Streets for Kids: Urban Space for Children to Grow

This course, offered through the Urban Mobility Academy of EIT Urban Mobility, offers insights and tools to design streets that prioritize kids with safe crossings, play areas, and green spaces.

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.

For more information and to register visit the Urban Mobility Academy website.

Learning objectives

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.

Course coordinator

Carlota Saenz de Tejada is a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISGlobal Urban Planning, Environment and Health Initiative. With a background in Architecture and Urban Planning, she has participated in several national and international projects on housing and health, informal settlements, and on urban planning strategies for health and resilience; collaborating, among others, with the Barcelona Provincial Council, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and the World Health Organization (WHO). She is a collaborating professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in the Official Master's Degree in Planetary Health, and actively participates in training and scientific outreach activities.