this is the building or were the pope was born in 1927 and you might be able to tell the atmosphere here is rather quiet on this afternoon. but we, i have to remind her of you that this is also a very, a small community. only around 2500 people here and living here. and just a short while ago, i was able to talk to the mayor and he sat that indeed this is a sad day for macklin in. and it is a sad day for the people living here. because of course, many people here have a as certain sense of price and that from within their small community. and there was, at this years i forgot sing at who was born here and who made it all the way up in the catholic church to become a pope and just a few meters away from me. and for me, there is the church where use us got singer and was baptized. i was also able to talk to the priest there. he was just a putting up a huge picture,

huge photograph of it. benedict's output, benedict and he sat there this afternoon. there would be a special church service, as he believes that within the next hour there will be more people coming out and coming together to exchange and express their memories and their thoughts about pope benedict. i think we just heard the church bell toll there, and i can well imagine that people will be getting the news and perhaps coming out in greater numbers later in the day. but if you don't mind it just like to sort of broaden this question out to the whole country here. what's your feeling about how germans actually feel about the passing of the pope or the quite proud of them? well, let's say when he was elected in 2005, i think there was among many germans, there was a, quite a big a, you know, there was a feeling of joy and pride and, and festivity. and when he was elected in 2005 germany speakers newspaper at the

build site and the biggest tabloid and newspaper and the title on their front page was the v as in pops. we are pope referring 2, not only as a fat singer becoming pope, but referring to you know, the whole country becoming pope up. but we also have to say that in general, at germany is not a very religious country. and are both the protestant church as well as the catholic church in the last, you know, 10 to 20 years have seen massive dropouts. a lot of people have a have set. they don't want to be members anymore off the catholic church because they feel that the catholic church is not really willing to become a bit more modern to modernize. and, and of course, we also have to mention that in those past year that hath been nemesis allegations of sexual abuse and, and that, and how the catholic church has dealt with that has disappointed many members of the catholic church in germany. okay. and your cock joining us live from marshall

bavaria. the home town of the poker, meredith benedict to 62 has just passed away. and with me now, once again is our religion 1st. correspondent martin. gosh, we were just hearing anna speak of pride. the germans felt like when benedict was named, hope you happened to hell from argentina were i believe the current pope is is her widely popular? how much is christmas? an element in papacy? how much does that? i think it's quite clear that you know, coming from a very small town or coming from a country that in some sense, at least geographically squared peripheral like argentina. if the comparison between between these 2 places can be made, obviously for the, for the local population, there is a sense of pride. and there is a sense of probably surprise, also a yak off with just mentioning in seeing one of their own children essentially come up to what is essentially the highest fears of power. so quite clearly, i mean,

i think that there is a sense that, you know, one of us to some degree. i mean, and i say this obviously, you know, not being, not being a catholic, but i mean, one of us has made it there and has made in the manner that is what remarkable. i think that at the same time, it's quite clear that the style of leadership do make a big difference in terms of what is the public, per se, perception of, you know, generally of officials but also for both. so i think that it's an exercise. in contrast, you see these 2 men married, a spoke now, deceased and the current both together. we have no, it pope that he's extremely cosmetic who has actually used that very sma. i would argue that as one of the most important weapons are one of the most important tools in the restructuring rehabilitation of the, of the church after a period of massive crisis. and we had that previous pope, which was actually an academic who was not particularly cosmetic,

was very well liked among a group of people that you know, wanted sort of a church that was more reflexive in a church that was wyatt or so to say. and unfortunately, at a time in which the church probably needed somebody that could actually push and reform so at which greece might have been useful, i think that these 2 kind of images are ways to interact with the public. do reflect in the way that this, that, you know, the fear of the pope is understood any. see. my impression from, you know, from the urgency in perspective is that it is remarkable that we have essentially 2 folks. i mean, following ecclesiastical history, which are essentially out of the framework of the italian pope, which has been the dominant figure with the polish pope exception. of course john paul, the 2nd but domino fear has been the italian pope. and that these 2 books had really just presented such a momentous change in the way in which the church has actually set up and sort of moves forward. and is the legacy of

a pope determined by how they react to the challenges that history throws on their path. and you were mentioning john, paul, the 2nd who i remembered was celebrated as a man who helped and communism health and the cold war is that and then it, it, the 16th had this sex abuse scandal. i mean, it's very difficult to say how history will remember pope's. i mean, most folks, we simply don't remember it. all right. i mean, you can ask anybody in the street about gregory 2nd. nobody would know who we're talking about. but the fact is that we have a very clear sense of the political impact, the politically important. but i also think that we understand ourselves as political members of them overseas, in terms of our expectations for it, pope. and when we see that under the reign of a bow we have had, essentially, the proliferation of abuse, for instance, of crimes of different sorts. expectations are not ones that should be probably gauge in terms of great historical narratives. but we should ask a question,

did they actually do their job at stopping a great crime? or did they do their job agree addressing a great credit or did they do their job? like, you know, rebuilding bridges in places where they were born, where, where they were burned. i think that to some degree, we're going to look at benedict, precisely around these questions and things that he has managed to do. and the ones he has not politically administratively. and so, well, if we could look at the things that he did manage to the accomplishments, he in the prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of faith. and seen as a sort of doctrinal watchdog, beginning in 1981 and intellectual who wrote 60 books. what kind of contributions that he make to, to catholic thought. and i mean, i think that, you know, logically, to a large degree because of the time and place in which he was born. and he grew up and he came into the, into his religious life. you know, bennett, it could not be an apology. somebody who was actually a defender of the faith. because obviously in the context of liberal democracy,

especially in europe where everybody, you know, has to say, even about church a 1st about doctrine. i think that the job of the church and benedict certainly fell days was to actually defend the doctrine, defend what actually was on the book, defend what it was actually on black, black and white that say what was written. and when you, we were talking earlier about relativism, you're talking about black and white. he had, he had a bone to pick with the relativist, did he most certainly did. and he became directly out of this. i mean, burned mind that sort of the notion of god being the truth. is the central tenet not only of catholicism but of christianity by large of judaism islam. i mean this are very, it's a very central idea, which is that one pursues god. because when pursues the truth and when pursues a truth, because when for to god, if, if you actually accept idea, the truth is everywhere, introduce everything and anybody has the truth. then of course the search becomes much more the fuse. and then the question obviously, politically is if anybody has the truth, if somebody in your st gardener has it with, why do you need the church at all?

right, so i think that it had several registers. one was very abstract. the question of theological question, but one was very concrete and politically political was like in order to actually lead a good life, you can not really just use anything. obviously this flush directly with a lot of ito, is that for us, has become completely 2nd hand. i mean, nobody would have a debate, no, the theological marriage of gay marriage. you could actually are you other things in the street, but you can not go out saying i oppose gay marriage because theologically in solving. so i think that this was obviously bound to create serious tension, ideologically and politically. i think it's worth pointing out that this is not a man that came from the deep end of the conservative field. he, somebody that moved very slowly in this. i reckon evolution. yeah, i never lucian, as he begun to see more and more attacks, more sustain attacks on the most economic ideas of truth. there was no idea of truth that was permitted any more. let's say no, i just found it so almost revolutionary perhaps in some quarters to day when we

speak of this post truth world and everybody has their i phone and their own. yeah, i've got my, well, there are many of his, many of his supporters and there are no few. i mean, particularly among the sort of mother and conservatism. not just in catholicism, who essentially have the position that, you know, many of his positions of 2030 years ago were essentially visionary. that he actually was telling us exactly what was coming right, a bus truth world and what the price of that would be. so i think in this sense is somebody that intellectually, it was very rich and had actually a lot to say, he was probably not quite as skilled as in as an administrator, as he was an intellectual. and you are mentioning him having a strong grip on doctrine and i can't help but think of pope francis. i think it was being asked about gay marriage. what do you think he's like, who am i to judge? sort of backing off and what were relations like between the 2 pope's intellectually? i think that ideologically, they were distant, but not on the most of use of cases. so i mean francis is steel against gay

marriage. again, obviously he's not against gay relation. and we know this because he has had actually in his environment, people that he has actually brought into confession that he has known for many years. i mean, including people that have visited him at the vatican, students of his but what i think that this 2 men were heading common certainly was i mean, the church remains an anti abortion church. the church remains or touch all this doctrines. i think that the difference was on the emphasis that is to say for friends is there were things that were they still are, can see the really more important and more pressing for the church sort out than gay marriage or abortion which for instance, in the us it's a very big issue. i think that big really saw this issues as being central to understanding the standing, the social and political standing of the church. if you can actually simply let go of abortion, if you can simply let go of gay marriage, if you can simply let go features that were central for the church, then you are showing that in fact,

the power of the church has actually weekend. and these, this way became for him, i think a priority issue. ok, d, w religious or is fun, martin yak. thank you for that insight. and to recap our top story right now. the former pope benedict 16th has died. we're showing you live pictures of saint peter's square. the vatican spokesman for the vatican said he passed away at his residence in a monastery just after 930 this morning. benedict had been living in relative seclusion at the monastery ever since he stepped down in 2013. the current pontiff pope francis visited benedict at his home earlier this week and said he was very ill. and he urged the faithful to pray for him. the vatican confirmed that benedict condition had been worsening due to deterioration from advancing age hope. benedict was the 1st german pope and almost 500 years. he was also the 1st pope in modern times to voluntarily step down. his body is expected to be displayed for monday

morning in st. peter's basilica to allow the faithful to pay their respects. you're watching it d. w. use life from berlin on special show devoted to passing of the poke, meritus, and addict the 16th loan with my colleague really just for sports on it. pardon gag . stay tuned for more information at the top of the our to watch. ah ah, with

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in memory of benedict the 16th 45 minutes dw. as you go to use it with also great non we're all used to the streets of our cities being hectic. smelly and noisy always has been always will be right. it's up to us to find our way through the traffic. what other options do we have? more than half of us now live in cities that are getting ever more crowded

for generations, cities have been built for cars, not people, causing traffic jams and pollution. many cities are already very unhealthy, and the climate crisis could make them unlivable within our lifetime. some people say we can rethink the cities we live in and make them better. but what does that actually mean? how could we reclaim and re use our own cities to make them cooler and cleaner, and asked happier and healthier? we're about to see how some cities in europe are finding solutions to their own urban issues. the french capital paris, experiencing a new revolution on its streets. barcelona in spain is making the most of the city's unique design to revitalize itself at 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 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 1970s of people going through the streets and demand the streets back. so in the netherlands, get the movement that was called stop the child murder in the 9th and seventy's. and that movement really managed to get people to weekly in the streets that at that time were really engineered towards providing more space. because this is marco to promote strict aka the cycling professor. he had the faculty of urban mobility futures at the university of amsterdam continental as the next generation of urban planners in land use and mobility. what is missing in our current

conversation about we thinking urban transportation planning? market also, she has a lot of ideas on social media about how we use our cities. the streets in our cities always were the remaining space between building and in that remaining space between billings, everything happens, social life happens. trading happens, children could play people with me and people who traveled through them for this change radically in the 9th and 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 3, the literally colliding with all these other purposes that were happening spits and to respond to that. a whole new domain of thinking was introduced to traffic engineering sort of was born in the 930 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 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 as 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. 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 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 that people start realizing or 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 yan kaminsky. his animations invite the viewer to imagine how streets could look, have space for cause was replaced with space for people, for young sharing these utopian visions is a playful way to question how we think about our cities. i 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 caf ah, or bicycles or feet. as the dutch told them a key to sustainable city concepts. we also the cycling professor to explain how the netherlands and amsterdam is a good example of what happens if cycling gets respected. place at the table of traffic engineering and what they show us. 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. 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 light and the traffic lights actually and sure the drivers could 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, for 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. did he make capers like the car 1st joking and plan the 1900 sixty's. of the dutch cities like touched has been rolling back carlson trick planning. good bye been highway. welcome back. original city canal then this 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. they can a safety sensor of crowning. it was totally different today. the central part of the city at felt monica are central as square as was to place where at garza driving around when you went from the south, felt 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 kids in europe to rethink that use of the city center. and with that concept embarrass, 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 should euro, but also are not 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 got bogging and our sidewalks were 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 neighborhoods together for public space. we may, there's an example for how are the city could look like? ah ah, if tony only made his 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 in our dependence of the car, also

a lot of people like to see to 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 everyone says, well, not in front of our house, and i don't want to pay for it. that's what everyone who owns the car will say, we are what kind of cv one. and a lot of people say, so we like to see a street where children can play with down some trees, where it's nice and easy to meet your neighbor. and when you start with that question, the discussion will shake. what is people in other cities? they're 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 and one of the highest population densities in europe. but thanks to a clerk of 19th century planning, this iconic european city is undergoing its own special transformation. the city government wants to convert a 1000000 square meters of road surface into space for local people in the cities.

unique grid pattern dates back to 1859, and the pre car era designed by elephant santa this layout is the key to barcelona . is plans. groups of individual blocks are close to to 3 traffic, but as in hunting and they remain open for local use. and for commercial and emergency needs. marcello, non basic net bills, their super blocks idea on that idea of her owner of 40 years ago. the idea that you can still allow contracted 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 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 realize how much space to 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 god traffic everywhere,

and it also frees up the parents because no longer have to show 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 super . he us, oh, super islands which seems to fit better that originate us. salvatore to ada, told us that the goal was to cut traffic and noise pollution without camping down on call use with the customer about the lorna and modell. okay more he said yeah, go leave it out for them up on the info. that is fuck you holy. go that because all i'm not really that little here but i'm so low is the policy until they got to discuss the marquis call it's this patio is not bluffer. keanta 09. that's a key on the car. yes, the another go to configure a fall battle. you know, the coaches are moved out again or 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 yup say and today your loyal coil of me in your spare time, be another lender at any mentor or a big i'm of money for a few in

a school to dollars out of this because they have out there. if you around always from the part of our yeah, told us was that i just know whole. i meant it as a discipline for 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 trumping stopped on their lives. with me, when can i mean yes, but i me let me, she say really was cookies and on this cold winter's day in barcelona, most people asking about what happy about the changes i think grade to a safe space it out or you can kind of, you people are like me really woke and just enjoy the speaking with phil. yes or no on to steer the get

a good afternoon and i will is inconvenient because im directors loads but if, if you saw somebody on list so that it will give you as much viva for less persona as lufkin this year for a year. you love to discover speedometer must be the out. i can one bit. janet sands is barcelona, is deputy math for ecology albinism and my de la t. she says the success of pilot projects inspired her team to think big here normally the n get, i'm of the talk parking, not all of our hello, not again. not all. i filled out pretty much the number not collected. yes, ms. brenda selma. got a complet. i'm in day for them to look at dinner. good, but i was the last guy years is glockland. the been almost as popular when i come in out about a whole lot, but i start open the summary activity. i was economic us, but i mean didn't go to much responsible for the vehicle, but i hadn't particular done it, but i'm overly fed and the government is prioritizing community participation. but vocal critics remain bogo runs

a portia garage in downtown barcelona and misses the freedom to drive. anyone when he's more with it clathy on practical and the benefit fell, not on lack of quality steady or do you natalie miasca center. good family, that it's a scary to anyone because her brother law can us when we do any flaws, writers allotted and enough from up north africa. they took the afternoon with us and wendy. think on that of my son, especially from the new brand. new area 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 the day. so thank you. yeah, you're gonna me noticed some laws lithonian everybody get kid marcia, journey get on my left bed is your last give must been you go there. he's willing to fit. okay. is 24 miserably boxes on america with indian candy. when you go in the follicle, my phyllis and make it home or well, i guess as to you, haven't of them gone bump left. all of the city government is convinced it has enough public backing. i just pushing on that at the end of them would let me go to

school, so i'm not aware of thrown up on a thin throat and i use boilers. can you talk to me? be in those with the mic on the up master sport, the booley call middle school, just going by me. landers, cape i. that was me off hitting the spins javier because his i've had him make will and go to tell me what i'm not gonna come in under. emma was gonna go ahead if is the middle school just finish up with our new stuff. yes, we're still pretty young. fellow, not guy years them their last name bishop, about one in stock last quarter, sawn 90000 marco to bloomers straight. sees barcelona, facing the same debates as dutch cities in the seventy's and 80. so what we see in all these changes and 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, or 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 lost so that 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's currently don't have the voice and the silent majority that sexually losing out already for decades, the parents is so inspiring for us because it shows that if you develop a new narrative, it can actually convince people, but the narrative should not be about scars 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, and we did shudder, can radically change more about the 15 minutes later, 1st 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 sum. i hate. 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 haul in density center such as paris because of the sheet island defect, which is basically the fact that in the centers the temperatures are higher than in the surrounding countryside. this effect is due to a variety of factors, and a lot of them 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 is, are quite scarce in alban 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 google, from industries. so many of these causes can actually been tackled by different album. plenty, few people know the streets of paris better than i. it is a cyclist to broadcast his rides, live on twitch and keeps his social media followers up to date with the changes. artists took us on a bike ride to see what had happened in the french capital over the last 8 years with granted through doug or not to read the thing like that to do. if it's walking or not on when it's walk. it turns when he's not walking from time to do another thing, we are in the big hoodie on you can see know all of his place. it full lighting by before it was everywhere on dawn. but i think lisa lena,

i've been to the place so know it and very nice place to work with . so here we are in love us. yeah. you have to imagine before all of this place, it's thought jaw talk on past 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 is place fall leaves. now from here you can see we appeal to la center on this place was only for thought due to security financial that because on only but if you're on site this for new

things 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. the 15th, the concept is a new paradigm for living definitely in cities. we 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. dcc new pass for the hiding. they schuman at the center of city ecology, proximity, so daddy,

t and the citizen important are the 4th graders. there of balcony city as parties is very crucial. the role of counties not same factor in the center of cities in the high density zone, sorry, far on ran north that i voted, that can see them the public as pacer east, only for a going with my car. the role of car is an order point in particular for going for a 2040 kilometers, but not for day. very shocked on. there are other changes affects including a make over of the shows that is a we, the architect entrusted with breathing new life into the heart of the capitol. harris is one older european cities. and like most cities in the seventy's, it's a city that has been overwhelmed with course. and the case of the channels 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,

the 2nd why is because it's an area that used to be for the past century, a place where you would go for a walk with your children. was a nice moment. it was the most elegant avenue in paris that local people loved. 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 batteries was 2 times for lanes going up and down and you have pavement varies in south. that is very noisy. so you go there, some of that is it to these like it's one of the most noisy place in reducing the part of the car, getting this place accessible to people is one 1st action. of course we've got the band cars here. it's a big debate in paris. the mayor has been planning cause from the sand river is getting 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 methodology, colon scientific inept fighting the probe or against car. the other aspect of so that we want to introduce is understanding better the way nature in the cities working as an ecosystem, the planet channel. we could have a lot of warm spot in paris and this avenue is very hot spots. so i can you use 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 are kind of we enough 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 2 percent of the surface of the planet. changing city is not something you do over night. this vision we propose start in 2025. it's maybe going to be done to 2035. it might sound like paris is taking the long view, but for a city that counts its agent. millennia, 15 to 20 years is

a very short been 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 streets. dutch cities, such as amsterdam and haunting, and must still work hard to put humans ahead of cars. what will other cities do about their motive? love affairs. while individual vehicles, ciocca st. pedestrian a bicycle activity will remain, rand. i'm saying. can people living and 21st century mega cities expect politicians to tackle pollution and climate change to make those fit for people? the best time to reclaim our strengths was yesterday, but i think the 2nd best time is today. and it's so important because many

challenges that we face as society in terms of global sustainability, but also local live ability can no longer be so if we do not reclaim our streams 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 where to young. i'm the dangers of green washing or 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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