to a spiral of violence without end, ah, a film about family, faith, masculinity. of fathers and starts april 16th, all dw, 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 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 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 cities unique designed to revitalize itself. and both cities are learning a lot from this place haunting and in the netherlands with

you might think the netherlands this 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 have never been easy. and many people think that in the netherlands, this always was the case. but also in the netherlands, it took a radical change like literally urban warfare and the 1970s of people going through the street and demand the street back in the netherlands. yet the movement that was called stop the child murder in the 19 seventy's. 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 typically most stretched, aka the cycling professor. he had the faculty of urban mobility futures at the university of amsterdam and mentally 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 cities,

how the streets in our cities always were the remaining space between buildings and in the remaining space between buildings, everything happens. social life happens. trading happens, children could play, people could 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 900 thirty's and developed the language around seeing streets of 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. if the behavior is solidified into concrete, asphalt and technology, i finally, it solidifies our imagined well,

we now take it for granted that we think about the street as places that are primarily there for vehicles through the way that we develop the streets with this 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. there are no longer a place where our children can play or can find out how they autonomy. lee can 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 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're opening streets for one day and suddenly we see what that does with people and people start realizing, 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 means 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 if 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 possibilities of what we could do with the streets without coff

ah, bicycles, all feats, as the dutch call them, a key to sustainable city concepts. we ask the cycling professor to explain how benevolence and amsterdam is a good example of what happens if cycling gets a respected place at the 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 in amsterdam we have some places where we experimented with what happens if you eradicate the traffic light logic on an intersection. so does intersection was redesigned because there was so many cyclists compared to god riders that the municipality considered. what would happen if we take out the traffic lights and the traffic lights actually ensure that god drive is,

could go through, but didn't really make it safer. so they did a test that took out the traffic lights. and one of the peculiar findings of the alderman that bit it was if it take out the traffic lights, people start to behave like act of 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 to us inspired city makeovers like the call 1st joking and plan. in the 19 sixty's of the dutch cities like retraced, have been rolling back call centric planning. good by urban highway. welcome back originals city canal. then there's hunting and it chose human centered planning in the seventy's and is now ranked is one of the happiest places in the world. we met 2 of the people responsible for keeping it that way. a safety sensor, a frowning,

a was totally different than today. the central part of the city. a default. monica or central asquare is, was the place where at 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 daughter with a car only with food or back. 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 to barris on a frowning is very useful for a lot of cities in europe,

but also are now central hunting and has been come to city managers. i inca boys attending their attention to be out scant. 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 got bogging 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 neighborhood 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 our streets for green, more space for people. so the consequences that we have less space hooker, and that's not always, it's easy choice because a lot of people also holding and are dependent on 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 kind of 51 and that's

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 the car will say, we ask what kind of cd? and a lot of people say, are we like to see a street where 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 street they 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 cook 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 path dates back to 859 and the pre call era designed by funds.

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 super blocks idea on that idea of, of 40 years ago. the idea that you can still allow contracted 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 live there, they suddenly realize how much space they actually reclaimed. how much space to 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 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 to but he, us or super islands which seems to fit better, better originator, salvatore, to ada told us that the goal was to cut traffic and noise pollution without camping down on call use. a lot of helena model. okay, more she said yeah, will leave it out within a few info. that is popularly call that because i'm a really that river here, but i'm shallow kids the policy until that got your disgust. michael, is this part of your isn't our blackbar piano? is it all night? that's a key on the car. yes. you know, they go to configure monica circle. be erica. don't move out of filed battle. you know, they go to move out of, you know, they've either look at that. i'd like years. the last that it's a few of our not for them, this are you out of here and today your loyal coil of me in your spare time, be another lender, any mentor or ended on the i'm of money 1st martinez school dollars out of this because there are there are a few of,

on always from the brother that were ya told us, was that age of natal? i'm in the middle a new generation in barcelona is growing up, knowing that the streets can belong to everyone. thanks to the beauty bush or bite the bus every friday, the children cycle to school with traffic stop on their lives. with me, when can i mean yes, but i really haven't be. she said, well, it was collection and on this cold winter's day in barcelona, most people asking about, we're happy about the changes i think grade to our safe space it out or you can kind of, you people, or like me, really woke and just enjoy the reagan winters who got sick of gifts are known to still get a good afternoon and i will is inconvenient because im directors at lowes. but if, if you

a dollar you as much viva las persona lufkin this year for be about a year, you love us, be server speedometer must be the organ one. janet fans is barcelona, is deputy math for ecology urban ism and mobility. she says the success of pilot projects inspired her team to think bigger, whom you normally then get. i'm of the talking about. hello. not forget, no boiler. pretty much. i'm gonna ask you a few other languages ms. brenda, sarah mclaughlin. blair, i mean, do you shouldn't look at dinner good, but i was the last guy years is to lock in the big, almost as popular one coming out. but who are part us that open the salary? i'd like to hear. i was again, only goes but it, i mean, didn't go very much, bye. couple of them for the hemoglobin, aden bigler that you part. i'm more interested in that the government is prioritizing community participation. but vocal critics remain, boca runs a portia garage in downtown barcelona, and misses the freedom to drive anyone with when he's more with it,

glassy on practicum and the perfecto, not on lack of quality steady. are you not linear sca center good family that it's a scary to any welcome kit. had bronchitis on kind of swimming tony floor, those rockers allotted and enough from up north africa. they took the after knock with us and when this increment of moustache, profound and not angry, naughty a heads, the barcelona tourism association and isn't happy with the planning process. enough ago looking for emma has not been out of pocket in today. so think you'd be at nick, one of me at yada from la lithonian dana for, but he guess get nausea 20 to get on my laugh. bed to see on as good. must been, you go there. good. willing to federal case one referred miserably by 5th amendment, that indian profound. yes. when you go in the front of my fin assembly here, tomorrow, i see this as to you haven't already moved up and get gone gone platform of the city government is convinced it has enough public backing dis, pushing on handling would let me go. just pull some of the way up there or not, but a thin throat and i use boiler and me and also to make up master unsupportable recall

maintenance school. just skip that loose. yes. getting the spin, tabulate today. when i say to me and go to china and have him off putting in garbage. if somebody could just put the only stuff yes, which will be your fellow not guy. you're locked into sudden my coach room is straight seat belts alone are 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 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 receive for many examples. we still have to allocate the traffic require for people that really need it. but all the other pieces are last sort of the freedom to go through

a city with your personal private vehicle as fast as possible. yeah, you will lose that, 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 the 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 scars versus by that 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, and we didn't shudder, can radically change more about the 15 minutes that he later passed twice a day ago became mer of paris in 2014. with her pledge to make the capital more livable parisians were ready for change. after years of deadly sum, i have why should perish be so under threat from rising temperatures?

for roxanne, many of the capitals 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 that is evolving. and his designed in paris, especially we have very narrow treats and often high buildings. so the even res, reflect a lot on various offices and that accentuate the increasing temperature of this also means that you have less wind and we need when for cooling effect, the green areas and the top which is quite skiff in of, and say things. and in paris in particular, so it adds to the sheet effects, of course, she's emission which directed you to human activity such as the emissions from the,

from industries. so many of these causes can actually be caused by different urban planning. few people know the streets of paris better than just a slight case to broadcast his rides, live on twitch and keeps. his social media follow is up to date with the change. it just took us on a flight, cried to see what had happened in the french capital over the last few lot of new patients through is going to to lead the thing to do it. fluffing all notes on when he talked vincent when he's still walking, sometimes they do, i know so so. so we are in the beginning you can see know all of it for writing by before it was everywhere on the expense. cookies plates. so no, it's very i stacy with

so here we are in other caea. you have to imagine before all of this place. it's thought cha charle can pass here for turning all around his place, or nobody will generally walk or leave. nozik just we move that's on you can just on joyce is place fall leaves. now who here you can see we are cool. cool. a thinner on this place was only for thought was a significant because on only but as john on focused on youth is bringing a lot of life

the idea of creating many centers within a city that are completely workable. within 15 minutes was developed by urban planner, carlos moreno to give paris escalades ecological economic and social foundation in the future. the 50 means the concept is new, but a dagma for living definitely in see if he wanted to reduce that sure to be shocks . and at the same time, we wanted to bring the quality of life for developing intensity in proximity. we want to, to promoter city based on the federal centers, say defend on places for all a leading to reduce the role of individual car disa, new pass for having a schuman at the center of city ecology, proximity. so daddy t and the citizen important are default pre last. there of balcony city,

as policy is very crucial. the role of carly snot, same factor in the center of cities in the high density zone, sorting for all trend. or if that i ever that can see them, they probably guess pay so ease 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 day. very shocked on. there are other changes affects including a make over of the shows that he's a, we spoke to the architect in trusted with breathing new life into the heart of the capitol. harris says so one older european cities and like most cities in the seventy's, it's a city that has been over one voice course. and the case of the shows it is a is an interesting example of this problem is very symbolic area in paris, very famous. but he had something 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 his children was

a nice moment. it was the most elegant avenue in parish that 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 salad. that is very noisy. so he go there, shall that is it to these like bomb. it's one of the most noisy place in paris reducing the part of the car, getting this place accessible to people, is one 1st action. of course we can defeat bankcard units of big debates in paris. the mayor has been planning call from the sand river. there's been a lot of political conflicts 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 scientific inept fighting her pro or

against car. the other aspect also that we want to introduce is understanding better the way nature in the cities working as an ecosystem. the climate change, we're going to have a lot of warm spot in paris and this avenues, very hot spots. so i can you use the natural elements 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 not tomorrow, saturday, 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 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 its age in 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 buffalo as overcome early opposition to school. some quick wins, but here too, the hardest work is still to come. 50 years after starting to reclaim that street duck cities such as amsterdam and humming and must still work hard to put humans, the head of cars. what will other cities do about their motive? love affairs, while individual vehicles, ciocca st. pedestrian a bicycle activity will remain ran on saying can people living and 21st century megacities expect politicians to tackle pollution and climate change to make those? 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 live ability can no longer be solved if we do not. claymore streams,

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