Topic: Play streets

Freiburg’s streets for children

Freiburg in Germany was facing an exodus of young families, until it rose to the challenge of making its streets more playable for children … without bankrupting the city! Ann-Kathrin Schöll explains. At the beginning of the...Read more

07-03-2017|Comment|author: Ann-Kathrin Schöll

Swiss canton considers street play scheme for Geneva

Adrian Voce reports on another example of the growing interest in street play schemes among the policymakers of Europe The Green Party in the French-speaking canton of Switzerland is proposing a street closure scheme for Geneva, to...Read more

23-02-2017|Comment|author: Adrian Voce

Quebec National Assembly considers street play bill

A member of the National Assembly (MNA) for the Canadian province of Quebec, Simon Jolin-Barrette, of the centre-right Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) party, has tabled a bill in the assembly that would enable local authorities to encourage...Read more

20-12-2016|Comment|author: Adrian Voce

Seattle neighbors close streets for play time

A unique program to encourage kids to play outside is really taking off in parts of Seattle. It’s called “play streets” and it allows neighborhoods to turn away cars in favor of play time. One block of...Read more

16-09-2016|Comment|author: Amy Moreno

Bringing Street Play back to Edinburgh

The short film, ‘Singing Streets’ shows children playing and singing freely on the streets of Edinburgh in the 1950s, when the city had a scheme known as ‘Play Streets’: where streets would be closed for...Read more

21-04-2016|Comment|author: Jenny Wood