A Level Playing Field

An Irish not for profit that asks 'What makes a girl-friendly city?'
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[A Level Playing Field @lvl_play]

We're delighted to share a report of the co-design process we led in collaboration with teen girls from Dublin & City Planner @arteentonces ✨

Learn about the key challenges that girls face in public spaces & discover promising solutions.

https://t.co/3BUh2rgJyb

[Timmy Crowe @timmy400h]

If you have a few moments to listen to this interview as a parent with your child.
Possible one of the best post race interviews I have ever watched #PlayOn

[Tim Gill @timrgill]

Very happy to mark the first ever #InternationalDayofPlay with a cheer to children and young people everywhere, and to the adults in their lives who create the conditions for them to play freely.

[Friends of Rowntree Park @Fr_RowntreePark]

This is what our teenage girls want. Hanging in hammocks in the wilder area of Rowntree Park - chat, relax and take in nature. As well as our ‘Make Space for Girls’ Festival of events, we have been running weekly woodland hangouts for over two years and they are well loved!

[Emmet Ó Briain @emmetatquiddity]

Today is the first-ever UN International Day of Play.

What's stopping us from making play the priority on the streets where we live?

(photo: @SteveCranley)

[A Level Playing Field @lvl_play]

@LorraineFitzsim @DandelionPro3 Two legends ✨

[A Level Playing Field @lvl_play]

❤️🦞💫

[Limerick Pedestrian Network @PedestrianLK]

The Safe Routes to School team have made a video listening to the "Talk from the Walk," kids chatting as their walkbus heads to Gaelscoil Mhíchíl Cíosóg. It's magic
https://t.co/aGLYwVofRY

[@civicgrit.bsky.social @civic_grit]

Philly could use this technique to introduce trees and slow down would-be speeding drivers.

These two streets are about the same width:

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

Just 20 years ago, drivers could freely enter and park in Delft’s historic core.

Then a broad coalition narrowly (19 to 18 votes) passed an autoluwe binnenstad (‘low-car city center’) policy.

Now not a single resident or merchant misses the days when cars choked their streets.

[@civicgrit.bsky.social @civic_grit]

The beauty of "small": narrow streets, tiny stores, cozy homes, pocket parks.

[A Level Playing Field @lvl_play]

Love to see it!

[Grangegorman Development Agency (GDA) @GrangegormanDev]

The fencing is down!
Sarah and Lily were delighted to make the discovery this morning.

To book 'THE GOLDEN BANDSTAND - Sculpture' for events contact [email protected].

Follow @ thegoldenbandstand_sculpture on Instagram for artist updates.

[Galway City Arts Office @CityArtsGalway]

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Design Lab Bursaries: Open Call for Applications 2024
@archattheedge with @galwaycultureco ..three bursary awards for creative practitioners championing youth ideas for a better built environment. 16 May 24. @ArchAtTheEdge or @galwaycultureco

[Conor Geraghty @geraghty_conor]

This has certainly brightened up my day! The hand holding, dog in the back, cycling despite the rain! Amazing

[@civicgrit.bsky.social @civic_grit]

Same energy

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

In Paris, just 4.3% of all of the transportation trips occurring within the colored areas on the map below now occur in private cars.

It wasn’t always this way. It’s actually a result of deliberate leadership and smart planning.

https://t.co/XvBaVFOu5U

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Study: a 50% reduction in crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists and a 27% increase in drivers yielding to pedestrians with the right of way, as a result of....paint.

Yes, a splash of paint = safer streets for pedestrians.

This is the power of visual disruption in slowing down drivers.

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

Tirana still has far to go on its journey to becoming a livable city. But it has taken big strides with little actions in recent years.

It proves good urbanism doesn’t require big budgets and visions; more important is political leadership and a desire to improve people’s lives.

[Carla Francome @carlafrancome]

I keep thinking about this article, that I saw posted by @alisonstenning- over three-quarters of children want more time in nature.

I was surprised when I read that, but I asked my children and they said yes, they would. Also I’ve been thinking … 1/3

https://t.co/Oe4xuG4QXi

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

Tirana will invest €1 million to build 20 “school streets” in 2024, which redesign corridors around the needs of kids and their carers.

This will double the number of such interventions, and get it 40% of the way towards its goal of protecting every neighborhood school by 2026.