We are a non-profit organization. We bring citizens together to enhance mobility and public space so that together we can create more vibrant, healthy, and equitable communities.
Our team can help your community’s streets and public spaces thrive.
Everyone has a voice, we provide the megaphone. Our expertise is in creating unconventional engagement strategies that get people informed, involved, and excited about new initiatives in their cities.
Changing cities starts by harnessing exceptional new ideas and taking action. That’s what 8 80 Idea Labs are all about. We will share our knowledge of best practices from cities around the world to generate new and exciting ideas and action plans for your community.
We are international experts in Open Streets design and implementation. ‘Open Streets’ are community-based programs that temporarily open selected streets to people, by closing them to cars. Streets become places where people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds can come out and improve their health.
We love to break the mold. That’s why we take on Special Projects- these are projects that go beyond our other services. Our Special Projects incubate new strategies and ideas to elevate people-centred urbanism. We develop these projects in collaboration with our partners and clients.
The 8 80 concept is universal. From communities of 5,000 to 5 million, our projects always start at the same place; how do we meaningfully engage people in urban transformation.
8 80 Cities is pleased to announce the three winning cities to participate in the ground breaking two-year Wintermission progra...
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Like cities we’re always evolving! Keep up to date with the latest stories and thoughts from 8 80.
We are happy to introduce our Resource Hub, an online toolkit that contains open source resources and tools designed for anyone interested in learning more about conducting community engagement activities, open streets, or creating more healthy and equitable public spaces in our cities. More than 12 years of working on diverse projects around the world have......
May 22, 2019
There are many reasons to start riding a bike. If you’re reading this, you’re likely familiar with all of them: the health benefits, time saved, reduced carbon footprint, etc. It is the latter one that I want to focus on right now. Over the past......
May 16, 2019
In 8 Questions, 8 80 Cities asks amazing partners we’ve worked with, or amazing people doing amazing work 8 questions about their passions, their history and their amazing-ness. And then we ask them to suggest a question for our next interviewee. This week, 8 80......
May 03, 2019
They say that once you learn to ride a bike you never forget… but there is so much more to learn about biking in cities! The City of Saskatoon has taken a bold step towards communicating active transportation education. With anticipated growth for the city......
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