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School Streets: Enhancing Neighborhoods In Paris & Barcelona. Guest: Priscilla Benedetti, City of Paris, and Jordi Honey-Rosés, City Lab Barcelona. Barcelona’s school streets program, Protegim les Escoles has transformed over 200 schools environments to make them greener, safer and healthier places for children, families and neighbours, through an investment of over €16 million. School streets programs aim to improve the quality of these public spaces through street re-designs, traffic calming measures, the removal of car parking and the addition of street furniture and vegetation. Paris’ Rues aux Enfants initiative, launched in 2020, has been especially impactful. It has transformed over 200 streets into low-traffic areas, with 70 of them redesigned to better accommodate pedestrians and children. This innovative approach has garnered international attention, with cities from around the world seeking insights from the Mairie de Paris on how to replicate this model of urban development.