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CITY SPACE FOR
PEOPLE
MEDSIN2014
Katja Leyendecker newcycling.org
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Infrastructure…what do engineers do all day?
Utilities (gas, water, electricity) - grids and generation
Communication (broadband, television, radio, mobile phone, landline)
Water and disposal (sewage, landfill, transfer stations)
Flood and water (rivers, streams, canals, dams, reservoirs)
Transport (roads and streets, bridges, rail, ports, airports, freight distribution centres,
bus / light rail / local transport)
Stresses on society and the future of cities
Big national projects Decentralised community solutions
Economic growth Sustainability = living in a finite habitat Population
Consumption
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Waste(ful) management
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Have we got the right policies?
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Are we chasing and rewarding the right things?
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Petrolhead’s suicide
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From primate to pig
Credit Ahmed Mater: Evolution of Man, silkscreen prints, 2010
From http://www.yellow-llama.com/the-evolution-of-man-vs-woman/
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Are we looking at it the right way?
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Are we building things right?
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What we do
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Two worlds
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Speed kills who?
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Source http://www.gw.govt.nz/survivable-speeds
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On yer bike
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Yes, we would if
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So, let’s put up a few signs
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Or maybe this future? Dr Ian Roberts: Road deaths, socially sanctioned mass murder • Obesogenic environments not calorie intake • Abuse of fossil fuel energy use • Population fatness is not personal problem its a socio-political one • Current system ensures to privatise benefits and externalises costs
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Read it!
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Costs to society Source SDC Fairness in a car dependent society £bn
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Excess delays Road crashes Air pollution Physical inactivity / obesity
Greenhouse gas emissions / climate
change
Some of the impacts of noise
Noise / community severance (est.)
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Better, smarter, healthier cities
Economics Benefits & outcomes
Budgets
Data, evidence, policies
Politics
Voices, people, groups, views
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Three easy things you can do
Check out HEAT
http://heatwalkingcycling.org/
Get familiar with NICE
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/PH8
Read THE ENERGY GLUT
Many thanks for listening Katja Leyendecker @katsdekker newcycling.org @newcycling
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