About the Livable Streets Initiative
With the majority of the world's 6.5 billion human beings now living in cities, building healthy, livable and affordable urban environments is critical to the mission of today's global environmental movement.
The Livable Streets Initiative is an online community for people working to create sustainable cities through sensible urban planning, design, and transportation policy. We provide free, open source, web-based, resources to citizens working to create a greener economy, address climate change, reduce oil dependence, alleviate traffic congestion, and provide better access to good jobs in healthy communities.
We believe that people make a city great. Yet, so many of the world's great cities dedicate too much of their precious, limited public space - their streets - to motor vehicles rather than people. We are working to redesign our communities around public transportation and walkable, bikeable streets. We are transforming parking lots into public plazas, busy intersections into town squares, and congested highways into bike paths. We are taking back our cities, one street at a time. We invite you to join us!
Streetsblog
Streetsblog is a daily news source, online community and political mobilizer for the global Livable Streets movement. Launched in New York City in 2006, Streetsblog is building a Network of Livable Streets bloggers throughout North America and around the world.
Streetfilms
Streetfilms is the video arm of the Livable Streets Initiative: producing educational, entertaining, and inspiring films for a sustainable urban environment. Our short, on-line videos on topics such as bus rapid transit in Bogota, Colombia, neighborhood traffic-calming in Portland, Oregon, and bike lane design in Copenhagen, Denmark have been viewed more than half a million times and used to support advocacy projects in communities from Toronto to Tasmania.
Education
Our cities are changing fast. Climate change and sustainable transportation are front-page news. Citizens have begun to realize the importance of “going green” and demanding more livable environments. There’s no better time to engage with youth, families and educators to move these matters forward. Livable Streets Education is at the forefront of this work. Livable Streets Education helps classroom teachers and schools weave pertinent ideas about urban livability and advocacy into their curriculum. We partner with schools, cultural institutions and community-based organizations to get the word out and change the face of our neighborhoods!