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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. 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 group? we're about to see how some cities in europe are finding solutions to their own urban issues. the french capital, paris is experiencing a new revolution on its streets. barcelona, in spain is making the most of the cities unique designed to revitalize itself. and both cities are learning a lot from the disgrace, haunting and in the net. ah,

ah, 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 to the street and demand the street back to the netherlands, get the movement that was called stop the child murder in the 19 seventy's. and that movement really managed to get people to reclaim the streets that at that time, what really engineer toward providing more space. because this is marco typically most stretched, aka the cycling professor. he had the faculty of urban mobility futures, the university of amsterdam and mental is the next generation of urban planners in land use and mobility. what is missing in our current conversation about rethinking

urban transportation planning? marco also, she has a lot of ideas on social media about how we use our cities, how the streets in our cities always were the remaining space between buildings and in the remaining space between buildings, everything happens. social life happens. trading happens, children could play, people could meet and people who travel through them for this change radically in the 900 twenties, 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 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 930 and developed the language around seeing streets of places where people want to go as fast as possible as individuals. and because of that, it's not a slip by into institutions and into loss. if the behavior is solidified into

concrete, asphalt and technology, i finally, it solidifies our imagination or we now take it for granted that we think about the street as places that are primarily there for vehicles through the way that we develop the streets with this logic makes our streets, unsustainable, unlivable, unsafe and maybe even unjust. so we don't think about streets and places in terms of justice and that's how we thought about them until the 1920s. there 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 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 there 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, 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 young kaminsky. his animations invite the viewer to imagine how streets could look if 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 face to create and shore possibilities of what we could do with the streets

without coff, ah, bicycles, all feats, as the dutch call them, a key to sustainable city concepts. we ask the site king, professor, to explain how benevolence and amsterdam is a good example of what happens if cycling gets a 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. so this intersection was redesigned because there were so many cyclists compared to

god riders that the municipality considered. what would happen if we take out the traffic lights and the traffic lights actually ensure that god drive is good, 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 alderman that did it was if it take out the traffic lights, people start to behave like act of 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 inspired city may cave as like the call 1st joking and plan. in the 19 sixty's of the dutch cities like retraced, have been rolling back call centric planning. good by urban highway. welcome back. original city canal. then there's hunting and it chose humans 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 groaning. it was totally different than today. the central part of the city at hull to monica are central. the square is, was the 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 sensor was divided in 4 parts and where it was not possible to move from the one part of daughter with a car, only 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, 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 cities in europe, but also are now central hunting and has been come to city manages i english, but hoist attending their attention to be out. scott. and this is the beta nevada i see, but 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 neighborhood together for public space. we made this an example for how are the city could look like? ah, if only only made a choice to make more space in our streets for green, more space for people. so the consequences that we have less spatial, gosh, and it's not always, it's easy choice 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 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 the car, will say, we ask what kind of cds and a lot of people say. so 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 who are asked what kind of street 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 packing dates back to 18. 59 and the pre call era designed by any to funds santa. this layout is the key to barcelona plans. groups of individual blocks are closed to 3 traffic, but as in hunting and they remain open for local use and for commercial and emergency needs. barcelona basically builds their super blocks idea on that idea of horror 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 god, 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 reclaims. how much space do now have to sit commute each other and how much space and freedom the children suddenly have. if they are no longer a 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 ias or 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. a lot of the lorna model. okay more he said, yeah, go leave it out. 7th, up on the info that is partially going that because i'm a really that it was here but i'm 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 lot of, you know, they've either look at that like years the last a few of our not for them. this are yeah. to say in 3 years, loyal coil of me in your spare time, be another enter,

any mentor or her and it under gambled. money says that the on in school to dollars out of this because there are, there are a few of our noise from the brother is our yeah. told us was that it just natal, i'm in there as a desktop. i 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 trumping stopped on their lives with me, when can i mean? yes, but i really haven't received a really was collections and on this cold winter's day in barcelona, most people asking about what happy about the changes i think 8th grade to a safe space it out or you can kind of. busy people like me that will and just enjoy this. think it was i would like him. we've been to, god said, so get started on on to steer. good. good. ok up. it started with after that i was

inconvenient because in that i close it loads. but if your son, somebody orders to move out of the list so little a few less much really the last person is a life event this year for a year 11 to rescue several. speedometer must be the hour one. jenny sans is barcelona. is deputy math for ecology, albinism, and mobility. she says the success of pilot projects inspired her team to think big pump here. normally the n get, i'm only talking about hello no, not for k. not all. i filled out pretty much the number not collected langer. those ms. brenda mclaughlin, blair, i mean they shouldn't look identical, but i must ask, i years is glockland the thing almost as puffy when i come in are but a who are but us thought or but either saturday or activity or i was again, only goes for it. i mean, didn't go very much, is by people are there for the here legal but aid and declared that you put more well know, seaford and the government is prioritizing community participation. but vocal critics remain all ago, runs a portia garage in downtown barcelona,

and mrs. the freedom to drive their own little ones more with it, glassy on practical, and they perfecto not on lack of quality. steady. are you not linear, cassandra, 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 after knock with our us and when the single minute of must ask for funding. no, but anyway nadia heads the barcelona tourism association and isn't happy with the planning process. you know, if a good luck with emma's has not been out of pocket interesting, you would be at the economy, yada. some laws lithonian the for, but he just get an aussie, i need to get out of bed to see or less give more than you go there. he's willing to fit. okay. is 24 miserably. but there's another indian for fantasy. let me think of enough one up on with his own moriello. a thing is if you haven't already moved up and gave con platform of the city government is convinced it has enough public

backing and is pushing on that at the end of them would let me go. just pull some of the way up there on upper thin throat than that. yes boy. last can you talk to me via him? those would be make a gun. the up must transport the ball rico, moscow. just confirming landscape. i lose me off hitting the spin tablet because they, they are not having 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 i'm but i will niece thus? yes or so pretty young fellow, not guy years them their last investment for that one in stock coaches shown nahant village dub marco to bremar's street seas. 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 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 required 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 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 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 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 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 so under threat reminding temperatures for roxanne, many of the capitals climate academy, it's down to typically that he designed the heat ways or more whole in density center such as paris because of the sheet island effect, which is basically the fact that in the centers, the temperature was higher than in the surrounding countryside. this effect is due to a very 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 even res, reflect a lot on various offices and that accentuate the increasing temperatures. this also means that you have less wind and we need winful cooling effects, the green areas and the what about is are quite scarce in alban settings and

embarrassing 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 industries. 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, artists took us on a bike ride to see what had happened in the french capital. either the last 8 years and then new lot of new with valid through it, doug and i to let the thing like that if, if it's walking all north on, whether it's walk, it turns when it's not walking come under, do i know 0 so, so here we are in the beauty on you can see know, all of his place. it full rising bye bye before it was everywhere on it all. but i

didn't think recently. i've been to the place to know it very nice place to work with . so here we are in marcia, you have to imagine before all of this place, it's for jaw jaw can pause here for turning all a wrong to stay, so nobody will generally walk or leave nozik just we move that's on. you can just andre display fall leaves. now from here you can see we have to pull a thermal on this place was only for thought loses the collision of that because on

only put a friend on focused on youth is 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 50 means the concept is a new part of that before living. definitely in cities, we wanted to reduce the threat to a b shocks. and at the same time, we want to to bring the quality of life for developing in terms activity in proximity, we want to, to promoter city based on the federal centers, say different places for leading to reduce the role of individual car. does he say new pass for having a schuman at the center of city ecology, proximity,

so daddy t and the citizen important are therefore pillars. the roof balconies. 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, far off, ran off the divers 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 kilometers, but not for day. very shocked on there are other changes efforts including a make over the shows that is a we, the architect entrusted with breathing new life into the heart. of the capitol harris, it's one old european cities. and like most cities in the seventy's, it's a city that has been over one 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 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 your children. was a nice moment to was the most elegant avenue in parish, their local people lot. and we figure out that since 40 years, no one wants to go there except tourist. the car, of course, is one of the key problem to give this face back to people and pedestrian. because all of this has been treated as a highway entering fabric was 2 times for lanes, going up and down, and you have a pavement version sound. 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 and getting this place accessible to people is one 1st action. of course we cannot complete the band card. so, you know, it's a big debate in paris. the mayor has been planning call from the sand river. there's been a lot of political conflict 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 and santa fe cannot 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 planet channel. 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 are, can we enough tomorrow, that scientific knowledge of reducing our call and 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 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 span of the whale. much depends on whether parisians are ready to support this revelation on their streets. ah, alone is 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 humming and must still work hard to put humans, the head of cars. what will other cities do about their auto motif 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 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. i'm the dangers of green washing our traffic problems. the way, if you liked this special report, check out dw red on youtube to see more films like this. a ah, with

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