more security police faces and happier, healthier people. read next on d w. ah, she's got, it is a thought they were gray. you 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? 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 this place haunting and in the netherlands.

ah, you might think the netherlands this far too obvious, a choice to start exploring people friendly street. but do you know how hard the dutch people had to fight for them? these moments of change have never been easy. and many people think that in the netherlands, this always was the case, but also in the netherlands, it took a radical change like literally urban warfare and the 1970s of people going through the street and demand the street back in the netherlands. he had 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 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 mental. it's 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 the streets and our cities always were the remaining space between buildings and the remaining space between buildings. everything happened, social life happens, trading happens, children who played people could meet 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 1930 and developed a language around seeing streets of places where people want to go as fast as possible as individuals. and because of that, it's got to solidify into institutions into loss. if it behavior it's solidified

into concrete, asphalt and technology. i finally, it solidifies our imagination or we now take it for granted that we think about the streets of places that are primarily there for vehicular throughput. the way that we develop the streets with his 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. 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 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 are opening streets for one day and suddenly we see what that does with people. other 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 means 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 young kaminsky. his animations invite the viewer to imagine how streets could look in 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 possibilities of what we could do with the streets

without calf ah, or bicycles or feet, as the dutch called them a key to sustainable city concepts. we offer the site clean 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 an answer them? we have some places where we experimented with what happens if you eradicate the traffic light logic on an intersection. ah, so they didn't, the section was redesigned because there were so many cyclists compared to god

drivers that the municipality considered. what would happen if we take out the traffic light and the traffic lights actually ensure that god drive is good, go through, but didn't really make it safer. so did at 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 inspired city. make overs like the car 1st joking and plan and the 1900 sixty's of the dutch cities like which has been rolling back call centric planning. goodbye urban highway. welcome back. original city canal. ah. then this haunting and it chose human centered planning in the 7 and is now ranked

is one of the happiest places in the world. we met 2 of the people responsible for keeping it that way. they can accept the center of crowning. it was totally different than today, the central part of the city, a default monica are central as square as was to place where a cars the driving around when you went from the south of frauding it to the north of in the province in the seventy's. we decided that has to stop, we choose to make a city traffic plan where our center was divided in 4 parts and where it was not possible to move from the one party 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

auto frowning, is very useful for a lot of shady sion euro but also are now central hunting and has been come to city managers. i in good but hoist attending their attention to be out. scant. this is the beta nevada i see, but a very functional design. there are a lot of concrete lanes 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 a 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 space for, gosh, and it's not always, it's easy choice because a lot of people also

a holding and are dependent on 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 whether you want to park your car. and then every one 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 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 street they once that's already happening elsewhere in europe, we used between the mediterranean sea and the mountains. buffalo now has the highest condensate. i'm 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 the local people in the

cities. unique grid path dates back to 859 and the pre call era designed by to funds. this layout is the key to barcelona plans. groups of individual block a close to 3 traffic and in hunting and they remain open for local use and for commercial and emergency name alone basically built their super blocks idea on that idea of, of 40 years ago. the idea that you can still allow contracts 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 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 they actually reclaimed. how much space to now have to sit, commit each other and how much space and freedom the children suddenly have if there is no longer traffic everywhere. and it also frees up the parents because no

longer has 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 put e s or super islands, which seems to fit better, better originator, 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 model. okay, more she said, yeah, go leave it out within a few polish vakio holy coin because i'll, i'm a really that there it will here. but i'm so located the policy until they got to discuss the mechanical. it's this part here is not bluffer. keanta 09, that's a key on the car. yes, the another go to configure a battle. you know, the coaches will move out again, or they've either, like i said that i'd like years. the last that it's a few of our not for them. this are yeah. here in 3 years, loyal coil of me in your spare time, be another lender, any mentor,

or ended on the i'm of money for the in school to dollars out of this because there are there, if you around always from the point of our yard, told us was that it just natal? i meant it as a little up on me and a new generation in barcelona is growing up, knowing that the streets can belong to everyone. thanks to the betty bush or bite the bus every friday. the children's cycle to school with traffic stop 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 our safe space is how are you can kind of people are like me really woke and just enjoy this visit was like i'm leaving to go out. i'm are known to

still be good. good. okay. sorry. good afternoon. i was inconvenient because im did a gross loads but if, if your son somebody orders to move out of the list. so it, it will give you as much viva full of persona as a lufkin this year for be about a year. you love us get service. speedometer must be the order i can order. janet sounds is barcelona, is deputy math for ecology urban ism and mobility. she says the success of pilot projects inspired her team to think big fear normally be an get i'm of the talk in obama. hello donald, for general dollar filled out pretty much. i'm gonna ask you a few other languages from you, brenda selma, go to complete. i mean, do you shouldn't look i didn't get but i was the last guy years is lacking. the been almost as popular when i come in out about a whole lot, but i stop open this. how do i get up to your eyes again? only goes, but it didn't go to masters by people out there for the school, but i hadn't particular done it, but i'm over know, seaford and the government is prioritizing community participation. but vocal critics remain. monica runs,

a portia garage in downtown barcelona and misses the freedom to drive. anyone when he's more with it glassy on practicum and thick benefit though not on lack of quality, steady or do you not linear ask a center, good family that it's a scary to any welcome kit, had bronchitis on can us when we don't, if those rockers allotted and an awful lot more up, you know, took the afternoon with us and for him to think on the tough moustache proof. and then no, but anyway nadia heads the barcelona tourism association and isn't happy with the planning process enough. what we're looking for the most has not been out of pocket in today, so they need to be ethnic. wanna me noticed on laws lithonian doing? i feel, but he guess getting marcia attorney to get on my left bed to see on as good must been you go there. he's willing to fade okays warner, formerly america, then the end of candy. i think when you think of in the, from up on my finish and make it home or yeah, like i said, because i still haven't got them gone. gone platform of the city government is convinced it has enough backing just pushing on when i came up with me to go to

school today about thrown up on the same truck and i used to be in the master support the main school. just keep getting the spin, traveling today, wanna say to me and go to china and have him off putting in garbage. if somebody could just put all new stuff. yes. or somebody on phil guy here on the quarter ending the saddle. my coach room is straight seat belt loan, facing the same debate, says dutch cities in the seventy's and eighty's. so what we see in all these changes in general and 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 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's currently don't have the voice and the silent majority that's actually losing out already for decades. the paris 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 wide, and go became mer of paris in 2014,

with her pledge to make the capital more livable. parisians were ready for change after years of deadly summer heat. why should 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 have been can be linked to planning and how she is evolving and his designed in paris, especially we have very narrow treats and often high buildings. so the even res, reflect a lot on various faces and that accentuates the increasing temperature of this also means that you have less wind and we need when for cooling effect, the green areas and what is quite skiff in auburn settings and in paris. and so it

adds to the sheet effect, of course she finishes with child directed you to human activity such as the emissions from from industry. so many of these causes can actually be caused by different planning. few people know the streets of paris better than just a slight case 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 lot of new patients through going to to the thing to do. is it fluffing? oh no, it's on the way to insurance. when you start walking, sometimes they do, i know so so, so we are people on you can see no out of it for writing by before it was

well on the system. but i think this is alaina off the expense. cookies plates. 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 the play store. nobody will generally walk or leave nozik just we move that's on you can just on joyce's place for leave now. so here you can see we are, we will play center on this place was only full thought loses significantly because

on only. but if john on take this on you, thanks for 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 if, if they means the concept that is a new paradigm for living, definitely in seats as we wanted to reduce that sure to be shocks. and at the same time we wanted to bring the quality of life for developing in terms activity in proximity. we want to to promote or 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 having a schuman at the center of city, equal to g, proximity. so daddy

t and the citizen important are the 4th pillars, the roof 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, far on, ran off that i voted, that can see them, they probably guess 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 on there are other changes affect including a make over of the shows that he's a we spoke to the architect in trusted with breathing new life into the heart of the capitol terraces. so one older european cities and like my city in the seventy's, it's a city that has been overwhelmed 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 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. it was the most elegant avenue in parish, the 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 paris was 2 times for lanes, going up and down, and you have a pavement versions. doubt that is very noisy. so he go there shows it is it to these like bomb. 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, i don't think he's been hard to get a big debate in paris. the mayor has been planning cause from the st river is getting a lot of political conflict about that. so i think we have to be careful and being a bit scientific that unless ideology, so that's very important. we want to be

a methodological setting, seeking, fighting 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, climate change, we're going to 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 simple conclusion to a more larger and more scientific study, which is to say, can we not tomorrow, saturday, knowledge of reducing our carbon 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 not something you do overnight. this vision we propose start in 2025. it's maybe going to be done 2035. it might sound like parish is taking the long view, but for a city that counts its aging. 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 in barcelona 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 st. duck cities such as amsterdam and haunting and must still work hard to put humans ahead of cars. what will other cities do about their motive? love affairs. while individual vehicles, ciocca st. pedestrian, a bicycle activity will remain ran on saying, can people living in 21st century megacities expect politicians to tackle pollution and climate change to make those to the 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 gallenger's that we face

a 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 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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