through a collaborative effort among ghananianbased professionals local community members and international experts the initiative developed strategies to convert a twoacre plot of land into an urban green space not only do roads ensure population mobility they foster the local economy and prosperity in general between and per cent of a citys land area should be reserved for this essential urban backbone in order to prioritise active and public transport with limited to no streets slums are socially and economically weak and disconnected from the rest of urban areas in planned city areas the street space may be unequally distributed or designed in favour of active and public transportation the modes of mobility children and their families depend on