boards to communicate information; to 3D models, flythroughs and visualisations used to communicate our ideas both at a wider scale and at eye-level.
The greatest outputs of all this information, however, are ideas.
Developing Ideas:
This stage is how we transform our information into an interpretation.
Included within our new SD application process is the proviso that we are now going to be less likely to approach communities with an ‘open book’ approach to generating ideas. Rather, we will more likely come to a community after our research stage with ideas that we feel could work well in an area based on our experiences and knowledge of what has worked before in similar scenarios. This will allow us to streamline the initial stages of a project and able to fit projects within stricter timelines and to tighter budgets.
We utilise sessions like our model kit sessions to try and get people to communicate to us how they feel their streets and spaces can be designed and refined to work better for them day-to-day.
These ideas can be fairly straightforward, or a bit mad.
It is then our job to go back and use technical expertise to interpret how these designs would look on the ground and how they might functionally operate in reality.
As a project progresses, more and more information and ideas become available. This means that presentation of this information evolves over the course of a project, moving from maps and sketches to 3D models, flythroughs and visualisations used to communicate our ideas both at a wider scale and at eye-level.
Iterative Design
With our iterative design process, we will normally produce multiple iterations of a design, since this allows ideas to be mixed and matched by the community, as well as making the later stages of a project much quicker to refine
Our later engagement stages are focussed on refining these proposals developed from our research and community engagement and bringing them back to communities to get feedback on
We present our drawings to a community and use resources like feedback forms or even post-it notes to allow people to make comments.
As we are moving forward with SD, in the future we will only be delivering a project to concept design stage, meaning that our main task through our involvement is the generation of ideas with communities and formalising these on paper in order to hand it over to the council for detailed design.
Our final engagement event usually involves us presenting the final concept proposals and inviting people to comment on these, as the comments will be handed over to our partners for consideration in the detailed design stage.
Following this, a package of all materials is gathered by the team and assembled to form the handover package to our partners, which documents the journey undertaken to get a project to the detailed design stage.
Rowena
The area was severed from the town centre by an arterial one way road and from the rest of Dumfries by a busy feeder route up from the river. Not only did it need its infrastructure improved but also time and energy injected into encourage a community spirit back into the streets.
Public opinion
An urban setting, disparate neighbourhood with feelings of insecurity and poor social inclusion.
The community were keen to generate a more positive story for the area – create a slower, more people friendly neighbourhood by improving the streets, housing and building on the Victorian architecture
Social environment
Design and build project with a strong community involvement throughout.
Overall Aim
Therefore to create a safer more vibrant and attractive place to live, work and travel through.
Partners
Commenced May 2013; workshops+ activities; bring together + strengthen social connections
Household surveys and events showed
Achievements throughout the project
Victorian themed lighting to reflect the vernacular buildings
Street signs replaced to be bolder and clearer
Doorsteps – flowers and pots encouraged
Demonstrating different ways to showcase how the streetscape could change
The project has achieved:
New people friendly street layouts co-designed directly with residents and stakeholders.
20mph designations and fully accessible neighbourhood
New directional signage for walking cycling
Installation of on street planters and trees
Iconic gateway artworks and mural co-designed with artists and residents
New lighting columns, litter bins, street signage and notice board
A stronger more sociable community with spirit and a will to take ownership of their streets.
New Application process
1. We’ll be launching a new application process for Street Design in 2018
2. What makes a good project?
Issue to deal with
Space has the potential to change
Local support for changes
3. Key criteria
Applicant has land authority powers
Traffic generators within the project area
Urban focus
Support for 20mph designation
END PRESENTATION SLIDE: New Application process
You’ll be able to put forward an application for Street Design in January 2018
Likely to be able to support 2 projects per year initially
Online applications will be possible from mid January 2018 for six weeks.
Project partners will need to be able to demonstrate how they can match fund our time and resource commitment
You can find more information by visiting the Street Design webpage or by picking up one of our leaflets