Created by Jessica Lowry and Murali Allada, Key To The Street is an app that aims to help people unveil the walkable potential of their community, by letting them come up with ideas to redesign a particular street. The user can take a photo of the street and locate it, tapping into open city data to find out about any upcoming development projects. They can then record and upload their thoughts on how the street could become more walkable, vote for ideas proposed by other users and sketch objects such as plants, trees and lanterns onto the photo to clearly depict what aspects of the street they'd like to see improved.

With the intention of engaging and empowering residents, this urban planning tool is similar to the Swedish project My Blocks. But a great extra feature of Key To The Street is that, after having suggested new ideas, it updates the user of any actions taken to bring about a more walkable street, establishing a strong virtual community. It's interesting to see another inventive way of using technology to increase the influence residents have on their surroundings.