The Just Streets project aims to shift established mobility narratives, decentering the focus on motorised traffic, and advocating for a new vision of spatial justice in which streets are once again a place to be, play and meet other people.
Objective
The main objective of the Just Streets project is to support cities in promoting, improving and converting to just, equal and active mobility. It will do so by developing and implementing innovative and holistic strategies. These strategies aim to encourage transformative urban planning solutions with complementary behavioural changes.
Just Streets also focuses on marginalised social groups and their needs (and contributions) as fundamental to the process to shape the proposed strategies with a bottom-up methodology applied throughout. Project will last 42 months, and it will start in 2024.
Chosen cities are: Cugir (RO), Kozani (GR), Westminster (UK), Vratsa (BG); Zaragoza (ES), Milan (IT), Riga (LV), Haifa (IS), Braga (PT), Groningen (NL), Southwark (UK), and Vilnius (LT).
Impact of the project
- Promote the transition from a car-centric mentality to human-centric cities (positive social impact: develop sense of community and belonging, well-being, emotional connection to places).
- Make roads safer for active road users (by changing street space allocation and traffic patterns and reorganising blocks and function).
- Make streets inclusive for marginalised social groups (infrastructures and services that no longer limit access to active mobility for several social groups, i.e: bike lanes wide enough for cargo bikes).
- Achieve climate neutrality by making active mobility attractive and convenient.
In return, cities will provide:
- Implementation, experiments and test