"If community members are given space to engage, they become empowered. They conducted #PlayStreets which opened up more space for groups to do more in the future"
November 18, 2024 at 3:47 AM
"If community members are given space to engage, they become empowered. They conducted #PlayStreets which opened up more space for groups to do more in the future"
Fab Youth Philly's Play Captain program allows teens to become leaders through workforce development training and activity leading, with the goal of bringing playful learning to the city’s Playstreets, playgrounds and neighborhoods.
Play Captains program empower teens on city’s Playstreets
Fab Youth Philly’s Play Captain programs puts teens in charge of playful learning and leading activities at the city’s Playstreets, playgrounds and neighborhoods.
billypenn.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Fab Youth Philly's Play Captain program allows teens to become leaders through workforce development training and activity leading, with the goal of bringing playful learning to the city’s Playstreets, playgrounds and neighborhoods.
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Today I'm joining <40 orgs & individuals calling on new Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social to make it easier for every child to play where they live.
End unnecessary #NoBallGames signs
Make #PlayStreets easier
Create #parks that welcome #play
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Today I'm joining <40 orgs & individuals calling on new Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social to make it easier for every child to play where they live.
End unnecessary #NoBallGames signs
Make #PlayStreets easier
Create #parks that welcome #play
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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July 15, 2026 at 6:53 AM
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Today I'm joining <40 orgs & individuals calling on new Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social to make it easier for every child to play where they live.
End unnecessary #NoBallGames signs
Make #PlayStreets easier
Create #parks that welcome #play
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Today I'm joining <40 orgs & individuals calling on new Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social to make it easier for every child to play where they live.
End unnecessary #NoBallGames signs
Make #PlayStreets easier
Create #parks that welcome #play
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Together, we're asking the new Government to take three simple, practical steps within its first 100 days:
⚽ End unnecessary #NoBallGames signs
🚸 Make #PlayStreets easier
🌳 Creating parks that welcome
⚽ End unnecessary #NoBallGames signs
🚸 Make #PlayStreets easier
🌳 Creating parks that welcome
July 15, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Together, we're asking the new Government to take three simple, practical steps within its first 100 days:
⚽ End unnecessary #NoBallGames signs
🚸 Make #PlayStreets easier
🌳 Creating parks that welcome
⚽ End unnecessary #NoBallGames signs
🚸 Make #PlayStreets easier
🌳 Creating parks that welcome
Was talking this morning with #playstreets colleagues about how play facilitates "neighbouring"; many past and present play streets have WhatsApp or Facebook groups which developed alongside play street organisation and morphed into more general sources of street support.
Things my street WhatsApp has helped with this year: jumpstarts, missing coats, upcycled crafts, muddy paths, tree-planting, a village green application, toy clear-outs, scout fundraisers, co-ordinated objections to slum landlord plans...
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Was talking this morning with #playstreets colleagues about how play facilitates "neighbouring"; many past and present play streets have WhatsApp or Facebook groups which developed alongside play street organisation and morphed into more general sources of street support.
This is the house on the street where my #playstreets journey started. Our play street, started in 2015, created so much ordinary magic, so much play and friendship and neighbourliness. It will be a wrench to leave, but I am so grateful - and proud - to have made this street a play street.
June 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is the house on the street where my #playstreets journey started. Our play street, started in 2015, created so much ordinary magic, so much play and friendship and neighbourliness. It will be a wrench to leave, but I am so grateful - and proud - to have made this street a play street.
Two of my very favourite #playstreets photos from my street were taken on this day in 2018; there’s so much going on these photos, showing some of what’s possible when we open streets for children and their communities, and use the space in different ways.
May 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Two of my very favourite #playstreets photos from my street were taken on this day in 2018; there’s so much going on these photos, showing some of what’s possible when we open streets for children and their communities, and use the space in different ways.
The Play Streets Forum meets online four times a year and is for people who are working to grow #playstreets in their area.
If you'd like to join, have a look here and drop me an email: playingout.net/play-streets...
If you'd like to join, have a look here and drop me an email: playingout.net/play-streets...
Play streets online forum - Playing Out
Information about two online forums run by Playing Out so that professionals who work to support play streets can share best practice
playingout.net
April 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The Play Streets Forum meets online four times a year and is for people who are working to grow #playstreets in their area.
If you'd like to join, have a look here and drop me an email: playingout.net/play-streets...
If you'd like to join, have a look here and drop me an email: playingout.net/play-streets...
But also to think about how the street itself - the space, the relationships, the atmosphere - is transformed by years of #playstreets, and what lingers after the organised sessions stop.
On my street, though we no longer play out formally, estate agents still make claims for the street:
On my street, though we no longer play out formally, estate agents still make claims for the street:
April 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
But also to think about how the street itself - the space, the relationships, the atmosphere - is transformed by years of #playstreets, and what lingers after the organised sessions stop.
On my street, though we no longer play out formally, estate agents still make claims for the street:
On my street, though we no longer play out formally, estate agents still make claims for the street:
Doing some searching and reading around #playstreets - these are some images of New York and Philadelphia play streets in the 1970s, from a 1976 article -
April 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Doing some searching and reading around #playstreets - these are some images of New York and Philadelphia play streets in the 1970s, from a 1976 article -
“The prominence of women and children came purely from our anger.”
Lots of good stuff in this interview with Maartje van Putten from Stop de Kindermoord, underlining the value of temporarily reclaiming streets for play (#playstreets) and mass family rides (#kidicalmass) for campaigning.
Lots of good stuff in this interview with Maartje van Putten from Stop de Kindermoord, underlining the value of temporarily reclaiming streets for play (#playstreets) and mass family rides (#kidicalmass) for campaigning.
"It was not a left-wing or a right-wing issue. I didn’t give up and I never took a ‘no’ for a ‘no’."
Stop the Kindermoord was founded in the 1970s and helped the Netherlands become the cycling paradise it is today.
Read the interview with co-founder Dr. Maartje Van Putten: ow.ly/8zhH50UICFK
Stop the Kindermoord was founded in the 1970s and helped the Netherlands become the cycling paradise it is today.
Read the interview with co-founder Dr. Maartje Van Putten: ow.ly/8zhH50UICFK
January 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
“The prominence of women and children came purely from our anger.”
Lots of good stuff in this interview with Maartje van Putten from Stop de Kindermoord, underlining the value of temporarily reclaiming streets for play (#playstreets) and mass family rides (#kidicalmass) for campaigning.
Lots of good stuff in this interview with Maartje van Putten from Stop de Kindermoord, underlining the value of temporarily reclaiming streets for play (#playstreets) and mass family rides (#kidicalmass) for campaigning.
The way some people react to kids chalking on #playstreets these days, this message certainly sunk in.
Preparing slides for a keynote.
My favourite illustration so far. Just say no to chalk, kids.
My favourite illustration so far. Just say no to chalk, kids.
January 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The way some people react to kids chalking on #playstreets these days, this message certainly sunk in.
The 33 participants reflected on their own #playstreets experiences from the perspectives of working for local authorities (variously in public health, highways, communities, children's participation, etc.), community and voluntary groups, and housing associations, sharing good practice & concerns.
January 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The 33 participants reflected on their own #playstreets experiences from the perspectives of working for local authorities (variously in public health, highways, communities, children's participation, etc.), community and voluntary groups, and housing associations, sharing good practice & concerns.
We had another really successful @playingout.bsky.social Play Streets Forum this morning, discussing how to navigate the sometimes tricky waters of social media around #playstreets and engage communities, with Child Friendly Leeds' Rowan Beaumont talking about their very positive experiences.
January 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We had another really successful @playingout.bsky.social Play Streets Forum this morning, discussing how to navigate the sometimes tricky waters of social media around #playstreets and engage communities, with Child Friendly Leeds' Rowan Beaumont talking about their very positive experiences.
A feed pulling together posts about urban play - on streets, in neighbourhoods, in cities, on doorsteps etc.
Works with key words such as play and streets, urban, neighbo(u)rhood, as well as #playstreets and #streetplay
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Works with key words such as play and streets, urban, neighbo(u)rhood, as well as #playstreets and #streetplay
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 23, 2024 at 10:17 AM
A feed pulling together posts about urban play - on streets, in neighbourhoods, in cities, on doorsteps etc.
Works with key words such as play and streets, urban, neighbo(u)rhood, as well as #playstreets and #streetplay
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Works with key words such as play and streets, urban, neighbo(u)rhood, as well as #playstreets and #streetplay
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Tweaking my #playstreets feed again
November 23, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Tweaking my #playstreets feed again
Hello @envirojen.bsky.social - can I ask how your manage to get your kidical mass & bike bus feed to be so focused/accurate? Can you share (maybe by DM) the search terms and operators you use? Trying to set up a #playstreets one, but end up with so many irrelevant posts. Thanks!
November 22, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Hello @envirojen.bsky.social - can I ask how your manage to get your kidical mass & bike bus feed to be so focused/accurate? Can you share (maybe by DM) the search terms and operators you use? Trying to set up a #playstreets one, but end up with so many irrelevant posts. Thanks!
November 21, 2024 at 1:22 PM
OK, so #playstreets is working, but not being a programmer, I can't work out how to link terms for a feed.
I don't want every post with "play" in, but play+streets, play+neighbourhood etc.
I've tried all the obvious terms/connectors, and searched for advice.
Can anyone help? With a link for tips?
I don't want every post with "play" in, but play+streets, play+neighbourhood etc.
I've tried all the obvious terms/connectors, and searched for advice.
Can anyone help? With a link for tips?
testing a new feed about play on streets
November 21, 2024 at 12:40 PM
OK, so #playstreets is working, but not being a programmer, I can't work out how to link terms for a feed.
I don't want every post with "play" in, but play+streets, play+neighbourhood etc.
I've tried all the obvious terms/connectors, and searched for advice.
Can anyone help? With a link for tips?
I don't want every post with "play" in, but play+streets, play+neighbourhood etc.
I've tried all the obvious terms/connectors, and searched for advice.
Can anyone help? With a link for tips?
testing a new feed about play on streets #playstreets
November 21, 2024 at 12:30 PM
testing a new feed about play on streets #playstreets
On how to sustain #playstreets as more than one-off events, and enable streets to once again be spaces for children, based on research with Paris' Rue’golottes
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@playingout.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@playingout.bsky.social
Regaining public space for children: the context and mechanisms of a play street intervention in central Paris
Increasing the population’s access to urban public spaces has become a political priority for many cities. Street calming initiatives, including play streets, have been one means to make urban publ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:07 PM
On how to sustain #playstreets as more than one-off events, and enable streets to once again be spaces for children, based on research with Paris' Rue’golottes
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@playingout.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@playingout.bsky.social
Have also just added @flutterbyknits.bsky.social, leading the #playstreets charge in Inverness.
November 13, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Have also just added @flutterbyknits.bsky.social, leading the #playstreets charge in Inverness.
When we used to have regular #playstreets, I’d save up cardboard boxes to play with - this was one of the best, with a bike shipping box amongst many others.
November 10, 2024 at 8:52 AM
When we used to have regular #playstreets, I’d save up cardboard boxes to play with - this was one of the best, with a bike shipping box amongst many others.
Much of what Van Marissing discusses here (www.buurtwijs.nl/content/we-m...) echoes the particular value of #playstreets as spaces for connection too, especially proximity (doorsteps), the temporary/pop-up nature, and the informal atmosphere.
www.buurtwijs.nl
October 25, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Much of what Van Marissing discusses here (www.buurtwijs.nl/content/we-m...) echoes the particular value of #playstreets as spaces for connection too, especially proximity (doorsteps), the temporary/pop-up nature, and the informal atmosphere.
Good to see work on play & #playstreets and their relationship to questions of mobility highlighted here. Resonates with much that has been written on play (on) streets in the UK/England, including a piece @salawatson.bsky.social & I have just finished on making space for children’s play & mobility.
Our first Cycling Roundup is now live on #Substack! This is a handpicked selection of insights on #cycling, #urbanplanning, and community stories.
🚨See the Comments below for the link👇
🚨See the Comments below for the link👇
October 11, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Good to see work on play & #playstreets and their relationship to questions of mobility highlighted here. Resonates with much that has been written on play (on) streets in the UK/England, including a piece @salawatson.bsky.social & I have just finished on making space for children’s play & mobility.