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Reclaiming the Street for Livable Urban Spaces
  • Level Foundation
  • Duration 20 hours
  • Course by University of Amsterdam
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About

In Reclaiming the Street, you will learn about the mechanisms of change and will be challenged to apply this knowledge to start creating vibrant streetscapes in your neighbourhood. This six week course will guide you through seminal academic work on the topics of transition management and street experiments while providing practical insights from practitioners from around the world. A final peer-reviewed project integrates key takeaways from each module of this course to help you write an actionable plan for change. This online course is supported by the EIT Urban Mobility’s Competence Hub. EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) that has been working since January 2019 to encourage positive changes in the way people move around cities in order to make them more sustainable and liveable places.

Modules

Course Introduction & Outline

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Course Introduction

1 Readings

  • About EIT Urban Mobility

1.2 — Transitions of Mobility Systems in Urban Regions: A Heuristic Framework

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  • Transitions of mobility systems in urban regions: A heuristic framework

1 Readings

  • Transitions of mobility systems in urban regions: A heuristic framework

1.3 — The Global Cycling Momentum

    • 1 Videos
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  • The global cycling momentum: how to keep the wheels running

1.4 — How to Start a Movement

    • 1 Plugin
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1.5 — Tactical Urbanism

    • 1 Videos
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  • Tactical Urbanism in New Zealand

1.6 — Quiz

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Graded Quiz on Week 1

1.7 — Assignment

    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Seek Your First Follower

2.1 — Streets for Traffic to Streets for People

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    • 1 Readings
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  • From “streets for traffic” to “streets for people”: can street experiments transform urban mobility?

1 Videos

  • Introduction by George Liu

1 Readings

  • From “streets for traffic” to “streets for people”: can street experiments transform urban mobility?

2.2 — Transitions Experiments: Oakland, California, USA

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  • Oakland’s 75 Miles of Slow Streets: Mobility Experiments During Lockdown

2.3 — Transitions Experiments: Milan

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  • Milan announces ambitious scheme to reduce car use after lockdown

1 Readings

  • The Guardian: Milan announces ambitious scheme to reduce car use after lockdown

2.4 — Quiz

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  • Graded Quiz on Week 2

2.5 — Assignment

    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Transition Experiments

3.1 — Captured by Bureaucracy

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Captured by bureaucracy: street-level professionals mediating past, present and future knowledge

2 Videos

  • Introduction by Marco te Brömmelstroet
  • Interview with Nanke Verloo

1 Readings

  • Captured by bureaucracy: street-level professionals mediating past, present and future knowledge

3.2 — The Big Street Reclaimation in France

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  • The Big Street Reclaimation in France

3.3 — Engineering vs Social Perspectives

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  • Conversation with a Traffic Engineer

3.4 — Quiz

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  • Graded Quiz on Week 3

3.5 — Assignment

    • 1 Discussion
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  • Define Your Opponents

4.1 — Planning Challenges and Opportunities at the Street Level

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Urban streets: Epitomes of planning challenges and opportunities at the interface of public space and mobility

2 Videos

  • Introduction by George Liu
  • Interview with Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld

1 Readings

  • Urban streets: Epitomes of planning challenges and opportunities at the interface of public space and mobility

4.2 — Lessons from London

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  • Lessons from London: Mini Holland to Largest Car–free Area

4.3 — The Importance of Language

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    • 2 Readings
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1 Assignment

  • The Traffic Trade-Off / In Lockdown, a Neighborhood Opens Up

1 Videos

  • The Importance of Language Pyramid by Marco te Brömmelstroet

2 Readings

  • NYT: The Traffic Trade-Off
  • NYT: In Lockdown, a Neighborhood Opens Up

4.4 — Quiz

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  • Graded Quiz on Week 4

4.5 - Assignment

    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • New Mobility Paradigms

5.1 — The Social Capital of Urban Activism

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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  • The social capital of urban activism: Practices in London and Amsterdam.

2 Videos

  • Introduction by Marco te Brömmelstroet
  • Interview with Federico Savini

1 Readings

  • The social capital of urban activism: Practices in London and Amsterdam.

5.2 — Pandemic Street Transformations in NYC

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  • Pandemic Street Transformations in New York City

1 Readings

  • NYT: I've Seen a Future Without Cars, and It's Amazing

5.3 — Rebels Against Advertising

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  • In the weeds of bureaucratic insanity there sprouts a small reprieve

5.4 — Quiz

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  • Graded Quiz on Week 5

5.5 — Assignment

    • 1 Discussion
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  • Plan/Do a Guerilla Intervention

Final assignment: Essay — Write An Action Plan (peer reviewed)

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  • Plan of Action

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Discover "Reclaiming the Street for Livable Urban Spaces," a six-week personal development course on Coursera, designed to teach you the mechanisms of change for creating vibrant streetscapes. Supported by EIT Urban Mobility, this foundation-level course offers insights from global practitioners and academic work, culminating in a peer-reviewed project to develop an actionable plan. Perfect for those passionate about sustainable urban living.

Anna Nikolaeva
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Anna Nikolaeva

Marco te Brömmelstroet
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Marco te Brömmelstroet

George Liu
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George Liu