CITY SPACE FOR

PEOPLE

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Katja Leyendecker newcycling.org

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?

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/

Are we looking at it the right way?

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Are we building things right?

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

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

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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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