Plans for Thriving Streets: read our Integrated Action Plans

Currently, one of the biggest challenges many city-dwellers face is the physical separation of the different components of everyday life. This separation leads to significant mobility demand, a major part of which is still met by car use: the current mobility systems in most cities across Europe can still be characterized by the dominance of individual car use. While most people use cars to improve quality of life by significantly shortening the time needed for moving between different parts of the city (while also providing protection from the elements), in reality, car-oriented local mobility has a wide range of adverse consequences, many of which negatively affect the quality of life even in the short run. Cars are major contributors to urban GHG emissions and thus to climate change, but car use also leads to congestions, air and noise pollutions, the occupation of already scarce public spaces – just to name a few.

The ambition of Thriving Streets is to improve sustainable mobility in urban areas from an economic and social perspective. The premise of the Thriving Streets network is that break-troughs in sustainable urban mobility can be established when mobility is no longer framed as just going from A to B but rather as a means for social-economic development of the city. The key question Thriving Streets network intends to answer is the following: “How can mobility become a motor for urban health, inclusivity, economy and social cohesion?”

Antwerp Deurne Integrated Action Plan: Towards a dynamic centre for Deurne
Antwerp Deurne Integrated Action Plan | URBACT

Debrecen Integrated Action Plan: A place for people, parks and profitability
Debrecen Integrated Action Plan | URBACT

Igoumentisa integrated Action Plan: Creating a thriving neighbourhood, full of economic activities, with well-organised cycle network and pedestrian paths, where residents and visitors can enjoy the public space
Igoumenitsa Integrated Action Plan | URBACT

Klaipeda Integrated Action Plan: Safe, clean and pedestrian accessible Klaipeda Old Town, full of activities and culture all year round - a reason to be in the Old Town.
Klaipeda Integrated Action Plan | URBACT

London Borough of Southwark Integrated Action Plan: Lower Road...a thriving high streets for all
London Borough of Integrated Action Plan | URBACT

Nova Gorica Integrated Action Plan: Towards a live and attractive Solkan’s historical core
Nova Gorica Integrated Action Plan | URBACT

Oradea Integrated Action Plan: A city with a vibrant, lively centre
Oradea Integrated Action Plan | URBACT

Parma Integrated Action Plan: Restoring the old charm of Oltretorrente. Improve Oltretorrente as a thriving hub for sustainable daily lives and increased attractiveness for tourists and non-residents, by leveraging an integrated approach to urban mobility and streets as common goods
 

Santo Tirso Integrated Action Plan: More street life
Santo Tirso Integrated Action Plan | URBACT