Following the success of Volksentscheid Fahrrad in Berlin, which now commits Germany’s capital city to a 600 million euro programme of transformation of its cycling infrastructure, a number of its key activists have helped establish Changing Cities. This new...
Citizen Action
Mobility, Politics and Activism
Our contributor Katja Leyendecker presented an outline of her dissertation during a visit to Bremen and the Geographische Gesellschaft, Bremen on 16th Januar 2019. Here is her presentation in full. You can also download her slideshow here. The presentation is largely...
PLATZ DA! Direct Action Against Illegal Parking
“Platz Da!” Moves Up A Gear
The "Platz Da!" initiative has officially launched, as reported in the Weserkurier and on the telly. “Platz Da! Bremen "is involving a growing number of Bremen citizens who are working together for a better cycling and walking infrastructure, and a...
Berlin : From Grassroots Movement to Mobility Act
On June 28th 2018 Berlin’s Parliament signed a new Mobility Act into effect. This was the final point of a more than two and a half-year long campaign by the Initiative Citizens Referendum for Cycling in Berlin and their umbrella organization Changing Cities....
Biebricher Straße – 30 Parking Spaces
The following video was shot in the summer of 2015 and the street scenes were filmed at an information afternoon organized by the “Citizen’s inititiative of Biebricher Strasse” campaigning for the space in their street being available for all citizens, not just...