The Global Designing Cities Initiative inspires a shift toward safe, sustainable, and healthy cities through transforming streets. It launched in 2014 as a program of NACTO and is now an independent initiative.

Made up of a team of designers, planners, and urban strategists, this program supports city practitioners around the world to help them design and implement street safety redesign projects. GDCI focuses on empowering local officials and communities to become changemakers, equipping them with the knowledge, tools, and tactics needed to improve urban mobility and fundamentally change the role of streets in our cities.