WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:00.640 Until today. 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:01.360 Until now. 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:06.840 But we still have, I hope, a few guests in the room. 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:10.600 Sorry, I'm going to speak English because this session is in 00:00:10.600 --> 00:00:11.400 English actually. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:15.960 So we're going to have three presentations, three keynote presentations 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:17.840 or the final keynotes as we call it. 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:22.800 The first one is by Rajendra Kumar about modernism and Indian 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:25.040 cities, climate and urban regeneration. 00:00:25.040 --> 00:00:28.120 So Rajendra, if you are here, where are you? 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:29.440 OK floor is yours. 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:31.680 thirty minutes please. 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:35.720 Thank you Piyothri. 00:00:37.800 --> 00:00:41.160 When I sent my presentation to Piyothri few days back, he was 00:00:41.160 --> 00:00:43.920 worried that I had a one forty slide. 00:00:44.400 --> 00:00:49.280 So I told him that OK I am going to reduce so I have deleted lot of 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:54.480 slide and now I have one thirty eight slide, so, so don't worry 00:00:54.480 --> 00:00:56.840 about one hundred thirty the one hundred thirty eight slide 00:00:57.120 --> 00:01:00.840 and trust me i'm not lying I deleted many slide because I added 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:04.920 many slide just here just yesterday evening because I thought 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:07.720 that such kind of a conferences when you come and then you know 00:01:07.720 --> 00:01:10.560 you should also share your experiences. 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:14.520 But at the same time, you should also try to do, try to offer what 00:01:14.520 --> 00:01:19.240 you can, what you can bring on the table for the city. 00:01:20.800 --> 00:01:29.640 I'm various, so trust me I will not exceed any anytime and even 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:33.360 if I exceed so my next speaker is Elizabeth, so she will excuse 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:34.920 me for four or five minutes. 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:37.880 I'm an architect by qualification. 00:01:37.880 --> 00:01:39.000 I'm urban planner. 00:01:39.320 --> 00:01:44.200 Also by practice I'm professor of architecture in lovely Forestal 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:44.960 University. 00:01:45.880 --> 00:01:51.120 So I I have a very academic experience but at the same time I I also 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.080 into Advisory Board with with many institutions. 00:01:54.360 --> 00:01:57.760 I receive a global education influencer award in two thousand 00:01:57.760 --> 00:01:59.000 twenty and twenty two also. 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:04.160 So what I'm going to talk about so I was just discussing with the 00:02:04.160 --> 00:02:06.800 Elizabeth that how much time do I have per slide. 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:12.840 So my per slide time is thirteen second so so thirty I'm so I'm 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:16.200 not going to speak much on each individual slide. 00:02:16.880 --> 00:02:21.240 So this is the kind of a green which city requires definitely, 00:02:21.600 --> 00:02:23.600 but not in this context. 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:25.560 So this is a Central Park in New York. 00:02:25.920 --> 00:02:30.160 So people are moving from one part of the world, one part of world 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:31.800 to another part of the world. 00:02:31.880 --> 00:02:33.440 We we call it a migration. 00:02:33.440 --> 00:02:39.120 We call it a porchety or migration is not happening only country 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:39.600 to country. 00:02:39.600 --> 00:02:44.040 It's also happening village to town, town to city, city to megapolis 00:02:44.320 --> 00:02:46.880 and mega Polish to super mega Polish. 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:50.160 So this is how the people are moving. 00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:54.040 I mean people are moving from every part, every day the flight 00:02:54.040 --> 00:02:58.320 is full, people move for recreation, people move because of 00:02:58.320 --> 00:02:59.560 the war or whatever. 00:03:00.160 --> 00:03:02.000 We are living in the time of a war. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:04.920 We have a very difficult time going on. 00:03:04.920 --> 00:03:08.920 We yesterday we had a very interesting discussions about what's 00:03:08.920 --> 00:03:11.960 happening in let's say Hamas. 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:16.360 But people forget what what happened in Ukraine but before that 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:18.880 people forget what happened in Afghanistan. 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:23.240 So, so one war, you know, one war happens and the second war happens 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:26.360 to the first war is forgotten by media or by us. 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:31.600 If anyone can imagine what what this image is, this image actually 00:03:31.600 --> 00:03:34.800 it looks like a parrot, but it's not a parrot, it's a lady sitting 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:35.560 in this thing. 00:03:35.880 --> 00:03:36.480 So. 00:03:36.480 --> 00:03:40.560 So if you see your city in a different way, more thoughtfully, 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:45.160 the city has a different different layers so, so when I'm seeing 00:03:45.160 --> 00:03:48.560 the layer of the city here you can see, I mean this is the very European 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:51.000 model of the city, very neat and clean. 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:53.920 But this is one of the the image of a Delhi city. 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.480 In Delhi, you know, you will find this kind of a traffic also. 00:03:57.480 --> 00:04:04.600 But at the same time you may find, you may find road for elephant 00:04:04.600 --> 00:04:06.040 also or cow also. 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:07.160 This is very common. 00:04:07.160 --> 00:04:09.320 So everyone live very peacefully together. 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:09.760 So. 00:04:10.640 --> 00:04:13.160 So this is how our cities, yes, cities are. 00:04:13.920 --> 00:04:15.480 OK So this is an interesting image. 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:20.360 This is the image of my house my son when he was very young and he's 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:24.440 trying to replicate the traffic by the way and and you you see 00:04:24.440 --> 00:04:30.720 here I mean you know from my house to my office there's always 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:35.000 an underpass so he's trying to replicate the underpass also 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.880 all the cargoes And then I have two son I don't have a daughter 00:04:38.880 --> 00:04:45.320 so I'm very much you know very I mean I have few daughter niece 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:47.160 but I don't have my daughter. 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:52.120 So I mean my I always try to make my my son a very gender sensitive 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:56.080 respect to woman because the you know the women empowerment. 00:04:56.080 --> 00:04:58.880 I have been, I'm doing a lot of initiatives with the government 00:04:58.880 --> 00:05:03.480 about this so that so that brings in my son jeans also. 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:10.000 So he's also trying to replicate the line of male and the line 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:10.600 of females. 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:14.520 So you can see blue Toffees for male and red Toffees for female. 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:18.840 So why I am showing you this personal slide actually now our generation, 00:05:18.840 --> 00:05:21.840 our new generation is learning what they are see they are seeing 00:05:21.840 --> 00:05:23.360 it that we do not need to teach them. 00:05:23.640 --> 00:05:26.360 So they are seeing it and they are replicating in their daily life. 00:05:27.400 --> 00:05:32.320 Can anyone guess which city it is this I believe that it is very 00:05:32.320 --> 00:05:36.160 hard to to identify which city is this because every city is, 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:38.760 is the same actually it is a London. 00:05:39.840 --> 00:05:40.040 So. 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:41.480 So how it is a difference? 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:43.920 Because there is Gerkin Tower, you know this. 00:05:44.520 --> 00:05:49.440 Yes, there was a clue here in the tower also, but you know, I'm 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:53.440 sure that nobody could have thought of on that top level. 00:05:53.440 --> 00:05:57.320 But why I'm showing you this Gherkin Tower recently, like a few 00:05:57.320 --> 00:06:01.800 months back I was in Gherkin Tower and and it was my first time 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:03.080 in Gherkin Tower. 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.400 And I mean, this is a beautiful skyscraper. 00:06:06.400 --> 00:06:08.520 I mean, everything is OK fine, very good. 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:10.120 A new signature to London. 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:14.080 But the Gerkin Tower, I mean all the street and you know, around 00:06:14.080 --> 00:06:17.440 the Gerkin Tower, it was really horrible because you know it. 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.320 I mean, I'm not saying, I mean horrible may not be the correct 00:06:20.320 --> 00:06:21.680 word, but it was something like that. 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:24.600 It was not justified about the glory. 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:28.920 What Gerkin Tower carries framed Dubai. 00:06:29.960 --> 00:06:35.640 This is a new addition in the pencil tower in Central Park in New 00:06:35.640 --> 00:06:36.040 York. 00:06:36.280 --> 00:06:37.840 So why I'm showing you these slides? 00:06:37.840 --> 00:06:40.280 These slides are actually talking about that architecture 00:06:40.280 --> 00:06:45.000 has a very strong power for giving identity to to the city. 00:06:46.200 --> 00:06:51.440 And before lunch we were discussing about Eiffel Tower when 00:06:51.440 --> 00:06:55.360 Eiffel Tower was being built and the people wanted to kill Eiffel 00:06:55.960 --> 00:06:58.920 because because they they thought that it's going to be the wastage 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:00.880 of so much of steel and it's very iron. 00:07:01.080 --> 00:07:05.560 But now the the the Eiffel Tower is a symbolic representation 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:12.280 of of Paris or for that matter France, also Bilbao Bilbao, Guggenheim 00:07:12.280 --> 00:07:12.560 region. 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:16.840 So it's going to be the verticality is going to be the new language 00:07:16.840 --> 00:07:17.440 of the city. 00:07:17.440 --> 00:07:20.920 And I'm very sure that you know many of the cities, even I come 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:25.680 from a Global south Global south is also witnessing a lot of tall 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:26.200 buildings. 00:07:26.440 --> 00:07:26.600 So. 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.000 But what happened is that in the tall buildings because of the, 00:07:29.400 --> 00:07:33.120 the attaining the height of the building is always, you know 00:07:33.880 --> 00:07:35.400 just being the tallest so. 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:39.040 So the Burj Khalifa and then this new Jeddah tower is also coming up. 00:07:39.280 --> 00:07:41.640 So it's you know the verticality is going. 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:45.160 I mean it is a necessity we can discuss about it but definitely 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:46.760 it's give identity to the city. 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:48.200 By the way, this is me. 00:07:48.200 --> 00:07:52.320 When the Burj Khalifa was being built, I had a very long hair till 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:58.880 so yeah, so, so, So this is a very poor copy of Albert Hotel. 00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:00.800 This is a very interesting slide. 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.080 You may may think that you know why I have added this slide. 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:07.760 If we talk, we we are sitting here with the planners group and 00:08:07.760 --> 00:08:10.280 you know when we, we talk about, you know, the planning and if 00:08:10.280 --> 00:08:13.240 there is no sensitivity and there's no control involved in the 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:13.680 planning. 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:16.320 So things happen like this. 00:08:16.320 --> 00:08:18.880 If it is, it is written actually three languages. 00:08:18.880 --> 00:08:21.440 This is a Bengali, this is a Hindi and this is in English. 00:08:21.840 --> 00:08:25.960 So we always make a fun of it that if you split in English you will 00:08:25.960 --> 00:08:30.240 pay two hundred fifty rupees but if you pay in hindi you pay five 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.360 hundred rupees because it is written five hundred in hindi but 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:36.480 in english it is written two hundred fifty So that kind of you 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:40.440 know this control about, you know the implementation of a plan 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:43.640 planning is also very, very important because definitely we 00:08:43.640 --> 00:08:46.920 can create a very, very, very beautiful set of document on the 00:08:46.920 --> 00:08:47.240 table. 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:49.120 But it it comes on the implementation. 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:53.520 What I think what I do, I am I have been speaking on many forums. 00:08:53.520 --> 00:08:57.000 I'm writing on many journals, many magazines and many newspapers 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:57.480 about it. 00:08:57.880 --> 00:09:00.880 When we talk about Mumbai, Mumbai is a mega policy. 00:09:00.880 --> 00:09:03.880 Yesterday we were talking about twenty two million population 00:09:03.880 --> 00:09:07.920 of Delhi including the the Greater Delhi is a thirty million 00:09:07.920 --> 00:09:08.480 population. 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:10.480 Mumbai is almost on the same scale. 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:13.520 It's almost like a fifteen to sixteen million people. 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:15.760 So Mumbai is a mega policy city. 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.600 But this is also the reality of Mumbai. 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:23.160 Mumbai I mean half of the tallest residential building in the 00:09:23.160 --> 00:09:25.760 world after this Trump Tower in New York. 00:09:25.760 --> 00:09:28.400 Because Trump Tower in New York was four hundred four hundred 00:09:28.400 --> 00:09:30.840 and twenty eight meter high building the residential building. 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:34.840 only residential building So Mumbai have the tallest building, 00:09:35.160 --> 00:09:36.280 residential tallest building. 00:09:36.280 --> 00:09:39.040 But but this is also the reality in India. 00:09:39.040 --> 00:09:44.240 There is a saying that Indian women cannot live with the without 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:51.800 three M man money and maid So the the important thing is about 00:09:51.800 --> 00:09:52.200 maid. 00:09:52.560 --> 00:09:55.560 All the people who work in your house, all the servant and all 00:09:55.560 --> 00:09:59.520 the driver and all work they have, they live in the nearby slum. 00:09:59.680 --> 00:10:05.640 So, so that result was that every good society, every good neighbourhood 00:10:05.800 --> 00:10:09.360 has A1 one slum adjacent That's a very, very serious problem 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:12.680 because you know the the paying, I mean the salary of the maid 00:10:12.680 --> 00:10:16.480 and the drivers are of not that level so that they can afford a 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:17.040 good housing. 00:10:17.040 --> 00:10:19.840 So always there that there is always a slum. 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:23.920 You will find any mega police in Delhi, I mean in Delhi, Mumbai, 00:10:23.920 --> 00:10:26.560 Kolkata, Madras is is the same so. 00:10:26.560 --> 00:10:30.000 So the slum and tall goes together here you can see, I mean this 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:32.760 is a upscale neighborhood and here is a slum. 00:10:32.760 --> 00:10:35.160 So that's the reality of everywhere in Mumbai. 00:10:35.560 --> 00:10:40.520 Dharavi Islam is the one of the Asias largest slump this thing 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:41.520 and it is. 00:10:41.520 --> 00:10:44.880 I mean there was a movie also made on which which received eight 00:10:44.880 --> 00:10:48.320 Grammy Award, Slumdog Millionaire. 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:51.080 It was about the life of in Dharavi. 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:55.520 So Indians are very very this this word is actually called a Jugad. 00:10:55.520 --> 00:10:56.640 I mean Jugad is a Hindi word. 00:10:56.640 --> 00:10:59.360 So deliberately I did not delete this Hindi word. 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:04.080 So there are we live in lot of limitations so we make we we become 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:05.120 very innovative. 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:09.160 So I believe that there was a saying also that necessity is the 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:11.400 mother of inventions. 00:11:11.400 --> 00:11:15.800 So because of the limitation, because of less resources, you 00:11:15.800 --> 00:11:18.560 know this creativity comes automatically in that thing. 00:11:18.800 --> 00:11:21.560 So we live in limitation, we are creative, we are also creative. 00:11:21.560 --> 00:11:28.280 This is the, the by the way of Facebook, I mean this is the the facade 00:11:28.280 --> 00:11:32.000 of a temple where you can say Zuckerberg is a is a God and there 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:35.840 are all the gods are live, I mean some are online or some are you 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:36.520 know offline. 00:11:36.520 --> 00:11:41.400 So here so so so these research I mean we I mean it talks city is 00:11:41.560 --> 00:11:45.840 actually I mean are the city is for the car or for the people I mean 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:50.000 that so that is a debate which which is ongoing. 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:55.840 So this is you can the scenario of every day the commuter they 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:59.720 move by train, by metro or what So this is the House of. 00:12:00.800 --> 00:12:04.760 This is by the way this is considered to be the most expensive 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:09.160 single owner house in the world more than one billion US dollar 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:14.880 is designed by Perkins and Wills from US and this is for five member 00:12:14.880 --> 00:12:15.240 families. 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:19.120 So that that scenario for India is also existing. 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:22.120 So this is the inside of this is a House of Millennium. 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:25.280 So, I mean so they said Millennium Street, but there is also a street. 00:12:25.280 --> 00:12:28.880 There are people who are living on on this also for them the playground 00:12:28.880 --> 00:12:33.560 is this, I mean and by the way, this is a live train track. 00:12:33.560 --> 00:12:40.480 So the train every day the train also moves so far for for the children, 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:41.880 I mean this is their playground. 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:46.960 So this is again, I mean the similar situations happening in Mumbai. 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:48.360 I mean this was Mumbai. 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:53.240 This is the research we worked on E W S economical weaker sections 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:54.720 So what is the necessity about? 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:59.200 I mean how do how do we solve the issues of one upscale neighborhood 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:03.880 and one slum every every every area is having. 00:13:03.880 --> 00:13:08.120 So we we came we came up with the solution of that every developer 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:12.160 who works they have to give like a ten percent of their unit if 00:13:12.160 --> 00:13:14.400 they are making five hundred apartments so they have to give 00:13:14.640 --> 00:13:18.600 fifty apartment to the the people who are the worker who are the 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:21.600 i mean your servant and all within the same neighbourhood So 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:25.440 that's the research where our industry did this this was I mean 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:29.000 so, so here you can see I mean India is a major city we are involved 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:32.440 in a smart cities hundred smart city projects are going on. 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:37.080 So we are involved in Delhi, Delhi smart city plan and credible India. 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:41.360 So, so another issue is very important that the migration happens 00:13:41.640 --> 00:13:46.640 so that the people every day, every day more than one hundred 00:13:46.640 --> 00:13:51.360 thousand people come in delhi every day new labour. 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.560 's comes labour I mean I'm saying that working class people come 00:13:55.560 --> 00:13:56.840 for the search of a job. 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:01.000 So and definitely the main city like a Delhi in Mumbai cannot 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.560 accommodate on the rate, same rate like what what migration 00:14:04.560 --> 00:14:08.160 come every day, every day one hundred thousand people comes 00:14:09.160 --> 00:14:13.960 as a migrant worker So this is how the scenario of, you know, the 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:15.040 migration happens. 00:14:15.760 --> 00:14:16.000 Yeah. 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:20.080 So with the Lisa we were, I was talking about this Delhi smog. 00:14:20.280 --> 00:14:23.680 By the way when I'm talking today here, there is a very serious 00:14:23.680 --> 00:14:27.360 situation in Delhi, you know the smog, all the schools are closed, 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:30.680 everything is closed right now because of the situation in Delhi. 00:14:30.680 --> 00:14:32.000 So there is a comparison here. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.480 You can see this is Delhi in the month of October and November 00:14:35.680 --> 00:14:37.880 and this is in the month of June and July. 00:14:37.880 --> 00:14:41.720 So that's the climate is also very, very serious concern and 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:46.240 our Prime Minister when he visited in COP twenty six in Glasgow, 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:49.240 there was a commitment and you know I'm involved in some of the 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:51.760 research program program about making the commitment. 00:14:51.760 --> 00:14:55.600 We always we see that our Prime Minister has over committed definitely 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:59.440 I mean so yes, so, so the Delhi pollutions is going on. 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:02.360 I mean so I'm skipping this part some of the urban challenges 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:03.080 what we have. 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:09.440 So this lockdown, you know during the lockdown when because 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:12.080 when we were talking about migration during the lockdown the 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:15.440 anti migration happened everybody wanted, I mean nobody knew 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:16.680 that what is going to happen. 00:15:16.920 --> 00:15:21.480 So people moved back to their their villages and all. 00:15:21.920 --> 00:15:24.040 So when the train everything was closed. 00:15:24.040 --> 00:15:27.760 So and that kind of a situation of anti migration situation did 00:15:27.760 --> 00:15:31.600 not happen anywhere on the on the same scale anywhere in the world 00:15:31.760 --> 00:15:33.080 what happened in Delhi city. 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:35.800 So this was like during the Kovic time. 00:15:35.800 --> 00:15:40.120 I mean the first first wave of COVID, I mean in India, the COVID 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:40.600 happened. 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:44.440 I mean the first wave happened in March and April of two thousand 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:47.720 twenty That time when there was like a talking about, you know, 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:51.280 this social distancing and all this was the situation on the 00:15:51.280 --> 00:15:51.680 street. 00:15:52.520 --> 00:15:57.120 So, OK cities and administration. 00:15:57.120 --> 00:15:58.920 So yeah, this part I'll skip. 00:15:58.920 --> 00:16:01.920 OK this is a Chandigarh again when I'm talking about city and 00:16:01.920 --> 00:16:05.520 governance here, you know what happened is that this is a Chandigarh 00:16:05.520 --> 00:16:08.000 city and this is another state and this is another state. 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:11.440 So the bond the the border is always struggling. 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.440 The similar thing is also happening in the case of I mean that 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:18.000 for the reason why daily pollutions happened because the all 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:24.080 the crop burning happened in the other state and the the smoke 00:16:24.520 --> 00:16:28.200 moved from that state and it it is stable in Delhi. 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:31.840 So that's also the reason because the now on both the state, the 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:32.800 governments are different. 00:16:32.800 --> 00:16:37.040 So one state blames to another state that they say that OK you 00:16:37.040 --> 00:16:40.360 cannot stop the crop burning in your in your state that's why 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:43.360 the smoke is coming from your state to to Delhi state. 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:47.040 So this is also the political reason also happened. 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:50.840 So OK so this is another very interesting research which I wanted 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:54.120 to share about a Kamila which we talk about temporary city. 00:16:54.360 --> 00:17:00.280 The city which is this Kumela happened in every twelve year. 00:17:00.520 --> 00:17:04.000 The city which is a permanent which is which is the population of. 00:17:04.520 --> 00:17:06.840 OK So yeah this is there was some slightness. 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:10.560 It's a very important issues about you know the city which has 00:17:10.600 --> 00:17:13.880 a which has a temporary populations like for example Shimla, 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:17.600 this is a hilltown, the population is point zero point two million 00:17:17.800 --> 00:17:21.360 but the tourist is seventeen million every year what happened 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:25.320 So the city should be designed for zero point two million or city 00:17:25.320 --> 00:17:27.960 should be designed for seventeen million because the two when 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:31.680 they tourist come they also come in There is a sanitation requirement, 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:34.280 the water requirement, the transportation requirement, everything. 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:35.680 So that is the challenge. 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:39.360 What I mean many of the cities are facing Shimla is I mean Shimla. 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:42.760 Shimla is a hill hill town and north part of India. 00:17:42.760 --> 00:17:46.960 But there is another tourist city called Goa where the population 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:51.440 is a half million and almost like a ten million tourists come 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:52.000 every year. 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:55.040 So the strategy should be designed for half million or ten million. 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:57.160 So, so that's so that's so. 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:01.920 So in that case, I mean this was some slightness. 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:04.560 OK so this is about Chandigarh. 00:18:04.560 --> 00:18:08.720 Oh so sorry this has been this Chandigarh happened because Chandigarh 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:11.440 I my Chandigarh is my hometown where I grown up. 00:18:12.320 --> 00:18:14.960 It's a it's a beautiful example yesterday also when I was saying 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:18.240 that when Corbusier design A city for half million and right 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:22.520 now the population of Chandigarh is two million and if you consider 00:18:22.520 --> 00:18:25.520 the greater Chandigarh, the population is five million but 00:18:25.560 --> 00:18:29.160 still the city is functioning still the city is not collapsed. 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:32.800 So that's a very good example for all all the urban planner to 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:35.920 definitely to do a case study about Chandigarh. 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:40.440 Why the city is still I mean surviving even the population has 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:43.360 gone almost like a four time what it is designed for. 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:46.680 So yeah, I will, I will skip the historical part of Chandigarh. 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:50.680 Chandigarh recently listed in a World Heritage UNESCO World 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:54.400 Heritage site, another capital city, the similar context. 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:58.480 I will skip this part because I want to focus on the second part. 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:01.640 This is a very interesting and new capital city which is going 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:02.920 on South. 00:19:03.320 --> 00:19:05.320 Norman Foster is doing a design of the city. 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:11.240 So we were there in in some of the workshop together with the government 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:14.040 of course when mister Foster come, mister Foster comes with 00:19:14.040 --> 00:19:15.920 the you know grand plan. 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:21.600 So this is one of the one of the grandest capital city is going 00:19:21.600 --> 00:19:28.640 to happen in South part of India Central Vista project is a redevelopment 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:31.720 of our own capital complex in Delhi. 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:37.240 One of the very large project which is going to change the entire 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:43.160 Delhi landscape, political landscape, I'll say OK Varanasi 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:44.920 city, I mean this is city on the river. 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.640 OK so I'll stick here in because this is interesting research. 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:54.640 So Kummela is considered to be one of the largest temporary city. 00:19:55.320 --> 00:19:58.360 Why I'm saying you Kummela is I mean Kummela happened after every 00:19:58.360 --> 00:19:59.080 two earlier. 00:19:59.600 --> 00:20:02.280 So this is this city, I mean the this. 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:04.400 By the way, Mela is a Hindi word. 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:10.280 So Kumbh festival, let's say Kumbh is a religious festival and 00:20:10.800 --> 00:20:14.920 so Kumbh festival happened after every after every twelve year 00:20:15.120 --> 00:20:19.640 and it happened on the Bank of a Ganga river in north part of India. 00:20:20.080 --> 00:20:24.880 And so, so here you can see how this the Bank of a Ganga river become 00:20:25.080 --> 00:20:29.280 a temporary city for one month and suddenly it disappeared. 00:20:29.600 --> 00:20:31.520 So the number are mind boggling. 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:36.360 So you can see the I mean almost like a two month festival and you 00:20:36.360 --> 00:20:41.680 can say these kind of things OK so so the number here the OK so this 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:45.200 is, this is images. 00:20:46.040 --> 00:20:48.600 So this is how I will manage thirty minute presentation by the 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:57.400 way So, so here you can see one hundred fifty million people visit 00:20:57.400 --> 00:21:03.120 to city in seven week which is more than the population of russia 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:11.320 It is the population of last year Kumela was bigger than the population 00:21:11.320 --> 00:21:15.640 of a small cities and this is by the way the city is designed temporary 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:19.120 just for two months and after two months you will find nothing 00:21:19.120 --> 00:21:20.880 over there on the river, nothing over. 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:22.960 So it's a very interesting case study. 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:27.040 In fact Harvard University also did a research on that. 00:21:27.040 --> 00:21:30.440 The thesis is going on and now what is happening with the Kumbela, 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:34.120 the actually the the main Kumba Mela, the Kumbela with the number 00:21:34.120 --> 00:21:35.640 which I gave it was in this city. 00:21:35.840 --> 00:21:39.360 Now because of the, you know, this temporary city and it happens 00:21:39.520 --> 00:21:40.640 after every twelve years. 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:44.640 So what they what other cities are also doing here you can say 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:48.600 this Haridwar Ujjain and this Nasik, they are also making their 00:21:48.600 --> 00:21:50.120 own version of Kumbela. 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:53.720 So, so in India you will find every two year Kommela somewhere 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:54.080 happened. 00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:57.200 But the main Kommela happened in this Priyagra city which happened 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:00.200 after twelve years because Kommela also bring a lot of tourism, 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:04.200 international tourism and religious tourism also and of course 00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:08.320 the infrastructure development of the city which is for for 00:22:08.320 --> 00:22:10.120 two months only. 00:22:10.120 --> 00:22:11.720 So so this is interesting example. 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:13.480 This is the project which we are doing. 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:16.120 I'm not going into one of the tallest building of India. 00:22:17.520 --> 00:22:22.160 This is a very interesting research and I'm into Pietro. 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:23.080 I'm on time. 00:22:23.080 --> 00:22:26.440 So five seven minute years give media community this give media 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:29.480 community which we are The research we are doing with the Cambridge 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:31.920 University, it's a very interesting example. 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:35.640 During the time of a Britishers, I mean two hundred years back 00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:40.240 when there were many labor class people mainly uneducated labor 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:45.120 class people they were forced to they were forced and they were 00:22:45.120 --> 00:22:49.440 sent to small island cities the british colonies like you know 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:56.960 trinidad papua guena and mauritius and all those places And 00:22:57.160 --> 00:23:02.080 they went on an agreement, but those people were not able to pronounce 00:23:02.320 --> 00:23:04.760 their visa or their arrangement. 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:07.240 They were not able to pronounce agreement. 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:09.160 So they used to call them Girmet. 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:14.560 So agreement become Girmet and so, so, so there was a like a kind 00:23:14.560 --> 00:23:16.240 of a race racism of that time. 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:16.480 Okay. 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:18.600 They are, they are agreement people. 00:23:18.600 --> 00:23:20.000 That means they are a garment people. 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:24.840 And now those agreement so called i mean the visa system of agreement 00:23:25.080 --> 00:23:28.680 became a garment and garment become garmentia and now this garmentia 00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:32.360 community garmentia this garmentia community I mean this, 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:36.560 I mean this is in Hindi, it's written thirty six Girmaidia community 00:23:36.560 --> 00:23:38.000 people, they made Mauritius. 00:23:38.280 --> 00:23:42.720 So those people are, I mean all those Girmedia community people 00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:45.400 in all those Girmedia countries. 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:47.480 Like there were twelve Girmedia countries in the world. 00:23:47.720 --> 00:23:50.440 So they are heading the nation by the way. 00:23:51.120 --> 00:23:54.680 So the so OK so these are research part and the interesting part 00:23:54.680 --> 00:23:58.600 is here when Rishi Sunak become the Prime Minister of UK So it 00:23:58.600 --> 00:24:01.760 became a big news but trust me the Rishi. 00:24:01.760 --> 00:24:06.000 Before Rishi Sunak Antonio Costa became the Prime Minister 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:09.640 of Portugal, Antonio Costa was Indian origin. 00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:12.840 So because of course the Rishi Sunnah because of the UK it became 00:24:12.840 --> 00:24:13.520 a big news. 00:24:13.800 --> 00:24:18.440 But when Antonio Costa was one of the first Indian who became 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:23.360 Prime Minister of Indian origin and by the way as a piece of news 00:24:23.360 --> 00:24:26.440 you can Google on this, just I received a message by ambassador 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.400 of Portugal just like a five minute before that the Antonio Costa 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:35.360 resigned so from Portugal so, so now what I'm trying to tell you 00:24:35.360 --> 00:24:39.720 about this Girmetia community and this, you know when this immigrant 00:24:39.720 --> 00:24:42.960 come, they also shape your cities. 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:45.680 That's what we yesterday when I was talking about the example 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.840 of Slovenia, my conversation with the Slovenia president about 00:24:48.840 --> 00:24:49.960 two million population. 00:24:50.120 --> 00:24:52.680 But if you see the Slovenia there is a very less immigrant. 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:57.200 So any country where there's a maximum number of immigrant be 00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:01.880 it Canada, be it even for that matter America and and UK also you 00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:06.760 know the the immigrant immigrant helps also they help to develop 00:25:06.760 --> 00:25:07.360 the cities. 00:25:08.360 --> 00:25:10.200 The Canada is one of the best example. 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:14.640 Of course there are political issues but so so this is the research 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:19.080 which I'm developing with Cambridge University and the last 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:24.040 last year I curated ATV show called Tale of Two City where I was 00:25:24.360 --> 00:25:32.280 comparing one Indian city and one international city and I curated 00:25:32.280 --> 00:25:36.880 a show with the with definitely with the mayors and but many of 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:38.800 the mayor they became a head of a nation also. 00:25:38.800 --> 00:25:42.560 For example Ivan Duque of Colombia, Minda, he was ex mayor of 00:25:42.560 --> 00:25:45.880 Bogota Adirama of Tirana. 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:50.360 He was ex mayor of Adirama of Albania, the Prime Minister of Albania, 00:25:51.040 --> 00:25:56.800 Sally Cap from Melbourne, Claudia Shenbaum from Mexico, Ahmad 00:25:56.800 --> 00:26:01.680 Abutale from Rotterdam, Bennett Onai from Hanover and they're 00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:06.840 from San Marino is a very beautiful place, I mean and John Falcino 00:26:06.840 --> 00:26:11.760 from Washington DC So what happened is that these kind of these 00:26:11.760 --> 00:26:16.040 kind of, you know, my collaboration with the state government 00:26:16.040 --> 00:26:19.080 and the city administrations, it's really help and I'm trying 00:26:19.080 --> 00:26:23.120 to do with them in the connecting of India with with the Indian 00:26:23.120 --> 00:26:25.400 cities and Western international cities. 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:29.800 Also I was part of urban twenty G twenty summit which recently 00:26:29.800 --> 00:26:33.880 concluded And here you can see in G twenty we did a research with 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:39.760 C C forty cities UCLG and G twenty and U twenty and we came up with 00:26:39.760 --> 00:26:43.280 the communique By the way this is the the photograph with the 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:44.720 deputy Mayor of London. 00:26:45.320 --> 00:26:48.560 Yeah, I mean he's an Indian so, so one is the Indian attire, the 00:26:48.560 --> 00:26:55.040 deputy Mayor of New York, deputy Mayor of LA So yeah, yeah. 00:26:55.280 --> 00:26:59.760 By the way this, this photograph with the New York deputy mayor, 00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:02.240 it is in the House of Mahatma Gandhi. 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:04.440 So we had a very in Ahmedabad. 00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:07.760 So it's a very it was a very interesting experience here you can 00:27:07.760 --> 00:27:12.440 see that the Deputy Mayor of London, I mean we we had a very very 00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:17.080 useful three days workshop and we developed some working tomorrow 00:27:17.080 --> 00:27:20.840 I'm meeting with the mayor in London so, so, so that kind of a thing 00:27:20.840 --> 00:27:24.360 and we came up with the communique about how the G twenty city 00:27:24.360 --> 00:27:27.440 should be there By the way here you can see our ISO card colleague 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:29.760 Ali Al Aruf also. 00:27:30.360 --> 00:27:34.400 So we've so we've so we were in Ahmedabad and we came up with this 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:38.720 communique which which was definitely it was presented to all 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:42.200 the G twenty leaders It's online, so you can Google it and you 00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:42.840 can find out. 00:27:43.080 --> 00:27:46.400 This is one of the research project which we this is interesting 00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:50.400 research which recently completed in Cambridge University. 00:27:50.560 --> 00:27:53.040 Here you can see me, my wife and my son. 00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:58.560 So I always try to engage my I try to make my new generations not 00:27:58.560 --> 00:28:00.760 only my son or I mean both my son. 00:28:00.760 --> 00:28:03.800 I can't say my son and my daughter, but yeah, I'm just finishing. 00:28:04.040 --> 00:28:05.000 So yeah. 00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:08.280 So what would I like to give gadas? 00:28:08.280 --> 00:28:12.400 I don't want to propose this kind of a smart city for poor and rich. 00:28:13.040 --> 00:28:16.280 I would like to propose sister city proposal. 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:19.040 Sister yeah two minutes is finished. 00:28:19.320 --> 00:28:24.360 So I did a research and I saw I found out that you know Gadask has 00:28:24.360 --> 00:28:27.080 a very interesting I mean it's a beautiful city definitely. 00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:31.400 So gadask is the is having a sister city agreement only with one 00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:32.840 Asian city that's Astana. 00:28:33.840 --> 00:28:38.040 So I would like to propose all the dignitaries here. 00:28:38.040 --> 00:28:41.800 You know I've I would love to help you out for finding a connection 00:28:41.800 --> 00:28:47.160 of sister city with any of the Indian city. 00:28:47.360 --> 00:28:49.640 When I was seeing the sister city pull. 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:50.320 Sorry. 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:56.480 Ukraine comes on the fifth rank of number of Ukraine and Poland 00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:58.960 come on the fifth rank of a sister city agreement. 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:00.960 So these are some of the possibilities. 00:29:01.840 --> 00:29:03.680 What are the benefit of Sister city. 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:04.720 So definitely we can do. 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:07.040 Thank you so much and I think I was on time. 00:29:07.040 --> 00:29:07.160 Yes. 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:10.640 Thank you so much. 00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:14.280 Thank you so much. 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:16.360 Thank you so much. 00:29:16.360 --> 00:29:17.960 I think we all enjoyed it very much. 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:21.720 So this is this is about modernism and Indian cities. 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:26.160 And now we are coming to another presentation which will be delivered 00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:32.240 by Elizabeth Burper from Isaacorp on the issues of putting health 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:34.960 and climate the heart of the city transformation. 00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:39.600 I can, I can tell you that Elizabeth was was responsible for last 00:29:39.840 --> 00:29:44.240 two ISACARP Congresses and they were actually dealing with 00:29:44.280 --> 00:29:44.920 these topics. 00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:47.840 So I guess she's a real expert in this thing. 00:29:47.840 --> 00:29:49.000 So ISACARP floor is yours. 00:29:50.280 --> 00:29:55.880 So five days ago, the State of Climate Service report, with a 00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:59.960 focus on health, put us right in the middle of the crisis of health 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.760 and climate, and the World Meteorological Organization said 00:30:04.760 --> 00:30:08.680 that climate change makes the world warm at a faster rate than 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:13.320 at any point in recorded history, with human health at the frontline. 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:18.680 Climate change also threatens to reverse decades of progress 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:22.760 in health and extreme weather events are projected to reach 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:27.720 about five hundred sixty per year by two thousand thirty So that 00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:32.960 means one and a half per day We have seen this graph several times 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:38.800 and if we look at the planet as a body we would say it's going not 00:30:38.800 --> 00:30:45.880 well and the vital signs or most of the vital signs such as blood 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:48.080 pressures and heart rhythm. 00:30:48.080 --> 00:30:53.360 For instance, if we compare the the planet with the body or crossed 00:30:53.360 --> 00:30:58.640 those lines or crossed, we also know that it's unequal and there 00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:02.040 is an unequal impact of climate change in the world. 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:07.920 Looking back at the extreme events, the extreme heat is one of 00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:13.000 the will have one of the greatest mortalities with the highest 00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:20.320 burden in Asia and Europe counting for thirty six percent A month 00:31:20.320 --> 00:31:21.720 ago you might have seen it too. 00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:24.760 There was an interim climate resilience report of London and 00:31:24.760 --> 00:31:28.760 also painting a worrying picture of the underground tube infrastructure 00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:31.520 not fit for purpose in the very near future. 00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:33.680 Neither are a large part of it. 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:38.840 Homes and infrastructures, places for elderly and young, schools 00:31:38.840 --> 00:31:39.800 and care homes. 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.040 And two days ago, as you have seen with Ryendra too, there was 00:31:45.040 --> 00:31:49.360 the news of exceeding in fact it's it's reaching the maximum 00:31:49.360 --> 00:31:56.720 measurable air quality indicators and was considered as dangerous. 00:32:02.950 --> 00:32:06.790 So we all know that the world shifted to an urban world and this 00:32:06.790 --> 00:32:07.510 will continue. 00:32:07.510 --> 00:32:10.230 In two thousand and fifty we'll have around seventy percent 00:32:10.230 --> 00:32:15.000 of people living in urban areas The Nexus of climate change and 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:19.760 health also happens, or manifestates more in urban areas and 00:32:19.760 --> 00:32:20.400 cities. 00:32:21.080 --> 00:32:23.920 People, lifters and children grow up. 00:32:27.280 --> 00:32:32.080 So if we look at this was actually a chilling quote that appeared 00:32:32.080 --> 00:32:32.880 from The Lancet. 00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:39.080 It's one of the most scientific magazines related to or journals 00:32:39.080 --> 00:32:39.960 related to health. 00:32:41.120 --> 00:32:45.640 A chilling quote that the world is feeling and that there is no 00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:48.920 one single country in the world that's providing children with 00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:52.000 a healthy life and a climate fit for their future. 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.600 And that quote went a little bit under the radar because it happened 00:32:55.600 --> 00:32:56.520 during COVID. 00:32:57.040 --> 00:33:03.720 COVID has only amplified some of the iniquities and patterns 00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:04.440 that happened. 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:15.720 So this graphic too, it's it's related to the quote saying that 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.880 the health and the environment and the future, that no country 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:24.600 is adequately protecting the children 's health and environment 00:33:26.520 --> 00:33:29.120 and so that the likelihood of a world in which all the children 00:33:29.120 --> 00:33:37.680 enjoy the right to health increasingly out of reach So moments 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:41.240 like this make us think, So what? 00:33:41.840 --> 00:33:45.480 What are we designing cities for and transforming cities for? 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:47.480 For who and and and why? 00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:49.840 And we have to ask these critical questions. 00:33:51.280 --> 00:33:55.400 Children increasingly grow up in cities. 00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:58.680 And I want to dive a little bit deeper into this, because there 00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:02.880 is a connection between neurons and neighbourhoods, and if 00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:06.440 we look in the brain, we know that per second, one million neural 00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:09.640 connections are formed in the first thousand days of life. 00:34:09.640 --> 00:34:14.160 So it's the first years of a child 's life And this is also topic 00:34:14.160 --> 00:34:15.760 that often goes under the radar. 00:34:17.240 --> 00:34:20.920 So neuroscience shows us that the environment and the social 00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:26.120 experience shape young brains, and this has long lifelong impacts, 00:34:26.120 --> 00:34:30.160 both for health but also education, jobs, even earning. 00:34:31.600 --> 00:34:37.120 So birth to age five is the most critical period of life and by 00:34:37.120 --> 00:34:40.600 age five ninety percent of the brain connections are formed 00:34:41.080 --> 00:34:45.920 and this is also a varying image about the what happens with the 00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:49.880 connections in the brain While this is a period that the connection 00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:56.800 should grow fast in moments and situations of stress, mainly 00:34:56.800 --> 00:35:00.200 toxic stress, which is a prolonged stress which can happen during 00:35:00.200 --> 00:35:04.120 disasters but also during conflicts and bar, that's what happens. 00:35:04.120 --> 00:35:08.440 We have less connections and so you have the brains of a child 00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:11.800 that looks like surviving rather than thriving. 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:19.640 Second important window of opportunity in which brains are 00:35:19.640 --> 00:35:22.440 shaped and formed is adolescence. 00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:28.240 As we all know, it's a turbocharge time and when young people 00:35:28.240 --> 00:35:32.280 gain cognitive, physical and the social skills to drive as adults 00:35:32.560 --> 00:35:35.360 and they learn through experimenting, we all know that. 00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:42.000 So designing our cities with young children in mind and adolescents 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:44.880 and these are two groups which we never hear about in cities, 00:35:45.160 --> 00:35:46.640 are actually very important. 00:35:47.600 --> 00:35:50.960 It also means if we have young children in mind, that we have to 00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:56.760 design status for their parents, their caregivers, siblings, 00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:58.240 aunts, grandparents. 00:35:58.240 --> 00:36:02.800 So a child from zero to five is not independent, depends on its 00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:05.480 caregivers and this is a large group in our society. 00:36:10.940 --> 00:36:15.460 So with human health and planet health under increasing stresses, 00:36:16.020 --> 00:36:19.460 we need to catapult health and well being both of planets and 00:36:19.460 --> 00:36:24.420 humans to the top of the agenda also for city planning and transformations 00:36:25.560 --> 00:36:29.760 and need to reconnect with nature for climate biodiversity 00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:35.360 and health Today's urbanisation is unprecedented in speeds. 00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:38.640 You heard it from Rajendra as well. 00:36:38.640 --> 00:36:42.000 And globally we have one point four million people added to cities 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:46.120 every week We also know that sixty percent of the built environment 00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:49.440 yet has to be built So there lies also an opportunity. 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:54.560 Urbanisation is happening faster than city governments can 00:36:54.560 --> 00:36:58.160 cope with and this also leads to unsustainable growth. 00:36:59.200 --> 00:37:02.680 administration 's budgets are siloed we hear it over and over 00:37:02.680 --> 00:37:06.600 again and the reality takes over the many plans that are made 00:37:08.240 --> 00:37:10.800 Inequity has increased within cities. 00:37:11.200 --> 00:37:14.240 It might have increased between countries, but it has increased 00:37:14.520 --> 00:37:16.800 within cities and within neighbourhoods. 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:20.280 You might have a life expectancy difference of fourteen years 00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:23.400 between one neighbourhood and just a few hundred metres further, 00:37:23.680 --> 00:37:25.080 for example in Chicago. 00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:30.080 And COVID has only amplified a lot of the inequities. 00:37:33.080 --> 00:37:34.920 This is the ecological footprint. 00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:39.120 As you know, globally we use one point seven It means that by August 00:37:39.120 --> 00:37:42.600 we're actually using credit of the future generations. 00:37:43.040 --> 00:37:45.400 So is this really how we want to continue? 00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:53.800 We know that designing or planning for people or putting people 00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:56.440 at the centre is also not one homogeneous group. 00:37:56.440 --> 00:38:00.760 It's very diverse and more and more countries and cities, particularly 00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:05.040 in Europe too, we speak about super diversity and about the majority 00:38:05.040 --> 00:38:06.680 of minorities and city. 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:11.920 So shouldn't our planning be more response responsive and coming 00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:13.560 up with responsive solutions? 00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:18.000 Air pollution, we saw it. 00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:21.560 If you look here in the room and you count ten people, you know 00:38:21.560 --> 00:38:27.240 that nine of them live in unhealthy ash as it is defined by World 00:38:27.240 --> 00:38:28.320 Health Organization. 00:38:28.520 --> 00:38:34.720 So only one out of ten actually lives below the limit globally. 00:38:37.600 --> 00:38:41.720 And this is just a few examples of how air pollution it comes in 00:38:41.720 --> 00:38:45.600 the blood, that is it has a lot of effects on a lot of organs of the 00:38:45.600 --> 00:38:45.960 body. 00:38:51.240 --> 00:38:56.320 This is also one of the epidemics coming that this obesity and 00:38:56.560 --> 00:38:59.800 in two thousand, thirty five sixty percent of young people would 00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:00.480 be obese. 00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:05.760 And this has a big impact on municipal budgets apart from health 00:39:06.240 --> 00:39:07.720 and care that is needed. 00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:12.960 This is also interesting that this studies have been done. 00:39:13.600 --> 00:39:16.400 This is from UK I think, but in Belgium, Shanghai and a couple 00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:20.640 of other countries that in a couple of generations the freedom 00:39:20.640 --> 00:39:24.680 of roaming from children and mainly in Western countries has 00:39:24.680 --> 00:39:26.480 dramatically decreased. 00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:30.240 So much more sedentary lives. 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:38.640 We know that a lot of public space has been privatised and in fast 00:39:38.640 --> 00:39:43.680 growing cities very little space physically left for public 00:39:43.680 --> 00:39:44.200 space. 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:50.080 And looking on the micro level also there we can see these are 00:39:50.080 --> 00:39:51.160 skateboard stoppers. 00:39:51.160 --> 00:39:56.160 So while young people are the largest user group of public space 00:39:56.400 --> 00:40:00.440 worldwide, we can see that often they are stopped and moving 00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:03.280 or we want to get them out of the public space. 00:40:06.040 --> 00:40:11.080 So we made some reflections about this in This is an Isocorp Congress 00:40:11.080 --> 00:40:15.880 last year and also this year and this year was about climate action. 00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:20.120 You can see in the logo that we work together with Urban Economy 00:40:20.120 --> 00:40:25.840 Forum, meaning this was an attempt to have the much needed transdisciplinary 00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:30.000 dialogue to actually move forward, because that's really what 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.040 we need to move forward on climate. 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:35.680 And this was the logo for last year 's congress which was from 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:39.320 wealthy to healthy cities And I think the logo says it all. 00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:42.160 It's the criticality of time and the time. 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:43.400 The clock is ticking. 00:40:44.680 --> 00:40:47.400 So what are some of the strategies we can use? 00:40:49.640 --> 00:40:54.360 This is the health map, and here lies also the opportunity. 00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:56.880 People often think of health. 00:40:56.920 --> 00:40:59.200 We need to protect health, and health is about disease. 00:40:59.200 --> 00:41:02.800 But in fact the environment is one of the largest determinants 00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:03.240 of health. 00:41:03.240 --> 00:41:08.560 It means that we who plan the build environment can really influence 00:41:08.560 --> 00:41:08.920 health. 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:13.480 We can also influence how we make cities more resilient, mitigate 00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:14.120 and adapt. 00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:19.920 But there's a large task and opportunity that we can do in the 00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:23.320 built environment, and that's the environment and also the 00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:27.800 natural environment where we live, we move, we grow up, we sleep, 00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:29.800 we enjoy, we have free time and so on. 00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:31.560 So all these aspects can be dealt with. 00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:39.080 An important level here is the neighbourhood level, the neighbourhood 00:41:39.080 --> 00:41:41.880 level and the regional level, the neighbourhood level, because 00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:43.840 this really effects daily lives. 00:41:44.680 --> 00:41:47.880 It's a critical planning level that also effects immediately 00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:52.800 the well being of inhabitants And if we look at younger people, 00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:57.120 this is also the proximity to services, which becomes a critical 00:41:57.120 --> 00:41:58.960 issue in planning for health. 00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:08.080 So one of the strategies to have a very long term vision and a very, 00:42:08.080 --> 00:42:10.200 very even and some leadership. 00:42:11.400 --> 00:42:17.080 This is an example of Kent and a vision was developed in two thousand 00:42:17.560 --> 00:42:21.280 It's one of the most dense neighbourhoods and the population, 00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:25.040 the majority, has foreign origins, super diverse neighbourhoods, 00:42:25.680 --> 00:42:28.160 also one of the more porous neighbourhoods. 00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:32.880 I was part of an long term strategy to and under. 00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:36.080 We developed the topic of putting oxygen in the neighbourhood 00:42:40.080 --> 00:42:42.320 and what it meant was looking. 00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:46.520 There was a lot of garage boxes, very small houses, so the city 00:42:46.520 --> 00:42:51.160 took a proactive approach to be the first one to buy when a property 00:42:51.160 --> 00:42:51.840 was sold. 00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:57.200 That's why I need a long term approach to gradually inject oxygen 00:42:57.560 --> 00:43:03.040 and different scale of green areas in the neighbourhood. 00:43:14.120 --> 00:43:18.840 And this is important that this is we have a lot of cities with 00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:23.120 dense areas and you think how big can we project more oxygen in 00:43:23.120 --> 00:43:23.960 those neighbourhoods? 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:28.800 We see cities absorbing more and more land even in that region. 00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:32.160 We could say that twelve football fields disappeared in the 00:43:32.160 --> 00:43:34.480 region every day. 00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:40.200 So this is to realise a more equitable distribution of green 00:43:40.200 --> 00:43:41.400 and natural areas. 00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:44.080 And I would like to tell the story. 00:43:45.160 --> 00:43:48.440 I'm actually back to the neighbourhood and this is a young person, 00:43:49.080 --> 00:43:52.200 Jasmine, twenty four who grew up in the neighbourhood in the 00:43:52.200 --> 00:43:56.240 Brexit port, and the neighbourhood got even more diverse while 00:43:56.240 --> 00:43:57.120 she was living there. 00:43:57.120 --> 00:44:00.960 She got to know Russian, Romanian and other girls After school. 00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:04.760 She would walk, walk from park to park around this network that 00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:07.520 you see and it was close by. 00:44:07.520 --> 00:44:10.920 So her parents agreed with this and she said that this created 00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:13.120 real Chris cultural bonds. 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:17.520 She learnt also to bike in one of the green areas and the reason 00:44:17.520 --> 00:44:21.000 why this was possible because the parents and the mothers from 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:25.000 the culture, they could just join and have picnics there and 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:28.120 the mothers then build up an informal support network. 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:35.320 For Mohammed he was also focusing on the connection with nature 00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:37.000 and for him it had the healing effect. 00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:42.040 He's very shy and he told me how little self confidence he had 00:44:42.040 --> 00:44:45.680 and how he suffered from depression I think he's a typical young 00:44:45.680 --> 00:44:49.920 person that felt neither part of the local population and neither 00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:53.360 part of the immigrated population, so he felt he didn't belong 00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:53.880 anywhere. 00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:58.840 He took antidepressants, but he also took much more time to start 00:44:59.240 --> 00:45:03.080 walking and actually connecting with the natural area, which 00:45:03.080 --> 00:45:04.360 you can see on the picture here. 00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:07.960 And the city decided to make it accessible for people from the 00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:10.960 neighbourhood and the city, so it became a daily walk. 00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:17.800 And so for him, nature 's actually healed him And he says also 00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:19.000 that nature doesn't judge. 00:45:19.160 --> 00:45:20.280 It is very neutral. 00:45:22.160 --> 00:45:26.640 What happened then was that he started, he saw the affected head 00:45:26.640 --> 00:45:30.320 and he removed some tiles on the pavement to develop a vertical 00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:37.000 garden and he spoke with the city and the city then decided that 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:40.160 people could simply remove thirty centimetres of tile without 00:45:40.160 --> 00:45:41.120 a building permission. 00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:47.120 So this has created an proactive approach people in the neighbourhood 00:45:47.120 --> 00:45:50.640 and he did it for others for free and this created connection 00:45:50.640 --> 00:45:52.520 and started talking with the neighbours and so on. 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:56.560 Now he's putting little benches on the wall that you can open 00:45:56.560 --> 00:45:59.880 and close and this has increased the social connections in the 00:45:59.880 --> 00:46:00.400 neighbourhood. 00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:06.440 Kent has then also the city developed a new green standard and 00:46:08.120 --> 00:46:11.040 saying that every resident has to have ten square metres within 00:46:11.040 --> 00:46:15.040 four hundred metres in a park that is minimum one hectare from 00:46:15.040 --> 00:46:18.760 his home And on the regional level we have a city monitor which 00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:23.320 compares the cities and also over time and you can see how many 00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:27.120 people, young people, different ages or at what distance from 00:46:27.120 --> 00:46:27.560 a green. 00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:33.200 So it gives a nice competitive edge between cities to develop 00:46:33.200 --> 00:46:35.440 more green and compare themselves with each other. 00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:39.360 Ghent has also developed this. 00:46:41.520 --> 00:46:44.080 It's not closing of streets but actually opening of streets 00:46:44.080 --> 00:46:47.600 to the pedestrians and in COVID they had hundred forty eight 00:46:47.600 --> 00:46:51.600 different streets open to people, huge streets, place streets, 00:46:51.600 --> 00:46:53.840 living streets, winter streets and so on. 00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:57.120 So there's a whole gum of different streets. 00:46:58.200 --> 00:47:01.600 This is Barcelona, you probably know this the Super blocks. 00:47:01.600 --> 00:47:05.360 So they what they did is having only traffic on the the yellow 00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:07.200 parts and in between. 00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:11.760 So nine blocks combined in the Super block is only for pedestrians. 00:47:14.080 --> 00:47:15.400 This is the space you gain. 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:18.600 So that space went to pedestrians, to people and to nature. 00:47:19.560 --> 00:47:23.240 The city is now making connections and inserting more grain 00:47:23.240 --> 00:47:29.360 to create biodiversity biodiversity corridors. 00:47:30.080 --> 00:47:37.160 People play in the street as well and sixty percent that usually 00:47:37.160 --> 00:47:41.360 is taken up by the cars So most of it was given back to the pedestrians. 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:50.320 This Congress, we, because we were in Canada, we had some indigenous 00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:54.880 speakers and this was very interesting because a timeless principle 00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:59.560 that actually was hidden in plain sight came on top and this was 00:47:59.560 --> 00:48:03.800 really highlight for many people and it is the principle of seven 00:48:03.800 --> 00:48:09.680 generation cities of the seventh generation principle. 00:48:11.600 --> 00:48:14.240 So indigenous people have a different relation with land and 00:48:14.240 --> 00:48:15.720 it's a more relational one. 00:48:18.080 --> 00:48:21.520 And the role of the indigenous knowledge to establish new relations 00:48:21.520 --> 00:48:26.080 with the land based on respect, responsibility, reciprocity, 00:48:27.080 --> 00:48:30.280 it's very different than what we may have heard so far. 00:48:30.600 --> 00:48:34.680 And even when we need climate action very fast, they for every 00:48:34.680 --> 00:48:39.480 decision they will look what does it mean for the seventh generation 00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:40.080 from now. 00:48:40.080 --> 00:48:42.520 So what does it mean for hundred forty years? 00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:45.840 And that's a very important criteria to take decisions. 00:48:46.680 --> 00:48:49.320 So this goes beyond bricks and mortars. 00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:54.320 It challenges to rethink how we use resources, how we consume, 00:48:54.560 --> 00:49:01.720 how we waste and how the principle of stewardship responsibility 00:49:01.720 --> 00:49:07.080 and accountability versus nature or taken into account. 00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:12.920 Some cities start using this and in Japan there is also cities 00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:17.200 looking at what do we get if we look at hundred years further rather 00:49:17.200 --> 00:49:23.720 than one election cycle or twenty thirty years So the regional 00:49:23.720 --> 00:49:28.480 level, that's another element for nature based solutions, 00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:33.240 Nature based solutions both for health and climate, important 00:49:33.240 --> 00:49:37.440 to look at the regional level and how natural systems can become 00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:38.840 a structural element. 00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:42.440 This is the strip, a commercial strip between Antwerp and Brussels. 00:49:43.400 --> 00:49:45.720 It's also crossing administrative levels. 00:49:45.720 --> 00:49:51.880 So you have to deal with collaboration between city and municipal 00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:52.360 levels. 00:49:52.640 --> 00:49:57.800 But the nature based solutions and natural structures can be 00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:02.960 actually the the starting point for that negotiation and become 00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:06.920 a structuring principle in commercial development transports 00:50:07.520 --> 00:50:08.520 Urban Development. 00:50:13.640 --> 00:50:18.360 This is in Vietnam where I worked for a city, but again we first 00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:22.160 looked at a more regional perspective to discover that there 00:50:22.160 --> 00:50:26.680 is a certain landscape structure below the city if we remove 00:50:26.680 --> 00:50:30.400 the layers of urbanisation and that is actually structure that 00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:35.080 could help in the principle of sponge cities, that is every year 00:50:35.080 --> 00:50:41.600 floodings and typhoons and how can we use this to absorb flooding 00:50:41.600 --> 00:50:44.840 and make sure that there's no Urban Development on top of this 00:50:45.080 --> 00:50:45.640 structure? 00:50:48.680 --> 00:50:52.120 This is China, so we have a lot of the nature based solutions on 00:50:52.920 --> 00:51:02.760 larger scale in Asia that is the same park. 00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:08.840 So flooding causes hundred billion in damage and there are serious 00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:14.960 water, water shortages and at the same time droughts. 00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:17.920 And we know that seventy five percent of the nation 's surface 00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:22.520 water is polluted and that sixty four percent of the city 's groundwater 00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:28.360 is polluted So China has launched a national initiative called 00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:32.640 the Sponge City, with the aim to reuse at least seventy percent 00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:37.120 of the rainwater in its cities by two thousand and thirty So these 00:51:37.120 --> 00:51:41.200 urban sponsors, they capture, they filter and they store the 00:51:41.200 --> 00:51:41.560 water. 00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:46.200 And this is an example of again, looking at Go benefits. 00:51:46.200 --> 00:51:50.320 How can we use this to produce health and well being for the people 00:51:53.480 --> 00:51:54.360 Yeah, that's another one. 00:51:54.840 --> 00:52:00.320 And this is an example of Bangkok multi awards winning project 00:52:02.080 --> 00:52:07.280 where you say OK dealing with a lot of floodings and sea level 00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:08.040 rise as well. 00:52:08.200 --> 00:52:13.760 What happens when a public square is actually inclined and starts 00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:16.560 to function as a water storage? 00:52:16.560 --> 00:52:21.680 As a water container again with all the sites and core benefits 00:52:21.680 --> 00:52:23.680 using for concerts and so on. 00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:30.560 Now we also have to think of innovating partnerships and we we 00:52:30.560 --> 00:52:34.080 heard in the Congress some of them, this is an example of Hong 00:52:34.080 --> 00:52:35.920 Kong one of the densest cities. 00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:40.760 And we've seen with all the skyscrapers not much space left for 00:52:40.760 --> 00:52:41.480 public space. 00:52:41.480 --> 00:52:42.840 So how? 00:52:43.200 --> 00:52:47.360 This is an example how renegotiation between city governments 00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:52.600 and the private sector is creating more green social spaces 00:52:52.760 --> 00:53:00.640 close by by expanding commercially viable space in a building 00:53:00.640 --> 00:53:03.120 if they create a pocket park on the side. 00:53:05.720 --> 00:53:08.840 Other examples we see in Europe a lot is the greening of schoolyards 00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:11.960 and then opening them up to the neighbourhood outside of schools. 00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:16.680 So again, how can we where the project expand its benefits to 00:53:16.680 --> 00:53:19.480 the use of the neighbourhood and the community? 00:53:22.520 --> 00:53:25.080 This is also never the partnership. 00:53:25.080 --> 00:53:28.040 This is in Malmo, Sweden where actually skateboarder is part 00:53:28.040 --> 00:53:29.080 of the city government. 00:53:29.720 --> 00:53:32.840 So when they design city streets and public space, there is the 00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:36.920 look from the skateboarder and how can we wig the herbal furniture 00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:39.320 in a way that everything is skateable. 00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:49.320 And this is in one of the slums in South Africa, niche Cape Town. 00:53:49.800 --> 00:53:56.320 It's it's called Murder City and girls were afraid to venture 00:53:56.320 --> 00:54:02.080 out to collect water with and met many boys and gangs. 00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:05.440 So the private sector, the local government, urban planners 00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:08.160 and the community, they partnered around the project which 00:54:08.160 --> 00:54:11.120 is called emoji. 00:54:11.120 --> 00:54:15.520 It is, it means fountain being at the fountain and they created 00:54:15.520 --> 00:54:17.280 multi functional spaces. 00:54:17.280 --> 00:54:22.920 You see the three multi functional spaces around that are used 00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:27.880 as they became Oasis for the community and they are also linked 00:54:27.880 --> 00:54:30.920 with outdoor early childhood development activities. 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:36.520 So underused and violent areas they are transformed and they 00:54:36.520 --> 00:54:37.920 are socially activated. 00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:42.040 Safe public space murders have been reduced with thirty three 00:54:42.040 --> 00:54:48.280 percent and girls felt had less fear to go out And so the perceived 00:54:48.280 --> 00:54:50.160 fear is also important. 00:54:54.880 --> 00:55:00.240 Important if we want to change towards healthier cities and 00:55:01.040 --> 00:55:06.040 maybe with policy makers and political decision makers, is 00:55:06.040 --> 00:55:09.920 to use the tools that make them aware and try to put ourselves 00:55:09.920 --> 00:55:13.760 in the shoes, create empathy, to get a better understanding. 00:55:13.760 --> 00:55:15.360 So these are tools we can use. 00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:19.400 One of them is to have people breed the picture. 00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:21.040 The picture speaks for itself. 00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:26.560 So imagine the impact if you know that an adult is breeding twelve 00:55:26.560 --> 00:55:30.880 to eighty times or breads per minute and a young child thirty 00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:36.560 to sixty This is the project of urban ninety five Looking at the 00:55:36.560 --> 00:55:40.520 city from the elevation of ninety five centimetre and asking 00:55:40.520 --> 00:55:42.720 yourself the question what would you change? 00:55:43.080 --> 00:55:46.000 ninety five centimetre is the height of a healthy three year old. 00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:53.600 New tools as virtual reality and augmented reality. 00:55:53.600 --> 00:55:56.840 We applied them last year in the Congress where you're really 00:55:56.840 --> 00:56:00.000 in the shoes of children in different parts of the world and you 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:01.720 see what is happening in your street. 00:56:06.720 --> 00:56:08.000 The use of games. 00:56:08.200 --> 00:56:13.840 Left is a game used with the community in helping people to develop 00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:18.720 scenarios, so for climate adaptation and resilience with the 00:56:18.720 --> 00:56:19.680 game you can. 00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:23.480 It's much more understandable for people and to see what happens 00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:24.840 in several scenarios. 00:56:25.240 --> 00:56:29.240 At the right hand we have a community of practice that some of 00:56:29.240 --> 00:56:31.960 our members that created the game and they are exploring it and 00:56:31.960 --> 00:56:32.640 improving it. 00:56:33.240 --> 00:56:37.840 Also a game around urban health in the neighbourhood and these 00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:42.560 are activity that are initiated with women and planning to walk 00:56:42.560 --> 00:56:47.400 and talk is really going out and simply listening and learning 00:56:47.400 --> 00:56:49.920 a lot from what public space means. 00:56:50.200 --> 00:56:53.840 Here in the middle is a picture in Doha for instance, and the importance 00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:57.440 of public space, semi public space, semi private space and so 00:56:57.440 --> 00:56:57.560 on. 00:56:57.560 --> 00:57:01.560 So these are again important elements that can help us with creating 00:57:01.560 --> 00:57:10.120 health and well being for people This is a area in Bolivar in Bogota 00:57:10.120 --> 00:57:15.320 with a lot of immigrants and manual, mainly Venezuelan immigrants 00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:19.160 and a lot of young parents and they feel lonely. 00:57:19.160 --> 00:57:24.640 They arrive there, it's area with drugs and crime and they come 00:57:24.640 --> 00:57:25.400 as an immigrant. 00:57:25.400 --> 00:57:33.040 So what happened is that they defined an area around anchor institutions. 00:57:33.040 --> 00:57:37.320 Anchor Institutions is a children 's garden and a school and 00:57:37.720 --> 00:57:47.360 they use the principles of tactical urbanism Yeah, also creating 00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:53.520 spaces with green, with areas where women even can breastfeed 00:57:53.520 --> 00:57:55.720 and they are surrounded by plants and so on. 00:57:56.040 --> 00:57:59.800 So what happened here is that people came out of their houses 00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:04.880 because the houses don't have private outdoor space, and that 00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:08.120 for the first time some of the parents were actually in a more 00:58:08.120 --> 00:58:12.840 relaxed and less stressed atmosphere to play with their kids 00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:16.040 in the street to have an actual interaction face to face. 00:58:16.320 --> 00:58:19.800 And this is a crucial element for a healthy development again 00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:23.160 of the brain and of the child and with a lifelong impact. 00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:29.600 This principle has been tested here and has then been part of 00:58:29.600 --> 00:58:32.680 social and urban policies in the city of Bogota. 00:58:33.360 --> 00:58:36.400 And then today this may be something you heard about is the care 00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:36.920 blocks. 00:58:39.160 --> 00:58:49.280 The care blocks is now a global example of Bogota who went further 00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:54.440 and looking at time as a resource and also for health and well 00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:58.320 being And they imagined or reimagined territorial planning 00:58:58.520 --> 00:59:00.360 through the lens of care and gender. 00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:07.120 So they prototyped care blocks and today it is the global benchmark 00:59:07.200 --> 00:59:09.520 for care blocks. 00:59:10.640 --> 00:59:13.800 Bogota has twenty one I think by the end of this year and they will 00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:17.560 have forty nine of them by two thousand thirty five And it's based 00:59:17.560 --> 00:59:23.240 on the principles of simultaneously, it means that the government 00:59:23.240 --> 00:59:27.640 wants to care for the caregivers, at the same time taking care 00:59:27.640 --> 00:59:31.680 of those who need to receive the care elderly, young children. 00:59:32.400 --> 00:59:35.240 The second principle is flexibility and proximity. 00:59:35.240 --> 00:59:40.600 So it has some overlap at the fifteen minute city concepts, but 00:59:40.600 --> 00:59:43.880 it is not based on putting buildings in the centre. 00:59:44.320 --> 00:59:45.640 But it's fine. 00:59:47.600 --> 00:59:56.480 But by principles of care and giving time to women, I go quickly 00:59:56.480 --> 00:59:57.160 to the rest. 00:59:57.200 --> 00:59:59.960 This is another tool measuring, but measures. 01:00:00.040 --> 01:00:04.080 Years, twenty thousand citizens have been involved in measuring 01:00:04.080 --> 01:00:07.640 air pollution and this has actually changed the government 01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:11.600 to take decisions on the regional level for projects in the city 01:00:11.600 --> 01:00:21.160 of antwerp So this is how a very cheap and fast element has forced 01:00:21.160 --> 01:00:25.360 the municipality to take decisions for a regional project that 01:00:25.600 --> 01:00:27.360 will deal with climate and health. 01:00:28.200 --> 01:00:31.560 And then to end just a few pictures of transformational designs. 01:00:31.560 --> 01:00:33.560 Once again, what you can do with the project. 01:00:34.200 --> 01:00:38.480 Here up to hundred kids can climb in a tree and they run four kilometres 01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:41.880 per morning instead of five hundred metres in a normal kindergarten 01:00:42.040 --> 01:00:45.840 simply because of the form of the project and it enables them 01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:51.920 to do what they naturally do This is in Copenhagen waste treatment 01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:52.520 factory. 01:00:53.160 --> 01:00:56.200 How you can use it for hiking, climbing and skiing. 01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:03.760 This is in Vietnam in the neighbourhood for low income factory 01:01:03.760 --> 01:01:06.960 workers and to end. 01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:13.160 This is the largest organic farm at the moment in Asia, where 01:01:13.960 --> 01:01:20.160 gotcha corn has combined the traditional principles of dry 01:01:20.160 --> 01:01:25.440 statuses in the mountains, combined with the green modern technology 01:01:25.640 --> 01:01:31.760 of the roof and how you can bring temperature down, how you can 01:01:31.760 --> 01:01:37.760 make use of the the waters that trickles down from level to level, 01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:40.920 and how you can address food insecurity. 01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:44.760 Again, one of the critical aspects of climate change and for 01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:49.240 health, yeah, that is already hitting us in some parts of the 01:01:49.240 --> 01:01:50.560 world and will only increase. 01:01:52.560 --> 01:01:55.320 So this is in fact back to the logo. 01:01:55.320 --> 01:02:00.480 That's the criticality of time, and that's putting health and 01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:04.760 climate together on the agenda for transforming cities. 01:02:06.240 --> 01:02:08.760 I think it's not just an option, but a necessity. 01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:09.360 Thank you. 01:02:13.680 --> 01:02:18.600 Last but not least, the presentation by Marcus Hedorfer about 01:02:18.600 --> 01:02:21.440 transforming environments, challenges for professionals 01:02:21.520 --> 01:02:24.760 after the fourth paragmatic or paradigmatic. 01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:26.360 Sorry, revolution in planning. 01:02:26.360 --> 01:02:31.440 So a bit complicated topic, but floor is yours And this is the 01:02:31.440 --> 01:02:32.360 last presentation. 01:02:32.360 --> 01:02:36.680 Although at the very end we are going to have the, so to speak, 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:41.760 change of power in ACTP Marcus is an incoming president and Janet 01:02:41.760 --> 01:02:43.040 is outgoing president. 01:02:43.040 --> 01:02:47.920 So we are going to have the little shake hand, you know, for to 01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:49.720 commemorate that whole thing. 01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:51.320 So Marcus, floor is yours please. 01:02:55.640 --> 01:02:56.280 Thank you, Pioto. 01:02:56.840 --> 01:03:02.240 Good afternoon and well, it's not so easy to talk as the last speaker 01:03:02.920 --> 01:03:09.560 after after so, so, so, such a full program with so many interesting 01:03:09.880 --> 01:03:10.800 contributions. 01:03:11.120 --> 01:03:17.080 And I must say that unlike in other conferences, I I didn't miss 01:03:17.480 --> 01:03:19.240 any of the contributions. 01:03:19.240 --> 01:03:24.200 I listened really to all of them and it and they were all interesting. 01:03:24.200 --> 01:03:28.320 I I looked at the program and I and I searched for for a contribution 01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:31.640 which I could skip to have some some rest, but there wasn't any. 01:03:31.640 --> 01:03:36.520 So I I I followed really every every single, every single contribution. 01:03:37.040 --> 01:03:41.920 So transforming environments, challenges for professionals 01:03:41.920 --> 01:03:48.240 after the fourth paradigmatic, yes, that's quite strange. 01:03:48.240 --> 01:03:51.720 I will explain just a word. 01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:56.680 The conference yesterday and today as well as the conference 01:03:57.120 --> 01:04:03.120 I attended last year here in Gdansk two days were very interesting. 01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:09.880 Above all to learn that we all have the same concerns as spatial 01:04:09.880 --> 01:04:10.520 planners. 01:04:10.760 --> 01:04:14.760 We are so, so similar in in in the countries where we operate. 01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:21.360 Also we learned that in many countries there are political problems 01:04:21.360 --> 01:04:25.360 that we must, that spatial plan suffer from what politicians 01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:26.160 do and so on. 01:04:26.160 --> 01:04:29.080 And it's more or less everywhere the same thing. 01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:34.280 But I learned, we learned, I think you all know that. 01:04:34.280 --> 01:04:40.000 Nevertheless, in every country things are a bit different on 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:42.520 the one side from from the regulations. 01:04:43.200 --> 01:04:46.760 Every country has different spatial planning regulations. 01:04:46.920 --> 01:04:51.760 But not only this, also the the terminology is different from 01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:52.840 country to country. 01:04:55.040 --> 01:04:59.960 Today, yesterday and last year, I listened to many contributions 01:04:59.960 --> 01:05:08.880 and I noticed that there are words, terms, the same terms used 01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:13.760 in different ways depending on the country and there are the 01:05:14.160 --> 01:05:18.000 concepts in different countries, same concepts in different 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:20.200 countries, but they use different words. 01:05:20.480 --> 01:05:22.920 So this is quite quite difficult. 01:05:23.200 --> 01:05:30.400 So as an until Saturday and until Sunday, Vice President, now 01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:35.000 President of of a European association of a European federation 01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:39.240 of spatial planners, this is very, very important that we must 01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:44.040 make an effort, we must try to, to bring together our professionals 01:05:44.040 --> 01:05:48.880 also on this, on this, on this, regarding this. 01:05:50.600 --> 01:05:58.960 Well, no, it's not this. 01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:03.680 Ah, OK Well, in this, in this presentation, obviously, I want 01:06:03.680 --> 01:06:10.040 to talk briefly about this concept of four paradigmatic revolutions 01:06:10.040 --> 01:06:14.440 and spatial planning, you might say, well, never, never heard 01:06:14.440 --> 01:06:17.240 about this, No, no trace in literature about this. 01:06:17.240 --> 01:06:18.000 Yeah, that's true. 01:06:18.200 --> 01:06:23.120 There isn't it's it's a it's an aid. 01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:28.160 I built for myself to understand the processes over time and 01:06:28.160 --> 01:06:29.680 how spatial planning evolved. 01:06:29.680 --> 01:06:35.920 It's not a an attempt to make an original research or something 01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:36.240 like that. 01:06:36.240 --> 01:06:39.160 It's just just an aid and I would I would like to share it with you 01:06:39.200 --> 01:06:43.120 and explain what I what I intend with this then transforming 01:06:43.120 --> 01:06:50.240 environments and then E C T P C U S approach to all this The spatial 01:06:50.240 --> 01:06:55.040 planners in the ECT PCU how they work together and how they can 01:06:55.040 --> 01:07:00.120 work together in the future and then the the idea the goal to go 01:07:00.120 --> 01:07:05.800 towards a so called robust plan spatial planners profession 01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:12.600 in in in europe So the four paradigmatic revolutions, what are 01:07:12.600 --> 01:07:19.400 they you all I think you all have know what these are you when you 01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:23.800 work while working in spatial planning you you are dealing with 01:07:23.800 --> 01:07:31.720 these things and also in these two days many things have already 01:07:31.720 --> 01:07:37.080 been said And so I I think I can also go quite quickly over some 01:07:37.080 --> 01:07:37.400 things. 01:07:37.720 --> 01:07:42.360 Well, the four, the four revolutions are establishing urban 01:07:42.360 --> 01:07:48.280 planning, then going spatial, that is adding regional planning 01:07:48.280 --> 01:07:53.160 to urban planning, then going environmental, adding environmental 01:07:53.160 --> 01:07:55.160 planning to regional and urban planning. 01:07:55.760 --> 01:08:03.400 And and the last point, and there had been I think three contributions 01:08:03.920 --> 01:08:04.200 also. 01:08:04.200 --> 01:08:10.200 Elizabeth talked about this, the question, the issue of putting 01:08:10.200 --> 01:08:15.880 humans out of the centre of attention of of planning. 01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:17.160 Now I will explain a bit. 01:08:17.920 --> 01:08:26.480 So urban planning, when start, When did it start? 01:08:26.520 --> 01:08:27.280 Urban planning? 01:08:27.280 --> 01:08:29.240 Well, there are different opinions about this. 01:08:29.240 --> 01:08:34.800 There's there often you can read in legit literature that actually 01:08:35.120 --> 01:08:40.360 urban planning started during the classical period, in in in 01:08:41.040 --> 01:08:45.480 ancient Greece or or even in Mesopotamia or in ancient India 01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:46.600 and so on. 01:08:47.360 --> 01:08:51.280 Or was it later or was it only in the nineteenth century? 01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:57.680 Well, I think I want, I want to propose to to interpret this thing 01:08:57.880 --> 01:09:02.360 that for example, classical era city design is different from 01:09:02.360 --> 01:09:03.040 city planning. 01:09:03.040 --> 01:09:04.960 City design is not city planning. 01:09:05.680 --> 01:09:10.200 So even today there is still some confusion about about these worlds. 01:09:10.400 --> 01:09:14.040 So I want to stress this, a project is not the plan. 01:09:14.040 --> 01:09:17.720 A plan is different from a project and design is not planning. 01:09:17.960 --> 01:09:20.960 Planning is quite different from from design. 01:09:20.960 --> 01:09:27.280 Urban design is not urban planning because it's the method that 01:09:27.280 --> 01:09:27.880 matters. 01:09:27.880 --> 01:09:34.720 In this planning works with with visions that are then translated 01:09:34.720 --> 01:09:37.760 into strategies how to reach these visions. 01:09:38.520 --> 01:09:43.320 The strategies are implemented through plans. 01:09:44.240 --> 01:09:49.920 This is the actual planning activity and then the plans are in 01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:54.560 their turn implemented through actual projects. 01:09:54.720 --> 01:10:02.320 That then leads to to often not always to to actual transformation 01:10:02.320 --> 01:10:07.440 of our environment, whether it is urban, regional or environmental, 01:10:07.480 --> 01:10:08.280 ecological. 01:10:09.200 --> 01:10:14.320 And so with having this in mind, I think the first urban plants 01:10:14.320 --> 01:10:17.840 are those at the end of the nineteenth century, not earlier, 01:10:18.200 --> 01:10:24.880 where we can apply this, this four fold approach, vision, strategies, 01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:26.000 plans and projects. 01:10:26.280 --> 01:10:30.080 And here in the picture I represent, since I'm from Italy, I represent 01:10:30.160 --> 01:10:35.360 what in my opinion is the first real urban plan in Italy. 01:10:35.600 --> 01:10:41.600 It's the the regulatory plan of Milan from eighteen eighty nine 01:10:42.160 --> 01:10:59.120 So going regional, sorry, I went back, OK same thing here. 01:11:00.240 --> 01:11:01.360 When did it occur? 01:11:01.680 --> 01:11:04.960 Well, essentially depends on countries because there are huge 01:11:04.960 --> 01:11:09.880 differences when in, in, in several, in the, in the in the different 01:11:09.880 --> 01:11:10.400 countries. 01:11:11.160 --> 01:11:16.880 Planning moved from urban from only the built environment to 01:11:16.880 --> 01:11:18.920 a regional to a regional scale. 01:11:18.920 --> 01:11:23.600 For example in Italy it has been first conceived in the nineteen 01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:29.200 forty two planning law but actually it had been the first planning 01:11:29.200 --> 01:11:33.000 documents Having this in mind had been preparated only preparated 01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:34.360 only decades later. 01:11:35.960 --> 01:11:40.080 This means that in in municipal plans that what we call the the 01:11:40.080 --> 01:11:46.960 white areas, so the non planned areas must now be planned 01:11:46.960 --> 01:11:49.440 or at least regulated to some extent. 01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:54.920 And in regional plants and new regional plants there are directives 01:11:54.920 --> 01:12:00.520 on spatial organization of urban, regional and urban, rural 01:12:00.520 --> 01:12:02.800 and natural natural land. 01:12:03.200 --> 01:12:07.440 And then the natural usually the municipal plants must translate 01:12:07.440 --> 01:12:12.280 these directives into into planning norms and and actions. 01:12:13.600 --> 01:12:21.200 So the third step, the third revolution as I call it is going environmental. 01:12:21.200 --> 01:12:25.400 So and here many, many of the speakers in it during these two days 01:12:25.720 --> 01:12:30.320 have mentioned it, have mentioned the seventeen Sustainable 01:12:30.320 --> 01:12:31.360 Development goals. 01:12:31.960 --> 01:12:34.720 It has been mentioned that the Sustainable development goals 01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:40.400 perhaps are no longer up to date that they need a a restarting 01:12:40.400 --> 01:12:46.120 that they they had been conceived in a period where a certain 01:12:46.120 --> 01:12:50.880 a certain idea was behind it and now we we are beyond. 01:12:50.880 --> 01:12:55.760 So it's because of a growing ecological awareness awareness 01:12:55.760 --> 01:12:57.920 about the limits to growth. 01:12:59.160 --> 01:13:03.360 This has also been mentioned in in some in some contributions, 01:13:04.880 --> 01:13:09.680 pollution, remediation planning, spatial, various spatial 01:13:09.680 --> 01:13:17.200 risk planning approaches, and then and then the concept of sustainability. 01:13:18.320 --> 01:13:22.760 Well, I wanted to make us a short short parenthesis, but maybe 01:13:22.760 --> 01:13:24.120 it's not so necessary. 01:13:24.840 --> 01:13:29.040 Pointing out about the differences, the terminology terminological 01:13:29.040 --> 01:13:30.440 differences between the three. 01:13:30.680 --> 01:13:35.560 The three words used in in English, French and German, sustainability 01:13:35.560 --> 01:13:39.160 in English and in many other languages that then translate more 01:13:39.160 --> 01:13:42.320 or less that term into their languages. 01:13:42.840 --> 01:13:48.680 And the French concept of durability, which is in practice when 01:13:48.680 --> 01:13:52.800 we we planners, talk about this concept, use it in the same way. 01:13:52.800 --> 01:13:58.360 But our our cultural background perhaps leads to something 01:13:58.360 --> 01:14:02.880 else when we talk about durability instead of sustainability. 01:14:03.120 --> 01:14:06.840 And the same thing is also with the German term of Nahat dikite. 01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:13.040 It's very similar to durability, but it has a slightly different 01:14:13.040 --> 01:14:13.600 meaning. 01:14:14.320 --> 01:14:18.680 Above all, if we think that people have this in mind and and maybe 01:14:18.680 --> 01:14:22.480 refer to to some to some other experience, personal experience, 01:14:24.280 --> 01:14:29.920 What is important is that from this moment on world, participatory 01:14:29.920 --> 01:14:32.800 democracy in spatial planning processes became key. 01:14:33.680 --> 01:14:40.320 From that moment on world it was it should be unthinkable not 01:14:40.320 --> 01:14:45.480 to have these processes, these these actions inside planning, 01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:47.720 inside the planning process. 01:14:48.160 --> 01:14:55.360 Now the fourth one, the fourth one is what I call a sort of Copernican 01:14:55.360 --> 01:14:56.200 revolution. 01:14:56.240 --> 01:15:00.400 We are in Poland, so it's it's appropriate to call it the Copernican 01:15:01.400 --> 01:15:02.240 Revolution. 01:15:05.080 --> 01:15:07.840 This is AII won't explain the diagram I wanted. 01:15:07.880 --> 01:15:12.280 I, I, I, I just searched for a for a meaningful picture to put there 01:15:12.600 --> 01:15:15.920 and I can give you the reference it was for me. 01:15:16.040 --> 01:15:19.560 For example, it was very very important to participate in these 01:15:19.560 --> 01:15:24.920 activities of this Natura Connect workshops which opened my 01:15:24.920 --> 01:15:28.040 eyes to to to a new to a new world. 01:15:28.600 --> 01:15:33.120 So the two key planning aspects for spaceship planners are the 01:15:33.120 --> 01:15:37.880 nature restoration planning and the nature connectivity planning. 01:15:38.240 --> 01:15:40.000 These are relatively new. 01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:45.280 They had always already been in our further step to some extent, 01:15:45.280 --> 01:15:48.800 but now they they are becoming really key. 01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:54.960 So this means that we we must now bring together nature and humans 01:15:54.960 --> 01:15:59.880 in a completely different way, as we did, as we did before, and 01:15:59.880 --> 01:16:02.320 we have a sort of paradigmatic inversion. 01:16:03.360 --> 01:16:10.280 Before our action was planning for humans, taking into account 01:16:10.360 --> 01:16:11.800 the needs of nature. 01:16:12.720 --> 01:16:13.840 This was before. 01:16:14.520 --> 01:16:21.160 Now it is the opposite, planning for nature taking into account 01:16:21.480 --> 01:16:22.840 the needs of humans. 01:16:23.360 --> 01:16:32.400 So this is might seem a sort of of game with words but it isn't it's 01:16:32.400 --> 01:16:36.960 it's really it's really central it's it's very very important 01:16:37.320 --> 01:16:45.040 And this is really this this requires us to rethink so many things 01:16:45.040 --> 01:16:50.080 and I think Isabella in in her contribution explained it very 01:16:50.080 --> 01:16:54.160 well what what all this means but but not only Isabella also someone 01:16:54.160 --> 01:17:00.600 else said the same things So transforming environment. 01:17:00.600 --> 01:17:08.000 So this is a a sort of introduction is was necessary to to then 01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:12.040 explain what I what I mean when I when I think about transforming 01:17:12.040 --> 01:17:12.680 environments. 01:17:12.680 --> 01:17:16.440 Well the the conference the name of the conference is transforming 01:17:16.440 --> 01:17:21.440 cities but it's clear we plan as we say cities but often when we 01:17:21.440 --> 01:17:26.520 say cities we we we we think about regions about everything. 01:17:27.200 --> 01:17:32.680 But I I I would like to be a bit more pedantic with this and to call 01:17:32.680 --> 01:17:36.720 it environments thinking about mainly three different environments 01:17:36.720 --> 01:17:41.320 is the built environment the natural environment and a sort 01:17:41.320 --> 01:17:45.680 of non material socio economic environment which is another 01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:46.640 another dimension. 01:17:46.640 --> 01:17:52.520 I will come back on this a bit later just for five five examples. 01:17:53.960 --> 01:17:58.320 Well this is one of this is in in Italy in Milano Milano B Coca, 01:17:58.320 --> 01:18:04.400 a restore and a conversion, a huge conversion area there was 01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:11.240 the, the, the Pirelli plant producing tires and it was if I remember 01:18:11.240 --> 01:18:14.360 was seventy hectares something like that. 01:18:15.040 --> 01:18:20.760 And it has been completely completely converted into into this 01:18:20.760 --> 01:18:24.680 is the building, the red building is the central building of 01:18:24.680 --> 01:18:29.960 the new Becocker University in Milan and it's a very interesting 01:18:30.480 --> 01:18:31.440 study case. 01:18:31.800 --> 01:18:40.680 This is one of the classical the classical examples of of of transforming, 01:18:40.720 --> 01:18:44.000 transforming CC This is another another example I like very 01:18:44.000 --> 01:18:44.240 much. 01:18:44.240 --> 01:18:49.000 It's in in Germany, in in Freiburg, Freiburg, Vuban, Vuban. 01:18:49.120 --> 01:18:50.400 It's is a neighbourhood. 01:18:50.760 --> 01:18:58.760 It was a French military base until no, I don't remember exactly 01:18:58.760 --> 01:19:03.080 which which year was maybe to seventies eighties and then it 01:19:03.080 --> 01:19:07.360 had been converted into a cutting edge sustainable quarter. 01:19:07.360 --> 01:19:09.360 It was it's really very interesting. 01:19:09.360 --> 01:19:16.080 So if you want to deepen this, I I suggest you maybe many of you 01:19:16.080 --> 01:19:20.440 who is those who are doing research maybe already know this case. 01:19:20.800 --> 01:19:25.960 But I suggest you to to to search to Google a bit about Freiburg 01:19:25.960 --> 01:19:32.400 Ruben and you you you can see many many interesting things. 01:19:32.680 --> 01:19:34.720 This is Utrecht in the Netherlands. 01:19:34.920 --> 01:19:43.760 This is a a very interesting thing because this is a until ten 01:19:43.760 --> 01:19:48.680 years ago or so, fifteen years ago here instead of this, this 01:19:48.680 --> 01:19:56.040 canal, there was a kind of eight lane urban highway which had 01:19:56.560 --> 01:19:59.920 in the sixties if I Remember Remember well fifties or sixties 01:20:00.040 --> 01:20:05.360 had replaced this canal and it has now restored to its original, 01:20:05.600 --> 01:20:08.520 to its original function and form. 01:20:08.800 --> 01:20:10.360 This is very, very interesting. 01:20:10.360 --> 01:20:16.760 This is a very, very meaningful transformation study case. 01:20:17.000 --> 01:20:19.960 Then well, this is another another kind. 01:20:19.960 --> 01:20:21.240 This is in France. 01:20:21.680 --> 01:20:22.160 It is a. 01:20:25.360 --> 01:20:28.200 A neighbourhood in the in the Bordeaux Berlieu. 01:20:29.800 --> 01:20:36.520 It was planned in the sixties and and and and built in the seventies 01:20:36.520 --> 01:20:46.160 as a as a so called zoop zone The urban is a it means priority urbanization 01:20:46.160 --> 01:20:50.600 zone and France is relatively full with these neighbourhoods 01:20:51.040 --> 01:20:52.120 and some of them. 01:20:52.200 --> 01:20:59.120 Many of them didn't reach the goals that had been put at the beginning. 01:20:59.120 --> 01:21:04.640 And this is an interesting an interesting intervention to to 01:21:04.640 --> 01:21:07.480 correct errors made in the past. 01:21:08.000 --> 01:21:12.360 Now we don't have time to deepen it, but this by the wise. 01:21:12.560 --> 01:21:17.000 By the way, these pictures are also published in the In the call 01:21:17.000 --> 01:21:19.360 we made this year for the Young Planners workshop. 01:21:19.360 --> 01:21:24.880 So they, the young planners probably recognize these, and this 01:21:24.880 --> 01:21:26.520 is I think the last one. 01:21:26.920 --> 01:21:34.160 This is also transforming cities because this is in, in in Frankfurt 01:21:34.160 --> 01:21:35.040 in Germany. 01:21:35.400 --> 01:21:41.320 This is a former United States military airfield. 01:21:42.560 --> 01:21:50.920 Here there was the, the, the, the the the airport was, it was full 01:21:50.920 --> 01:21:55.600 of of of of of of paved areas and so on. 01:21:55.600 --> 01:22:00.160 And it has not completely, but an important part of this airport 01:22:00.160 --> 01:22:08.360 has been converted, has been and this is a an excellent example 01:22:08.360 --> 01:22:10.680 of nature restoration planning. 01:22:10.760 --> 01:22:14.880 So here there's nothing left of the airport and it's completely 01:22:15.200 --> 01:22:16.960 given back to to nature. 01:22:19.200 --> 01:22:25.800 So E C T P C U S approach So I won't quickly talk about our charters. 01:22:25.800 --> 01:22:32.080 We have because E C T P C U published in the past years and perhaps 01:22:32.080 --> 01:22:38.560 we'll publish also in the future charters manifestos guidelines 01:22:38.560 --> 01:22:44.600 on on several on several things Well the most important and also 01:22:44.600 --> 01:22:48.720 the first one in recent times is the Charter of European Planning. 01:22:49.320 --> 01:22:53.440 It has been published in April two thousand thirteen and was 01:22:53.440 --> 01:22:57.640 the the logical evolution of a previous charter. 01:22:57.640 --> 01:23:01.720 We had from nineteen ninety eight the first edition and two thousand 01:23:01.720 --> 01:23:05.720 three the second edition which was called the new charter of 01:23:05.720 --> 01:23:12.640 athens and now in two thousand thirteen we renamed it into charter 01:23:12.640 --> 01:23:17.320 of european planning changing a lot of its content And this is 01:23:17.320 --> 01:23:23.920 also one of these steps which I call always the emancipation 01:23:24.000 --> 01:23:29.200 of spatial planners from architecture, because this is one 01:23:29.200 --> 01:23:34.440 of our one one of our goals, which doesn't mean that we don't like 01:23:34.440 --> 01:23:35.280 architects. 01:23:35.880 --> 01:23:41.600 I think we must work closely together with architects, but the 01:23:41.760 --> 01:23:43.800 the planners profession is another thing. 01:23:43.800 --> 01:23:48.360 So we must, we must work together on on other on another basis. 01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:49.920 Then the second. 01:23:50.160 --> 01:23:53.400 The second one, which is also very important, is the European 01:23:53.400 --> 01:23:57.480 Charter on Participatory Democracy in Spatial Planning, Spatial 01:23:57.480 --> 01:23:58.640 Planning Processes. 01:23:59.240 --> 01:24:04.120 This is from October two thousand fifteen and this too is one 01:24:04.120 --> 01:24:10.080 of the of the two charters we like to have public administrations 01:24:10.080 --> 01:24:10.680 sign. 01:24:11.640 --> 01:24:18.040 And especially in this case it, it means that the the public administration 01:24:18.040 --> 01:24:23.600 that signs this charter wants to follow the principles set out 01:24:23.600 --> 01:24:25.360 in this in this in this charter. 01:24:25.880 --> 01:24:30.480 Then the third document I want to present is this one, the Guidelines 01:24:30.480 --> 01:24:33.240 on Professional Competences in Spatial Planning. 01:24:33.240 --> 01:24:34.560 This is very important. 01:24:34.680 --> 01:24:38.440 This is not a document to sign but it's a document to adopt, to 01:24:38.440 --> 01:24:46.920 adopt in all day work experience of of spatial planners and also 01:24:46.920 --> 01:24:49.960 when we talk, when we manage to talk. 01:24:49.960 --> 01:24:54.200 Because it's not easy with our politicians, decision makers 01:24:54.200 --> 01:24:59.720 at national level who, who, who, who who make laws and and often 01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:03.600 make laws which are not in favour of spatial planning. 01:25:04.120 --> 01:25:09.680 So, but here are set out many interesting things also what are 01:25:09.680 --> 01:25:17.920 the core competences and so on of of spatial planners so and well 01:25:18.160 --> 01:25:27.320 and here a quick one four minutes left i see Yes, OK The ECTP the 01:25:28.080 --> 01:25:31.880 evolution over time of the ECTP Well, this is the situation. 01:25:31.880 --> 01:25:35.480 I've put it on the map of full members, corresponding members. 01:25:35.480 --> 01:25:40.280 Full members of the ECTP can be those associations who in their 01:25:40.280 --> 01:25:43.840 country represent spatial planners, while corresponding 01:25:43.840 --> 01:25:48.360 members can be associations, institutes and so on who are dealing 01:25:48.360 --> 01:25:52.920 with planners but who that are not representing professional 01:25:52.920 --> 01:25:53.440 planners. 01:25:53.960 --> 01:25:57.960 So this was the situation when the current administration entered 01:25:58.000 --> 01:26:02.360 office in on fifth of November twenty twenty one exactly two 01:26:02.360 --> 01:26:10.040 two years two years ago and and then now i will I will start. 01:26:10.040 --> 01:26:16.200 It's a small animation, then in the next during the next analyst. 01:26:16.640 --> 01:26:20.960 This was a quick look back at the beginnings because the E C T P 01:26:21.160 --> 01:26:25.080 C E U has been founded in amsterdam on eighth of november nineteen 01:26:25.080 --> 01:26:30.000 eighty four eighty five world town planning world town planning 01:26:30.560 --> 01:26:40.440 day by these seven associations from six countries and and at 01:26:40.440 --> 01:26:47.880 that time the political map of europe was this one I I, I I asked 01:26:48.000 --> 01:26:52.240 if in in the in the former socialist countries there had been 01:26:52.240 --> 01:26:56.880 something like an HCTP or federation of this kind and and from 01:26:57.000 --> 01:27:01.360 from from two from two sources I have been told that something 01:27:01.360 --> 01:27:05.920 like this hadn't been had never existed so so this representation 01:27:05.920 --> 01:27:09.160 is correct only in the western part of Europe that at that time 01:27:10.440 --> 01:27:13.560 Central Europe didn't exist Northern Europe Southern Europe 01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:17.680 didn't exist only Western and Eastern Europe so so this is a correct 01:27:17.680 --> 01:27:18.480 representation. 01:27:18.480 --> 01:27:24.200 Then a few months later came in Germany and Spain and and and then 01:27:24.200 --> 01:27:28.680 also and also particle this was the these are the traditional 01:27:28.680 --> 01:27:35.120 funding members of of the E C T P C U So and now going back to present 01:27:35.120 --> 01:27:46.320 days, let's have a look at well here we are again at twenty twenty 01:27:46.320 --> 01:27:51.040 one And then what was amazing is that every General Assembly 01:27:51.040 --> 01:27:57.240 twice every year a new member added in in in Bergen in May twenty 01:27:57.240 --> 01:28:02.840 twenty two we welcomed a corresponding member from ukraine 01:28:02.880 --> 01:28:09.120 a private urban agency planners and and and other professionals 01:28:09.640 --> 01:28:18.520 Then in in Bratislava in autumn Poland rejoined us as as full 01:28:18.720 --> 01:28:19.560 as full member. 01:28:20.040 --> 01:28:25.000 Then in the following spring in Valletta, Bulgaria joined us 01:28:25.040 --> 01:28:25.960 as full member. 01:28:26.680 --> 01:28:35.200 And finally, two days ago we had really a great deal having three 01:28:35.200 --> 01:28:39.360 new members, one new full member, two new corresponding members. 01:28:39.920 --> 01:28:45.440 And it's really a great, with a great pleasure that I can announce 01:28:45.440 --> 01:28:49.760 that we have finally a Ukrainian association as full member 01:28:49.760 --> 01:28:55.440 in the E C T P C U And I can also welcome Darina Pivchuk. 01:28:56.200 --> 01:29:02.200 Please stand up so you people can see you our delegate from Ukraine. 01:29:08.360 --> 01:29:18.760 OK so I've well challenges well the challenges are now that expanding 01:29:18.760 --> 01:29:24.240 into into into a new space of of countries yes I know but yeah the 01:29:24.240 --> 01:29:28.040 challenges are they are great challenges and we must reaffirm 01:29:28.360 --> 01:29:34.360 the question of of spatial of spatial planners in in in the in 01:29:34.360 --> 01:29:35.760 the whole in the whole continent. 01:29:36.080 --> 01:29:38.640 Well, it's a pity. 01:29:38.640 --> 01:29:45.680 I don't like rushing through through through through slides 01:29:45.680 --> 01:29:46.560 but maybe it's. 01:29:46.840 --> 01:29:51.160 Well this is a scheme we have set up about our core competencies 01:29:52.920 --> 01:29:57.520 and these are you can read them in the guidelines of of of professional 01:29:57.520 --> 01:29:59.880 competences and here's set out what this is. 01:29:59.880 --> 01:30:03.680 The the the most important thing I want I wanted to say is the the 01:30:04.520 --> 01:30:06.280 division into three environments. 01:30:06.280 --> 01:30:08.440 The natural environment, the built environment, the socio 01:30:08.520 --> 01:30:13.040 socio economic environment which who is working in in academia 01:30:13.040 --> 01:30:17.600 probably already knows very well but who is working as a practitioner 01:30:17.920 --> 01:30:23.640 maybe is not completely aware of this this is and then I I reduced 01:30:23.640 --> 01:30:26.480 this and I wanted to show what what is around. 01:30:26.480 --> 01:30:30.400 So this is spatial planning but around spatial planning we have 01:30:30.760 --> 01:30:32.080 many other professions. 01:30:32.080 --> 01:30:36.000 We have many other disciplines with which we must deal. 01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:41.160 We want to deal, we must include into, into the, into the spatial, 01:30:41.160 --> 01:30:43.840 into the spatial planning processes. 01:30:44.120 --> 01:30:47.080 So this this list is not is not complete. 01:30:48.080 --> 01:30:55.760 I've just put in the The names that came came to me, came in my mind 01:30:55.760 --> 01:30:56.440 in that moment. 01:30:56.440 --> 01:30:56.680 So. 01:30:56.960 --> 01:30:59.040 But this is the this, this the system. 01:30:59.360 --> 01:31:01.480 And I would insist on this. 01:31:02.760 --> 01:31:08.480 So let me ask and the role, yes, this is, this is one of of the of 01:31:08.480 --> 01:31:11.120 the of the paintings we use in our charters. 01:31:11.480 --> 01:31:15.760 It's from a from a French artist who who made these paintings for us. 01:31:16.240 --> 01:31:20.640 And this is the role of the planner as a sort of, yes, as the coordinator, 01:31:20.640 --> 01:31:25.120 as a sort of orchestra conductor of of the whole process. 01:31:25.360 --> 01:31:31.400 So, and this I want to stress, Spatial Planner is not a designer. 01:31:31.560 --> 01:31:36.200 It's not a person who who draws a plan or who makes this. 01:31:36.560 --> 01:31:41.680 But Spatial Planner is a person who has the ability to coordinate 01:31:42.400 --> 01:31:49.160 sometimes a huge team of experts of specialized persons 01:31:49.160 --> 01:31:49.720 and so on. 01:31:50.160 --> 01:31:51.200 I don't know what else is. 01:31:52.920 --> 01:31:54.280 This is the last slide. 01:31:54.280 --> 01:31:59.840 So well, what is the robust profession? 01:31:59.840 --> 01:32:00.520 Because we are. 01:32:00.880 --> 01:32:05.520 I want that spatial planning will be affirmed, will be established 01:32:05.520 --> 01:32:07.040 as a robust profession. 01:32:07.040 --> 01:32:11.040 If we talk about architects or or doctors or so on, we we know, 01:32:11.040 --> 01:32:12.000 we know what they do. 01:32:12.000 --> 01:32:15.760 But often people doesn't know what, what a spatial planner is, 01:32:15.760 --> 01:32:16.960 what they do and so on. 01:32:17.280 --> 01:32:21.960 So a spatial planner must be clearly identifiable, must be clearly 01:32:21.960 --> 01:32:27.640 recognized by society, not only by experts, and must have clearly 01:32:27.640 --> 01:32:29.800 defined the competences. 01:32:31.200 --> 01:32:33.720 So the rest, I will skip it. 01:32:34.080 --> 01:32:38.520 And it's not so important because I see Piotr is looking at me, 01:32:40.440 --> 01:32:45.520 but I think all these presentations will be made available. 01:32:45.520 --> 01:32:47.200 So yes, of course. 01:32:48.000 --> 01:32:48.480 Absolutely. 01:32:49.760 --> 01:32:50.520 Please stay with us. 01:32:51.120 --> 01:32:51.320 Yes. 01:32:52.480 --> 01:32:54.360 So let me invite Janet right now. 01:32:54.840 --> 01:32:58.800 It's like an official transfer of power we can say. 01:32:59.360 --> 01:33:03.960 So Janet has been the President of HCTP until today and since 01:33:03.960 --> 01:33:05.800 today Marcos is going to take over. 01:33:06.080 --> 01:33:11.680 So I will give you floor to two of you for like official gesture 01:33:11.680 --> 01:33:12.920 of this transfer. 01:33:12.920 --> 01:33:15.400 So please, thank you. 01:33:16.400 --> 01:33:21.520 Well, it's very kind of piot to give us the floor and to allow us 01:33:21.520 --> 01:33:24.040 to speak like this in front of you. 01:33:24.640 --> 01:33:27.600 He said that he was giving us a stage and a platform and you've 01:33:27.600 --> 01:33:28.640 certainly done that. 01:33:29.240 --> 01:33:32.720 But so I'm I'm just, you've heard everything you need to know 01:33:32.720 --> 01:33:34.520 about planning and what planners do. 01:33:34.520 --> 01:33:37.680 And if you leave this room thinking that for one moment that planners 01:33:37.680 --> 01:33:40.840 aren't the most important people in the room, well, you must 01:33:40.840 --> 01:33:43.560 come back next year and learn a bit more. 01:33:44.000 --> 01:33:48.720 But I will start off first of all by thanking Piot for this conference 01:33:49.320 --> 01:33:56.560 Last this last year we had another conference in Gdansk that 01:33:56.560 --> 01:33:58.400 Piot organized for us. 01:33:58.680 --> 01:34:03.520 And in that conference, we were looking at flexible planning 01:34:03.640 --> 01:34:07.320 and we were looking at adaptive systems, how planning should 01:34:07.320 --> 01:34:10.680 could be more flexible, how we could be more relevant. 01:34:11.280 --> 01:34:13.200 And it was a very interesting conference. 01:34:13.200 --> 01:34:17.200 Many different speakers this year, many different speakers. 01:34:17.200 --> 01:34:20.240 Again, we're taking that one step further where we've learnt 01:34:20.240 --> 01:34:24.120 an awful lot about different examples of planning what planners 01:34:24.120 --> 01:34:27.920 do, transforming cities and as Marcus says, transforming whole 01:34:27.920 --> 01:34:28.880 environments. 01:34:29.160 --> 01:34:33.560 And for that reason, I think that this has been a wonderful follow 01:34:33.560 --> 01:34:38.800 up from last year and I hope that there are many more like this 01:34:39.160 --> 01:34:39.880 in this city. 01:34:39.920 --> 01:34:44.000 As you know, I told you I like it here, So really great thanks. 01:34:44.000 --> 01:34:47.760 We must thank Piot for his huge generosity, for the amount of 01:34:47.760 --> 01:34:52.360 work he's done, set up to invite all of us to arrange this lovely 01:34:52.360 --> 01:34:57.640 building, the tour, everything that has been done for us and 01:34:57.640 --> 01:35:03.840 to just establish us and establish Gdansk at the centre really 01:35:04.000 --> 01:35:06.800 of some really innovative planning. 01:35:06.960 --> 01:35:15.600 So can we just thank Piot, please, as far as being the president 01:35:15.600 --> 01:35:20.320 goes off the ECTP Well, I'm very sorry to leave the presidency. 01:35:20.600 --> 01:35:25.800 Of course, I will help Marcus in his new job because he has helped 01:35:25.800 --> 01:35:29.640 me in the job that I've done over the last two years and there's 01:35:29.640 --> 01:35:31.120 an enormous amount of work. 01:35:31.120 --> 01:35:37.280 We work every day for ECTP in our way, Marcus in Venice and I'm 01:35:37.280 --> 01:35:40.480 in Bristol and we're corresponding all hours of the day and night 01:35:40.520 --> 01:35:42.240 about what we have to do next. 01:35:42.600 --> 01:35:44.160 So we'll carry on doing that. 01:35:44.520 --> 01:35:50.840 But for me, the best thing is that I've been a planner for fifty 01:35:50.840 --> 01:35:54.440 two years now and I think I'm an internationalist. 01:35:55.400 --> 01:35:58.840 Everything I've gained in the last twenty years from meeting 01:35:58.840 --> 01:36:03.000 people like you and exchanging ideas and learning from you. 01:36:03.240 --> 01:36:06.560 And even there's there's still more to learn. 01:36:06.560 --> 01:36:10.120 I'm still learning this week from different ways that we could 01:36:10.120 --> 01:36:13.680 do things because planning is an evolving thing. 01:36:13.920 --> 01:36:19.200 So keep up with doing this and the young people in the audience. 01:36:19.320 --> 01:36:22.240 You learn massively from each other, from knowing different 01:36:22.240 --> 01:36:25.880 international ideas from all over the world. 01:36:26.000 --> 01:36:30.000 You know, we we can learn from everybody and we've seen from Elizabeth 01:36:30.040 --> 01:36:35.360 and Isocarp fantastic examples from a great variety of global 01:36:35.360 --> 01:36:36.000 countries. 01:36:36.160 --> 01:36:37.320 We need to be global. 01:36:37.320 --> 01:36:38.520 We need to reach out. 01:36:38.840 --> 01:36:40.560 So thank you very much indeed for coming. 01:36:40.880 --> 01:36:44.800 I'm going to say I'm sorry to leave being the CTP president, but 01:36:44.800 --> 01:36:50.800 I want to wish Marcus good luck in the presidency for the next 01:36:50.800 --> 01:36:51.320 two years. 01:36:51.520 --> 01:36:55.240 And if this lecture he gave something to go by, then it's going 01:36:55.240 --> 01:36:57.840 to be a very intellectual two years, I think. 01:37:15.080 --> 01:37:15.320 Yeah. 01:37:26.960 --> 01:37:41.600 It's like in the seventies Thank you so much. 01:37:41.640 --> 01:37:42.480 Marcus, A few words. 01:37:44.720 --> 01:37:44.840 Yes. 01:37:44.840 --> 01:37:45.840 One minute. 01:37:46.080 --> 01:37:46.240 Yeah. 01:37:46.240 --> 01:37:46.440 Yeah. 01:37:48.080 --> 01:37:52.480 It's hard when I thought thirty minutes is so much, so much time, 01:37:52.480 --> 01:37:55.240 but it, it slipped away in a minute. 01:37:57.000 --> 01:37:58.360 Thank you so much, Janet. 01:37:58.360 --> 01:38:04.480 And I must say the same thing because it was two very important years. 01:38:04.720 --> 01:38:06.640 We have done so many things. 01:38:06.640 --> 01:38:10.960 You have done so many things and without your work it it it was 01:38:11.000 --> 01:38:13.640 it, it was simply impossible for me to continue now. 01:38:14.280 --> 01:38:18.200 No, it's it's the truth and and and we will continue together. 01:38:18.200 --> 01:38:24.800 So I announce you that your workload will not decrease too much. 01:38:25.040 --> 01:38:29.520 So this is, this is and I of course I want absolutely to continue 01:38:29.520 --> 01:38:35.600 the work that had been initiated by by Janet and and with with 01:38:35.600 --> 01:38:36.880 me as Vice President. 01:38:37.400 --> 01:38:38.640 And and then we will. 01:38:38.640 --> 01:38:43.080 I I hope that in the in the in the future, in the next two years and 01:38:43.080 --> 01:38:47.840 also when my presidency will terminate and other presidents 01:38:47.840 --> 01:38:52.600 come, that at every change of Presidency the new President will 01:38:52.680 --> 01:38:58.080 add some more bricks to our big construction construction, 01:38:58.080 --> 01:39:03.760 which is the the the spatial planning profession as an independent 01:39:03.760 --> 01:39:08.760 profession and with a harmonized approach, at least in Europe. 01:39:08.760 --> 01:39:09.920 Thank you. 01:39:10.560 --> 01:39:20.640 Thank you so much also from me, so, so much gratitude to you for 01:39:20.840 --> 01:39:21.800 all your work you have done. 01:39:22.160 --> 01:39:22.400 Thank you. 01:39:23.120 --> 01:39:23.520 Thank you. 01:39:23.600 --> 01:39:24.160 Thank you both. 01:39:25.640 --> 01:39:28.360 Well, we are closing our conference right now. 01:39:28.440 --> 01:39:32.320 And first of all, I'd like to say big thank you to all the speakers 01:39:32.320 --> 01:39:35.640 and all the participants who survived until now in the room. 01:39:35.640 --> 01:39:40.600 OK I know it's not an easy job, but thank you so much and I'm super 01:39:40.600 --> 01:39:45.160 happy that we have managed to cook a program which attracted 01:39:45.160 --> 01:39:50.760 so many interested colleagues who came over from sometimes 01:39:50.800 --> 01:39:54.000 very distant places like Rajendra. 01:39:54.000 --> 01:39:55.160 If he's still with us. 01:39:55.320 --> 01:39:56.040 Yes, you are. 01:39:56.080 --> 01:39:59.160 OK so you're proud of the person who travelled the longest distance, 01:39:59.160 --> 01:40:00.160 you know, to get to us. 01:40:01.400 --> 01:40:05.560 But what is what is also important is that this was done with the 01:40:05.720 --> 01:40:08.240 huge help of from from my entire team. 01:40:08.720 --> 01:40:10.040 I'd like to thank you very much. 01:40:10.320 --> 01:40:13.680 Our team from the Gdansk City architect 's office there is yarek 01:40:13.680 --> 01:40:16.760 yana And Yaric is here. 01:40:16.760 --> 01:40:23.800 Yuana is somewhere gone, OK And we also had Voytek and Mikawa 01:40:23.800 --> 01:40:24.480 and Paulina. 01:40:24.480 --> 01:40:28.680 So all these people were involved in the preparation of the entire 01:40:28.680 --> 01:40:29.120 events. 01:40:29.120 --> 01:40:37.040 I think the big thank you to them and for all our speakers of course 01:40:37.040 --> 01:40:40.320 Marek who is right now travelling somewhere, you know, I don't 01:40:40.320 --> 01:40:43.600 know where exactly but he was responsible for the all the arrangements. 01:40:43.600 --> 01:40:49.400 Also big thank you to Marek and also our entire technical team 01:40:49.920 --> 01:40:53.560 who was working in the shadow sometimes on last minute fixing 01:40:53.560 --> 01:40:55.320 some lengthy presentations. 01:40:55.320 --> 01:41:01.320 You know Rajan Jacom, I'm talking about, OK And also our translators. 01:41:01.320 --> 01:41:04.720 I think our technical team and translators also deserve a big 01:41:04.720 --> 01:41:05.120 applause. 01:41:05.120 --> 01:41:07.400 So thank you very much for being with us. 01:41:08.920 --> 01:41:12.120 But also I'd like to thank all the session chairs and session 01:41:12.120 --> 01:41:12.840 speakers. 01:41:12.840 --> 01:41:16.080 Also my colleagues from Dansk University of Technology, young 01:41:16.080 --> 01:41:19.840 planners from HCTP who made their way sometimes and so complicated. 01:41:20.320 --> 01:41:24.840 And also our colleagues from Isaacarp who came to join us. 01:41:25.360 --> 01:41:32.240 And I'm super happy that we are able to join forces in this discussion 01:41:32.240 --> 01:41:37.200 on the transformation of cities and to shaping so to speak this 01:41:37.200 --> 01:41:39.200 for for maybe fifth urban paradigm. 01:41:39.200 --> 01:41:41.240 But we are going to still work on that with Marcus. 01:41:41.240 --> 01:41:45.400 OK And regarding the fifth Urban paradigm, I have to tell you 01:41:45.400 --> 01:41:50.240 that my team hates me on Fridays because I'm usually have more 01:41:50.240 --> 01:41:52.080 creative ideas when you know and when. 01:41:52.080 --> 01:41:55.280 This is the big headache over the weekend. 01:41:55.280 --> 01:41:56.920 So I'm not going to do that now. 01:41:58.000 --> 01:42:02.280 But actually this entire conference also inspired me to discuss 01:42:02.280 --> 01:42:09.000 to define some new topics and new issues and new issues to be discussed 01:42:09.000 --> 01:42:14.400 in during some future events or future developments depending 01:42:14.400 --> 01:42:14.720 on that. 01:42:14.720 --> 01:42:17.160 What form it will take hard to say at the moment. 01:42:17.760 --> 01:42:21.200 Probably we are going to do something next year regarding the 01:42:21.200 --> 01:42:22.560 future of Ukrainian cities. 01:42:22.560 --> 01:42:27.320 So I'm super happy that Ukraine joined the E C T P i think we will 01:42:27.320 --> 01:42:31.080 have a lot to discuss But also our cities are involved like Brahman 01:42:31.080 --> 01:42:34.640 and Gramska are involved in some discussion with Odessa and 01:42:34.640 --> 01:42:38.240 Mario, Paul and Harsoni and some other Ukrainian cities regarding 01:42:38.240 --> 01:42:42.600 the rebuilding and recovery from the from the wartime destruction. 01:42:43.000 --> 01:42:46.560 So it's a big work, you know, we still have to conceptualise that 01:42:46.600 --> 01:42:48.760 and to think how we can deal with this. 01:42:49.280 --> 01:42:52.440 But I think it's one of the topics which we shall deal with next year. 01:42:53.080 --> 01:42:56.360 We have also some other topics that we will discuss and I would 01:42:56.360 --> 01:43:00.440 like to say thank you very much to Zoltan who also joined us as 01:43:00.440 --> 01:43:02.040 a city architect of Budapest. 01:43:02.760 --> 01:43:07.720 Actually thanks to Zoltan, we have managed to form a small team 01:43:07.720 --> 01:43:10.920 of the the team of the city architects as we can called it. 01:43:10.920 --> 01:43:14.480 We met in Copenhagen this, this, this July. 01:43:14.880 --> 01:43:18.600 And I think this also has some potential for some future development 01:43:18.600 --> 01:43:19.280 and discussion. 01:43:19.960 --> 01:43:24.200 And also I think also what comes from this conference is that 01:43:24.320 --> 01:43:28.640 we go beyond formalities and we go beyond formal boundaries. 01:43:29.080 --> 01:43:33.280 So that means we should think in a more, I would say, creative 01:43:33.280 --> 01:43:37.640 way about how we deal with contemporary issues and topics. 01:43:38.040 --> 01:43:42.560 But let's save that for the next year and for the future events. 01:43:42.840 --> 01:43:46.760 So thank you all of you, for coming and have a good trip back home 01:43:46.760 --> 01:43:47.920 if you're coming from far. 01:43:48.480 --> 01:43:52.920 And well, see you at the next occasion here or somewhere else 01:43:52.920 --> 01:43:53.800 in space and time. 01:43:53.840 --> 01:43:54.600 Thank you very much.