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Discover how your street shapes your daily freedom, safety, and sense of well-being.
How It Works
See how others experience your streets. Understand what works — and what doesn’t.
Discover simple
changes that could improve comfort, safety, and everyday life.
How It Works
Upload a photo and StreetSmart gives you instant feedback. Want safer crossings? More shade?
We’ll show you what’s missing — and let you add your voice to strengthen the case for change.
How It Works
StreetSmart turns everyday observations into public demand.
Share a photo and your feedback to reveal
strengths, spot gaps, and call for change.
Vision & Mission
A world where streets are no longer dangerous spaces — but vibrant places where people and nature thrive together.
StreetSmart empowers everyday people to see, understand and improve their streets. We turn street photos into insights, and insights into action.
VISION & MISSION
For the parent pushing a pram.
The teenager cycling to school.
The older adult crossing the
street.
The commuter seeking shade and clean air.
Even the driver stuck in traffic.
Live StreetSmart.
Vision & Mission
StreetSmart exists to challenge a century of urban planning that prioritised speed and flow over people and the planet.
This movement-first approach has led to deadly heat, flooding, pollution, road fatalities, isolation, and a loss of freedom - particularly for children. Our streets have become climate-risk zones and health hazards.
StreetSmart flips the script by shifting mindsets.
We empower communities to see streets not just as routes for movement, but as places where children can walk safely, nature can flourish, and communities can thrive in the face of climate change.
Through street-level data, community voices, and storytelling, we spark curiosity and drive meaningful change.
StreetSmart is more than a platform. It is a movement for a culture that values people over cars, nature over asphalt, and belonging over congestion.
StreetSmart debunks common myths about urban transit, mobility and cities.
image credits: https://exploring-and-observing-cities.org/2016/01/11/amsterdam-historic-images-depicting-the-transition-from-cars-to-bikes/
“We are not Amsterdam. Our city doesn’t have a walking/ cycling culture.”
People always respond to the environments we create. Infrastructure
shapes behaviour.
When infrastructure prioritises people, behaviours shift.
image credits: https://www.lanacion.com.py/estilodevida/2024/12/13/cumple-50-anos-la-ciclovia-de-bogota-una-revolucion-que-inspiro-al-mundo/
"Adding more road lanes will ease congestion and improve traffic flow."
Building more road space doesn’t solve congestion – it actually creates more. This is known as induced demand: adding more lanes attracts more drivers, quickly filling up the new capacity.
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image credits: https://www.centroidpm.com/pedestrian-bridges-make-cities-less-walkable-urban-projectization/
"Pedestrian bridges are designed for pedestrians."
Pedestrian bridges are often designed with cars in mind, prioritising vehicle flow over pedestrian convenience. They force people to take detours or climb stairs, making them inefficient and inaccessible.
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image credits: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/the-hidden-danger-of-big-pickup-trucks-a9662450602/
"Bigger cars are safer."
Big cars make the streets more dangerous for everyone outside the vehicle. Larger vehicles, like SUVs and trucks, increase the risk of fatal collisions with pedestrians and cyclists. They take much longer to stop and, due to their height, drivers can’t see pedestrians.
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Founder & Urban Innovation Lead
Reena Mahajan is an architect, urban planner, and the founder of Studio DiverCity. She brings nearly two decades of international experience designing people-centred, nature-positive cities — blending water-sensitive design, sustainable mobility, and gender-responsive planning into bold, holistic solutions.
StreetSmart was born from lived experience. While raising a child in Montevideo, Reena saw how car-dominated streets restrict freedom, safety, and everyday life — especially for children. In response, she led the #MontevideoPacificada campaign, using visual advocacy, public dialogue, and design to push for change. The result: safer crossings, new bike lanes, and a cultural shift around mobility.
Now based in Paris, she’s building StreetSmart to scale that impact — combining data, design, and public engagement to help cities put people and the planet first.
StreetSmart’s launch team came together through the Climatebase Fellowship and beyond — a multidisciplinary group united by the belief that streets should support freedom, health, and climate resilience.
With experience spanning urban planning, technology, design, and advocacy, the team collaborates across disciplines to build a tool that empowers people, informs decision-makers, and reimagines what streets can be.
Design Lead
Urban Systems Strategist
Brand Identity Designer
Product Lead
Urban Researcher
Urban Researcher
Tech & Operations Lead
GIS Analyst
Urban Designer
Data Architect
Advisor
Fullstack AI Engineer
Software Developer
Community Researcher
AI/ML Developer
Anders Ward Danbi Kim Divya Bisht Elzaphan Murage Icare Duplessey Jayabalambika R Sirid Kellermann Scott Baker
StreetSmart is free-to-use and fully in-browser, no download necessary!