abandoned, by their own sake, a young generation desperately tries to help itself in 30 minutes on dw, ah, rearing to read. ah, everyone who loves books has to go insane. ah, the dw literature list, 100 german must reads, were all used to the streets of our cities being hectic, smelly and noisy always hath 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. 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. at both cities, a learning a lot from this place haunting and in the netherlands. news,

you might think the netherlands this far too obvious, a choice to start exploring people friendly street. but do you know how hard is 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 radical change like literally urban warfare and the 970 of people going through the street and demand the street back in the middle of the movement that was called stop the child murder in the 9th and seventy's. and that movement really managed to get people to reclaim the streets that at that time where 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 reynolds 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 have the streets in our cities always were the remaining space between buildings and in the remaining space between buildings, everything happen, social life happens. trading happens, children who played people could meet and people who travel through them. but this changed 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 900 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 started to solidify into institutions and into loss. if you'd be here,

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're opening streets for one day and suddenly we see what that does with people and people start realizing 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 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 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 a possibility of what we could do with the streets without calf

ah, or bicycles or feet. as the dutch told them a key to sustainable city concepts, we offer the cycling professor to explain how the netherlands and m to them 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, 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 cyclic compared to god drivers

that the municipality considered. what would happen if we take out the traffic light and the traffic lights actually ensured the drivers 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 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. did he make overs like the car 1st joking and plan the 1960 of the duck cities like trash has been rolling back call centric planning. goodbye urban highway. welcome back. original to the canal. ah. then there's hunting and it chose human centered planning in the seventy's and is now ranked as one of the copyist 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, it felt monica, our central asquare, is, was a 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 the 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, a concept in paris. i think it's a way we design our city already. the concept that in 50 minutes you have to reach your work, your school, your roots, your center, reach your shops. it's the way we designed the last 25 years. our city center,

this example embarrass on a frowning and it's very useful for a lot of shitty should euro, but also are now central haunting and has been come to city, manages i in good, but hoist attending their attention to be out scanned. this is the beta my back. 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 neighborhoods together for public space we made . there's an example for how the city could look like with tony only made a choice to make more space in our streets for green, more space for people. so the consequences that we have less spatial, gosh, and that's not always, it's easy choice because a lot of people also holding an occupant, 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 331, 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 a 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 were asked what kind of streets they once that's already happening elsewhere in europe. squeezed between the mediterranean sea and the mountains. barcelona has the highest car density. i'm one of the highest to population densities in europe. but thanks to a clerk of 19th century planning, this iconic european city is undergoing its own special transformation. the city government wants to convert a 1000000 square meters of road surface into space for the local people in the

cities unique grid pattern dates back to 1859, and the pre call era designed by any to funds santa. this layout is the key to barcelona. 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 need bills, they're super blocks idea on that idea of horror of 40 years ago. the idea that you can still allow contractors 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 realized how much space to actually reclaim how much space do now have to sit commute each other and how much space and freedom the children suddenly have if they're 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 to but he is also super islands which seems to fit better. there originated salvatore to ada, told us that the goal was to cut traffic and noise pollution without camping down on call use with a couple of out of the lorna model. okay, more he said yeah, go leave it on the 15th up on the info. that is fucking holy go that because i'm already that little here go. i'm solo is the policy until they go to discuss the marquis call. 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 new rod again or they've either look at that, i'd like years the last a few of our not for them. this are yeah, to say. and today your loyal coil of me in your spare time, be another enter. any mentor or her and it under gambled money for the is school to

dollars out of these because there are, there are a few of our noise from the weather is arianne told us was that it does not fall. i meant it as the best plan for me and a new generation in barcelona is growing up, knowing that the streets can belong to everyone, thanks to the bt books or bite the bus every friday, the children cycle to school with traffic stopped on their lives with me, when can i mean? yes, but i mean we have nbc say really was cookies and on this cold winter's day in barcelona, most people asking about, we're happy about the changes i think 8th grade to our safe space. say how are you can kind of people. busy like me really woke and just enjoy the think it was i would like him with said so yes or no to still get

a good afternoon and i will is inconvenient because im directors loads but if you feel certain somebody orders less. so the total killer, you less much viva fuller. persona lufkin this year, a year 11 to rescue service. speedometer must be the hour i can order. janet sands is barcelona, is deputy math for ecology, albinism, and mobility. she says the success of pilot projects inspired her team to think big points here. normally when get i'm only talking about hello. now not again, not all. i filled out pretty much the number not collected. yes, ms. brenda selma. god bless. i mean, they couldn't look a dinner good, but i must ask, i yours is blackened the thing almost as puffy when i got me not a whole lot but i thought or but either saturday or activity or i was again only goes but it didn't go very much by people of them for the vehicle, but i had in particular that you put more when i was the fed and 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 when he's more with it quality on practical and the benefits are not on lack of quality steady. are you not linear, cassandra, good family, that it's a scary to any welcome to her brother law. can us when we do any flaws, writers allotted and enough from up north africa, they took the after knock with us and when this increment of moustache, profound and not angry nadia heads the barcelona tourism association and isn't happy with the planning process enough. a good luck with emma's has not been out of pocket in the day. so if anybody has mickland m e at yahoo dot com la lithonian the for betty. yes, kitten, aussie i jenny, she get on my left bed to see on as good. must been. you go there, he's willing to fit okay. is 24 miserably. but 7 on the go. in the end of candy. when you think of enough of my fin assembly at home or not. i said, if you haven't already moved up and get gone gone platform of the city government is convinced it has enough public backing and is pushing on one after at the end of

what i'm going to go. just pull some of the way up there on upper thin throat than there. yes, boy, last new truck. and maybe be in the little gimmick on the up master sport. the bully for manual school. just going by milan, there's the cape. i lose me off hitting the spin fabulous, because his mother and me will and go to china and make well, i'm not gonna come in under yama wasena garbage if is the middle school just catch up with our niece thus? yes, we're still pretty young fellow. not guy years them, they're like investment, but i won't stop you. last quarter sawn now had been the dad marco to bremar's straight seized barcelona, facing the same debates as dutch cities in the seventy's and 80. so 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 lost. so that the freedom to go through a city with your personal private vehicle as fast as possible. yeah, you will lose them. 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. 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 streets with the city would shudder, can radically change more about the 15 minutes later, 1st wide. and it became mer of paris in 2014. with her pledge to make the

capital more livable. parisians were ready for change after years of deadly summer heat. why should parents be 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 hole in density center such as paris because of the heat island effect, 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 c t 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 temperatures. this also means that you have less wind and we need windfall. cooling effects, the green areas, and the what top does 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 activities such as the emissions from the girl from industry. so many of these causes it can actually be tackled by different urban planning. few people know the streets of paris better than artists, a cyclist to broadcast his rides, live on twitch and keeps his social media followers up to date with the changes i just took us on a bike, right to see what had happened in the french capital over the last 8 years with donald through doug and i to let the thing like that to do that. if it's walking or not on whether it's walk, it turns when he's not walking from under, do i know 0 through here we are in the building on you can see know, all of his place. it full rising by before it was everywhere on it. but

i know i've been to the place i don't know it very nice place to well so here we are in love i see. yeah. you have to imagine before all of this place. it's voc jaw talk on past here for turning all around this place or nobody will turn really warm or leave nozik just we move that's on the you can just andre display fall leaves. now from here you can see we are political, a fan on this place was only paul thought loses significantly because i'm only but if you're on focused on you think bringing

a lot of life the idea of creating many centers within a city. this 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 50 means the concept is a new part of that before living, definitely in cities, we wanted to reduce that you are to be shocks. and at the same time we want to to bring the quality of life for developing intensity in proximity. we want to, to promoter city based on the federal centers, say different places for a leading to reduce the role of individual car. dcc new pass for the hiding bay. schuman at the center of city ecology, proximity. so daddy,

t and the citizen important are default killers. there of balcony city as parties is very crucial. the role of county is not same factor in the center of cities in the high density zone, sorry for all channels that i voted that can see them. they probably co pay, so ease only for a going with my car. the role of car is an other point in particular for going for a 2040 kilometer, but not for day. very short on there are other changes efforts including a make over of the shows that is a we, the architect entrusted with breathing new life into the heart of the capitol harris. this one older european cities. and like most city in the seventy's, it's a city that has been over one with 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,

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 the children was a nice moment. it was the most elegant avenue in paris, the local people loved, 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 fabric was 2 times for lanes, going up and down and you have pavement version south. that is very noisy. so you go there channels it, is it today's like it's one of the most noisy place. in fact reducing the part of the car, getting this place accessible to people is one 1st action. of course we can complete the band card. so, you know, it's a big debate in paris. the mayor has been planning cards from the sand river. there's been a lot of political conflicts 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 certificate, not fighting a probe or you know, against car. the other aspect of so that we want to introduce is understanding better the way nature in the cities working as an ecosystem. the climate change. we can have a lot of warm spot in paris and this avenue is very hot spot. so i can you use natural element to cool down the city. but that is a simple conclusion to a more larger and more scientific study, which is to say are kind of we enough tomorrow, the scientific knowledge of reducing our call 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 paris 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 their streets. ah, bus alone is 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 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 automotive 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 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 the nostril to young. i'm the dangers of green washing our traffic problems the way if you liked this special report, check out d w ref on youtube to see more films like this. ah, ah, ah, with

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