This week Cape Town unveiled the first phase of the MyCiTi bus service, between Table View and the Civic Centre, on its Integrated Rapid Transit System. The new service is already transforming the way residents view buses. The bus is a salve to many who previously dealt with a complicated network of taxis, buses and…
Year: 2011
As part of the City’s Sustainable Mobility Plan, last week representatives from several major universities met with the Department of Transportation to sign an agreement to promote and facilitate bike use among their students. Andrés Fingeret, Director of ITDP Argentina, and Secretary of Transportation Guillermo Dietrich spoke to the group about the many benefits of using…
A few years ago it wouldn’t have been uncommon to see people commuting on horseback through downtown Ulaan Bataar (UB), the capital of Mongolia. Most of the city’s residents are no more than a generation or two removed from nomadic life. But UB has been urbanizing rapidly, with 20,000 migrants arriving from the countryside each…
As part of the Our Cities Ourselves exhibit currently on view in Buenos Aires , Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, spoke about building sustainable cities for a greener future. She stressed the importance of bringing together experts and specialists in various fields and to…
The United Nations and World Health Organization are kicking off the Decade of Action for Road Safety this May. Learn more about the initiative or find an event near you.
Last night hundreds of people gathered at the Museum of Architecture, MARQ, in Buenos Aires to celebrate the opening of the Our Cities Ourselves (Nuestras ciudades, nuestro futuro) exhibit. Guests included city government officials, students, architects, bicycle advocates, and curious passers-by coming in from the near by bike lane. Andrés Fingeret, director of ITDP Argentina, spoke to…
Guangzhou’s Bus Rapid Transit system is featured in “Design with the Other 90%: Cities,” the second in a series of themed exhibitions by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum that demonstrate how design can address the world’s most critical issues, opens Oct. 15 at the United Nations and runs through Jan. 9, 2012. The exhibition will include over…
Our Cities Ourselves opened today in Buenos Aires at MARQ, the Museo de Arquitectura y Diseño de la Sociedad Central de Arquitectos. The exhibition, organized jointly with the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) and MARQ, first opened in New York in June 2010 and has also been shown in Mexico City and Rio…
Velo-city is an annual conference that brings together over 1000 transportation leaders, experts and advocates from around the globe to discuss how to increase cycling. The 2011 event was held in Seville, Spain during the last week in March. A delegation from ITDP’s Mexico office shared their experiences and lessoned learned from the political to…