10 / 06 / 2025
Let's walk
As part of TY-CO – Typologies of Community, we’re thrilled to share a brand-new walking map created by OPU Collective. Based on the graphic style of transit maps, this schematic walking map — known as metrominuto — shows distances and walking times between key landmarks around Lefkosia.
re-imagining
how we move
Colour-coded by walking time, it highlights how walkable the city really is, often just a few minutes from one stop to the next, with many routes mostly traffic-free.
The distance markers make it a handy tool not just for walkers but for cyclists too — encouraging everyone to explore the city one short trip at a time.
And this is just the beginning. The plan is to grow the map to connect more neighbourhoods, more points of interest and to also make more maps like this — soon — for other cities across Cyprus.
Because re-imagining how we move is part of re-framing how we live in our cities.
Save this map & start walking.
Why it matters for TY-CO
TY-CO asks how communities form around culture, and who gets to use the city. OPU’s map answers with something simple: it shows that the centre of Lefkosia, on both sides, is already walkable, and invites people to treat its streets as shared space. It sits alongside OPU’s car-free Laou Laou days and the Community Kitchen we hosted together, and it appears in The Good News Gazette as “Nicosia now: you can already walk it”.
Map: OPU – Organisation for Positive Urbanism
TY-CO (communities in conversation) · ABR – Alternative Brains Rule · Co-funded by the European Union
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