in northern syria, ah insights into the isolated world of radical islamists a film about family, faith, masculinity of fathers and sons starts april 16th on d. w with we're all used to the streets of our cities being hectic. smelly and noisy always have been always will be right. it's up to us to find our way through the traffic. what other options do we have? more than half of us now live in cities that are getting ever more crowded for generations. cities have been built for cars, not people, causing traffic jams and pollution. many cities are already very unhealthy,

and the climate crisis could make them unlivable within our lifetime. some people say we can rethink the cities we live in and make them better with. but what does that actually mean? how could we reclaim and re use our own cities to make them cooler and cleaner and asked happy errand healthy amp? we're about to see how some cities in europe are finding solutions to their own urban issues. the french capital, paris is experiencing a new revolution on its streets. barcelona in spain is making the most of the city's unique design to revitalize itself. and both cities are learning a lot from this place haunting and in the netherlands with you might think the netherlands is far too obvious, a choice to start exploring people friendly streets. but do you know how hard dutch

people had to fight for them these moments of change? i've never been easy and many people think that in the netherlands, this always was the case. but also in the netherlands, it took radical change like literally urban warfare. and the 1970s of people going through the street and demand the streets back turned and had the movement that was called stop the child's murder in the 1970s. and that movement really managed to get people to reclaim the streets that at that time were really engineer toward providing more space. because this is marco tip room is stretched aka the cycling professor. he had the faculty of urban mobility futures at the university of amsterdam and mental is the next generation of urban planners in land use and mobility. what is missing in our current conversation about rethinking urban transportation planning? marco also, she has a lot of ideas on social media about how we use our city,

the streets and our cities always were the remaining space between buildings and the remaining space between buildings. everything happened, social life happens. trading happens, children could play people who meet and people who travel through them for this change radically in the 1900 twenty's 100 years ago. and that was the pressure that was introduced by the motorized vehicle. cars came in large numbers to that street and basically put pressure on the way that we were thinking about the truth and literally colliding with all these other purposes that were happening in space. and to respond to that. a whole new domain of thinking was introduced to traffic engineering sort of was born in the 1930 and developed a language around seeing streets of places where people want to go as fast as possible as individuals. and because of that, it's got to solidify into institutions and into loss. if you behavior it's solidified into concrete, asphalt and technology. i finally, it solidifies our imagination or we now take it for granted that we think about the streets as places that are primarily there for vehicular throughput. the way that

we develop a streets with his logic makes our streets unsustainable, unlivable unsafe, and maybe even unjust. so we don't think about streets and places in terms of justice and that's how we thought about them until the 1920s. they are no longer a place where our children can play or can find out how they autonomy, leak and go through the city and become an adult citizen. and this is something that society now slowly starting to realize that this is unacceptable. we need new narratives and as soon as you start using them, we see that people suddenly start seeing the st for what it really is. and they start understanding that there are something to fight for. i think there is a political or societal movement of people that are sort of wakening up to this idea that you can actually tell different stories and different narratives. like for instance, shifting from we are closing streets off for one day. instead of that saying, we are opening streets for one day and suddenly we see what that does with people and people start realize, oh wait a minute, we have been accepting our language, our narratives about the streets. what if we challenge them?

and i think that we see globally, this movement slowly gathering momentum. and now what if needs is sort of a couple of seeds of places that show what can happen if you really recapture that narrative. one person already planting seeds is yan kaminsky. his animations invite the viewer to imagine how streets could look, have space for cause was replaced with space for people, for young sharing these utopian visions is a playful way to question how we think about our cities are no longer wanted to wait for the increasingly urgent social change, but to make a contribution myself and as a communication designer, i decided to make streets without cause visible. and i realized that there was so much space to create and show the possibilities of what we could do with the streets without coff ah, or bicycles. or feet, as the dutch pulled them

a key to sustainable city concepts. we also the cycling professor to explain how the netherlands and amsterdam is a good example of what happens if cycling gets respected. place at the table of traffic engineering and what they show us. what happens if you think cyclists are human behavior as a central element in design? instead of how can you make humans behave according to your design and an answer them? we have some places where we experimented with what happens if you eradicate the traffic like logic on an intersection. ah, so didn't intersection was redesigned because there were so many cyclists compared to god drivers that the municipality considered what would happen if we take out the traffic light and the traffic lights actually ensure that god drive is good go through, but didn't really make it safer. so did, at best they took out the traffic lights. and one of the peculiar findings of the

elderly that did it was if you take out the traffic lights, people start to behave like active citizens. again, they are not looking at the light, but they're looking at each other and negotiating with each other how to use the intersection of course amsterdam could have turned out rather differently if they hadn't blocked us in spite city. make overs like the car 1st joking and plan the 1900 sixty's. other dutch cities like which has been rolling back call centric planning. goodbye urban highway. welcome back. original t canal ah . then this morning and it chose human centered planning in the seventy's and is now ranked as one of the happiest places in the world. we met 2 of the people responsible for keeping it that way. they can accept these, the center of cronin was totally different than today. the central part of the city

at a health market or central square. it was a place where our cars are driving around when you went from the south, floating into the north of in the province. in the seventy's, we decided that has to stop. we choose to make a city traffic plan where our center was divided in 4 parts. and it was not possible to move from the one part to the other with a car already we have food or there was a totally new concept of thinking about or city war, one of the 1st cities in europe to we think that use of the city center, a concept in paris, i think it's a way we design our city already. the concept that in 50 minutes you have to reach your work, your school, your roots, your center to reach your shops. it's the way we designed the last 25 years. our city center, this example embarrass audit frauding and it's very useful for a lot of shady shaquira but also are now central haunting and has been come to city managers i in could but hoist attending their attention to be out scans. this is

the beta nevada. i see that a very functional design. there are a lot of concrete lames for the car. there are side roads with a lot of guy bugging and our sidewalks were the logo, bicycle barking. so we see a lot of opportunities for chains. there are 2 neighborhoods which are divided by this road. so we want to bring the neighborhoods together for public space. we made this an example for how are the city could look like? ah, if only only made a choice to make more space in streets for green, more space for people, so to consequences that we have less space for. gosh, and that's not always, it's easy charged because a lot of people also holding in our dependence of the car. also a lot of people like to see the car in front of their house. but what we do is ask the people, what kind of streets do you want and as a different question, then, where do you want to park your car? we're done. everyone says we're not in front of our house and i don't want to pay

for it. that's what everyone who owns the car will say, we are what kind of cv one and a lot of people say, so we like to see a street where children can play with down some trees or it's nice and easy to meet your neighbor. and when you start with that question, the discussion will share. what is people in other cities? they're asked what kind of st day once that's already happening elsewhere in europe . we between the mediterranean sea and the mountains, barcelona has the highest condensate and one of the highest population densities in europe. but thanks to a clerk of 19th century planning, this iconic european city is undergoing its own special transformation. the city government wants to convert a 1000000 square meters of road surface into space for the local people in the cities unique grid, packing dates back to 859 and the pre call era designed by to fund this layout is

the key to barcelona plans groups of individual block a close to 3 traffic and in hunting and they remain open for local use and for commercial and emergency name alone basically built their super blocks idea on that idea of, of 40 years ago. the idea that you can still allow contracts to go everywhere as long as your lord speeds, of course, and you don't allow through traffic. so much of the traffic you will find is not necessary. and traffic that is necessary can still go to places where they want to be. but as soon as you do that, you start unlocking that street for the people that lived there, they suddenly realized how much space they actually reclaimed. how much space do now have to sit, commit each other and how much space and freedom the children suddenly have if there is no longer god traffic everywhere. and it also frees up the parents because no longer have to shop for the children everywhere because they are much less danger around we visited a super block sometimes in the market. they're actually known locally as to buddy,

as the islands, which seems to fit better. their originators, salvador ada, told us that the goal was to cut traffic and noise pollution without camping down on call use the lorna morello came or she said, yeah, go to vent up or well, that is partially call the decala mobilly that it will soon. but on so long is the part of the culture discussed. remarkable is this part here is not bluffer keanta 09. that's a key on the car. yes, the another go to configure a battle. you know, the coaches will move out again, or they've either look at that, i'd like years the last that it a few of our not for them. this are yeah. to say in 3 years, loyal coil of me in your spare time, be another into any mental or ended on the i'm of money for the in school to dollars out of this because there are there if you learn always from the total for is that it just not whole, i meant it as a visual up, i'm in a new generation in barcelona is growing up,

knowing that the streets can belong to everyone. thanks to the betty bush or bite the bus every friday. the children cycle to school with traffic stop on their rims . a certainly when can, i mean? yes, but i mean let me, she say really was collections and on this cold winter's day in barcelona, most people asking about what happy about the changes. i think grades to a safe space it out or you can kind of. busy people like me really woke and just enjoy the think it was like i'm leaving to go get a good afternoon and i was inconvenient because in directors loads. but if, if you saw somebody on list so that it will give you as much viva for sonus left

hand this year a year, elaborate of ask yourself. speedometer must be the hour i can order. janet sands is barcelona. is deputy math for ecology albinism and to mozilla t. she says the success of pilot projects inspired her team to think big. here normally the end of the talk in a box hello. not getting a boiler filled out pretty much in, i'm gonna ask you like to learn the language mean brenda selma got up and bleed. i mean, do you fit in that? look at the nicotine was the last guy years is lacking. the been almost as popular when i come in out, but i who are part of that. oh, but i the salary again only goes, but it didn't go to matters by people or them support the he's legal, but am be glad that you, but i'm over know, seaford and the government is prioritizing community participation. but vocal critics remain. monica runs, a portia garage in downtown barcelona and misses the freedom to drive the new one when his mother, if, if clathy on practical and the benefits are not on lack of quality steady, are you not linear, ask a center,

good family that it gets to anyone get her brother law can us when we don't if dollars like as a life isn't enough from up north africa, they took the weapon like with ours and when they sink on, the door must escrow from the na nadia heads the barcelona tourism association and isn't happy with the planning process of glory. look good. emma has not been out of pocket in today. so if anybody at the economy noticed armoires lithonian day everybody. yes. good marcia. jennifer, get out of bed is your last good must been you go there. when the federal case warner formerly busted on america, the canadian from canada, when you think of enough for my family at home or well, i guess as to your rental, them gone bump, lot thought of the city government is convinced it has enough public backing. and i just pushing on that end often would let me go just go from left to layer of thrown up on a thin throat than there. yes, boy, last new truck and debbie b m. those are the make a comm? yeah. master sport, they bullock or may not go to school in babylon. there's the tape i that was me off

hitting the spin tablet because his head and make will and go to taylor. and me go contaminant, you have a math, posting garbage if it's a little bit of coaches. michelle, with our new stuff. yes, we're still pretty young fellow, not guy years. them there laughin different, but i wouldn't stop you. let's go just sean nahant b. w. marco to bloomers, straight. see spouse alone facing the same debates as dutch cities in the seventy's and eighty's. what we see in all these changes in general in change is that people resist. we have to take that seriously because they resist because some people will lose something. again, the example of children children have been losing their freedom for decades, but they don't have a voice for the people that will currently lose. well, 1st of all, their loss will be relatively small. as we see for many examples, we still have to allocate the traffic require for people that really need it. but all the other pieces are lost. so that the freedom to go through a city with your personal private vehicle as fast as possible. yeah, you will lose them. but because of that so many others and even yourself,

you will win so much as well. we need to unlock all these people that currently don't have a voice and the silent majority that sexually losing out already for decades, the parents is so inspiring for us because it shows that if you develop a new narrative, it can actually convince people. but the narrative should not be about scar versus by. it should really be about the deeper values that people have an a 15 minute city gives us this narrative. it talks about a meaningful life that is not requiring fast mobility. this means that the relation that citizens have with the street with the city would shudder, can radically change more about the 15 minutes later, 1st wide. and the data go became mer of paris in 2014, with her pledge to make the capital more livable. parisians were ready for change after years of deadly summer heat. why should parents be so under threat from rising temperatures for roxanne menu of the capital climate academy?

it's down to typically that he designed the heat weighs all more hole in density center, such as paris because of the sheet island defect, which is basically the fact that in the centers the temperatures are higher than in the surrounding countryside. this effect is to a variety of factors and a lot of them can be linked to album planning and how the city is evolving and his designed in paris, especially we have very narrow streets and often high buildings. so the on res, reflect a lot on various offices and that accentuate the increasing temperature us. this also means that you have less wind and we need winful cooling effects. the green areas and the water is, are quite scarce in alban settings and embarrassing particular. so it adds to the sheet effects, of course she, the mission which are directed you to human activities such as the emissions from google, from industries. so many of these causes can actually been tackled by different

urban planning. few people know the streets of paris better than i. it is a cyclist to broadcast his rides, live on twitch and keeps his social media followers up to date. with the changes, artists took us on a bike, cried to see what had happened in the french capital. over the last 8 years with valid through doug and i to lead the thing like that to do it. it's walking or not on when it's walk, it turns when it's not walking come down for do i no 0 so. so here we are in the beauty on you can see know, all of his place. it full rising by before it was everywhere on it. but i didn't think lisa, lena, i feel that it's been the place to know it and very nice place to live.

so here we are in love us. yeah, you have to imagine before all of this place, it's thought char kaftan passed here for turning all around his play store. nobody will generally walk or leave nozik. just remove that on. you can just on joyce's place for leave now so here you can see we have, he'll pull a thinner on his place was only for thought. knows it's a philosophical that because on only, but if you're on site, this are new. thanks for bringing a lot of life. the idea of creating many centers within

a city that are completely walkable within 15 minutes was developed by urban planner, carlos moreno to give paris escalate ecological, economic and social foundation in the future. the 15th, the concept that is a new part of that before living definitely in seats is we wanted to reduce that you are to be shanks. and at the same time, we wanted to bring the quality of life for developing intensity in proximity. we want to, to promoter city base it on the federal centers, se defend on places for ra, a, leading to reduce the role of the diesel car. dcc new pass for having a schuman at the center of city ecology, proximity. so daddy t and the citizen important are the 4th class there of balcony city as parties is very crucial. the role of counties not same factor in the center of cities in the

high density zone, sorry. far on, ran off that i voted, that can see them. they probably get pacer east, only for a going with my car. the role of car is an order point in particular for going for a 2040 kilometers, but not for the very short on there are the change is affect including a make over the shows that he's a we spoke to the architect in trusted with breathing new life into the heart of the capitol, viruses. so one older european cities and like most cities in the seventy's, it's a city that has been over one was course, and the case of the channels it is a is an interesting example of this problem. very symbolic area in paris, very famous, but he had some saying incredible that the parisian hate this area. why is because it's an area that used to be for the past century, a place where you would go for a walk with your children. was a nice moment, it was a mustang and avenue in parish that local people loved. and we figure out that

since 40 years, no one wants to go there except tourist. the car, of course, is one of the key problem to give this face back to people and pedestrian. because all of this has been treated as a highway entering patrick was 2 times for lanes, going up and down and you have a pavement. verizon sound that is very noisy, so you go there sounds it is it to these like it's one of the most noisy place in reducing the part of the car, getting this place accessible to people is one 1st actions. of course we can pick the band car. so you need to big debate in paris. the mayor has been planning call from the sand river. there's been a lot of political conflict about that. so i think we have to be careful and being a bit scientific about that unless ideology, so that's very important. we want to be very methodological. and santa fe cannot fighting a probe or against car. the other aspect of so that we want to introduce

is understanding better the way nature in the cities working as an ecosystem, the planet chan. we've got to have a lot of warm spot in paris and this avenues very hot spot. so i can you use a natural element to cool down the city, but that is a simple conclusion to a more larger and more scientific study, which is to say, can we enough to morrow with scientific knowledge of reducing our carbon footprint on hers. and that's working on all the cities because that's where 85 percent of the damage of produce and 2 percent of the surface of the planet. changing city is not something you do overnight. this vision we propose start in 2025. it's maybe going to be done to $735.00. it might sound like parish is taking the long view, but for a city that counts it's aging. millennia, 15 to 20 years is a very short spin of the whale. much depends on whether parisians are ready to support this revolution on the streets in barcelona as overcome early opposition to

school. some quick wins, but here to the hardest work is still to come 50 years after starting to reclaim that streets. duck cities such as amsterdam and haunting and must still work hard to put humans ahead of cars. what will other cities do about their motive? love affairs. while individual vehicles, ciocca st. pedestrian, a bicycle activity will remain, rand. i'm saying. can people living and 21st century mega cities expect politicians to tackle pollution and climate change to make those for people the best time to reclaim our strengths was yesterday, but i think the 2nd best time is today. and it's so important because many challenges that we face as society in terms of global sustainability, but also local live ability can no longer be so if we do not reclaim our streets as public spaces of places that are there to support, not only the throughput of vehicles but to support the thriving of our society.

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