Our Projects
The Livable Streets Initiative is reversing decades of automobile-dominated urban planning. This work is creating healthier, more sustainable, people-oriented neighborhoods.
Streetsblog New York covers sustainable transportation and city planning issues. In just two years, the blog has exploded to 125,000 monthly readers, creating a strong community that has redirected transportation policy in New York City. Today, Streetsblog is daily reading for mainstream journalists, policy makers and the public.
Streetswiki is a community-created encyclopedia of transportation. Using Streetswiki, advocates can compare the world's best bike-sharing programs or describe traffic calming measures in their neighborhoods.
OpenGeo makes geospatial information more open: available, accessible, and useful on compelling platforms. This team builds open source geospatial applications for clients around the world. OpenGeo's business model is aligned with its social mission: our software competes in the market expanding access to geospatial tools and data.
We help teachers and schools weave ideas about urban livability and advocacy into their curriculum. Livable Streets Education connects the classroom to lively topics like environmental stewardship, traffic calming, engaged citizenship, and safe routes to schools.
This website invites people around the New York to post photos that document rampant abuse of city parking placards. The site and related coverage of the problem resulted in broad reforms. Learn how in the
Parking Reform case study.
The Streetsblog Network connects local, grassroots transportation reform
advocates with one another and with the inside-the-Beltway national campaign. With nearly 400 quality blogs on sustainable transport, smart growth, and livable streets issues, the network reaches hundreds of thousands of readers each week.
GothamSchools is a news source and online community for teachers, parents, policy makers, and journalists interested in learning about what works and what doesn’t in NYC schools. By offering a critical eye on education research and reporting, and by creating a forum for conversation, Gotham Schools is helping New Yorkers create better schools. Over the past year, Gotham Schools has broken numerous stories while earning its reputation as a stellar niche news provider.
Streetsblog's LA affiliate covers mobility, sustainable transport, and related issues in and around the City of Angels.
Launched in January 2009, Streetsblog San Francisco covers transportation and urban sustainability news across the Bay Area.
Community Almanac is a tool for capturing the heart and soul of a community through collaborative storytelling. A partnership with the
Orton Family Foundation, the Community Almanac will be rolled out in several small towns across the US during the summer and fall of 2009.
Open311 is a community effort to create a standard specification to turn 311 systems into an open platform. 311 systems enable citizens to access a broad range of municipal services, and an open, interoperable platform would help more cities adopt first-class 311 systems, and it would enable citizens and cities to work together to solve problems.