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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 cities unique designed to revitalize itself. and both cities are learning a lot from this place haunting and in the,

the lens whose you might think the netherlands this far too obvious. a choice to start exploring people friendly street. but do you know how hard to dutch people 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 970 of people going through the street and demand the street back to the metals had to move. and that was called stop the child's murder in the night. and 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 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 cities, how the streets in our cities always were the remaining space between buildings and in the remaining space between buildings, everything happened. social life happens. trading happens, children who played 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 defy,

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 a streets with his logic makes our streets unsustainable. unlivable unsafe, and maybe even unjust. so we don't think about streets of 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 the economists 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 an acceptable. we need new narrative and as soon as you start using them, we see that people suddenly start seeing the street for what it 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 are opening streets for one day and suddenly we see what that does with people and people start realize it or wait a minute. we have been accepting our language or 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 yan 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 al 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 faith to create and show possibilities of what we could do with the streets

without calf ah, or bicycles or feet. as the dutch pulled them a key to sustainable city concepts. we asked the cycling professor to explain how the netherlands in amsterdam is a good example of what happens if cycling gets 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 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 the ga drivers go through, but didn't really make it safer, so they did it best. they took out the traffic lights. and one of the peculiar finding of the elderly that did it was, if you take out the traffic lights, people start to behave like active citizens again. so they're 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 1900 sixty's of the dutch cities like which has been rolling back call centric planning, goodbye urban highway. welcome back. originals to canal ah. then there's hunting and it chose humans 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. they can accept the center of crowning it was totally different than today. the central part of the city. it felt monica, our central asquare, as was to place where at garza driving around when you went from the south, fell 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 already 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, paris auto frowning, is very useful for a lot of shitty in europe, but also are now central hunting and has been come to city, manages i in good, 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 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 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 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 what kind of street 31, and that's a different question then. where do you want to park your car? well then everyone 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 or 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 were asked what kind of streets they once that's already happening elsewhere in europe, we used 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 1900 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,

southern 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 blocks, a close to 3 traffic and in hunting and they remain open for local use and for commercial and emergency name alone basically build their super blocks idea on that idea of thrown in of 40 years ago. the idea that you can still allow contracted to go everywhere as long as you lower speeds of cars and you don't allow through traffic. so much of the traffic you will find is not necessary. and the contract 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 to now have to sit, commit each other and how much space and freedom the children suddenly,

if there is no longer cod traffic everywhere. and it also frees up the parents because no longer has to shop for the children everywhere because there's much less danger around. we visited a super block near the st anthony market. they're actually known locally as to put e s o c, the islands which seems to fit better. barrett, which nature salvador to ada, told us that the goal was to cut traffic and noise pollution without clamping down on call use a loaner model. okay more she said yeah, go leave it out. 7th up on the list patio hopefully call that because i'm a really that that it will here but i'm trying to get the policy and all that got you discussed, michael is this part here is not bluffer piano. does it all night take you on the go to configure a battle? yeah. another quote to move out of, you know, they've either look at that. i'd like years the last 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 enter any mentor,

or i'm the i'm of money for the school to dollars out of this because there are, there are a few of our noise from the weather is arianna told us was that it is not all i meant there as the additional money and a new generation in barcelona is growing up, knowing that the streets can belong to everyone. thanks to the betty bush or bike bus. every fridays, the children cycle to school with traffic stop 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 grades to a safe space it out or you can kind of people. busy like me really woke and just enjoy this think it was like him. we've been too god guest or to

steer good. good. ok up. it started working it out. i was in company. i'm thinking that it loads, but if, if your son, somebody orders to move out of the list sorta dollar, you live mostly the left for the soon as a lufkin this year for be about, you know, they like the idea you love it of us can service speedometer must be the organ on. janet sands is barcelona, is deputy math for ecology up in ism and mobility. she says the success of pilot projects inspired her team to think big, whom you normally then get. i'm of the talk in about hello donald, for general dollar filled out pretty much none. bernacki left you any language. when brenda selma got up on blood, i mean david and look at the nicotine was the last guy years is lacking. the thing almost as puffy what i mean, not a whole lot about us thought. open the summary. i'd like to hear i 2nd on because, i mean, didn't go very much just by couple of them support the her legal, but even be glad that you are more well know, seaford and the government is prioritizing community participation. but vocal critics remain, monica runs a portia garage in downtown barcelona,

and mrs. the freedom to dr. benya will when he's more with it glossy on practical and the perfecto, not on lack of quality steady. are you nationally miasca center, good family, that it's a shared to anyone has had bronchitis on can us when we don't, if those rockers are lucky that enough from up north africa, they took the afternoon with us and went a single minute of masking escrow from the no, but anyway nadia heads the barcelona tourism association and isn't happy with the planning process. so good luck with that. i must have not been out of pocket in today assisting you to be a vehicle in m e at yahoo dot com laws lithonian doing. i feel better. yes. kim marcia attorney to get on my laugh. bed to see on this. give me. can you go there? good morning for federal case or not for mr. lynn by 5th amendment, the canadian from canada. i need to go in the front of my phyllis and make it home or not. i said, you haven't got them once. they've gone bump, laughed all that little stuff. the city government is convinced it has enough

public backing, distrusting on that i kinda want me to go to school today about thrown up in rockland. i used to be in the mc, i'm the master. i support the maintenance school. just keep getting the spin traveling because they want to say to me and go to china and be coming on. have a mass pushing. and i mean, if somebody could just put the only stuff, yes, which will be to your fellow not guy. you're locked into sudden my coach room is straight seized. bell selina, facing the same debate since 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 received for many examples,

we still have to allocate the traffic require for people that really need it. but all the other pieces are lost. 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's actually using 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, and it's 15 minutes. 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 streets with the city would shudder, can radically change more about the 15 minutes later, wind and it go, mary 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 perish 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 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 a, to a factor and a lot have been can be linked to planning and how she is evolving and his designed in paris especially we have very narrow traits 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 winful cooling effect, the green areas and the water which is quite skiff in urban settings and in person

. but for so it adds to the effect, of course, she's a mission which are directed you to human a q 2 such as the emissions from vehicle, from industry. so many of these causes can actually be cold by different 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 followers 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 a lot of new patients through. it's going to lead to thing like that just says if it fluffing, oh no, it's on when he returns, when you start walking, sometimes they do, i know 0 so so we are in the beauty on you can see no out of this place it for writing by, oh, it was tough everywhere on the system,

but i didn't decrease alaina. i filled the expense to the place. so no, it very nice place to work. 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, andre is place for leave. now. from here you can see we have to pull a center on this place was only for thought loses significantly because on only

but as john on site is for new think 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 escalades ecological, economic and social foundation in the future. if, if they mean to the concept that is a new part of that before living, definitely in seats is we wanted to reduce that. sure. to be chunks, 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, se defend on places for ra, a, leading to reduce the role of the diesel car. dcc new pass for hiding. vey schuman at the center and of city ecology, proximity saudi daddy,

t and the citizen important are therefore pillars the roof balcony city as parties is very crucial. the role of car is 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 can't 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 shopped on there are other changes affects including a make over of the shows that is a we spoke to the architect entrusted with breathing new life into the heart of the capitol terraces. so one mold and european cities. and like most city in the seventy's, it's a city that has been a other one, was 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, they say,

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 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 paris was 2 times for lanes, going up and down. and you have a pavement, verizon stout, that is very noisy. so he go there, shall that is it to these like bomb is one of the most noisy place in paris. reducing the part of the car and getting this place accessible to people is one 1st action. of course we can complete the band cards here. it's a big debate in paris. the mayor has been planning call from the st river. it's been a lot of political conflict about that. so i think we have to be careful and being

scientific about that unless ideology. so that's very important. we want to be a methodological, scientific, and fighting 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 avenue, it's 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 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 in 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 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 st. duck cities such as amsterdam and haunting and must still work hard to put humans ahead of cars. what will others do about their motive? love affairs. while individual vehicles, ciocca st. pedestrian a bicycle activity will remain ran on the same. can people living and 21st century mega cities 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 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. we'll leave enough to young. i'm the dangers of green washing our traffic problems. the way, if you liked this special report, check out dw red on youtube to see more films like this. ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ah,

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