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.
Read the 8 80 Streets Project Reports containing insights and recommendations from the pilot-projects implemented in Toronto in...
Toronto, ON (Canada)My City Too is an initiative by 8 80 Cities and EcoKids to develop a strategy that advances outdoor free play and independent m...
Toronto, ON (Canada)– Gil Penalosa, Founder & Chair of the Board
Like cities we’re always evolving! Keep up to date with the latest stories and thoughts from 8 80.
By Brandon Miles, Summer Project Assistant The Covid-19 pandemic has changed almost every aspect of society from the way we work to the way we play. It has projected a spotlight on the foundational cracks within our systems and has exposed the unjust, unsustainable, and......
July 03, 2020
Written by Annah MacKenzie for Next City. As cities in the U.S. and across the world engage in protests against anti-Black racism amidst a pandemic that has also disproportionately harmed Black communities, we can’t forget that city planning and urban design policies have also been......
June 09, 2020
Contributions by the 8 80 Cities Team As a team, we have been processing the deeply disturbing and painful stories coming out of Minneapolis and from cities across the U.S. and Canada, including right here in our home city of Toronto with the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, an Afro-Indigenous woman who......
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