Bratislava Pushes Child-Friendly Design to Tame Sprawl, Boost ...

these second-wave movements include Slow Cities, which also started in Italy (where it’s called Cittaslow), and focuses on making cities more pedestrian-centric, supportive of local business, and, in a general sense, more neighborly.

One approach that has been developed and is likely responsible for the turnaround of many downtown districts is the community economic development model of the business improvement district (BID), which is shown to reduce crime in business areas and improve real estate.6 The BID model relies on special assessments levied on commercial properties lo

‘streets constitute the vast majority of public space in a city’. Visit some parts of the world, and you’ll routinely see streets as places for play, conversation, chess, dominoes, singing and dancing, sleeping. Enrique Peñalosa, a former mayor of Bogotá, believes that children playing in the street are actually an ‘indicator species’ for the well-