GDCI’s How to Evaluate Street Transformations guide contains basic, ready-to-print checklists, forms, and community engagement boards to support your data collection. You can digitally add basemaps of your site where needed or simply hand-draw it once it has been printed. Refer back to Section B3 for examples of what the forms might look like when completed.
If you prefer to work with digital resources, or customize the forms provided, click the ‘Excel Download’ button above. On this spreadsheet you will find:
One tab for each of the provided forms
A reference library of street users and the corresponding icons that you can copy and paste into your new forms. These are just suggestions, you can also create your own.
Sample data processing tables for pedestrian counts and vehicular speeds, like the ones shown on pages 64 to 67.
These tools are also available in the following languages:
How Do Kids Experience Streets? A Reverse Periscope Companion Guide
The Streets for Kids Reverse Periscope is a do-it-yourself tool that encourages planners, city officials, and others to experience the obstacles and attractions of city streets from a child’s perspective.
As part of a collaboration between Agenzia Mobilità Ambiente Territorio (AMAT), Bloomberg Associates and the Global Designing Cities Initiative, the City of Milan has developed an innovative public space program named Piazze Aperte or “Open squares.”
Live Launch Event: How to Implement and Evaluate Street Transformations
These handbooks distill GDCI’s experience implementing and evaluating street transformation projects in cities around the world, and are an important step in changing the decades-long embedded practice of implementing and evaluating street transformations from a car-centric point of view.