sincerto Academy Verna Salvage pedross is [Music] urbanos Paris evolutions Barcelona probated [Music] [Music] 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 in the 1970s of people going to the street and demand the Streets back so in the Netherlands he had the movement that was called stop the child murder in the 1970s and that movement really managed to gather people to reclaim the streets that at that time were really engineered towards
providing more space for cars professors what is missing in our current conversation about rethinking Urban transportation planning Associates [Music] 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 could travel through them but this changed radically in the 1920s 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 are literally colliding with all these other purposes that were happening in that space and to respond to that a whole new domain of thinking was introduced so traffic engineering sort of was born in the 1930s and developed a language around seeing streets as places where people want to go as fast as possible as individuals and because of that it started to solidify into institutions and into laws into Behavior it's solidified into concrete asphalt and technology and finally it solidified our imagination or we now take it for granted that we think about our streets
as places that are primarily there for vehicular 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 as 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 autonomously can go through the city and become an adult Citizen and this is something that Society now slowly is 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 streets for what it really is and they start understanding that they are something to fight for yeah I think there is a political or societal movement of people that are sort of Awakening 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 it does with people that people start realizing oh
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 is sort of a couple of seeds of places that show what can happen if you really recapture that narrative changes I no longer wanted to wait for the increasingly urgent social change but to make a contribution myself and as a communication designer I decided to make streets without cars visible and I realized that there was so much space to create and
show possibilities of what we could do with the streets without cars sustainable [Music] the Netherlands 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 is what happens if you take cyclists our 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 foreign [Music] was redesigned because there were
so many cyclists compared to car drivers that the municipality considered what would happen if we take out the traffic lights and the traffic lights actually ensured that car drivers could go through but didn't really make it safer so they did a test they took out the traffic lights and one of the peculiar findings of the elderman that did it was if you take out the traffic lights 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 I'm Steph Del City Avengers here foreign [Music] [Music] to the north of in the province in the 70s we decided that has to stop we choose to make a city traffic plan where our Center was divided in four parts and it was not possible to move from the one part to the other with a car only with food or bag it was a totally new concept of thinking about our city one of the first cities in Europe to rethink the use of the city center thank you [Music] it's 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 to your school you reach your Center you reach your shops it's the way we designed the last 25 years our city center this example in Paris is very useful for a lot of cities in Europe but also in the rest of the world is this is the baby a street with a very functional design there are a lot of concrete lanes for the car there are side roads with a lot of car parking and there
are sidewalks with a lot of bicycle parking so we see a lot of opportunities for change there are two neighborhoods which are divided by this road so we want to bring the neighborhoods together for a public space we made this an example for how the city could look like [Music] [Music] we made a choice to make more space in our streets for green more space for people so the consequence is that we have less space for cars and that's not always it's easy choice because a lot of people also wearing 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 streets do you want and that's a different question than where do you want to park your car then everyone says well 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 street do you want and a lot of people say oh we like to see a street where children can play with there are some
trees where it's nice and easy to meet your neighbor and when you start with that question the discussion will change you see foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] year of 40 years ago the idea that you can still allow car traffic to go everywhere as long as you lower the speeds of cars and you don't allow through traffic so much of that car traffic you will find is not necessary and the car 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 live there they suddenly realize how much space they actually reclaimed how much space they now have to sit to meet each other and how much space and Freedom the children suddenly have if there's no longer car traffic everywhere and that also frees up the parents because no longer have to chauffeur the children everywhere because there's much less danger around superillus [Music] Ador Salvador objectives is foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] I think it's great to have safe spaces out where you can hang out with people or like me read a book and just
enjoy the city is foreign [Music] [Music] foreign 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 so the people that will currently lose well first of all their loss will be relatively small as we see for many examples we still have to allocate the traffic required for people that really need it but all the other things that are lost sort of the freedom to go through a city
with your personal private vehicle as fast as possible yeah you will lose that but 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 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 cars versus bikes it should really be about the deeper values that people have in the
50-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 with each other can radically change is these heat waves are more harsh in density centers such as Paris because of the urban heat island effect which is basically the fact that in City 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 urban planning and how the
city is evolving and is designed in Paris especially we have very narrow streets and often high buildings so the sun rays reflect a lot on various surfaces and that accentuates the increasing temperatures this also means that you have less wind and we need wind for cooling effects the green areas and the water bodies are quite scarce in urban settings and in Paris in particular so it adds to the heat effects of course heat emissions which are directly due to human activities such as the emissions from vehicles from Industries so many of these causes can actually
be tackled by different urban planning Focus resources hospitals you can see a lot of yellow on this floor that is kind of it's very notation they are not sure if they are going to let this thing like that they just test if it's working or not and when it's work the change when it's not working sometimes they do another stuff so here we are in heavily and you can see now all of this place is for riding by bike before it was Char everywhere and we start by adding this little lane on after the expense
to this place so now it's a very nice place to ride foreign [Music] so here we are in La Bastille you have to imagine before all of this place it's for car car can pass here for turning all around this place for nobody who can really walk or live music just remove that and you can just enjoy this place for live now so here you can see we are close to the center on this place was only for no the circulation is completely cut and only pedestrian on cyclists can use this space so it's bringing
a lot of life [Music] services foreign [Music] concept is a new paradigm for living definitely in cities we wanted to reduce the CO2 emissions and at the same time we wanted to bring the quality of life for developing intense activity in proximity we wanted to promote a city based on different centers different places for living to reduce the role of individual Cars This Is A New Path for having the human at the center of City ecology proximity solidarity and citizen Improvement are the four pillars the role of balcony city as Paris is very crucial the
role of car is not in fact in the center of cities in the high density Zone sorry for each one of the drivers that consider the public space is only for going with my car the role of car is an orders point in particular for going for 20 40 kilometers but not for the very short-term movements [Music] on the capital Paris is one old European cities and like most cities in the 70s it's a city that has been overwhelmed with cars and the case of the chance is an interesting example of this problem it's very
symbolic area in Paris very famous but yet something incredible that the parisians 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 it was a nice moment it was the most elegant Avenue in Paris the local people loved and we figured out that since 40 years no one want to go there except tourists the car of course is one of the key problem to give this space back to people and pedestrians because all of this has been
treated as a highway entering Paris was two times four lanes going up and down and you have a pavement Parisian style that is very noisy so if you go there is there today it's like it's one of the most noisy place in Paris [Applause] reducing the part of the car and getting this place accessible to people is one first action of course we cannot completely ban cards you know it's a big debate in Paris the mayor has been Banning car 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 and less ideology so that's very important we want to be very methodological and scientific and not fighting uh Pro or you know against car the other aspect also that we want to introduce is understanding better the way nature in the city is working as an ecosystem the climate change we're going to have a lot of warm spot in Paris and this Avenue it's very hot spot so how can you use natural elements to cool down the city but that is a simple conclusion to
a more larger and more scientific study which is to say how can we have tomorrow the scientific knowledge of reducing our carbon footprint on Earth and that's working on all the cities because that's where 85 percent of the damage are produced on two percent of the surface of the planet changing the city is not something you do overnight this Vision we propose it started in 2025 it's maybe going to be done to 2035. [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] the best time to reclaim our streets was yesterday but I think the second best time is
today and it's so important because many challenges that we face as Society in terms of global sustainability but also local livability can no longer be solved 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 societies [Music] foreign [Music]
