 So I would like to thank you for this interesting presentation and I think it's very good to start with my question, but then also following what and how questions which sometimes we miss some of those. We have time to discuss in detail more. I'd like to invite now Simon Batisti. Are you going to present together? And Elvanda Mishketa, they are both working with the municipality of Tirana, Elion Benyafi. Tirana is going through an incredible transformation. If you're not following on Twitter, social media, I highly advise to do so. You can see how a visionary leader can make a lot of difference even with scarce resources, I should say. Well, coming back to Simon and Elvanda Simon was the curator of Albanian Peirviak Pamion at the Venice Architecture Biennial. And then he worked at the Albanian National Regional Planning Office. And he is graduated from Southern California Institute of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. They work together with Elvanda. Elvanda is working on issues of economic governance, entrepreneurship, energy, environment, innovation and EU expansion. And she's been consulting to government institutions and recently the municipality of Tirana. Please. Thank you guys so much for having us here. We have been working on an Urban 95 project for about three months now. And it's really exciting to have the opportunity to meet a bunch of like-minded individuals and talk about what we're doing. So we're working with the mayor of Tirana on a project to mainstream infant toddler and caregiver issues in urban planning. And we're just going to run you through today very quickly how we're doing that and then have a conversation. Yes, I don't see this. Okay. So we are a nonprofit called Chender Marvenier and we work with the municipality of Tirana. We do a collaborative project with the Harvard Graduate School of Design, which is the GSD Tirana Fellowship. And that happens once a year and those students come to Tirana and work with us on the project doing a lot of research. So here's us. This was in June and so there's five planning students from GSD and then five teachers from Tirana. And so it's actually a group of ten and we work together on the project. Here in the middle is the mayor of Tirana, Arion Vivier, a very young mayor who came to term as mayor three years ago and much of his public persona has been built on pushing an agenda that communicates to family and kids. He's taken a lot of initiatives in the city in really catering to this demographic through playgrounds and now more initiatives are coming that are more sustainable. So there's been a lot of commitment and political will at the highest level in what we're working on and we're in a very favorable position to have an agenda that is already being pushed by the mayor. But so is the case also at an institutional level. So now once we have that commitment at the decision making level how we mainstream infant toddlers and the caregivers policy measures in the city. We have started the project three months ago and we are seeing as a first phase of working with the municipality in building a data package that will be informed the officials on evidence-based decision making. We're working together with them in refining indicators that were created by the GSD students initially during the fellowship. Together with having a pilot project anchored around school areas is how we're planning to build a package that can be then scaled up and embedded in the entire institutional setting of the municipality. And hopefully we have standards that have been taken up from these best practices and up to regulations as well. So Tirana right now is going through a major campaign of building new schools and we think that in five or ten years the need for schools and kindergarten in Tirana will be saturated. But all the new schools that have been constructed so far are like islands of quality infrastructure and everything around it is is inadequate. So we have inadequate pavements infrastructure. There's a low high density of traffic around school areas usually so very high pollution as well. That's why this is one of the main reasons why we are taking schools as an anchor institution to pilot and then to build a package of measures and incentives that can work around the neighborhood area. So throughout Tirana what you see very evidently is the challenge that caregivers go through and just riding the stroller. So very often they use cars to get the public amenities from schools to parks, clinics because it's really stressful to have a stroller in Tirana. So there is very high traffic usually during the days. So we are thinking of schools as epicenters where we pilot our project more in terms of mobility measures. So we need to know what kind of policy measures and incentives we can use around the school areas that we can then later on take on and apply and scale up in other areas in the city. So our ultimate goal is ITC mobility regulation but we believe that we need a proof and we need to learn through going through the process with the public officials and then adopting the right standards and the right measures at the city level. So this is the way that we'll go around mainstreaming these policy issues. So just a couple of statistics about Tirana. There is around 46,000 kids of age 0 to 5 out of 800,000 in evidence and almost 30,000 kids of age 3 to 5 need to go to be in the kindergarten but there is a number of populations in kindergartens usually so most of these kids end up just staying home and one of the caregivers either it be the mother most often or the elderly family member takes care of them and brings them around areas in the city that are very often inadequate for a child that is 3 to 5 year old. So they're missing not only on the educational part but also on really having quality childhood. Tirana is a very specific context in terms of the urban planning changes that have happened over a couple of years. There is a huge immigration in the city around 10 or 15 years ago so the need for public amenities was very immediate. Since the public sector couldn't fulfill the needs the private sector came in. So a lot of the kindergartens that we see now in Tirana are kindergartens just next to a building like this that operate and serve the families that have to pay for it. So you can see the number of private kindergartens that has increased a lot during the last five years. What is interesting for us and why we're looking at it is that it shows that the demand was so high and the private kindergartens were very quick to boom. But on top of that, it's the same place next to it another bar that serves as a playground for children is constructed and usually these bars have a low quality environment where kids can play and parents have to pay for it. So this is the picture very often in Tirana. In July, when we had the fellowship with GSD students we interviewed a couple of families and went over and over again what we received as feedback is that the cost of play and the quality of play is a real issue for children in Tirana. So I'll just read a quote from a mother that there is no playground in the entire neighborhood we live in so we usually take our three-year-old daughter to a nearby bar. At the end of the month, almost one third of my salary goes to paying for kids' entertainment and unfortunately it's a low quality one. This is the picture. Just to give a little bit more background on the urban there are very good reasons for this all spatially and so you can't really see the color here but in the kind of original urban core up until 1937 was just a very small dot in the center of town. Then by 1989 it had expanded a little bit. Communism ends in 1991 and in those 20 years or so, 25 years the city grows from 200,000 people to 800,000 people and that whole band on the outside never got any services. They just never built them there. So here you can see, sort of zoom in, like that's where everything is right in the middle. That's a map of all schools, kindergartens and nurseries that just don't exist on the periphery. So again, here's a photo. You can see the northern edge of the city ends and then it's just fields. So this is 1988, so of course everything fills in. Services don't follow. We attempted a kind of heat map of where it's okay, where it's good to be a kid, where it's not so good to be a kid. This is presence of schools, health centers, all three kinds of schools and health centers. It's very basic but you can see again just to kind of hammer the point home. There's these big gaps in the top of the city. This is a blackest park which we didn't wait. So now the city is building 17 new schools and of course they're going in this zone. And the school is a very interesting public amenity because it's one of the few, it's cited exactly where it's needed based on demographics. So there's not a lot of data that Tehran had used but they do know more or less where people live and so a school will go to where people need it which basically makes it a walk shed. So kind of going back to the strategy a little bit like we said in one of those early slides there's sort of two parallel projects going on here. On the one hand we'll do a pilot of a school epicenter while at the same time sort of building up a data gathering apparatus which will then be used to sort of feedback. After the first pilot we say there ought to be revision for efficiency of all of those measures, public consultation and then pilot number two and then that then becomes regulation. The school zone, school children's priority zone is something that the program there has been working with and has been tested in Bogota a bit and so we really think Tehran is a good place sort of has all the conditions that this can be sort of developed steps further. One of the reasons, this comes from the feasibility study from the city itself. So 12 reasons why building a school and a new neighborhood is a good idea. School is a community center. It increases the value of property around it. Increased number of businesses around the school and development zone. Increased security in the surrounding zone and of course indirect benefits to educating the local kids. So kind of school epicenter is already somehow built into the structure and the way that the city is thinking about the benefits of this. Of course if the kids very close to school within 800 meters, studies have shown that they're much more likely to walk. That's a very good reason. Already if all of those kids are walking to school you're taking a lot of cars off the road. So here we see zones kind of faded. The core of this there in the blue courtyard building is kind of school as community center. This is a really interesting project. It's also run by the Ministry of Education already which stipulates that the gates of a school need to stay open all day long. So in effect school campuses around the city are already operating as parks and this is really important because most of the city that's way too built up they really lack park space. And so this is not only opening the gates letting everybody play there but it also offers adult computer courses for example. There's also other kinds of programming for the community. But there should be more green too obviously. Let's really treat them as parks we say. This is a condition that we find very often sort of just the cheapest maintenance that you can get and this is actually a lot of territory here which can be turned into especially for zero to fives baby playgrounds to engage the community further on those campuses. Now step three is to cluster the services. This is really important so within that zone we want to build up as many possible services for infants and toddlers and caregivers as we can. Typical this is kind of a state of the art let's say understanding mobility chains of caregivers. We say what's unique about ITCs in fact is that first of all there's minimum of two people it's always a kid and a caregiver so that's one consideration. And secondly throughout the day you have multiple caregivers potentially so you have mom bringing to school picking up and taking home so you're dealing with a much more complex ecosystem of interactions and movement throughout the city so again even further hammering home the need for clustering to take trips out of the day of caregivers so put all of that inside the school priority zone and you're taking a lot of cars off the road. Okay so how big? Barcelona Super Block 400 by 400 it's much lower density in Tirana depending on the neighborhood but here's a kind of decent gas at the boundaries of this need to be. And then we talk about the ground of course then really talk about mobility measures so it's not just the school campus but all the streets around it what do we do on the roads to basically pilot for the staff of the city need to build up a knowledge of how to produce ITC friendly urban space that's nobody's built a raised crosswalk in the city before so we don't know how much it costs really we don't know how fast they can do it all of these procedures in order to build up the supportiveness of that space needs to be tested before we feel comfortable turning into regulation so it's not going to look like this anymore you're going to pass through a force field of comfort as a ITC into this world which is extremely supportive of you in every way and allows you to sort of just live the life that you need to live without too many obstacles all of the stuff, okay I will just mention that this is what we worked on with the GSD students we really tried to align our indicators to the SDG indicators and the national priorities so there's 22 indicators categorized that we worked on that we will refine further on and we identified which ones were really directly contributing to SDGs and national priority indicators these are broad indicators and will work more specifically in the future and really refining it together with the municipal officials so this is more or less our take on ITC issues in Tirana and for us one of very crucial issues that we see is that Tirana very often is seen as a place that is not very much it's not a place where families want to raise their kids so a lot of families today especially middle class families tend to leave the country just because it's too expensive and you don't get the right services to raise children in Tirana so we hope that some of these measures together with the commitment that comes from the municipality will contribute in a way to making the city better thank you