No Accident: Urban Design & Motor Vehicle Violence
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Header Caption No Accident Design for a Safe, Healthy, Sustainable City Aaron Naparstek
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A presentation by Aaron Naparstek, delivered at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design If you ever want to kill someone New York or just about any other American city, use a car as your weapon. As long as you are sober, licensed and do not flee the scene of the "accident," it is virtually guaranteed that you will get away with murder. Around the world, 1.3 million people die in road traffic crashes and 20 to 50 million more are injured each year. It is a massive global health crisis that, for the most part, we ignore. Streetsblog founder and Harvard Loeb Fellow Aaron Naparstek discusses emerging new perspectives on motor vehicle violence and the critical role that urban planners, designers, police and public health practitioners must play in solving the problem.
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2. Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers Action Comics #12, May 1939 3. Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers Action Comics #12, May 1939 4. Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers Action Comics #12, May 1939 5. Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers Action Comics #12, May 1939 6. Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers Action Comics #12, May 1939 7. Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers Action Comics #12, May 1939 8. Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers Action Comics #12, May 1939 9. Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers Action Comics #12, May 1939 10. Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers Action Comics #12, May 1939 11. Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers Action Comics #12, May 1939 12. Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers Action Comics #12, May 1939 13. The 2011 Dodge Charger: Watch out Metropolis! 14. Accidents happen. 15. This is the indicator species of a healthy urban habitat. 16. Designers have a major role to play in solving the problem. 17. Is it really still an accident when you run someone over intentionally?intentionally accident accident 18. We werent always so blas about accidents.The Brooklyn Death-o-Meter, 1927. 19. A 3,000 percent increase in U.S. auto fatalities from 1901 to 1923.Source: Peter Norton, Fighting Traffic. 20. Most of the people being killed by cars were pedestrians.City of Philadelphia, 1928.Source: Peter Norton, Fighting Traffic. 21. And most of those pedestrian fatalities were children. Source: Peter Norton, Fighting Traffic. 22. City streets werent always the sole domain of motor vehicles. Mulberry Street, Manhattans Lower East Side, circa 1900. Source: Library of Congress Photocrom Collection 23. Blood, grief and anger in the American city a violent revolution. Memorial to Child Accident Victims. Baltimore, Maryland, 1922.Source: Peter Norton, Fighting Traffic. 24. 1.3 million peopledie each yearas a result of roadtraffic crashes. 25. 1.3 million peopledie each yearas a result of roadtraffic crashes.20 to 50 millionmore people suffernon-fatal injuries. 26. Traffic crashes arethe leading cause ofdeath among youngpeople, ages 15-29. 27. Over 90% of fatalities occur in poorercountries though they own less than half ofthe worlds cars.Poor Country Rich Country 28. Nearly half of fatalitiesare pedestrians,cyclists andmotorcyclists. 29. The number of U.S. soldiers killed in theKorean war, 1950-20101953.33,000U.S. RoadFatalities 30. A September 11th once a month.201033,000U.S. RoadFatalities 31. 201033,000U.S. RoadFatalities A pair of 747s crashing each week. 32. 2010A daily death toll33,000equal to all of theU.S. Roadpeople in this roomFatalities 33. The aftermath of a bike accident in New York City. 34. The aftermath of a bike accident in New York City. 35. The aftermath of a bike accident in New York City. 36. No criminality suspected. 37. Crane Topples in Manhattan, Killing at Least 4 People. This is an absolute disgrace. Weneed better inspection and more resources.-- Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. 38. My grandparents: Clara and Abe Naparstek 39. An car is a weapon. 40. Blaming the victim: The Matthieu Lefevre case.Caption 41. All we know is what we have read in the papers Matthieus mother, Erika Lefevre. 42. Security camera footage.You can just make out Matthieu Lefevres bike at the very top left. 43. The Lefevre case is not unique.Marilyn DershowitzAileen McKay-Dalton Michele MatsonMargaret MyersDashane Santana Stefanos Tsigrimanis Rasha Shamoon 44. 4-year-old A.J. Nelson: Killed by bad urban design?Marietta, Georgia, April 10, 2011 45. The good news: Urban designers are saving lives.30% reduction in trafficfatalities from 2001 to 2010 in NYC. 46. The good news: Urban designers are saving lives.Brooklyns Prospect Park West 47. The good news: Urban designers are saving lives.Before Ninth Avenue redesign: Reduced injuries to all users by 56%After 48. Swedens Vision Zero: We know how to solve this problem. 49. Its all about speed. 50. Conclusion: Save Metropolis. Be a Super Designer.
