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!
- 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.
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Carlota Saenz de Tejada
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.
About the Course
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You can access and participate in the course for free. If you want to earn a certificate upon completion, you can purchase it. The certificate will be accessible only once the course is successfully completed. Read more here.
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Ratings and Reviews
Jasin Gumilar
Thanks to providing knowledge based on theory, best practices, and professional design. It will help me to understand how design affects our lives, especially our kids. This course gave me perspective on how the current street design has become dangerous spaces for kids in terms of safety and health.
Tomas Rep
The structure, the graphical overviews and the videos were all of high quality and explain well the concepts. The practical implications were explored with concrete designs and examples. The scope is sometimes stretched a bit far beyond the topic of children, but I didn't mind much. Nice references and the Streetmix tool should be more wellknown!
Consuelo Araneda Díaz
It is a good opportunity to introduce professionals to the benefits of a kind-friendly approach when working on urban projects. The course was visually attractive, easy to read and understand while adding best-practices examples in different countries. Thanks!
Zsófia Fehér
As someone who is interested in child-friendly urban planning, this course was a great introduction to the topic as it touched upon all important aspects from childhood development to policy recommendations. I only wish for more in-text citations of the sources that would support the findings of the course.
I like the minimalistic yet fully explaining approach. I like the tips and further recommendations how to implement them into pop-up and interim projects. I will definitely go to use them. Thanks.