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The Old Mobility Agenda

It was great while it lasted

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1. Sustainable transport in cities: 2011 status report

2. Why Social Spaces in 2011

3. Space in cities

4. Strategies

5. Tactics

6. Psychopathology7. Our information deficit

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Social Space: Vision, Strategies, Tactics

In brief

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1. Increasing successes (examples)

2. Increasing failures3. Bottom line

4. Conclusion: New visions/new strategies needed

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Sustainable transport: 2011 status report

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Elephant in the bedroom syndrome?

Elephant? Bedroom?

Its simple matter of geometry.

All you have to do is stand back and look.

You see, cars just dont fitin moderncities.

We have to make a choice. One or theother.

But most definitely not both.

PS. Until very recently the elephant was

giving no signs of leaving. Hmm.

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World Streets

The world turns slowly to social space

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

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

2. Reduce their space take (proportionately)

3. Slow them down

4. Improve enforcement

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Strategies

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

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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!

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Implementation strategies

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World Streets

The world turns slowly to social space

China: A street for all in Urumqi

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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 programs7. Involve! Use social networking and citizen reporting to spot

and remedy anomalies

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Tactics (A first sample)

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Picking up a public bike in Paris.

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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 all4. 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.

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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.

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Brazil: Social-space procession in Sao Paulo.

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Eric Britton, Managing Director , EcoPlan International8/10, 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