ah, with whatever you take, my policeman follow with those who we are, your is actually on fire. made for mines were 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 and more than half of us now live in cities that are getting ever more crowded. but 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 us happier and healthier group? 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, a 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 the

dutch people had to fight for them these moments of change have 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 night and seventies of people going to the street and demand the street back to the metal is the movement that was called stop the child murder in the 1970s. and that movement really managed to get people to reclaim the streets that at that time, what 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 has a lot of ideas on social media about how we use all cities. the streets in our

cities always were the remaining space between buildings and the remaining space between buildings, everything happens, social life happens. trading happens, children could play people with me 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 street 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 1900 thirty's and developed a language around seeing streets as places where people want to go as fast as possible as individuals. and because of that, it started to solidify into institutions and into loss into behavior. it's solidified into concrete, asphalt and technology. and 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 the 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 1900 twenty's. 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 narrative and as soon as you start using them, we see that people suddenly start seeing the straightforward really is and they start understanding that they 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're opening streets for one day and suddenly we see what that does with people and people start realize it, 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 it needs to 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 young kaminsky. his animations invite the viewer to imagine how streets could look in 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 all 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 possibilities of what we could do with the streets without coff ah, or bicycles or feet, as the dutch call them

a key to sustainable city concepts. we ask the cycling professor to explain how the netherlands and amsterdam is a good example of what happens if cycling gets respected. place at this table of traffic engineering and what they show us. because what happens if you take 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 light logic on an intersection. ah, so they didn't, the section was redesigned because there was so many cyclists compared to god drivers that the municipality considered. what would happen if we take out the traffic lights and the traffic lights actually ensure that god drive is gonna go through, but didn't really make it safer, so they did it best. they got 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. so 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 may cavers like the car 1st joking and plan and the 1916 of the dutch cities like which has been rolling back call centric planning, goodbye urban highway. welcome back originals to canal ah, then this hunting 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 the center of groaning. it was totally different than today. joel part of the city of santa monica are central. a

square is, was the place where a garza driving around when you went from the south of frauding 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 where it was not possible to move from the one party to order with a car only with food or bag. it was a totally new concept of thinking about, or city war, one of the 1st cities in europe to rethink 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, reach your shops, it's the way we designed the last 25 years. our city center, this example embarrass on a frowning and it's very useful for a lot of cities in europe, but also are now central hunting and has been come to city manages i in could but

hoist attending their attention to be out. scans, business, verbatim, hvac. 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 got bogging and our sidewalks with the logo, bicycle barking. so we see a lot of opportunities for change. there are 2 neighborhoods which are divided by this road, so we want to bring the neighborhood together for public space. we made this an example for how are the city could look like? ah, if tony only made a choice to make more space in our streets for green, more space for people, so to consequences that we have less space hooker, and that's not always easy choice because a lot of people also halting 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 people, what kind of streets do you want and as a different question, then, where do you want to park your car? and then every one says for now in front of our house,

and i don't want to pay for it. that's what everyone who owns a car will say, we ask what kind of cd. and a lot of people say, are we like to see a street of our children can play with there are some trees or it's nice and easy to meet your neighbor. and when you start with that question, the discussion will check. what is people in other cities who are asked, what kind of streets they once that's already happening elsewhere in europe? squeezed between the mediterranean sea and the mountains. barcelona has the highest car density. i'm one of the highest to 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. the local people in the cities unique grid packing dates back to 18. 59 and the pre call era designed by either to funds santa. this layout is the key to barcelona plans. groups of individual blocks

are closed to 3 traffic, but as in hunting and they remain open for local use and for commercial and emergency needs. barcelona barry, sidney bells, their super blocks idea on that idea of horror of 40 years ago. the idea that you can still allow god for us to go everywhere as long as you lord speeds of course, and you don't allow through traffic. so much of that car traffic you will find is not necessary and contracting 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 out there. suddenly realize how much space they actually reclaims, how much space do now have to sit commute each other and how much space and freedom the children suddenly have. if there is no longer a god traffic everywhere. and it also frees up the parents because no longer have to show for the children everywhere because they are much less danger around. we visited a super block near the st anthony market. they're actually known locally as super

yes. or super islands which seems to fit better better originators. salvatore to ada told us that the goal was to cut the traffic and noise pollution without clamping down on call. use a lot of the lorna model. okay. him or he said yeah, go leave it out. have been up on a few info that is, but you're only going that because i'm already that little here, but i'm so low. is the policy until they go to discuss the market go is this patio is not bluff, are piano? is it? i don't, i don't take you on the car. yes. you know, they go to configure a battle. yeah. another a new router. you know, they either look at that. i thought he is the last a few of our not for them. this are yeah. to say. and today your loyal coil of mean your spare time be another enter any mentor or i don't think i'm of money. says that the on in school to dollars out of this because there are, there are a few of our noise from the weather is our yeah. told us was that it natal, i'm in there as a desktop i me and a new generation in barcelona is growing up knowing that the

streets can belong to everyone. thanks to the betty brooks or bike bus. every fridays, the children cycle to school with trunk stopped on their ribs. a certainly when can i mean? yes, but i mean we have nbc, they really wanted us cookies. and on this cold winter's day in barcelona, most people asking about we're happy about the changes i think the 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 started on on or to clear. get good. ok up. it started with it. i will is inconvenient because in that i close it loads. but if your son, somebody orders to move out of the list so little a few less much leave for lunch for sonus, left hand this year,

a year 11 to rescue service. speedometer must be the hour on jen? it sounds is barcelona. is deputy math for ecology, albinism, and mobility. she says the success of pilot projects inspired her team to think big pump here. normally the n get, i'm only talking about hello now not for general dollar filled out pretty much the number not collected languages. ms. brenda selma. got on blair, i mean they fit in that look a dinner good, but i must ask, i years is glockland the thing almost as popular when i come in are but a who are part of that or by the salary or like the, the i was again only goes with it, i mean, didn't go very much just by couple of them. support the her legal, but i wouldn't be glad that you put on more well, know, seaford and the government is prioritizing community participation. but vocal critics remain rolliger runs a portia garage in downtown barcelona and misses the freedom to drive their own little ones more with it, glassy on practical, and they perfecto not on lack of quality. steady. are you not linear, cassandra,

good family, that it's a scary to anywhere, can get her brother law can us when we don't, if those workers are like is and enough from up north africa, they took the afternoon with us and when they sink on the door must ask with and then no, but anyway nadia heads the barcelona tourism association and isn't happy with the planning process of a good luck with emma's has not been out of pocket interest with anybody. a vehicle in m e at yahoo! dot com laws lithonian doing everybody? yes. good marcia, johnny get out of bed. is your last give more than you go there? good morning, profit. okay, is $24.00 miserably by clicking on the end of candy. when you think of enough enough on my fin assembly at home, maria, i said you haven't got them gone bump, laughed all at lot of the city government is convinced it has enough public backing . i just pushing on that i think would let me go just go from left to where i've thrown up with a thin throat than that. yes, boy asking you to contact me via him. those would be make it on the up master's portable rico. moscow. just confirming landers,

but i lost ya closing the spin stablish because they, they were not having me will and go to charlotte and make, or i'm not going to come in under, emma, posting a garbage if is number of coaches. but i will use thus yes or so pretty our fellow not guy years them their last name brisson, but that one in stock will have quarters. sean, nahant b. w. marco to boomers. street seas. barcelona, facing the same debates as dutch cities in the seventy's and 80. what we see in all these changes in general in change is that people resist and 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 received for many examples, we still have to allocate the traffic require for people that really need it. but all the other pieces are lot sort of the freedom to go through a city with your personal private vehicle as fast as possible. yeah, you will lose that because of that so many others and even yourself,

you will win so much as well. and 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 are 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 it 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 ways or more whole in density center such as paris because of the sheet island effect, which is basically the fact that in the centers the temperature was higher than in the surrounding countryside. this effect is due to a very effective and a lot have been can be linked to planning and how the city is evolving and his designed in paris, especially we have very narrow streets and often high buildings. so the even raise 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 what about is are quite scarce in urban 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 the girl from industries. so many of these causes it can actually been tackled by

different urban plenty, few people know the streets of paris, better than artists. a cyclist who broadcasts his rides live on twitch and keeps his social media followers up to date with the changes. artists took us on a bike ride to see what had happened in the french capital, either the last 8 with valid through it or not. who led the thing like that to do that. if it's walking all north on, when it's walk, it turns when it's not walking comes on the door, no 0 so. so here we are in the navy on you can see know, all of his place. it full rising by before it was everywhere on it. done by id decrease, alina? i've been to this place. i don't know it very nice place to live. so

here we are in love. i see. yeah. you have to imagine before all of this place. it's voc jaw can pause here for turning all a wrong to stay so nobody will turn really warm or leave nozik just we move that's on. you can just andre display for leave. now from here you can see we have to pull a thinner on his place was only for thought loses significantly because on only but after an on site is a new thing 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 50 means the concept is the new part of that before living. definitely in seats is we wanted to reduce that you are to be shocks. and at the same time, we want to to bring the quality of life for developing in terms activity in proximity, we want to to promoter city based on the federal centers say different places for a leading to reduce the role of the diesel car. dcc new pass for having they schulman at the center of city ecology, proximity. so daddy t and the citizen important are default killers. the roof balconies city as parties is very crucial. the role of counties not same factor in the center of cities in

the high density zone, sorry for entrepreneurs that i was that can see them. they probably co pay. so ease only for a going with my car. the role of car is an other point in particular for going for a 2040 kilometers, but not for day. very short on there are other changes efforts including a make over of the shows that is a we, the architect entrusted with breathing new life into the heart of the capitol. terrorist is one old european cities, and like most cities in the seventy's, it's a city that has been over one with 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 something incredible that the parisian hate this a 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 to was the most elegant avenue in paris, the local people lot. 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, all that is it to this like bomb. it's one of the most noisy place in paris who using the part of the car and getting this place accessible to people is one 1st action. of course we can complete the band card. so, you know, it's a big debate in paris. the mayor has been planning cards from the sand river. there's been a lot of political conflict about that. so i think we have to be careful then 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 you know, 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 channel. we're going 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 are, can we enough tomorrow, that scientific knowledge of reducing our call, the footprint on hers. and that's working on all the cities because that's where 85 percent of the damage are produced on 2 percent of the surface of the planet. changing the city is not something you do overnight. this vision we propose start in 2025. it's maybe going to be done. 2035. it might sound like perish 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 where the parisians are ready to support this revolution on their streets in both alone 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 hunting and must still work hard to put humans, the head of cars. what will other cities do about their automotive love affairs? while individual vehicles, ciocca st. pedestrian, a bicycle activity will remain, rand, i'm saying. can people living in 21st century mega cities expect politicians to tackle pollution and climate change to make those cities for the best time to reclaim our strengths was yesterday. but i think the 2nd best times today, and it's so important because many challenges that we face as society in terms of global sustainability, but also local livability 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

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