On Private Space, Public Space and · 1. Seven billion people on one small planet 2. > 50 % in...

On Private Space,

Public Space and . . .

Social Space

- Vision, Strategies, Tactics

Eric Britton, Managing Director , EcoPlan International

Sustainability Seminar program - http://sustain.ecoplan.org

World Streets/New Mobility Agenda – http://worldstreets.org

Cities for Mobility World Congress 2011Urban Mobility and the Social Space Challenge

Social Space: Vision, Strategies, Tactics

Stuttgart, July 2011 Cities for Mobility: 2011 World Congress 2

The Old Mobility AgendaIt was great while it lasted

1. Sustainable transport in cities: 2011 status report

2. Why Social Spaces in 2011

3. Space in cities

4. Strategies

5. Tactics

6. Psychopathology

7. Our information deficit

Stuttgart, 4 July 2011 Cities for Mobility: 2011 World Congress 3


In brief

1. Increasing successes (examples)

2. Increasing failures

3. Bottom line

4. Conclusion: New visions/new strategies needed

Stuttgart, 4 July 2011 Cities for Mobility: 2011 World Congress 5


Sustainable transport: 2011 status report

1. Seven billion people on one small planet

2. > 50 % in cities (and more every day)

3. Going on 1 billion cars (and more every day)

4. > 25 % of infrastructure

5. > 80 % of public expenditures in sector

6. 1 parked car = ca. 12 Sq. M. of valuable city space

7. 1 car speeding in cites = >100 hurrying people on foot

8. Elephant in the bedroom

9. And never mind the other externalities (For now)



Space in cities: What’s going on?

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Elephant in the bedroom syndrome?

Elephant? Bedroom?

It’s simple matter of geometry.

All you have to do is stand back and look.

You see, cars just don’t fit in modern cities.

We have to make a choice. One or the other.

But most definitely not both.

PS. Until very recently the elephant was

giving no signs of leaving. Hmm.

1. Stuttgart in December

2. Kaohsiung in September (2011)

3. Social Format on World Streets

4. Because we have a rich concept – let’s work with it



Why Social Space in Stuttgart in 2011

World StreetsThe world turns slowly to social space

Italy: Can your children walk safely to school this morning?

“The space between buildings”

1. Private space

2. Public space

3. And social space

4. What makes social space great

5. Slippage



Vision: The three kinds of space in cities


UK: Pedestrians on what was until recently a street for cars.

1. Make space-inefficient modes/uses (cars) pay full social price

2. Reduce their space take (proportionately)

3. Slow them down

4. Improve enforcement



Strategies


Denmark: Still biking. (Ave. inc/cap $ 58 ,930 7th in the world )

1. Have a consistent strategy that defies challenge

2. Understand that those benefitting from the present arrangements are very strong and will fight

3. But that their points need to be taken into consideration

4. Listen to everybody

5. Get the timing right

6. Be resilient/Hold course

7. Win!



Implementation strategies


China: A street for all in Urumqi

1. Full-cost parking: Polluter pay principle for parking

2. Slow traffic zone program – 15 / 30/ 50 kph

3. Create a Street Code - culpability/proof

4. Encourage carsharing – free up street space x 10

5. 100 % walk/bike to school program for city

6. Wrong-way biking programs

7. Involve! Use social networking and citizen reporting to spot and remedy anomalies



Tactics (A first sample)


Picking up a public bike in Paris.

1. The nexus of contact is between people, --and not vehicles

2. Social space is implicitly democratic, a social leveler.

3. It is free, near-by, open and accessible to all

4. It works on eye contact, which carries many behavioral implications

5. In social spaces we learn to slow down - The hard edge of “urgency” and the need for immediate gratification is palliated, disappears

6. And with it the potential, implicit violence, danger level is reduced.



The psychopathology of social space

Conundrum: ; How to convince someone whose life, without

reflection, revolves around his car that this is a superior way

to organize our lives.? Not easy, eh? But that is what we have to do.


Brazil: Social-space procession in Sao Paulo.


Eric Britton, Managing Director , EcoPlan International

8/10, rue Jospeh Bara 75006 Paris France +331 7550 3788. Skype newmobility

World Streets/New Mobility Agenda – http://worldstreets.org

2011/2012 Sustainability Seminar program - http://sustain.ecoplan.org

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