Q6. How can interested civil society organisations, consultants, or concerned citizens support cities in the Streets for People Challenge?

Interested citizens, CSOs as well as urban designers, planners, and other experts who wish to collaborate with their cities can express their interest by filling in the details in the ‘Support your City’ section (opens post the registration closes for cities) The registered cities are encouraged to collaborate with civil society organisations, consultants and interested citizens as they develop and implement their plans. Citizen collaboration will play a crucial role as a metric in evaluating proposals submitted by the cities. The selection of partners for collaboration will be at the discretion of the city authority.

Q5. What technical support do cities receive through the Streets for People Challenge?

The ITDP India Programme will provide ongoing remote assistance to the cities in strategizing and testing pilots as well as to develop their conceptual city-level scale- up strategy. The support will include: Connecting cities with local CSOs and design experts for assistance in implementation.Developing knowledge resources: Best practice case studies and step-by-step processes.Conducting online training workshops: On planning, design, and testing of interventions; on scaling up interventions, strategizing and implementing long-term measures evaluating the impact of interventions; effective community engagement, communication, and outreach.Facilitating peer-to-peer interactions between cities.

Q4. What qualifies as a pilot intervention?

The Challenge requires each city to test at least one flagship walking project and enhance liveability in one neighborhood. Streets and public spaces around transit hubs, heritage zones, commercial streets, market areas, recreational corridors, or any high footfall zones can be considered as potential locations for the flagship project. Cities can test quick, innovative, and low-cost interventions using elements such as planters, seaters, barricades, signages, paints, makeshift play equipment, and by engaging with the community through events and campaigns. Refer the challenge brief for more information on what the pilot interventions could look like.

Q3. What is the output expected at the end of Stage 1 of the Challenge? Is there a specific format in which cities should send in their proposals for the Stage 1 submission?

The outputs expected from the cities at the end of stage 1 are: All cities have to test at least one pilot: comprising a flagship walking initiative and a neighbourhood scale intervention. Report submission: The evaluation of the pilot, its learnings, and the conceptual city-level scale-up plan has to be submitted by the cities as a report. Cities shall be encouraged to collaborate with CSOs and local practitioners as they develop and implement their plans. Citizen collaboration will be a key metric in the evaluation of proposals submitted by the cities. The Streets for People coordinating team will share a template that the cities will need to submit their deliverables in.

Q2. What is the duration of the challenge?

The Challenge will run in two stages. Stage 1 will run until February, where cities will demonstrate pilots and develop a conceptual city-wide scale-up plan.11 cities will be shortlisted in February 2021 for Stage 2 and guided by national and international experts to scale-up the initiatives. This stage will extend until May 2021. Refer the challenge brief for the detailed timeline.

Design competition

Under the Stage 01 of Streets for People Challenge, the registered cities are expected to test at least one pilot; comprising a flagship public space project and a liveable neighbourhood. The city-led Design Competition aims to crowdsource innovative ideas for designing and testing the pilot interventions through quick, low-cost, and innovative solutions. Each city would launch their own design competition with specific details on site, timeline, and awards. This page presents the competition briefs of all cities and hosts the registration process.

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Who can participate?

Why participate?

Through this design competition the participants will get to be part of the COVID-19 green recovery initiatives of cities across the country.

This gives an opportunity to test their winning designs on-ground with the support of city officials, citizens, and other stakeholders.

Participants can be individuals/teams from the background of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design, or any other relevant fields. At least one team member should be a resident of the participating city.

Call for ideas!

Following the test-learn-scale approach, the design competition invited architects, urban designers, planners, and students for presenting quick, innovative, and easy-to-test solutions. 34 cities launched the design competition and received 1800+ registrations. This section showcases the winning entries for the cities which will be tested on-ground as tactical urbanism pilots for stage 01 of Streets for People Challenge.

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Bhopal

Congratulations We congratulate all participants and winners of Bhopal design competition for their commendable contribution. The winning teams will now support

Karimnagar

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Kohima

Congratulations We congratulate all participants and winners of Kohima design competition for their commendable contribution. The winning teams will now support

Nashik

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New Town Kolkata

Congratulations We congratulate all participants and winners of New Town Kolkata design competition for their commendable contribution. The winning teams

Saharanpur

Congratulations We congratulate all participants and winners of Saharanpur design competition for their commendable contribution. The winning teams will now

Vijayawada

Congratulations We congratulate all participants and winners of Vijayawada design competition for their commendable contribution. The winning teams will now