Consulting Services

Slow Streets Public Life Observations and Design Consulting

Slow Streets offers public life behavioural observation research and street design consulting. Working with Slow Streets is a great investment because not only would you benefit from the expertise from experienced city planners and engineers but we also provide high quality and results-driven customer oriented service. Working with Slow Streets is critical for vibrant, economically sustainable cities because you will see an increase in the return on your investment such as increased rates of cycling, walking and transit, improved retail business success and improved public spaces.

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Below is a list of the ways our services could benefit you:

Developers – Do you want to ensure that your building has ground floor street life that makes your building that much more attractive? Do you have a prospective building site but want to gauge its suitability for a new building or specific retail uses? Do you want data to show how your development created a positive impact for street life, which can be used for future developments pitches to city councils? Slow Streets can conduct street observations to produce invaluable data on who is visiting and what they do when they visit.

Business Improvement Associations – Do you need to show your members the positive impacts your improvements have made for their bottom lines? Do you need to check the vitality of your street? Do you need information on your visitors so that you can focus investments on key improvements or amenities that will bring the largest increase in visitors? Slow Streets can produce a snapshot in time cross-section of the visitor demographics, including how they arrived and what they did once there.

Cities – Do you need to check the vitality of specific streets or areas? Do you have underutilized spaces? Are you contemplating changes to the design or configuration of a street? Slow Streets can produce detailed data on whom visits specific public spaces, how they get there and what they do once there. Slow Streets can produce data before and after the changes go in, so that the positive impact of the changes or lessons learned can be communicated or addressed by the city. Slow Streets can also facilitate and observe real-life tests of the proposed changes.

Businesses – Do you need information on your patrons in order to produce a more targeted marketing campaign? Slow Streets can produce a snapshot in time cross-section of the visitor demographics, including how they arrived and what they did once there. In addition Slow Streets can produce key data on the percentage your patrons make up of your overall block visitors.

Community Associations – Are you looking at adding or improving amenities within your community? Do you have an underutilized space? Do you have problems with safety? Slow Streets can produce data on whom is using existing amenities, how they get there and what they do once there. Slow Streets can produce recommendations for the location and additional amenities to create the broadest spectrum of activities and as a result improve safety.