november:city
Socially Responsible Urban Mobility & Public Space Transformation
Urban transformation is not a technical upgrade. It is a political, institutional, and cultural shift.
We work to make that shift possible.
Translating Ambition into Change
Many cities and institutions have adopted ambitious goals around climate, equity, and sustainable mobility. Yet implementation often remains constrained by existing governance structures, planning cultures, and institutional routines. We help translate ambitions into socially grounded and operationally viable change. Our work focuses not only on projects and policies, but on the institutional conditions that shape how cities plan, decide, and allocate space.
Who We Are
We are an interdisciplinary network of urban planners, mobility advisors, and social inclusion experts. Our work connects mobility and public space planning with participation, governance, and institutional change.
We believe that cities function better when planning processes reflect the realities of diverse everyday lives – including those that are often overlooked in conventional planning and decision-making.
What We Do
Urban systems encode decisions about who can move freely, who feels safe, and who has access to services, employment, and public life. These decisions are rarely explicit – they live in governance structures, planning standards, spatial arrangements, and institutional routines.
november:city works at exactly that level. We help cities, authorities, and organisations understand why their systems are not working for everyone – and what it takes to change that structurally.
Our work spans four interconnected areas:
Socially Responsible Urban Mobility & Public Space
We support cities and organisations in developing mobility and public space approaches that are inclusive, climate-conscious, and grounded in everyday realities.
Our work includes:
- safer infrastructure for vulnerable road users
- active mobility and public space strategies
- gender- and care-sensitive mobility planning
- accessibility and inclusion in public space
Participatory Process Design
We design participation processes that help institutions engage with a broader range of perspectives and experiences.
Our approaches aim to:
- involve underrepresented groups
- integrate lived experience into planning processes
- support constructive dialogue and co-creation
- strengthen trust between institutions and communities
Governance & Institutional Transformation
Ambitious policy goals require institutional structures that can support implementation.
We work with public institutions and organisations to:
- strengthen coordination and implementation capacity
- connect policy goals with operational practice
- review standards, procedures, and planning frameworks
- support long-term and cross-sector collaboration
International Learning & Contextual Adaptation
We facilitate exchange between cities, regions, and practitioners across Europe and beyond.
Rather than transferring “best practices,” we focus on understanding how approaches can be adapted to different political, cultural, and institutional contexts.
Selected Engagements
Our projects are guided by one core principle: mobility systems and public spaces only work when they are accessible and usable for everyone.
Socially Responsible Urban Mobility & Public Space
Re-designing mobility processes to address gender-specific barriers and enhance safety for women and other vulnerable groups in nighttime cycling. This project aimed to reduce gender disparities in cycling infrastructure and improve accessibility and safety for women.
Gender-sensitive evaluation of a new community park, ensuring that the park design and programming promote inclusivity for a diverse range of user groups, including women, elderly people, and children.
Briefing paper: Cycling Strategies in the Netherlands
A comparative briefing on Dutch cycling strategies, examining how cycling integration with urban planning and climate goals can be applied to other cities.
Governance & Institutional Transformation
Development of a green city strategy integrated into master planning, enabling climate-resilient and inclusive urban growth in Central Asia.
Assessment of gender mainstreaming in urban projects, identifying barriers to transformative implementation and ensuring alignment with feminist development policy principles.
Technical assistance to enhance mobility accessibility for people with disabilities, aligning with EU standards and improving policy compliance in mobility infrastructure.
Participatory Process Design
Development of a tool for engaging older citizens in climate adaptation planning, ensuring urban policies that take into account the specific mobility and safety needs of older generations.
A collaborative workshop using Dutch best practices to upgrade cycling infrastructure and promote safer and more connected urban cycling networks.
Participatory co-design of public spaces that amplifies the voices of marginalized groups, using immersive and community-led methodologies to improve public space design.
International Learning & Contextual Adaptation
A strategic masterclass to help Swiss cities double their cycling modal share by 2035, learning from Dutch cycling best practices to implement human-centered infrastructure in local contexts.
Provision of a three-day training on Vision Zero principles and safer infrastructure design, focusing on micromobility and vulnerable road users.
A training for urban planners on integrating gender-sensitive design in public spaces using the GenderKompass toolkit, emphasizing mobility and care work for diverse user groups.
Recognition of our Work
Work With Us
We work with cities, public authorities, research institutions, and organisations that are committed to creating more inclusive and climate-resilient cities.
If you are working on questions related to mobility, participation, governance, or public space transformation, we would be glad to hear from you.
office[@]novembercity.eu.