Creating Vibrant & Healthy Cities for ALL
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1 Creating Vibrant & Healthy Cities for ALL Gil (Guillermo) Penalosa Founder & Chair 8 80 Cities World Urban Parks Penalosa_G Association of Flemish Cities & Municipalities Ghent, Belgium October 12 th, 2017
2
3 Climate
4 Population
5 Living
6 Urban
7 Public Health
8 URGENCY
9 Cities 10,000 People
10 Cities 10 million
11 Similar
12 Solutions?
13 Scale
14 TODAY
15 Cities Communities
16 Sustainable
17 Walking Riding Bicycle Using Public Transit New Use of Cars
18 Urban
19 Spaces
20 Good City?
21 Sleep at Home Outside
22 Ghent, Belgium October 12 th, 2017
23 Context: Bogotá 8 80 Cities Cities for ALL Vibrant Cities, Healthy Communities, 8 80 Cities Happier People. Equity & Public Health Action: 8 Messages in Ghent Flemish Cities & Municipalities
24 Bogotá
25 In my previous life Commissioner Bogota, Colombia
26 Obviously not ideal city It s not about the money I ve been doing
27 Designed AND built one Term Parks
28 Bogotá
29 27 years Practically nothing
30 Citizens Against CAVE Virtually Everything
31 Citizens pay us every other week
32 To get things DONE NOT to have excuses
33 Metropolitan Park Simon Bolivar
34 Metropolitan Park Simon Bolivar
35 Bogota s Ciclovía Open Streets Spectacular 7 hour per week paved City Park
36 World s Largest Pop-up Park
37
38
39 How?
40 Open Streets to People
41 Close Streets to Cars
42
43 Participation: Young and Old, Men and Women, Rich and Poor, Tall and Short, ALL! Every Sunday & holiday
44 1.7 Million
45 Changes Minds
46 Space
47 Social Integration
48 We meet each other as EQUALS
49 Founder & Chair of Board 8 80 Cities Chair of the Board World Urban Parks Penalosa_G 250 different Cities
50
51 Vision: A world where People value and have easy access to Quality Urban Parks
52 Children, Play, and Nature Advocacy Committees: Older Adults and Parks Knowledge and Standards Green Infrastructure Large Urban Parks Healthy Parks, Healthy Cities
53 WorldUrbanParks.org
54 8 80 Cities?
55 PARKS NOT ABOUT: STREETS SIDEWALKS OTHER PUBLIC SPACES WALKING Means NOT Ends CYCLING PUBLIC TRANSIT NEW USES OF CARS
56 SUCCESSFUL CITIES Toronto, Canada
57 SUCCESSFUL CITIES Malmo, Sweden
58 Warszawa, Poland SUCCESSFUL CITIES
59 HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Warszawa, Poland
60 Copenhagen, Denmark
61 Sustainable Happiness Guadalajara, México
62 Parks & Other Public Spaces Toronto, Canada
63 Sustainable Happiness Christchurch, NZ
64 8 80 Rule Common Sense (Least common of the senses)
65 STEP 1 : 8 YEAR OLD CHILD
66 Sweden
67 Christchurch, NZ
68 STEP 2 : 80 YEAR OLD PERSON Malmo, Sweden
69 STEP 2 : 80 YEAR OLD PERSON
70
71 8 AND 80 Porchon-Lynch, 97, yoga instructor Scarsdale, N.Y.
72 STEP 3 : Would you send them walking or on bicycle to the Park? Across that intersection? Photo Andy Mintern
73
74 If you would, it s safe enough If you would not It is NOT
75 What if Everything we did in Flemish Cities & Municipalities
76 Had to be fantastic for 8 and 80 year olds?
77 Montreal, Canada Bogota, Colombia Groningen, Netherlands Had to be fantastic for the 8 and the 80 year olds? Copenhagen, Denmark Taipei, Taiwan NYC, USA
78 End up Great Cities for ALL From 0 to 100 +
79 Must Stop Building Cities as if everyone was 30 year old and athletic
80 GREAT CITIES for ALL
81
82 URGENCY
83 Messages Creating Vibrant & Healthy Cities for ALL Flemish Cities & Municipalities
84 # Guardian Angels Gentle Majority
85 Gentle Majority Children Older Adults The Poor
86 Gentle Not squeaky wheel
87 Evaluating Cities: How we treat our most vulnerable citizens: Children, Older Adults, the Poor
88 Evaluating Cities: How we treat our most vulnerable citizens: Children, Older Adults, the Poor
89 Flemish Cities & Municipalities Playability
90 Flemish Cities & Municipalities
91 Every Child MUST have PARK or Play Area SHORT Walk, less 500 meters 4 years
92 Evaluating Cities: How we treat our most vulnerable citizens: Children, Older Adults, the Poor
93 Population Living longer much longer
94
95 Pop. 65 +
96 Pop. 80 +
97 #60+ALive
98 #60+ALive
99 Belgium's Life Expectancy 150 years ago
100 Belgium's Life Expectancy NOW
101 Belgium's Life Expectancy more than
102 Learned to
103 ISSUES Climate Change Public Health Crisis Traffic Congestion Economic Crisis
104 Now must learn to
105 Evaluating Cities: How we treat our most vulnerable citizens: Children, Older Adults, the Poor
106 Equity Not Equality
107 Share Children living in poverty Israel: 1 of 4 USA: 1 of 5 Belgium: 1 of 8 Denmark: 1 of 37
108 Mobility Equity
109 Mobility by car: 25% Income
110 Mobility by car, LOWER INCOMES: 40% Income
111 Mobility by Sustainable Mode: 5 % Income
112 NOTHING governments can do with higher Personal & Community Economic Impact
113 Possibility downsize car 2 to 1 or 1 to 0
114 Good for Community
115 # Magnificent Opportunity Enormous Responsibility
116
117 World URBAN Population TODAY 3.5 Billion
118 World URBAN Population Billion
119 Population Growth Cities 3.7 illion
120 Lifetime
121 Lifetime
122 Focus: Car, car, car NOT People s Happiness
123 Phoenix Brisbane, AU Boise Salt Lake City Las Vegas
124 Last Years
125 Next Years
126 We need to improve the Cities that we have today
127 We also need to create Great Cities for many more people
128 Opportunity Responsibility
129
130 CHANGE = HARD Same = Easier
131 3 Useful Considerations:
132 Change is NOT Unanimous
133 GENERAL Interest Must Prevail PARTICULAR Interest
134 When you say NO You also say YES
135 # Great Parks Great City Park Systems
136 What makes a park great? Characteristics S
137 Management same Maintenance 20%
138 Uses & Activities
139 City-wide Park Systems Not one iconic
140 Metropolitan Pocket & Neighbourhood Parks
141 Pocket & Neighbourhood Regional Parks Metropolitan
142 Pocket & Neighbourhood Regional Ward Metropolitan Parks
143 Pocket & Neighbourhood Parks Regional Parks Metropolitan Parks
144 Pocket & Neighbourhood Parks Regional Parks Metropolitan Parks Creating Great City Park System
145 Good
146 Like good
147 Integrated with Nature
148 Extremely SAFE Children, Older Adults
149 # Sustainable Mobility
150
151 Every trip Begins and ends
152 Walk & Bike Joke
153 Walk & Bike frivolity
154 Walking and Cycling is
155 The only individual mode of mobility for most people
156 ALL Children & Youth around the world
157 Right SAFE & Enjoyable Mobility
158 Democracy Human Rights Equality Sustainability
159
160 PEOPLE
161
162
163 People Driving motor-vehicles KILLED
164 741 People WALKING
165 1 Person 2 minutes
166 ACCIDENTS
167
168 Sweden Transforming World VISION ZERO visionzeronetwork.org
169 TO IMPROVE WALKABILITY
170 PEDESTRIANS SHOULD BE PRIORITY
171 Improving Walking
172 Maximum 30 Kph Residential Streets
173 Impact of speed Probability of pedestrian fatality by impact speed % 85% 5% km/h
174 Sustainable Mobility
175 Riding Bicycles Using Public Transit New use of Cars
176 Walkers Riders of Bicycles Users Public Transit Must be Best Friends
177
178 Older Adults Lose Driving license Terrified
179 Losing driver s licence Diagnosed with cancer Dr. Sylvain Gagnon, CANDRIVE, Canada
180 Not LOVE cars LOVE Mobility
181 Riding Bicycles
182
183 TO IMPROVE BIKEABILITY
184 Must have: 1- Lower the speed where people live; in ALL neighbourhood streets 2- GRID of protected bikeways
185 Maximum 30 Kph Residential Streets
186 # NETWORK AAA Bikeways
187 AAA Bikeways All Ages & Abilities
188 TO IMPROVE Public Transit
189 A civilized City is not the one where the poor have cars
190 it s the one where the rich use Public Transit Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor Bogota
191 # Side-WALKS Cycle-ways Parks / Public Spaces Are important
192 Streets : 25-40% CITIES
193 Smart use of OUR SPACE?
194 Moving 200 PEOPLE
195 # Everyone Learns from Everyone
196 In Flemish Cities & Municipalities We are different
197 We have nothing in common with Copenhagen, NYC or Bogotá
198 We are unique
199 Always Always remember remember that that you are absolutely unique. you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else Margaret Mead
200 Not Copy & Paste Adapt & Improve
201 # Community is the Expert
202 Sculptured fountain with local artisans Senior movie night playing "classics" Ideas from The Community Movable seating and tables Low cost food market Get rid of the fence We really need a friends of Paterson group! Edible landscape Splash Pad Kids Playground Wheel chair accessible
203 # Focus on The Benefits
204 Promoting Vibrant & Healthy Cities
205 BENEFITS: Environment Activity Economic $ Recreation Transportation Health
206 Public Health
207
208
209
210 Belgium 18 th
211 Being active can help: Premature death Heart disease Stroke High blood pressure Certain types of cancer Type 2 diabetes Osteoporosis Overweight and obesity Mental health (depression & anxiety)
212 Children 60 minutes Adults 30 minutes
213 HOW do we want to LIVE?
214
215 NOT TECHNICAL
216 NOT FINANCIAL
217 IT S OLITICAL
218 BIG
219 Everyone has to articipate
220 Vibrant & Healthy Flemish At the
221 Vibrant & Healthy Flemish On the
222 Broad Alliances
223 BROAD ALLIANCES Who? Elected Officials
224 BROAD ALLIANCES Who? Public Sector Staff
225 BROAD ALLIANCES Who? Community
226 1. Elected Officials 2. Public Sector Staff 3. Community Glue?
227 Find / Create Sense Urgency
228 Develop Shared Vision
229 Sense Urgency Shared Vision
230 From Talking
231
232
233 It s about
234 Creating Vibrant Cities
235 Healthy Communities
236 ALL People Live Happier
237 I wish you much success
238 Thanks!
239 Thanks! More information: Penalosa_G
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