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Reimagining Potential: The Expanded Ontario Community Changemakers Program

November 22, 2024

30 Community Leaders Selected as Ontario Community Changemakers for Their Innovative Ideas to Improve Their Communities

October 1, 2024

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day

September 29, 2024

Creating Spaces for All: How 8 80 Cities is Playing a Pivotal Role in Advancing the School Streets Movement in Canada

September 18, 2024

20 Community Leaders Selected for Knight Emerging City Champions Fellowship Program to Build Vibrant Communities Across the U.S.

Copenhagen, Here We Come (again)!

Government of Canada Announces $3 Million Investment to Support Children’s Physical Activity

Applications Are Open For The New And Improved 2024 Ontario Community Changemakers Program

8 80 Cities Has Received Funding From The Public Health Agency Of Canada As Part Of The Healthy Canadians And Communities Fund

8 Questions With 8 80Cities: An Interview With Ryan Lo

The Knight Emerging City Champions Program Is Back And Now Accepting Applications For 2024!

8 80 Cities is Hiring A Finance Manager

January 22, 2024

What Do People Do In Public Parks?

December 7, 2023

Lessons From Copenhagen

November 2, 2023

Joint Research Team Studies Sustainable Cities In Copenhagen

November 2, 2023

Reimagining North American Streets for Safe, Active, and Joyful Trips to School

October 4, 2023

The Power of Unconventional Funding

August 29, 2023

Twenty Young Leaders Selected As Ontario Community Changemakers For Their Innovative Ideas To Improve Their Communities

A “New” Solution to Toronto’s Housing Affordability Crisis

A Conversation With Parinita Rajagopalan, Director, Policy and Partnerships, Parks and Recreation Ontario

8 80 Cities Is Hiring A Project Coordinator

News Release: Applications Are Now Open For The 2023 Ontario Community Changemakers Program!

#OCChangemakers 2021-2022 Project Highlights: Carly, Leah and Serisha

November 30, 2022

#OCChangemakers 2021-2022 Project Highlights: Tennesha, Natalie and Meliha

November 23, 2022

#OCChangemakers 2021-2-22 Project Highlights: Cheryl, Erin, Kaitlyn and Mitchell

November 17, 2022

The Honour of Supporting and Celebrating More Changemakers from Ontario

October 31, 2022

8 Questions With 8 80 Cities: In Conversation With Sue Lantz On Aging In Place

October 27, 2022

City Of Kitchener Builds Pop-Up Park In Front Of Carl Zehr Square

October 4, 2022

Transformed Vivian Lane Unveiling

September 13, 2022

Our New 5-Year Strategic Plan!

Twenty Young Leaders Selected As Ontario Community Changemakers For Their Innovative Ideas To Improve Their Communities

School Streets Taking Off Across The GTHA

8 80 Cities Is Hiring a Project Manager!

The City of Brampton Receives Government of Canada Support through My Main Street Community Activator Placemaking Program

Changemaker Spotlight: Updates from #OCChangemakers Serisha Iyar, Moka Dawkins and Jessica Amponsah

Mississauga Students Give School Streets An A+ For Fun!

A Message From Our Executive Director: Thank you LBJ!

Changemaker Spotlight: Updates from #OCChangemakers Natalie Tyson, Mitchell House, and Nithursan Elamuhilan

Changemaker Spotlight: Updates from #OCChangemakers Raven Debassige, Tennesha Joseph, Carly Hayes and Gul-e Rana

Changemaker Spotlight: Updates from #OCChangemakers Kaitlyn Dwyer, Kennishia Boahene and Rhiannon Cobb

Changemaker Spotlight: Updates from #OCChangemakers Leah Walker, Meliha Horzum and Erin Hayward

Changemaker Spotlight: Updates from #OCChangemakers Cheryl Lui, Olivia Rozema and Jessica Macasaet-Bondy

News Release: Applications are open for the 2022 Ontario Community Changemakers Program!

8 Questions With 8 80 Cities: In Conversation With Chris Glover on Addressing Homelessness

Schools Streets Webinar & Workshop Coming This March!

February 14, 2022

2021 Yearbook: A Look Into A Year Of Continuous Challenges

January 31, 2022

The Future of Vision Zero and Right-Hand Turns on Reds

December 22, 2021

Harnessing The Power Of 124 Innovators: How Emerging City Champions Trained Young Leaders To Create More Inclusive Public Spaces In Their Cities

December 22, 2021

Co-creating Inclusive Healthy Cities with City Leaders from Edmonton, Waterloo and Winnipeg

November 26, 2021

Press Release: AIPH Partners With 8 80 Cities In Support Of The World’s First Global “Living Green” Awards

November 24, 2021

Buses, Bikes & You: How One BRT Can Connect Communities Across The Toronto-Durham Region

November 11, 2021

$25,800 OTF Grant Gives Additional Lens to 8 80 Cities

October 1, 2021

A Dual Release of Winter Placemaking and Addressing Homelessness in Parks Guides

September 28, 2021

Protected: Ontario Community Changemakers: Mid-year Catch Up – Toronto

November 6, 2021

New Project to Pilot School Streets in Three Ontario Communities

September 9, 2021

First Edition of Ontario Community Changemakers Kicks Off!

August 30, 2021

Addressing Homelessness in Parks: Towards A Human Rights Approach

News Release: Twenty Young Leaders from Ontario Selected as Ontario Community Changemakers to Improve Their Communities

8 Questions with 8 80 Cities: In Dialogue with Maureen Healey, Executive Director of the Bronte BIA in Oakville, ON

8 80 Summer Students Series: It’s Pride and Bike Month!

Statement in Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples on Kamloops Indian Residential School Burial Site

News Release: 8 80 Cities Announces New Ontario-based Leadership and Microgrant Program

ECC 2020 Reconnect: What Are Quynh-Mai, Andy and Raie Up To?

ECC 2020 Reconnect: What Are Christine, Iliana and Stasia Up To?

ECC 2020 Reconnect: What Are Chris, Justin and Marcus Up To?

ECC 2020 Reconnect: What Are Anna, Jordan and Weston Up To?

ECC 2020 Reconnect: What Are Darion, Courtney and Alexa Up To?

Mobility 101: Simple Ways to Improve Getting Around During a Pandemic

February 26, 2021

8 80 Cities Is Hiring A Project Manager

February 24, 2021

Wintermission Tackles Winter Isolation And Gets People Outside Three Cities At A Time

February 17, 2021

8 80 Cities takes part in a new Healthy Communities Initiative

February 4, 2021

December 17, 2020

Winter Is Coming: 6 Ways Local Leaders Can Help People Warmly and Safely Social Distance Outdoors During COVID-19

December 8, 2020

15 Years Supporting Community-led Public Space Transformation

December 2, 2020

We Won 2019 Road Safety Initiative of the Year from the Ontario Ministry of Transportation

November 18, 2020

Parenthood And My Whole New Relationship With Parks

October 22, 2020

A Look at Permanent Change in Toronto

September 16, 2020

ECC 2019 Catch-Up: Akron, Saint Paul and San José

September 9, 2020

ECC 2019 Catch-Up: Philadelphia

September 3, 2020

ECC 2019 Catch-Up: Macon & Miami

September 2, 2020

ECC 2019 Catch-Up: Aberdeen, Duluth and State College

September 1, 2020

ECC 2019 Catch-Up: Detroit & Charlotte

August 31, 2020

Meet the 2020 Emerging City Champions

August 19, 2020

Twenty Millennials and Gen Z Leaders Selected as Emerging City Champions Fellows to Lift Up Cities Now and Post-COVID-19

August 19, 2020

Meet Our Board of Directors Series

August 13, 2020

Meet Our Board of Directors Series

Meet Our Board of Directors

#PostCovidCity: The Future of Community Engagement

Attention Future City Leaders: Emerging City Champions Fellowship Is Open for Applications

8 80 Cities: Our Statement on Anti-Black Racism, Human Rights, and Public Space

Emerging City Champions 2020 is Now Accepting Applications

#POSTCOVIDCITY: Let’s Take This Summer to Rethink Winter

Gil Penalosa: ‘Lockdown Is an Opportunity of a Lifetime for Bike Lanes’

#POSTCOVIDCITY: Will COVID-19 Be the Excuse We Need to Design More Family-friendly Cities?

#POSTCOVIDCITY: Observations on Emerging Global Trends

Looking back at 2019 – A Year of Action and Impact!

#POSTCOVIDCITY: How to Create a More Equitable Public Realm amid COVID-19

Expanding 8 80 Cities’ Professional Involvement

Bike Lanes Gave my Dad his Independence Back

Helping to Flatten the Curve of COVID-19

8 80 Cities Welcomes Our New Managing Director

A New Standard for Playgrounds

My City Too Report

February 12, 2020

Bringing Public Life to Winter Cities: Wintermission Pilot Projects

February 11, 2020

Eight Questions with 8 80 Cities Volunteers

January 20, 2020

How Melbourne Went From ‘Donut City’ to ‘Livable City’: Lessons from Our Study Group

December 23, 2019

Join Our High Impact Team!

December 20, 2019

ECC 2018 Catch Up: San Jose

December 13, 2019

ECC 2018 Catch Up: Aberdeen, Lexington, State College, and Grand Forks

December 12, 2019

ECC 2018 Catch Up: Akron, St. Paul, and Macon

December 10, 2019

ECC 2018 Catch Up: Philadelphia

December 11, 2019

ECC 2018 Catch Up: Charlotte and Detroit

December 9, 2019

We’ll Miss You, Ryan O’Connor

November 25, 2019

Eight Questions with Niklas Agarwal

October 30, 2019

This Toronto Streets Is Banning Cars for Kids’ Safety

October 30, 2019

How Toronto Can Improve Transit and Road Safety in Days Rather than Years

October 29, 2019

New Pilot Project Bans Vehicles from Street in Front of Toronto School

October 29, 2019

Street in Front of High Park School Blocks Off Cars During Morning, Afternoon Rush

October 28, 2019

Toronto’s first-ever “School Streets” pop-up will create a car-free zone that prioritizes pedestrians, especially children walking to school, in the lead-up to Halloween

October 24, 2019

Why Did Our Children Stop Walking to School?

October 19, 2019

The importance of Walkability: Introduction to the Walkonomics App

October 11, 2019

Non-profit Group Takes Road Safety Into Its Hands with North York Experiment

October 7, 2019

The Doable City Reader – A Reminder That Change in Our Cities Is Doable (Possible)

September 27, 2019

8 80 Cities Continues on Their Mission to Accelerate Action on Pedestrian Fatalities with a New Safe-street Makeover on Pineway Blvd.

September 17, 2019

8 80 Streets Pineway: Traffic Calming Pop-up Street Intervention

September 16, 2019

An Interview with Krista Nightengale, Managing Director of The Better Block Foundation

September 12, 2019

Video Coverage 8 80 Streets Danforth

September 4, 2019

繁华大街安全道路试点行人和单车族优先

August 26, 2019

Les Piétons et les Cyclistes à la Reconquête de la Rue

August 24, 2019

‘What a Safe Street Looks Like’: On the Danforth, a Weekend Pop-Up Showcases Pedestrian-Friendly Infrastructure

August 24, 2019

It’s Time to Redesign Toronto’s Deadly Streets. A Pilot Project Shows the Way

August 23, 2019

Danforth Avenue Transformed Between Woodbine and Woodmount for 8 80 Streets Pop-Up

August 23, 2019

Part of the Danforth Getting Temporary Makeover this Weekend

August 22, 2019

Danforth Pop-Up Project Aims to Raise Awareness About Street Safety

August 21, 2019

8 80 Streets Danforth Pop-up Focusing on Pedestrian Safety Will Be First of its Kind in Canada

August 20, 2019

AARP New Mexico Collaborates with Gil Penalosa to Build Livable Communities

August 19, 2019

Open Streets Toronto: Yonge et Bloor sans Voitures Dimanche

August 19, 2019

Toronto Issued 90,000 Red-light Camera Tickets Last Year, a Rise of Nearly 50 Per Cent

August 19, 2019

Pop-up Demonstration on Safe Street Design Planned for Danforth

August 19, 2019

Press Release: 8 80 Cities and Partners Debut Innovative Pop-up Safe Street Designs on Section of Toronto’s Danforth Ave. August 23-24, 2019

August 14, 2019

20 Emerging City Champions Ready to Lead Their Communities to a Better Future

August 12, 2019

How to Create Vibrant Public Spaces: Reflections from Ottawa’s ByWard Market

8 Questions with Daniel Rotsztain and Brendan Stewart

8 80 Streets Danforth: The First Vision Zero Pop-Up in Canada to Demonstrate How an Innovative Street Makeover Can Reduce Pedestrian Fatalities

My City Too: Building a More Child-friendly Toronto

These Maconites Won $5,000 to Create Resources for Residents. Here Are Their Plans.

Meet Charlotte’s Emerging City Champions Tackling Pollution and Mobility

20 Community Leaders Selected for Emerging City Champions Fellowships Program to Build Vibrant Communities Across the U.S.

8 Questions with Dr. Zhixi Zhuang, Associate Professor, Ryerson University’s School of Urban and Regional Planning

Walkability Summit Aims to Boost Well-Being Across Region

What Are School Streets?

The Resource Hub: A Place for 8 80 Ideas, Inspiration and Action

Bike to Work, a Sustainable Culture Shift

An Interview with Camille Llanes-Fontanilla, Executive Director of SOMOS Mayfair, San Jose, CA

Three Reflections from Saskatoon’s Bike Culture

How to Tell if You’re Suffering from Copenhagen Withdrawal-itis

Wintermission Buffalo: Building on Neighborly Resilience

All Aboard the Transit Pilot Project

How Would You Transform Your City? The Emerging City Champions 2019 Fellowship Is Now Accepting Applications

Wintermission Leadville: Learning How a Mountain Town Celebrates and Copes with Winter

Wintermission Eau Claire: Understanding the Challenges

Beginning Our Wintermission

February 20, 2019

8 80 Cities 2018 Yearbook

February 7, 2019

8 80 Cities Announces Winning Wintermission Cities

January 22, 2019

8 80 Cities Team Is Growing

January 18, 2019

Risk-Taking in Duluth, Minnesota: Lessons Learned from “Imagine Canal Park”

January 11, 2019

Winter City Round Up

Wintermission In The News

If You Are Passionate About Cities, We Want to Hear from You!

December 14, 2018

From “Awful” to Great: How Edmonton Reshaped the Meaning of Winter

November 29, 2018

Winter Shouldn’t Shut Down Our Cities — It’s Time to Revive Public Life in the Cold

November 13, 2018

Competition Launched for Wintermission – a Project That Aims to Improve Public Life in Winter in Three U.S Cities

October 31, 2018

An Open Streets Family Reunion: Reflections from the 2018 Open Streets Summit

October 26, 2018

Welcome to the 8 80 Archives

October 19, 2018

If You Love Cities, this Job Is for You!

October 12, 2018

Open Streets Toronto is a Labour of Love, Pure Love

October 4, 2018

Creating Parks and Public Spaces for People of All Ages

September 14, 2018

Smart Cities Are Making Us Dumber

August 31, 2018

1UP Leaders Lab: Youth City Builders Putting Ideas into Action

August 31, 2018

8 80 Cities: Building Better Cities for and with Families

August 16, 2018

Breakwater Park in Kingston, Ontario, Is Open and Looks Amazing!

August 10, 2018

Civic Commons Learning Journey: Toronto

8 Questions with Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam

Meet the K880 Emerging City Champions 2017: Kayana, Tyrell and Rachel

Meet the K880 Emerging City Champions 2017: Amy and Omar

Meet the K880 Emerging City Champions 2017: LaTierra and Eric

Meet the K880 Emerging City Champions 2017: Morgan and Spud

Meet the K880 Emerging City Champions 2017: Michael and Lorna

Meet the K880 Emerging City Champions 2017: Michael and Suze

Meet the K880 Emerging City Champions 2017: Danielle and Josh

8 80-Proofing Toronto’s Union Station

20 Emerging City Champions Selected to Lead Innovative Urban Projects

8 80 Cities 2017 Yearbook

Active Transportation in Canada’s Automotive Capital

Miami Can Be More Linked and Livable Now

Open Streets 704 is back and expected to draw 25,000+ participants

#TBT: Public Space and Local Businesses in Portland

What Will It Take To Make Phoenix A More Livable City?

Akron Gets $127,000 To Plan the Next Decade of Bike Lanes

The Sign of an Advanced City

Four Stories of Youth Creating Change in the City

What are we waiting for? It’s time to Transform Yonge.

Promoting Literacy and Community Engagement in Miami

Helping Build Cities for and by People

An Interview with Al Bangoura, Recreation Superintendent of Mecklenburg County Parks & Recreation

2018 Emerging City Champions Fellowship Accepting Applications from Young Civic Innovators

#TBT: 8 80 Copenhagen Study Tour 2015 Inspiration

#TBT: Mobility as a Path of Health, Wealth & Happiness

February 22, 2018

Advocates call on Tory to support Yonge Street bike lane project

February 20, 2018

Emerging City Champions 2017: Growing Community With Gardens

February 15, 2018

To make a Toronto for all, you need to start with a #KingForAll

February 9, 2018

Coalition launches ‘We Love King’ campaign to show support for pilot project

February 5, 2018

#TBT: What is a Walkable City?

February 1, 2018

#TBT: Streetsville Main Street Square

January 25, 2018

Copenhagen’s Catalytic Effect

January 19, 2018

#TBT: Wintermission: St. Paul, MN

January 18, 2018

World-renowned urban planner, Gil Penalosa, encourages Cowichan Valley to ‘benchmark with the best’

January 17, 2018

#TBT: Red Deer Mobility Playbook

January 11, 2018

Signs You Don’t Live in an 8 80 City

January 4, 2018

#TBT: The Doable Neighbourhood Project – Cochrane, ON

January 4, 2018

8 New Year’s Resolutions that Cities Should Make For 2018

December 19, 2017

#TBT: All Doggies Go to Berczy Park

December 14, 2017

#TBT – Livable Streets for All Report

December 7, 2017

Who Said What Now? Volume 1

November 30, 2017

Bringing the Next Generation to NXT Symposium

November 2, 2017

Better Cities for Young Children Means Better Cities for All

November 2, 2017

Changes at 8 80 Cities

October 31, 2017

That’s a Wrap on Colour the Square

October 30, 2017

Raging About Roads: Volume 1

October 23, 2017

1UP Starter Kit Receives Sappi Ideas That Matter Grant

October 19, 2017

Searching for Inspiration in Copenhagen

October 2, 2017

What Does an 8 80 City Mean to Torontonians

September 19, 2017

High School Students Are Ready to Take Up City Building

September 6, 2017

Planning a Planning Conference for More Than Just Planners

Macon Connects Awarded by Center for Active Design

Celebrating Parks as Free Public Spaces for All

Join Open Streets Project for an Open Streets Study Tour October 6th-8th!

Meet Emerging City Champions: Ziba and Amanda

Exploring the value of local voices to drive change: The Future of Facer Street

Meet Emerging City Champions: Bucky and Richard

Meet Emerging City Champions: Hanna and Cristina

Meet Emerging City Champions: Clio and Marcus

Meet the Emerging City Champions: Kia and Zak

Meet the Emerging City Champions: Simone and Beth

Meet the K880 Emerging City Champions: Jason and Germane

Meet Emerging City Champions: Ezekiel and Sarah

A Whirlwind Week: The Lexington Immersion

Vision and Tonic-Lessons from Guadalajara 2020

Building Community Trust through Tactical Urbanism – Lessons from West Palm Beach, FL

8 80 Cities’ New Website

20 Emerging City Champions Chosen to Lead Innovative Urban Projects

Work in progress: From Neglected Alley to ‘Open Gallery’ in Downtown San Jose

Informal Urbanism: A Global Perspective

How Would You Use $ 5,000 to Improve Your City? Emerging City Champions Fellowship Accepting Applications

CicLAvia Opens Streets and Minds to Transit

Creativity, Daringness, and Honesty: Why We Need Youth to be City Builders Today

Turning Over a New Snowflake: A Recap of the Winter Cities Shake-Up Conference

A New Tool for the Open Streets Movement

Loving where you live, madly and passionately

February 14, 2017

“It’s an Honour to Be Nominated.” 8 80 Cities Listed as Finalist for Knight Cities Challenge

February 2, 2017

Light, Camera, Action: Colouring Celebration Square

December 12, 2016

The Parking Lot Diaries: Turning Around the Big Yellow Taxi

December 12, 2016

The Pilot Project that Increased Macon’s Bike Counts by Nearly Tenfold

December 6, 2016

Historic Northwest Rising: Food, Music, and Community Engagement

November 30, 2016

8 80 Cities at the Annual Conference of the Ciclovias Recreativas de Las Americas

November 30, 2016

Livable Cities Expert Tours Downtown Springfield: ‘You Need to Go from Good to Great’

November 17, 2016

Who knew active mobility could be so fun and colourful? 8 80 Cities at Ajax Pumpkinville

November 17, 2016

Macon Mayor’s Trip to Denmark Underscores Benefits of Cycling for Cities

November 5, 2016

West Palm Beach CRA Kicks Off Ideas Festival

November 5, 2016

Having the Drive to Fail

November 3, 2016

8 80 Cities in Copenhagen

October 26, 2016

Cross-fit, Skaters, and a Breast-feeding Clinic. Open Streets Detroit brings people together on 4 miles of streets

October 7, 2016

The Power of Pop-Up

September 21, 2016

Onward and Upward: A Recap of the Open Streets Summit

September 1, 2016

New Video: Emerging City Champions 2016

August 24, 2016

Pop Up Market Place (PUMP) Project

August 11, 2016

Repurposing Our Streets for Physical Activity: The Open Streets Model

Open Streets TO expands its car-free pedestrian paradise this summer

Growing Community Projects Through Collaboration

Emerging City Champions Studio: A Boot Camp for Urbanists

How to Get a Car-Dependent City Fired Up about Sustainable Mobility

The Open Streets Movement is at a Tipping Point as an International Phenomenon. Let’s Open our Streets and Reshape our Communities!

20 Urbanists to Pursue Groundbreaking Projects as 2016 Emerging City Champions

Building Community Connections: Champs Enhance Civic Engagement With Innovative Projects

8 80 Cities Contributes to Knight Cities Challenge Winners

Thunder Bay’s Paterson Park Redesign Options Unveiled

How the 2016 Emerging City Champions Will Help Transform Communities

How to Host an Outdoor Public Consultation…In the Dead of Winter

February 25, 2016

The Pooch Effect: In Search of Social Icebreakers

February 19, 2016

The Winter Jacket for your Brain

February 11, 2016

How Opening Up Our Streets Can Help Build a Culture of Health

February 10, 2016

The Immersion Effect: Four Cities’ Progress in Four Months

February 1, 2016

Plan Strives to Make Victoria “The Best Small Cycling City in the World”

February 1, 2016

Why Do You Have to Close Streets to Cars for an Open Streets Program?

January 21, 2016

Five Innovative Ideas to Create Vibrant Cities: 8 80 Cities Collaborating on Projects Shortlisted for the Knight Cities Challenge

January 19, 2016

Only in Cochrane: Swim with Polar Bears, Ride Free Bikes

January 13, 2016

Hogtown Stories: A Director’s Growing Interest in Indian Culture

January 12, 2016

The Mystery of the Bike in the Snow

January 7, 2016

2015 Year in Review

December 18, 2015

Why Outdoor Rinks Are the Coolest Winter Spaces

December 17, 2015

Why You Should Be Paying Attention to Windsor, Ontario

December 10, 2015

The Business Case: How the Public Realm and the Urban Economy Go Hand in Hand

December 7, 2015

Thoughts on the Under Gardiner

December 3, 2015

K880 Champions Still Making News

November 20, 2015

#BIKETORIA in the Rain: Our Weekend Engaging Residents in Victoria

November 10, 2015

The Doable City Reader. Chapter 4: Walkability

October 26, 2015

8 80 Cities – Building Spaces for 8 Year Olds and 80 Year Olds

October 22, 2015

Get Your (Open Streets) Facts Straight

October 19, 2015

K880 Fellows Make Waves with Innovative Community Projects

October 16, 2015

Jonathan Holth and Stephanie Erickson: Copenhagen teaches lessons in livability

October 14, 2015

San Jose: Where Roads Close, Community Comes out for Inaugural Viva CalleSJ event

October 14, 2015

Our International Study Tours Have the Power to Inspire

October 8, 2015

Highlights from the Open Streets Summit, Atlanta 2015

October 8, 2015

Atlanta Streets Alive Making Our City More People Friendly

October 1, 2015

Bringing a Little Bit of Copenhagen Home

October 1, 2015

Likin’ the bikin’ in Copenhagen

September 25, 2015

The Doable City Reader. Chapter 3: Network Connections

September 25, 2015

What’s So Good about Copenhagen?

September 18, 2015

Quantifying the Impact of Parks and Rec

September 17, 2015

Cycling ‘dream team’ awarded $300,000 contract to design new bike lanes

September 11, 2015

8 80 Cities to Help Build Minimum Grid of Bike Lanes in Victoria, BC

September 10, 2015

September 4, 2015

Creating Cool Winter Neighbourhoods: The Winterhood Lab Project in St. Paul, Minnesota

August 31, 2015

The Doable City Reader. Chapter 2: Hidden Assets

August 31, 2015

You Want a Productive, Happy Workforce? Let Them Sweat.

August 21, 2015

Can the New Urban Agenda Spark the Local Action Needed?

August 14, 2015

27 Ideas Advance in 2015 Knight Green Line Challenge

August 12, 2015

5 Questions for Gil Penalosa

Detroit on the Move

Detroit, Let’s All be Urban Planners

“Great One”

The Doable City Reader. Chapter 1: Making Change: How small actions have big impact

Socializing Through Music

Open Streets Toronto to Bring Back City’s Largest Free Recreation Program

Gil Penalosa to Keynote Open Streets Summit

Got a Wild, Crazy, and Unrealistic Idea? Our K880 Champs Have your Back

How Portland Got Weird: Three Lessons from our Portland Study Tour

Give Me a Break, Toronto

Introducing the Doable City Reader

Prioritizing Pedestrians Is Prioritizing People’s Lives

Why We Don’t Do Open Street Events

Three Groups Making Their Communities More Vibrant

8-80 Cities will help civic leaders build more active, livable cities with $939,700 from Knight Foundation

February 17, 2015

Staples: Is Edmonton ready for an anti-car revolution?

February 5, 2015

It starts with brainstorming

January 15, 2015

Gil Penalosa: a pathway to a more sustainable Sydney

November 20, 2014

Open Streets Toronto paves way to a better city: Hume

August 18, 2014

Open Streets Thunder Bay attracts hundreds Car-free Algoma Street makes room for pedestrians, cyclists

Good to Great: Placemaker Gil Penalosa visits the Twin Cities

8-80 Cities Forum: The Doable City gathers community leaders from across the country to foster more livable cities

The Pied Piper for sustainable transportation’ and his radical idea: Put people first

Group wants to close 10 kilometres of Bloor Street for a giant “Open Streets” festival

February 7, 2014

Massive open streets festival planned for Toronto

February 6, 2014

Penalosa to Keynote Conference on Public Transportation and Universities

January 24, 2014