well connected to the culture of the african, which ultimately inspires me, said 3 women, 3 powerful messages, the 77 percent, 60 minutes on dw, making raring to recon if there is any erotic friends between them, you'd have to find it between the lines o w literature 100 german must reads were all used to the streets of our cities being hectic. smelly and noisy always have been always will be right. it's up to us to find our way through the traffic. what other options do we have? more than half of us now live in cities that are getting ever more crowded

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 the display plumbing and in the netherlands,

whose 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 a 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 were 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 mentally the next generation of urban planners in land use and

mobility. what is missing in our current conversation about rethinking urban transportation planning? marco, also, she has a lot of ideas on social media about how we use our cities, how the streets in our cities always were the remaining space between buildings and in the remaining space between buildings, everything happen, 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 930 and developed a language around seeing streets of places where people want to go as fast as possible as individuals. 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 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, 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 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 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 realize that there was so

much space to create and show the possibilities 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 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 ensured 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 light, people start to behave like active citizens again. so they are not looking at the light, but they're looking at each other and negotiating with each other how to use the intersection. of course, amsterdam could have turned out rather differently if they hadn't blocked us in spite city may cavers like the car 1st joking and plan the 1960 of the dutch cities like trash has been rolling back call centric planning. goodbye urban highway. welcome back. original city canal. ah, then there's honey. 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 accept the center 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 cities 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 worth, your school, your roots, your center,

reach your shops. it's the way we designed the last 25 years. our city center, this example in paris 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 boys 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 car and that's

not always easy choice because a lot of people also holding in 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 the people what kind of 331, and that's a different question then. where do you want to park your car? and 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. we used between the mediterranean sea and the mountains. barcelona has the highest condensate. i'm 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 for local people in the cities unique grid pack dates back to 859 and the pre call era designed by it 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 built their 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 cause 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 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 freedom the children suddenly have. if there is no longer god

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 santana market. they're actually known locally as to put e s or super islands, which seems to fit better their originators. salvatore to ada told us that the goal was to cut traffic and noise pollution without clamping down on call use a lot of the lorna modell. okay, more she said, yeah, go leave it out within a few and for that is spotty. hopefully. call that because i'm a really that here, but i'm a parent or that got you discussed. remarkable is this part here is not bluffer. keanta said, i would like to take you on the car, you know, they go to configure a battle, you know, they go to move out of, you know, they either look at that, i'd like years the last that it's a few of our not for them. this are yeah, to say and today your logo of mean your spare time,

be another into the near draw or ended i'm doing. 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 arianne told us was that it natal, i'm in there as a bit of money and a new generation in barcelona is growing up knowing that the streets can belong to everyone, thanks to the betty boots 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 really haven't dc, they really was clutches and on this cold winter's day in barcelona, most people asking about what happy about the changes. i think the grades to a safe space it out or you can kind of people are like me really woke and just enjoy this week. it was over the weekend so god said so i guess i'm back to our

normal to still be good. good. ok up it started working it out. i will is inconvenient because im did it, does it loads when if, if you're sort of somebody orders to move out of the list sorta dollar you live mostly the the fullest person as a lufkin this year for a year. you love it of us can service speedometer must be the organ on. janet sands is barcelona. as deputy math for ecology urban ism and mobility. she says the success of pilot projects inspired her team to think big fear normally the i'm get, i'm of the talking about hello donald, for general dollar filled out pretty much none. bernacki left you any language? ms. brenda. tell mclaughlin blake, i mean david and that look identical, but i was the last guy years is lacking the thing almost as puffy what i mean, not a whole lot about us that open the summer. we get up to your eyes again, only goes, but it didn't go very much just by people out there for the people to go. but i hadn't particular done it, but i'm aware, and i was the fed 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 his mother is glass, he own practicum and think perfecto. not on lack of quality steady. are you not let me ask a center, good family that it's a shared to anyone has had bronchitis on. can us when we do any flows? rockers are lucky that enough from up north africa, they took the afternoon without us. i'm going to sink on the door must escrow from the north. naughty a heads, the barcelona tourism association, and isn't happy with the planning process enough. so good luck with emma has not been out of pocket in today. so thank you to be a vehicle to me at yada stan laws lithonian telling us what he guessed. kate, marcia jenny, she get on my left bed to see unless give me, can you go there? he's willing to fade okays. 24 miserably puts it on a nickel at the end of candy. let me think of that for michael, my fin assembly here tomorrow. i said, if you haven't already gone bump, laughed all that little stuff. the city government is convinced it has enough

public backing. and this pushing on track in the from when you go to school today or not part of syndrome. and i used to be in the domestic, i'm the master. i support the legal maintenance school. just keep getting the spin traveling because they they want to say to me and go to china and be put on the on coming on have a mass putting, and i mean, if somebody could just put a nice us pretty young guy, you're interested on his son 90000 mile code to bring the straight seat belts alone. a facing the same debate says dutch cities in the seventy's and eighty's. what we see in all these changes and 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 lot sort of the freedom to go through a city with your personal private vehicle as fast as possible. yeah, you will lose them 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 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 scar 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 will shudder, can radically change. more about the 15 minutes later, wind. 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 weighs all more hole in density center, such as paris because of the urban sheet 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 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 faces 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 the settings and in person.

but so it adds to the effect, of course she's mission which are directed you to human activity 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 cyclist to broadcast his rides, live on twitch and keeps. his social media follow is up to date with the change. it just took us on a fight cry to see what happened in the french capital over the last few lot of new patients through. it's going to lead the thing to just says, is it fluffing? oh no, it's on when he returns, when you start walking from time to do so. so we are going to be working on you can see no place riding my bike before it was tough. everywhere on the system that are

being decreased. alina bought the expense to the plate, so know it. very nice place to well, so here we are in other caea. you have to imagine before all of this place, it's thought chopped off campus here for turning all around his place or nobody will generally walk or leave nozik just we move that's on if you can just, andre is place for leave now. so here you can see we are, he'll pull a fellow on his place was only full thought loses significantly because on only

but if you're on site this for new thanks for bringing a lot of life the idea of creating many centers within a city this how 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 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 promote on c, t, base it 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 the

a schuman at the center of city ecology, proximity saudi daddy, t and the citizen important are therefore pre last. there of balcony city as parties is very crucial. the role of god 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 pay so ease only for a going with my car. the role of car is an order point in particular for going for a 2040 kilometers, but not for day. very short term. there are other changes affects including a make over the shows that he's a. we spoke to the architect entrusted with breathing new life into the heart of the capitol. terrorist is so one mold and european cities and like most city in the seventy's, it's a city that has been of a one, was course. and the case of the shows it is a is an interesting example of this problem. very symbolic area in paris,

very famous. but he had something incredible at 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 the 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 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 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. 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 can complete the band cards here. it's a big debate in paris. the mayor has been planning cause some the same river. there'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 the methodological, sanchez, he cannot fighting a pro or you know, 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 add a lot of warm spot in paris and this avenues very hot spots. so i can 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, acknowledge 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 to 2035. it might sound like parish is taking the long view, but for

a city that counts it's aging. millennia, 15 to 20 years is a very short been of the whale. much depends on what the parisians are ready to support this revolution on their streets. in both alone is overcome early opposition to school, some quick win, 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 still work hard to put humans, the head of cars. what will other cities do about that automotive love affairs. while individual vehicles, ciocca st. pedestrian, a bicycle activity will remain, rand, i'm saying. can people living in 21st century mega cities expect politicians to tackle pollution and climate change to make those to fix the people 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 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 of vehicles but to support the thriving of our society. we'll leave enough to a to young and the dangers of green washing or traffic problems the way, if you liked this special report, check out d w ref on youtube to see more films like this a with

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