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What is the value of experiencing Dutch design best practices from a first-hand perspective?
 
Learning through experiencing the culture, and using infrastructure can help planners, city officials, and citizens understand how a space can be modified for the better! Last summer, our team had the chance to go on their own version of a Study Tour and experience the integrated mobility networks of Delft and other Dutch Cities.
 
Read the blog to find out what they learned, where they went, and their takeaways, at the Linktree in our bio!
Or, sign up for one of our new Masterclasses to experience best-practices first-hand!
 

Mobycon, with partners Toole Design Group, developed a plan for Commercial Street in Nanaimo, Canada, using design concepts that would create a renewed sense of place and a -scale . Key to the process was .

See the plan adopted by the city here:

Commercial Street Master Plan, Nanaimo, Canada Mobycon developed a plan for Commercial Street in Nanaimo, Canada, with design concepts that would create a human-scale streetscape.

Mobycon worked with the World Resources Institute partner cities around the world to support a variety of goals. We collaborated with, and had the opportunity to learn from, Addis Ababa, multiple cities in Asia, as well as Vietnam and Brazil!

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World Resources Institute Mobycon partnered with the World Resources Institute (WRI) as an expert consultant to provide coaching services to WRI partner cities. This on-call relationship enables the team to assist partners with pre-identified, individual mobility challenges. This collaboration has included supporting the dev...

TOMORROW on Mobycon Academy! Communications and Engagement Advisor Melissa Bruntlett sits down with Rusudan Zhozhadze, Head of Municipal Policy Department at Batumi City Hall, to discuss the Safe Way to School pilot co-developed by Mobycon last year.

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New research from the University of Leicester shows a link between noisy and an increased risk of hypertension. The study, analysing over 240,000 individuals over 8 years, found that people living near road traffic were more likely to develop hypertension. The findings suggest stricter noise guidelines, quieter , and .

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Road noise makes blood pressure rise, study finds Researchers say they studied data from more than 240,000 people who lived near noisy roads.

Next week, Communications and Engagement Advisor Melissa Bruntlett will be in at a forum hosted by Vivre en Ville to present on the Netherlands' approach to and how it can be applied in the North American context.

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