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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 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 cunning and in the new and

with you might think the netherlands this far too obvious, a choice to start exploring people friendly street. 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 metal is yet the movement that was called stop the child murder in 19 seventies. 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 typically most stretched, aka the cycling professor. he had the faculty of urban mobility futures at the university of amsterdam, continental us, 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. ah, the streets in 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 1920100 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 1900 thirty's, 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 not at the,

the fire into institutions and into loss, into 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 of 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 as 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 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, oh, 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 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 how 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 treats 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 also 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. 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 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 they did it 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 trash has been rolling back call centric planning. goodbye urban highway. welcome back. original city canal. ah. then there's haunting and it chose humans and to 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, a default, monica or central asquare, as most a place where at garza driving around when you went from the south of frauding it to 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 we're, it was not possible to move from the one party daughter with a car already 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 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 shitty in europe, but also are now central haunting and has been come to city managers. 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 guy bugging, and our sidewalks were the logo bicycle parking. 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 to consequences that we have less spatial, gosh, and it's not always, it's easy because

a lot of people also holding and are dependent 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 331, and it's a different question then whether 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 a car will say, we ask what kind of cd and a lot of people say, so 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 were asked what kind of streets they once that's already happening elsewhere in europe. waste 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 uniform . 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 bail fair 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 shop for the children everywhere because they are much less danger around. we visited a super block santini market. they're actually known locally as to buddy, as oh, super islands which seems to fit better. there originated salvador ada, told us that the goal was to cut traffic and noise pollution without camping down on call. you. ah, lorna moriello came or she said yeah go, have in support for that is hopefully going to be covered. missouri that handles on solo is the policy until they go to discuss the market go. it's this patio is not bluff. are piano? is it online? that's a key on the car. yes. you know, they go to configure a title, you know the coaches and then move out of, you know, they've either, like i said that i think he is the last that it's a few of our not for them. this are ya to say. and today your loyal coil of me in

your spare time, be another lender at any mentor. all ended on the gambled money for the theater in school to dollars out of this because they have out there if you around always from the yeah. offers that it just not all i meant it as a visual up on me and 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 lives with me, when can i mean yes, but i haven't received a bill. it was collection. 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 you people are like me really woke and just enjoy the speaking with. so i guess i'm to learn on or to

steer good. good. ok up. it started. good afternoon and i will is inconvenient because in the rector's lows. but if, if your son somebody orders less, so the total killer, you less much viva for less personal offense. this year, a year, elaborate of ascii service, speedometer must be the our can one bit. janet fans is barcelona, is deputy math for ecology and ism and mobility. she says the success of pilot projects inspired her team to think big points here. normally the n get, i'm of the talk parking lot all about hello not for again, not. 1 filled out pretty much the number of skill. this is brenda selma. god bless . i mean days for them to look a dinner good, but i was the last guy. yours is blocking. the big, almost popular one coming out. but who are part us that open the salary are actively economic us, but i mean didn't go very much bye couple of them for the vehicle, but i wouldn't be glad that you put on more revenues. the federal government is prioritizing community participation. but vocal critics remain poker runs

a portia garage in downtown barcelona and misses the freedom to drive anyone with when he's more with it glassy on practical into perfecto, not on lack of quality steady. are you not linear sca center good family that it's a scary so anyway, i can get her brother law can us when we don't if dollars like as a lot isn't enough from up north africa. they took the after knock with us and then this increment of moustache, profound and not angry nadia heads the barcelona tourism association and isn't happy with the planning process of looking for emma's has not been out of pocket in today. so thank you. yeah, you're gonna me yeah, yeah. it has some laws. lithonian doing everybody. yes. kid, nausea, attorney to get out of bed to see on as good. must been. you go their head willing to fit. okay. is 24 miserably michel indian fan? yes. when you go in for michael, my fin assembly here tomorrow, a thing is that you haven't already moved up and get gone bump lap. thought of the city government is convinced it has enough public banking dis,

pushing on one after at the end of what i'm going to go, just pull some of you. they were thrown up on a thin throat and i use boilers. can you talk to me via him? those are the mic on the up master. i support the legal manual school just going by me. landers, cape i, that was me, off hitting the spins have left his head, and i've had him make willow and go to taylor and make well no contaminant yet. emma was gonna grab it if it, the middle school just catch up with our new stuff. yes. or so pretty young fellow, not guy years them, they're like him different, but i wouldn't stop. you just go just sean nahant b. w marco to bloomers street sees 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. 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 lot 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 streets with the city, and we did shudder, can radically change more about the 15 minutes later, past wind and 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 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 haul in density center such as paris because of the heat 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 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 windfall. cooling effects, the green areas and the water which is,

are quite scarce in urban settings and in paris in particular. so it adds to the sheet effects, of course she, the mission which are directed you to human activity such as the emissions from vehicles, from industries. so many of these causes can actually be tackled by different urban plenty. few people know the streets of paris better than 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 ride to see what had happened in the french capital over the last 8 years, with no decent valid through dog or not to lead the thing like that to do that. if it's walking or not on when it's walk, it turns when he's not walking comes on the do i no 0 through here we are in the beauty on you can see know all of his place. it full why didn't buy before it was

everywhere on with them. i've been to the place so 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 fuck jaw talk on the bus here for turning all wrong to stay so nobody will generally walk or leave nozik just we move that's on you can just on joyce's place for leave. now from here you can see we are, he'll pull a thinner on his place, was only for thought it was a significantly because on only but as john on focused on you think, 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 15th, the concept is a new part of that before living, definitely in sci fi fi, 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 base it on the federal centers, se 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 parties is very crucial. the role of counties not same factor in the center of cities in the high density zone. sorry for all tran, ortho divers. that can see them. they probably get pacer east, only for a going was may 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, the disease. we, the architect in trusted with breathing new life into the heart of the capitol. harris says 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 some saying incredible is 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 paris that local people lot, and we figure out that since 40 years, no one want 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 you go, there's all that, is it to these like 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've got the band card. so, you know, it's a big debate in paris. the mayor has been planning cards from the sand river. it'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 certificate fighting the pro 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 climate change, we're going to have a lot of warm spot in paris and this avenue is 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, how can we nav tomorrow, the scientific knowledge of reducing our 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 that 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 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 in 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 time is 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 vehicles but to support the thriving of our society, will leave enough for 2 young. i'm the dangers of green washing all traffic problems away. if you liked this special report, check out d w ref on youtube to see more films like this. a ah, with

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