All Things Urban

Our streets could be vibrant places for everyone, but cars often take priority, especially over children’s safety. Streets for Kids: Urban Spaces for Children to grow offers insights and tools to design streets that prioritize kids with safe crossings, play areas, and green spaces.

Enrol now to help create a city where children can thrive!

At the end of the course you will:

• Understand how the current car-focused design of streets impact the health and quality of life of kids and caregivers.
• Become aware of the phases of childhood and how these translate into different streets uses and needs.
• Learn how to (re)design streets for children but also for communities in general and how to successfully implement them.

This course is aimed at urban planners, architects, landscape architects, designers, civil engineers, and other professionals in the field of urban mobility. Local policy, city government practitioners and decision makers. Students majoring in urban planning, landscape architecture and transportation. Citizens and civil organizations concerned with urban health, especially regarding children.

💡If this course is not what you are looking for at this point, you can discover the UMX page with a wide variety of (free!) courses on different topics related to urban development. Check them out via this link: UMX Courses.

Urban Mobility Explained (UMX) by EIT Urban Mobility helps professionals like you level up your skills and become urban mobility insiders.

Backed by our extensive network of 750+ top European entities and experts, including city planners, academics, and consultants, we offer a diverse array of courses (paid and free), short videos, and other tailored learning resources to help you stay on track and refine your desired skill set.

Explore future trends, active mobility, energy and green planning, as well as the latest global policies to foster sustainable, liveable cities through our diverse educational offerings so that you can navigate the urban mobility industry with confidence.

EIT Urban Mobility is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).