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DO WE DARE CREATE A DO WE DARE CREATE A DIFFERENT MODEL? DIFFERENT MODEL?
PROBABLY 300 YEARS FROM NOW PROBABLY 300 YEARS FROM NOW PEOPLE WILL WONDER HOW WE PEOPLE WILL WONDER HOW WE LIVED IN SUCH TERRIBLE CITIES LIVED IN SUCH TERRIBLE CITIES
AS WE HAVE TODAY, WHERE AS WE HAVE TODAY, WHERE CHILDREN GROW IN TERROR OF CHILDREN GROW IN TERROR OF
CARSCARS
Quality of Life is a goal in itself. But it is also critical in the “knowledge
economy”, for retaining and attracting Highly Qualified and Creative
Individuals.
CompetitivenessCompetitiveness andand QualityQuality ofof LifeLife
It is very simple to have a city It is very simple to have a city with great quality of life: It only with great quality of life: It only has to be designed for people, has to be designed for people,
much more than for cars. much more than for cars.
If a city is good for children and old people, by If a city is good for children and old people, by themselves, it will be good for everybody else.themselves, it will be good for everybody else.
WHAT EQUALITY IN POST-WHAT EQUALITY IN POST-COMMUNISM SOCIETY? COMMUNISM SOCIETY?
THE WAY WE BUILD AND THE WAY WE BUILD AND ORGANIZE CITIES CAN ORGANIZE CITIES CAN
POWERFULLY CONTRIBUTE TO POWERFULLY CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIAL JUSTICE. SOCIAL JUSTICE.
PUBLIC GOOD MUST PREVAIL PUBLIC GOOD MUST PREVAIL OVER PRIVATE INTEREST OVER PRIVATE INTEREST
WE CANNOT DESIGN AN URBAN TRANSPORT WE CANNOT DESIGN AN URBAN TRANSPORT SYSTEM UNLESS WE KNOW WHAT KIND OF A SYSTEM UNLESS WE KNOW WHAT KIND OF A
CITY WE WANT.CITY WE WANT.
CITY VISIONCITY VISION
Do we have a clear vision of the Do we have a clear vision of the city where you would want your city where you would want your
children to grow? How far children to grow? How far should a child grow from a should a child grow from a
park, a football field, a park, a football field, a pedestrian only street?pedestrian only street?
CITY VISIONCITY VISION
The friendlier to cars a city is, The friendlier to cars a city is, the less humane it becomes.the less humane it becomes.
PUBLIC SPACE
For 5,000 years all city streets were pedestrian
URBAN LIFE IN THE PASTURBAN LIFE IN THE PAST
URBAN LIFE IN THE PASTURBAN LIFE IN THE PAST
以前的城市生活以前的城市生活
URBAN LIFE IN THE PASTURBAN LIFE IN THE PAST
Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars mobility than for children’s
happiness.
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When cars appeared we should have started to build a parallel road network: One for cars and the other
exclusively pedestrian.
URBAN LIFE IN THE PASTURBAN LIFE IN THE PAST
Why all streets for motor vehicles? Why not design a city
where half the streets be for pedestrians and bicycles only?.
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This is one of the streets in an
European city that was reclaimed for pedestrians only
…reclaimed…
…reclaimed…
In Bogotá the Porvenir Promenade, an 18 km pedestrian
street was built through many neighborhoods that did not even have pavement in their streets. It was a project for the people, not
the motor vehicles.
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EL PORVENIR PROMENADEEL PORVENIR PROMENADE
ALAMEDA EL PORVENIRALAMEDA EL PORVENIR
ALAMEDA EL PORVENIRALAMEDA EL PORVENIR
ALAMEDA EL PORVENIRALAMEDA EL PORVENIR
Through poor areas and where the city has not yet been built
EL PORVENIR PROMENADEEL PORVENIR PROMENADE
EL PORVENIR PROMENADEEL PORVENIR PROMENADE
EL PORVENIR PROMENADEEL PORVENIR PROMENADE
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Why is public space important in a city with many other problems?
It is during leisure times that income differences are felt more
acutely. While higher income citizens have access to large
houses, clubs, country houses, vacations, lower income citizens only alternative to television is
public pedestrian space.
Cars on sidewalks or parking bays where there should be sidewalks suggest that citizens with cars are
more important than those who don’t have them.
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Before After
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Parking is not a constitutional right. Governments should not allow pedestrian spaces to be used for parking and no public
funds should be used for parking facilities.
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Sidewalks are not simply for getting from one place to another.
They are for walking aimlessly, talking, playing,enjoying the city.
People like to be and to meet in public spaces. When shopping malls replace public space as a
meeting place for citizens, it is an symptom that a city is ill
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The quantity
and quality of a
pedestrian public
space is one mark
of a civilized
city.
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In our daily life we may be separated by income and hierarchies, but in public
space we meet as equals.
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No mayor will be much loved or remembered for having built a highway. Instead, he-she who creates a quality pedestrian space is long remembered.
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Roads and most things Governments do, are a MEANS to an end. PUBLIC PEDESTRIAN SPACE IS AN END IN ITSELF. It is not a means to eventual
better life. It is quality of life in itself, and yields happiness for generations and
generations.
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Waterfronts, specially in cities, are special, magic
and unique.
PUBLIC SPACE: WATERFRONTSPUBLIC SPACE: WATERFRONTS
Hudson River, New York
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Battery Park, New York
Waterfronts should have public pedestrian
infrastructure separated from roads by buildings
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London
London
Bonn
Traffic engineers like to build roads next to waterfronts because there are few intersections. But many cities regret deeply having built
motor-car roads next to their waterfronts.
PUBLIC SPACE: WATERFRONTSPUBLIC SPACE: WATERFRONTS
Car-Free Day in Paris
París
Boston
Boston
Boston
TOURISM IS PEDESTRIANTOURISM IS PEDESTRIAN
TOURISM IS PEDESTRIANTOURISM IS PEDESTRIAN
TOURISM IS PEDESTRIANTOURISM IS PEDESTRIAN
If a city wants to attract tourists, it has to have great
quality public pedestrian spaces.
TOURISM IS PEDESTRIANTOURISM IS PEDESTRIAN