 GİL PENYANOSA şimdi Kanada'dan geliyor ama aslında Kolambia'lı. Uzun süre orada çalıştı, Kolambia ve Hedye Başkanı'yla birlikte. Yaptığı şeyleri hata yapmamak için sayılar var çünkü okumaya çalışacağım. 113 hectarlık simom bolivar farkı dair olmak üzere diyor. Bogota'da 200 farkın hayata geçmesine öncülük etti. Yeni, dünden beri konuştuğumuz bu sokak kapatma sokakları kapatarak, trafiğe kapatarak, çocuklara oyuna açma meselesini Bogota'da 121 kilometreye çıkardı. 121 kilometrelik yolu trafiğe kapatmayı sağladı. Ve böylece 1.7 milyon kişinin yürümesini, her pazarlık sokaklarda hareket etmesini katkıda bulundu. Şimdi kendisi 8-80 şehirler diye bir kuruluşun başında aynı zamanda dünya kent partları birdeğinin yönetim kurulu başkanı. 8-80 daha iyi anlatır tabii ki ama 8 eğer kentleri 8 yaşında ve 80 yaşındakiler için uygun hale getirirsek herkes için uygun hale getiririz gibi bir yaklaşım var. Biz tabii ki 95 santim ve aşağısı olduğu için 8 aylık yani 8-80 demekte fayda görüyoruz. 8 aylıklar, 8 yaşındakiler ve 80 yaşındakilere uygun getirebilirsek eğer herkes için uygun hale getirmiş oluruz. Önce ilk kısa bir konuşma yapacak, ondan sonra da ses sirya, bakacons birkaç soruyu da konuşmaya yanıt verecek. Bu çok ünlü, daha çok daha. Bakın bu, bu 50 yıllar önce bu kadar insanların şehirlerinde nasıl uygun hale getiriyor? Yine sadece 55 yıllar sonra 31-100 insanın şehirlerinde uygun hale getiriyor ve 7-14-100 insanın şehirlerinde uygun hale getiriyor ve 8-10-10 insanların şehirlerinde uygun hale getiriyor. Ve geçen yıllar önce İstanbul'da insanların şehirlerinde uygun hale getiriyor ve hale getiriyor ve çok ilginç oluyor. Onlar ne? Vestat traksiyonu, çok hale getiriyor. Onlar insanlar, insanlar. Bu da bir şey değil, onların şehirlerinde uygun hale getiriyor ve hale getiriyor. Dün, Mamo'da uygun hale getiriyordum in Sweden'da. İstanbul'da çok ilginç bir şehir, 200.000 insanın şehirlerinde uygun hale getiriyor. Ama herhalde 2 yıllar önce hale getiriyorlar. Onların şehirlerinde uygun hale getiriyorlar. Onların şehirlerinde uygun hale getiriyorlar. Ve aslında yeni bir ünlü yapıcılar, ilk önce hale getiriyorlar ve hale getiriyorlar. Ve sonra hale getiriyorlar. Yani dünyanın hale getiriyorlar ve hale getiriyorlar. Ve herhangi bir hale getiriyorlar. Fizik, mental, büyük hale getiriyorlar. Büyük hale getiriyorlar. Büyük hale getiriyorlar. Bu çok ilginç. 200 yıl önce. Hemenin hale getiriyorlar. 200.000 yıl önce. Ama sadece 200 yıl önce. Her ülkeler hale getiriyorlar. Bu hale getiriyorlar. Her ülkeler hale getiriyorlar. Beraber 45 yıl önce hale getiriyorlar. Her ülkeler hale getiriyorlar. 45 yıl önce hale getiriyorlar. Bu hale getiriyorlar. 200 yıl önce. Bu harika. Ama tabii ki hala bir sürü evliya verilmiştir. Ve her sürü her sorun. Her sürü evliya verilmiştir. Ama bu hale getiriyorlar. O yüzden de bu hale getiriyorlar. Bu sürü evliya verilmiştir. Nasıl we want to live, we have a share agreement of how do we want to live, a lot of the other decisions are going to be pretty simple. Tonight I'm going to be talking also about sustainable mobility. I'm going to talk about sustainable mobility. I mean people walking, people riding bicycles, people using public transit, some new uses of cars. By the way walking and cycling is not a joke. You know walking and cycling is really important, it's not a frivolity. Oh Gilbert, we are an emerging and we are now have cars. No, it's not a joke for anybody. Walking and cycling is the only individual mode of mobility for most people. Walking and cycling is the only individual mode of mobility for our children and youth around the world. So when we're talking about children, walking and cycling is the only individual mode of mobility. So having a safe and enjoyable should be like a human right. Unless you think that only the people that have the money and the age and they decide to have a car have a right to individual mobility. That's why tonight we're also talking about democracy and human rights and equality and sustainability because everything is really linked to everything. And in addition of sustainable mobility, I also want to make emphasis on parks and public spaces. I guess walking and cycling and parks and sidewalks and streets is that important? Maybe all of us would think it is, but it's not so obvious. I've been working in more than 350 different cities around the world in all continents. And many times I showed the mayor of these playgrounds and these sidewalks and they said Gilbert, go to some fun racing. But when I saw him at a fun hall, oh my god they go crazy. Maybe they think that a car is gonna fall there. And the media plays into this craziness. This thing station hire a woman or she does, goes and measure potholes and has a section on TV. Tuesdays and Fridays at 6pm. And the citizens they get organized around the potholes. Not around the playground for children, not around the sidewalks for children. And when they take care of the potholes, they go and celebrate. And then we start thinking, why? Maybe it's because when we look at Istanbul from the air. The biggest public space, the streets that belongs to all of us. The streets that belong to poor and rich and young and old and everybody. Are the streets, the streets are around one third of our cities. And we know that if we walk, if we ride bicycles, if we use public transit, we're gonna use streets a lot more efficiently, that public space. We're gonna decide, are we gonna build streets for cars or streets for people? Because we can do one or the other. Do we wanna shoot to look like car storage? Or actually help build community? Now here, this is very important because here there used to be a river going through here. About 50 or 60 years ago people were thinking efficiency, efficiency, efficiency. So they built a road on top of the river. But you know this is important because many people in Turkey are talking about being efficient and being economically competitive. Well, today we live in a never more globalized world. And in a globalized world, the best people, they can live anywhere. However you define best, it can be the best urban planners, it can be the best medical doctors, the best pizza makers, the best coffee makers. If I'm a good carpenter, I can live anywhere in the world. So where am I gonna live? Wherever I have the best quality of life. So these people said, you know, can we go to Istanbul and ask the best people from this university to come and live here? Probably not, who wants to live here? So about 7 years ago someone said, wasn't there a river going down and they brought it out? So you wanna live in this city or you wanna live in this city? Same street, same street. That's why sometimes people say here, what's a good city? I said a good city is where I wanna sleep at home but I wanna live outside. I wanna live outside. The public space is so critical. So that's why I wanna thank the organizers for having invited me today and the Bernard Van Leer Foundation and the Project Urban 95 because I think this is critical to the success of cities. So I wanna be talking about how to create cities for all, how to create vibrant, successful cities with healthy communities where people are gonna be happier. I wanna put emphasis on health and equity in order to put things into context. I wanna talk about Bogota and how it is cities and then I have aimed messages for Istanbul. Why Bogota? Obviously Bogota is not ideal. It's far from ideal but in my previous life, now I live in Canada, in my previous life I lived in Bogota and I was commissioner and I learned that it's not about the money. All of these things that you have heard this afternoon and yesterday is not about the money. People will tell you, oh, we cannot do this because we don't have the money, we cannot do this part, we cannot adapt this group and then you go and they are doing elevated highways and flyovers. Money, there's tons of money. It's where are we gonna use it. Also I've been doing, for example in the first time we built over 200 parts. In the second, another six or seven hundred parts. Actually in six years in Bogota we did almost a thousand parts. The cities, small ones, medium, large ones. This was one of them. The pope came here, gave a mass for a million people and then the pope left and there was nothing. Nothing happened. Not even sidewalk, nothing happened in 27 years. Why nothing happened in 27 years? Because change is hard. Change is hard in Bogota, change is hard in Istanbul, in Copenhagen, in Paris, in Nairobi. Everywhere change is hard. When you try to change around urban 95 and the king people show up. King people don't want to let you change. They are the citizens against virtually everything. But we gotta become champions and finding solutions to the problems. Not finding problems to the solution. We cannot accept no for an answer. It's not about having 20 reasons why things cannot be done. We gotta find how to get it done. Also it was like this for 27 years and in 4 years we turn into the nicest park for passive, for active, for contemplative recreation. Things that people can do at their own pace and at their own time. Sometimes it's not just about football. It's about just sitting down and watching the trees and listening to the birds. Other times it might be doing things with groups or by yourself or with a friend. But the uses and activities, and I'm gonna tell you a little bit more about uses and activities in the parks in a minute. It's critical. We found a very small program of just a few kilometers and a few thousand people called Siklovia. We turned it into the world's largest pop-up park. Sunday morning we pop it up and people come out. Who? Everybody. It's really simple. You should do it in Istanbul and every city in Turkey. You open streets to people, you close into cars and the magic happens. And all that rich and poor and bad and skinny. We had, these are all of the income levels. I was obsessed that we would connect the wealthiest neighbors with the poorest neighbors of the city that everybody would connect. You know, this doesn't cost almost anything. Tell your mayors and electorate to be ambitious. What is the risk? Say, okay, next year in 2019 we're gonna do it once a month. The first Sunday of every month. If it doesn't work, you're gonna do it in 2020. What's the risk? Nothing. You're not building gymnasials or arenas. Nothing. You're just using existing streets. But if it works, then in 2020 you say, okay, we're not gonna do it a monthly. We're gonna do it weekly. We interconnected all of the main parts of the city so that people would get used not only as an end but as a means. And we get people of all ages coming out but not everybody wants to walk or bike or skate. So along the road we do aerobics and tai chi and cha cha cha. All kinds of activities. It's fantastic. You get children, little babies on carriages. They're zero to five. But also you get a hundred-year-old. You get everybody young and old and rich and poor and fat and skinny. All you really need is two feet and a heartbeat and you're gonna be there. Every Sunday and holidays. So it's 52 Sundays plus holidays about 65 days of the year we get 1.7 million people. One out of four citizens, every Sunday they go out. This is amazing. But it's not about recreation. It's about changing minds. All of the southern people realize that the streets that are one third of our city are public space. They belong to all of us. And they can have different uses. According to the time of the day, the day of the week, the week of the year. And it has turned into a virus but a positive virus. Who would have thought that the city of angels and cars now they have it. The cities of all over the place. Cities of 20 million people like Mexico or cities of 10,000 or 15,000 there are cities of all sizes everywhere. Rich countries, poor countries. It's about social integration as well. We've been working in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Seven years ago there was none in India. Now India has more than 70 open streets programs. It's different activities but everything is about physical activity. The common denominator is physical activity. Paris. Paris is fantastic because Paris used to have this program that went crazy in the summer. From the middle of July to the middle of August they would do a replay and they would go out and look along the highway. Who would have thought that the French people would be so fun. They are great. But then they said you know a few walls for 30 days a year what do we do it all year? And then it went from a replay to a replay. And then during 30 days they still have their craziness. But now 52 Sundays they continue to have their open streets. 52 Sundays along the same river and in many other places you know this is great also because we meet each other as equals. We meet whether it's Guadalajara or whether it's Bogota or Paris this is the only place where I've seen that we meet each other as equals and that is very powerful. It's the only place where I see the presidents of the large corporations and their spouses and families do a meeting with the minimum wage worker that cleans the floors and their spouses and children as equals. It doesn't matter if one has a $5,000 back and the other one has a $50 back it doesn't matter if someone has $250 shoes and the other one $20 shoes they meet as equals. That doesn't happen anywhere they don't live in the same buildings the children don't go to the same school they don't go to the same restaurants but this is why this is so important and so magical. In the following term after I was commissioned and one of my brothers became mayor but this is what the Japanese cooperation would suggest an elevated highways. Fortunately he said no. Maybe the Japanese were more interested in selling cars that is solving mobility. This was a huge issue. All the cars used to park on the sidewalks just getting the cars out of the sidewalks was a huge fight. People tend to think oh it's easy it's never easy anywhere but it's doable. If you have clear what it is that you want to do children couldn't walk on the sidewalks because the cars were had totally taken over the sidewalks and the retail they hired hundreds and hundreds of people to get signatures to impeach the mayor and actually they got more than 200,000 signatures it was really really tough. Finally there was a referendum and it was a probe and it was really nice sidewalks are so critical the bus rapid transit they used to be the transit system and in 36 months from idea to implementation and I've seen here in Istanbul that you had a really nice VRT on the highway going towards the airport you know this VRT moves more people than 90% of the subways of the world but I want to show you 200 kilometers of protected bikers Istanbul could be fantastic for bikers if it was safe to ride bicycles in 3 years went from a few 100 to 280 kilometers when there was nothing from 0 to 280 kilometers always separating pedestrians and cyclists and in many of these places the neighborhoods were so poor that it's almost impossible to imagine the level of poverty in some of these neighborhoods and look at the quality of the sidewalks and the bikers why do we need to do good quality infrastructure part of it is because it's going to be safer but just as important because we need to dignify the people walking we need to dignify the people cycling so we need to have plans and plan by the way when I said it's not an issue of money it is an issue of priorities for example here there was not enough money for walking, cycling and cars so they said cars a future administration will take care of the cars of course it's an issue of priorities but it's totally doable it's about the dignity it's about making it safe it's about the environment it's about by the way when I'm talking this evening about the walking I'm talking about anybody that moves at the speed of the pedestrian but now I run to organizations 80 cities and world run parts and if you have any comments you can tweet them and I've been lucky that I've been able to work in over 350 different cities in all continents world run parts hopefully Istanbul and other cities will join we think that everybody should have parts quality within walking distance and free and we have an academy and we also organize conferences next month is Melbourne next year there's one in Mexico there's one in Denver probably the best conference in urban parks and we have committees advocacy committees children play and nature our most successful community children play and nature making that connection of children of play and nature if you want more information you can go to world run park it's not for profit of course but people everywhere say what's 80 cities well 80 cities it's not about walking or cycling it's not about parks or streets or sidewalks those are the means and the end is how can we help create successful cities you know every time that I go to some place I try to go the day before and see the venue where I'm going to speak the other day I was in Warsaw, in Portland and I went to the place where I'm going to speak outdoors and I see all of these people dancing and I said my god how am I going to compete with them and then I saw the DJ DJ Vika we're living longer she's an entrepreneur she's an equipment and goes from city to city so it's about that it's about successful cities with healthy communities for people of all ages the little babies they are really small they use the street, they use the city they are in the public places so that's the idea and anywhere I am people always say kill is this intersection safe can my children walk to school can my grandparents ride their bike to the park can they walk to public transit or to get eggs or milk or to get a transportation engineer to have a city that is nice for children it's three simple steps we follow the rule of common sense or fortunately common sense seems to be the least common of the senses step number one think of a child that you love someone around eight years old it can be this little bird in Brazil or this boy in Japan it's about that, it's about think of someone, your son your daughter, your grandchild it can be in Tirana it can be in Kazakhstan it can be someone upside down and once you have that boy or girl in mind step number two think of someone around 80 years old that you also love your parents, your grandparents brothers, sisters and when you have the child and the older adult step number three would you send them across that intersection would you send them walking to take public transit to get eggs or milk would they feel safe if you would and we need to do it better what if, everything we did in Istanbul everything December, the cross road the school, the park, the playground the restaurant, the building everything had to be great for us eight and an 80, not eight to 80's eight and areas and indicator species because if it's good for the eight and it's good for the 80 it's gonna be good for everybody from zero to over a hundred we need to stop building cities as if everybody was 30 year old and build great cities for all that is the concept of 80 it's simple but it's far from and like Einstein said we cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking that we use when we created them so I want to tell you through eight messages here for Istanbul the first one, we have a fantastic opportunity but also a huge responsibility especially the students of the university today we got about 3.5 billion people living in cities within the lifetime of the students at this university we're gonna double that to 7 billion within the lifetime that has never happened before and will never happen that we are increasing by 3.5 billion people living in cities and it can be very nice and civilized and it's gonna happen in their lifetime imagine how exciting for anybody that is working in things related to cities the opportunity that we have that means that half of the home that we will have within the lifetime of the students have not been built yet do not exist today so we have a great opportunity and Turkey's population is also growing these are the projections of the population it's gonna peak around 2050 so it's gonna grow around 20% Istanbul is gonna grow around 35% and all of this is gonna happen in the next 40 years so if that's gonna happen in the next 40 let's see one half with that in the last 40 because if what we've been doing is good let's just do more of the same but in the last 40 years 8 guys have more wealth than half of the people in the world imagine the media power the economic power the political power this is what we've been doing in the last 40 years horror horror all over the world we've been living the issue of housing to supply and demand and supply and demand doesn't work but there is no supply and demand the land is fixed more land so if the government doesn't interfere this is what we are gonna continue doing in countries all over the world we've been focusing on cars cars cars and other people's happiness and this is what we've been doing horror is very obvious that we cannot continue doing the same and unfortunately the emerging countries like China and Russia and Brazil are doing exactly the same things we definitely need to do things differently this is all of Florence and one highway intersection at the same scale by the way cities do not decide the population that's more at the national level but the cities do decide how this is how we've been building cities all over the world so clearly we need to do it differently imagine if you are a child and 0 to 5 or 5 to 10 you become a slave to someone that has a car even just to go for an ice cream so the last 40 years definitely not a good example so in the next 40 we gotta not only improve the cities that we have today we gotta create great cities for many many more people so it's gonna be time to change and change is hard, that's why cities don't change and that's why all of you we need all of you to really get excited about going to your city because the same is easier that's why they do the same how do people change maybe you have heard in the last year the high school students in the US this is how they change no one has been able to change in the last 40 years the national rifle association in the US high school students are changing sometimes people tell me when I go to Denmark those days eat for breakfast because they are so different breakfast because they went through an oil crisis the whole world went through an oil crisis in the 70s the car was taking over Copenhagen in the 50s, 60s, 70s when they had the oil crisis people started riding bicycles and walking and children were being killed because there was no safe infrastructure so every time that a child was killed this is in Amsterdam people would go in front of city hall and do huge demonstrations so Amsterdam changed Amsterdam was built that way it wasn't built that way they were tearing down buildings for the cars and then they had to do the opposite get building send in Copenhagen Copenhagen was totally car oriented and sending the demonstrations and they started doing protected bicycles the first cycle track in Copenhagen was done in 1982 and look what happened when they started doing protected bicycles went from less than 10% to more than 40% of the trips that's why now that happened so when you're going to change here in Istanbul 3 recommendations first change is not unanimous always people there there will always be concern change is not unanimous second the general interest must prevail over the particular interest so when you're in any meeting the rule of the game is what is the general interest and the general interest must prevail and third when you say not to something you can't do parks but then you're saying yes tomorrow yes tomorrow bad quality of air yes tomorrow these things so these are three elements of change second we need to promote sustainable mobility who came walking today anybody came walking one two three everybody came walking I don't see cars here, I don't see buses here I don't see bicycles every single tripping incident by walking we walk to public transit everybody walks, that's how human beings are it's so amazing just the same way that the birds fly or the fish swim and the deer runs people we walk and we love it because we use all our senses we're walking and we see the children playing and we hear the birds singing and we're going from our coffee shop and we smell the aroma of the coffee it's great, we walk all the time we walk in the summer in the winter but we gotta make it safe yesterday yesterday people driving cars killed 741 people walking yesterday in one day, that's like 5 planes full of people imagine that 5 planes are on a day that would be here and the next day another 5 planes and the next day another 5 that's more than a person every 2 minutes don't call them actors, they're not actions because they can be avoided, they're incidents we're going into vision zero last week I was working in Sweden in Gothenburg and in Malmo they started with vision zero but now cities all over the world are adapting how can we eliminate people dying walking or cycling or in transit or in cars if we're improved walking your first pedestrian need to be a priority they're not a priority when we do sidewalks like this or when we allow the cars to be on the sidewalks or when we don't even do sidewalks when we don't do sidewalks in this woman you are a second class citizen by the way sidewalks there is nothing nothing as important in a city nothing as the sidewalk the sidewalk is the most important area because on the street when we are on bicycles or on transit on cars we're going from point A to point B on sidewalks no sidewalks we do all kinds of things sometimes we just sit and watch people go by sidewalks we see the older people we see the children they go on a field trip they go on the sidewalk to get to places so the sidewalk is the most important the sidewalk is important in the summer the sidewalk is important in the winter the sidewalk is when we go to a city and that's how they deliver mail in Sweden in the sidewalk the children play traditional games or they also catch pokemons that's the sidewalk we wait for the public transit or we go children go with their parents to get fruits and vegetables the sidewalk that's what we develop a sense of belonging we go to a new city and we go to the sidewalk and that's what we learn about the city that's what we get a feel of for the city where the city is segregated it's integrated the sidewalks like they say walking it's about democracy in so many ways we use sidewalks to go to church we use sidewalks to socialize with friends to we say go I was working in Buenos Aires and I saw people dancing in the sidewalks I was in Sweden and I remember that there they have coffee in the middle of the winter and in Istanbul I've seen some great things some not so nice when I see the Buenos Aires sidewalks or the streets almost eating out of the pedestrian but then I see many great things here where you see people the food or people chatting or socializing these people were just chatting about each other they love to talk about people this other one just wanted to talk to the cat some go to prayer and they leave their shoes on the sidewalk then they go to eat sidewalks are really important for people of all ages and with good ground proof walkability there is nothing as important as lowering the speed we need to lower the speed all over the place 30k an hour not 30k zones all the streets when you're on a big street it can be 40-50 when you're 32 residential street you have to go to 30 why? first because it's easier to obey secondly because it's easier to enforce 20 years ago they were talking about 30k zones no 30k zones doesn't work anymore it's 30k everybody why 30k? for many reasons if a car hits you at 30k there is 5% probability of being killed and 50 is more than 80% and there are many many stories that show exactly the same thing so also because many more people walk people don't like walking with their cars going by at 40, 50, 60, 70 people like walking with their cars going at 25 or 30 that's what I'm saying these are not technical issues that I'm telling it's not financial for example if we have a small island in a crosswalk we eliminate more than half of the NCS why are we still doing crosswalk without an island and people are walking the children go on a field trip not everybody crosses on the same line the children can stop and wait the people that are keep the most the intersections are children and older adults the most vulnerable people we gotta think about them and now some people talk about shared spaces I got shared streets I think that is the most ridiculous concept when they say shared streets everybody at their own you negotiate you look people in the eye and you negotiate what? do you want this guy to be negotiating with a truck driver you want this little girl negotiating in all of the streets we're gonna have a place shared we always have to have things at the most vulnerable so if everybody's gonna be moving at the speed of a child or an older adult or the time but it cannot be shared and everybody in their own turn negotiating I mean my mom is 88 she needs to walk for physical and mental health but if she's gonna negotiate with a car maybe 99 out of 100 time she wins but one time she loses and she's dead it doesn't make sense we gotta work on sustainable mobility it's not just walking transit new uses of cars I'm not saying that this is the end of the car industry by the way people are using cars so it's changing very very fast places like America in the US in the last 40 years the young people 16-24 purchased fewer cars than in the last 40 got fewer driver lessons than in the last 40 they don't want to own a car they'd rather pay higher rent and live in a walkable neighborhood than have a car and get more cars and we had to invite our friends to help us cross the street and then what do we do we build more roads as if that was gonna be a solution you know building roads to solve traffic jams is like trying to put out a fire using gasoline it does not work but if we define Istanbul at all cities around people we're gonna get more people and healthier, happier people and with regards to the use of cars now everybody's talking about autonomous vehicles they drive less cars and they do really nice drawings and they say oh we're not gonna have traffic jams because they're gonna be driverless cars and I say do you think that is the driver who's doing the traffic jams you know if we don't change our behavior this is what it might look we might have a lot of traffic jams with driverless cars this is what it looks like without autonomous vehicles this is what it might look like with autonomous vehicles we will have less parking because there will be more shared caring but we also might have many more trips you come here, you don't find parking you tell the car to go home and pick you up in 2 hours you don't need a driver's license because there is no drivers so 5 year olds, 10 year olds, 100 year olds we'll be having cars so we might have many more trips more congested, more sprawl it can be great or it can be horrible it depends up to all of us how are we gonna regulate so riding bicycles imagine in Istanbul going to school like this this can be totally your children will have so much fun and parents and grandparents as well you know Copenhagen this afternoon someone said oh but I'm not talking about Copenhagen no do talk about Copenhagen everything that Copenhagen has Istanbul can have it, I'm better I take every year city leaders from across North America and filter to Copenhagen and the first thing I tell them when we are right there look I hope that at the end of the trip you will say it's not rocket science it is not rocket science to have people riding their bikes you know it's cold in the winter it's hot in the summer it rains all year round and 41 out of 100 use their bike at the bottom mobility in the downtown it's 60% but city wide 41 and they are saying 41 is enough they wanna go to 50 and men don't need shirts in the summer or women don't need special shoes so weren't broke back ability you know it's not about picking things on the street that people won't pay or doing signs or putting bicycle parking or doing maps none of those things really work putting racks on the buses but now people are going crazy for these bicycle bike share systems that they are getting the saddle before the horse that makes it nice for the 2% that might be using bicycles in Istanbul that makes it more enjoyable for the 2% but that doesn't get more people if we want more people there are only two things that work one we need to lower the speed in the neighborhood so people can go to school and so on and number two we need a grid or protected bike grid so everything that I said about walking and 30K is also for biking but in addition of lowering the speed we need to create the grid a minimum grid of 388 what's 388? all ages are not abilities and nothing as important as connectivity connectivity, connectivity why? because if you don't bike and now they did one and they said oh let's see people use it well if 20% of your ride is going to be safe but still 80% is going to be in the middle of the car you won't use it so we gotta think of date time and night time and winter and summer not just about Sunday at 10am but it's about in the middle of the traffic jam the peak hours so we need to have that physical separation the cars or else is not going to work painting a line might work for a photo a five o'clock in the morning but people are not going to use it we need to have, even if you don't have the political will or the money to do it permanent at least don't just paint enhance the painting line with some plastic ball art that's going to make a huge difference and of course making a priority so that it is always clean and nice even for the country that have winter so those children since they're little babies that's why people back in Copenhagen because they have a great city wide all the neighbors lower speed but all the big roads have protected back they have really good connectivity that's the way that we have a city wide water grid or city wide power grid city wide bicycle grid by the way when people ask you about bikers if it's good enough or not keep in mind we're talking about children if it's not safe for an eight year old it's nothing don't even call it bikeway we cannot do bikeways that are safe for the 20 to 15 standings we need bikeways that are safe for the children they are the ones that we should be building infrastructure the sidewalks and the products and the bikeways and the parks we gotta keep the children and when you're gonna get the attention of your politicians go in front of city hall and do a protected bikeway like this and you're gonna get their attention of the media and elected officials and actually get them to ride 100 meters like this and then go on the other side of the street and ride 100 meters with nothing and they will see the huge impact of having a protected bikeway or not and we're going through public transit one of my brothers as of two years ago he was mayor of Bogota he said the civilized city is not the one where the poor have cars it's the one where the rich use public transit and he said about shaking people we've been hearing that a lot of the questions about how do we get people changing minds well, one day a year there are no cars making the car free day but not one kilometer or two since 8 million people no cars from 6 am to 8 pm so successful that then Brussels went there the mayor and he saw it and he started doing it in Brussels the only difference Bogota does it on a Thursday the first Thursday of February and Brussels is doing it on a Sunday this photo is from Sunday in Brussels this photo is from Paris last Sunday if Paris can do it why not Istanbul citywide no cars in Paris this is about shaking people about a day of reflection what is the role of the car what is the role of mobility in our cities how do children feel how do these children feel and the shamse they say with no cars but it wasn't that the shamse it was citywide but of course we also need public transit buses we need tram there are different possibilities but we also need to dignify the transit I go to some cities and I see these horrible buses this is not dignity for the people using the public I mean sell advertisement but don't cover the windows and especially don't cover the windows with cars advertisement because that is really really pain sometimes they do a bus stop this is bus stop for a child it's an insult to the children and when people say oh what are we gonna do you know the mayor man didn't like he said the people didn't like the buses so he said oh I'm gonna put a nose I'm gonna cover the wheels and now they look like trains part of it is marketing it's also and the people that want numbers, numbers, numbers rational about mobility map mobility map, do you want one of those or 140 of those do you want one of this or 145 of the others so it's about the mobility map walking, cycling, transit moves a lot more people 3, Istanbul, please be bold you can be as good as any city in all of these issues of public transit of schools, of playgrounds I know that cities many cities in Turkey are moving but some are moving fine in the spirit of the turtle and they say oh it's okay because I'm faster than you look Istanbul if you wanna compare yourself with cities that are worse than you, you can do a list of a thousand cities but if you compare yourself with cities that are worse, eventually you're gonna look like those but you're gonna start thinking which cities of similar size, income which one has the best mobility which one has the best walking which one the children are happiest which one the children have the best cars the best schools don't be complacent at all and if any magazine is gonna tell you it's gonna give you an award in Istanbul the best city in the world, say please if you love Istanbul, don't give us any awards because then people become reluctant keep in mind that a big issue of the private public NGOs is how to attract and retain the best people I was in Oslo, just to give you an example a few months ago, this is the mayor 67, her deputy mayor is 31 and the minister of transportation and environment is 30 and this 30 year old is making Oslo pedestrian as of next year Oslo is gonna be the great capital of the EU and she, 30 year old is making it, Barcelona someone mentioned this earlier is already a good walkable city now they wanna improve it by 66% so all of the grid that was good for walking cycling and cars now 203 is gonna be walking so a city that is good for walking is gonna improve but a new york if you had said anybody 10 years ago that new york, the time score was gonna be pedestrian but after you were crazy when they made a pedestrian now people are doing yoga and aerobics and all kinds of things it's changing, be bold man a city they lost half of their jobs in 2 years they used to be a shipping industry they moved to South Korea they had to reinvent themselves even a city that has lots of winter but it's about that we had a nice cozy place 4, we gotta have parks and park systems let me give you some symptoms you hear a lot when you listen and you see what you observe one symptom of public places good places to sit this guy needed 5 chairs to be happy on a bench he would not have been as happy he speed his big map sometimes people see monkey see monkey does we do sidewalks we don't put benches the other day I was working with the mayor a city in Kentucky I will say the miracles we were walking 10 blocks no benches and I said mayor there's no benches and he said gil the homeless I said why you think this is like a miracle you take out the bench and a home shows up I said not only you are not serving the homeless but you are making it very very hard for older adults older adults will not walk if there are no benches and look for the children they put these nails on the children and you won't be able to see it this guy was so tired he sat on his briefcase while his friend actually fainted and his wife is sitting on their baby that's not good for the 0 to 5 but when you got nice places to sit it's kind of magical even in the middle of the winter the old woman when you have moveable chairs people don't even sit facing each other starts to rain and people won't even move last time I was in Istanbul I saw this guy that was sitting on a mullard while his friend actually had like 10 chairs kind of a running another symptom is sociability if you see people talking to each other it is important another symptom diversity when you see children you see youth, you see adults, you see people in handicap another symptom affection with children if you feel at ease, if you feel safe another symptom high proportion of women women are more selective if the place is not nice and clean and safe they don't go so these are some symptoms but some characteristic of nice parks and public places one management we need to manage I would say the biggest problem in parks is lack of management people tend to think that management is synonymous of maintenance picking up the garbage and cutting the grass management is getting grandparents and children to do bread together management is the uses and the activities is having people here are walking and cycling and playing chess and riding bikes and reading and eating management is having volunteers but having the tools for the volunteer management is having citizens engaged so that you access citizens before during and after when you are going to make any changes in the park management is having the resources, financial, physical management is having good equity throughout the city and having parks that are good fit so that not all parks the parks in Copenhagen I know that we should talk too much about Copenhagen but it's doable every single playground in Copenhagen is different they are not too alike they don't collab game time and say hey game time send me 50 of those everyone is different it's really exciting and it's totally doable that's part of the management 4 out of 10 park playgrounds have some facilitator of games from 4pm to 7pm not all day so that when the children call they facilitate the games the playability 4 out of 10 is amazing so that all of this is management management is about safety I was in London the other day and I saw in a park design beware of the thieves you know you need a lot of police when the parks and public places are empty you don't need when they are well used so the cheapest safety for any part of a public place is uses and activities let's organize uses and activities in the summer in the winter all the time so that people can go and paint and walk and socialize I was in Mumbai and I saw all these people holding hands and doing circles they say oh it's laughing yoga getting the circle and 30 second later I'm laughing people say in Istanbul doing small parks or large parks you need both because they satisfy very different needs every child is to have a park with a walking distance so the small park is where we develop a sense of belonging where we meet the neighbors where we also develop solidarity if something is happening in the neighborhood we go out and help if we don't do anybody we shut the door so we need a medium sized park so we can go canoeing so we need a large park we need a city wide park system with small, with medium, with large with passive, with active, with contemplative but everybody learns from everybody I know some of you already in Istanbul we are different we got nothing in common with Copenhagen of course or Bogota or New York or any of these examples here in Istanbul we are unique I know always remember that in Istanbul we are absolutely unique just like everybody else you know this is like the computers that we copy and paste no but we can adapt and improve even within Istanbul each neighborhood is different each park is different each street is different but we can learn from others for example even small towns when you are talking about Ukraine, 5,000 people and 2 polar bears I go there and I'm talking the week before I had been to Google so I started showing them some of the images of course of the autonomous vehicle from Google and all of these other things in Google their drones and the thing that they wanted to show off a little bit but one of the thing there was someone from a high school and what they really like was the bicycle so they said why don't we do a bike show system in a community of 5,000 they do a bike show where are we gonna get the bikes let's go to the police and ask for lost and found so they ask for the lost and found bicycle they brought it to the school they fixed them, they painted it like the Google bikes and they created a bike show system this is the kind of thing that we can do for children 0 to 5 or 5 to 10 or 10 to 10 is doing doing is just doing what is the risk? there is no risk and then to a physical education teacher of an elementary school she saw fewer and fewer kids were walking to school she said why don't they walk because they were afraid of the cars and on Christmas they came back and she was dressed up as a pilot she shot down the parking lot and then the kids at minus 24 they started to walk and bike we need hundreds of unfentons because part of it is programs part of it is infrastructure part of it is hardware part of it is software places like Toronto is gonna grow by 50% in the next 25 years so the provincial government put a green belt municipality can grow beyond that brought to them was totally turned down in the second world world was built around the car look what they have done in the last 8 years they wanted to do a bike parking instead of they opened it up they made it really nice put in the bikes a little bit further down look at this what happens when you say oh car can you please give us one side of the street look what happens you wanna live on this street Istanbul places that they're gonna do a building here sometime in 5 years in 10, 20 in the meantime let's open it up and let's make it a park so these are the kind of things that are totally doable and cities are doing around the world and of course you can do it a city of only 200,000 people and they said okay let's think about a plan a walking, cycling, cars, everybody so they started working on this and then thinking of summer and winter and people going to work and to study community always there's more than 5,000 cars there's a physically protected bikeway there's a separation between the cyclists and the cars signage, air good signage so that people know where they're going lockers, public washrooms so that you don't have to go to a coffee shop on the ramp bike parking in a city of 200,000 and they give the pedestrian streets in the pedestrian you can't ride your bike so if you leave your bike out or you walk with your bike so all of this is really nice and in many places we have in front of the schools 30k an hour in front of the schools here in ons in front of the schools is 0k an hour from 7am to 4pm there are no cars only the people that live in front of the school they come out only very very slow and they got these ping pong tables and games so children love to go to school early because they chat with their friends and play and the playability and making the link so that is the idea it's a city that works for all a city that works for children a city that works for everybody see, let's focus on the benefits this is not about the 0 to 5 this is not about the parks or the streets or the walking or the cycling this is about creating cities for all people so when we are going to talk about series 0 to 5 let's tell elected officials or citizens or media this is about the benefit this is about as a great city for children is going to go for culture for education, for recreation environmental transportation because maybe one politician doesn't care about the environment but cares about economic development so let's tell him why it's good for but the other one doesn't care about economic development but cares about the health so we need to have the specific reasons for each one according to each politician for example if it's going to be health is this what the future looks like the issue with visiting is becoming really bad around the world and you don't have people look is that they have to do with horror cars and respiratory problems and anxiety and depression in Turkey more than one or three people are obese especially women is really really bad women are twice as obese as men so it's important to work on that over the last 25 years it has doubled it has doubled it went from less than 18% to more than 37% so it's important to work in the school not just have farmers markets all over the place have urban and recoursers so that the children know that the tomato don't come out of a factory and they love it and also be inactive so it's important about marathons it's just about doing 60 minutes a day for children 30 minutes a day for arts 60 minutes a day and of course walking or cycling by the way the only way the only way that we can get people to be physically active is to walk or bike as a normal part of everyday life there is no other way no city in the world has had 50% people to be physically active that is not walking or cycling as a normal part of everyday life you play football when you play once or twice a week you go to the gym once or twice a week but massively to be physically active there is no other way that's another reason why walking and cycling is so important that's why so important for children to walk or bike to school but this is good for physical health but also there is no health without mental health we try to keep in mind issues like loneliness we have a lot of problems with loneliness with children we teenagers committing suicide going into drugs and alcohol older adults as well when people are lonely it increases the 28% and the probability of heart disease 30% stroke twice the possibility of dementia depression has become the world leading cause of disability so if we have contact with nature it's going to improve our mood, our cognitive attention so we need to have trees and green areas everywhere if a neighbor's green is going to lower the depression, the anxiety, the stress and it's totally too old but we need to give nature the importance that it has we got to have nature everywhere we got to have nature interwoven we needed it in our homes we needed it in the schools we needed it in the sidewalks we needed it in the city, in the business we really need nature everywhere this is absolutely critical it's not just because cities look nice but it's because it's good for the environment it's also good for health for physical, for mental health children love nature everything and also because more people are going to go to the parks and empty parks have fewer benefits so we got to have people doing activities like they were doing in Tirana and in many other places the walkability, the paths but it is London or Paris we need those activities but all of it nature, nature, nature, seven communities the extra less as the citizens what do they want? we honestly have to listen to the citizens what are we doing in the park only do yoga and the other park only do yoga not everybody wants to do yoga some people want to have a fire pit or they want to have a pizza oven people want to do all kinds of activities in the park so we need to listen we need to go and ask both the users and even more the non-users because the non-users maybe they don't go because there is nothing that they like in the park so we got to go and listen the children, we do lots of things with children we ask them even simple things and please do a drawing what would you like your community to look like when you have your parent's age and you have children in your name look at this the children love the environment any country anyway it's really great and it's not because they are the future it's because if we educate the children very very well like the former mayor Curitiba said they go home and they educate their parents look at this it's only 13 but he brought a few cars more people walking, more people cycling he didn't ride but he threw an area for pedestrians, for cyclists, for buses, for cars he doesn't know that we walk at 5 km an hour but he knows that if we mix pedestrians and cyclists the pedestrians get in if we mix cyclists and cars the cyclists get in and then he drew public parks and low buildings with street level activity so if anybody is a student of urban planning I hope you study very very hard because now the 30 euros can summarize urban planning 101 in one drawing it's really exciting 3 days ago I was in Gothenburg in Sweden I went with the heads of parks planning, transportation and real estate and the councilors we were going to visit the places where the city is going to grow and one we went to the biggest place that is going to call River City and I love this I see all of these children playing they are working they are going to work for 18 months with children to get ideas from children the children think they are just playing but more than playing they are giving information to the planners the planners are watching, the planners are listening the planners are doing all kinds of activities and these kids are going to design the city has a big anniversary in 2021 and the park is going to be ready by 2021 and we need to listen to the children they have to be a key element in the planning and the last message is I hope everybody leaves being a guardian angel of the gentle majority what is the gentle majority of the children the older adults, the poor if we give an example children we go to the sidewalk and we see, we have swings or we are waiting for the bus and there is a small park or we can do really nice bus stops this is not about the money it's about having the creativity allowing people to be a little bit flexible this is a much nicer bus stop than the one we saw earlier and having the children do drawings and you just see it in the faces in the smile how important it is this is great because the children have fun and games of course it's fun and games but it's much more than that it's also how children learn playing, children play that's how they develop their muscle strength their cognitive thinking their sense of belonging their sociability their friends the capacity to concentrate to learn languages that's why we have playability everywhere all over the cities and it's doable by the way what is a child's favorite toy another child you have children together and they love it and they have fun this is probably the future engineers of the world it's totally tool that's what we should have everybody should have a park within walking distance so let's start doing parks wherever there is not a park within walking distance let's start doing it and very important is the older fact because I got so many cities the older I was at a city and the mayor showed me he had someone take me to 20 parks and he said what do you think and I was with him all of his team and he said mayor let me show you four dog parks that you have the dog perfect fence perfect benches over for the summer and I said you really know what makes dogs happy but I went to 21 of your parks and I did not see one of them that had anything for children 0 to 5 so you know much more what makes dogs happy than what makes children happy and they smile a little bit nervous but afterwards that night the mayor said give thank you thank you for shaming us a little bit because I've been there for 15 years and I will never ever will do another park a playground where I don't think of the 0 to 5 and that doesn't happen to everyone that was in that room we need to work on this people don't really as soon as you tell anybody the Bernard Van Lea Foundation idea that is what does the city look like from 95s people don't forget about it that's why it's so important to make this massive to educate the media educate the businesses the decision makers politicians because this is absolutely critical in the happiness and if you don't have a park let's think of what belongs to us whatever is public, the street, the sidewalk the schools, the libraries someone spoke a little about New York look what New York did they thought every kid had a park with him walking distance they did a map and many did not so then they said the schools, the libraries, the streets let's go to the schools they went to the schools horrible this is what 90% of the schools in America the playground looked like a bunch of painting so they said schools we'll fix the schools if and only if we make it a school park that after 4pm Saturday, Sunday and holidays we open it to the community and look what they did fantastic look at all these green roofs and trees by the way why so much green because the kids have less attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder there is green but New York didn't do one or two they have done more than 220 they have increased by more than a quarter the playgrounds in the city without buying one centimeter of land that's gotta be sustainable we need to make all of these school parks library parks street parks cyber parks we gotta have playability everywhere Copenhagen all of these are schools and this is for the school during the daytime for the community in the evening and weekends and holidays and if you don't have a school take over a street make it a play street but normal or two do a pilot here or there pilots are great but if are only if you know that the pilot has to multiply you do the play street if it doesn't work get rid of it but if it works they have 20, 50, 100 play streets all over the city because we couldn't have in a city just one street intersection or one play street of course if it's nice for the child it's gonna be nice for the older adult this is important because we live in longer so much longer the people that have ever lived to 65 in the history of humanity half our life today half this is very very new and the population of 65 are gonna double and the population of 80 are gonna quadruple and people are happy and enjoying people are not even thinking of retirement people are thinking this about how to re-engage I would say that people over 65 is the biggest waste of resource that we have in the world people retire and we cross them out as if they had died except that they got 20, 30, 40 years left and they are healthier and wealthier and more active they have experience they have knowledge imagine they could be fantastic imagine the urban 95 with the leaders are they 65 plus the university here we are at a university 20% of the course used to be for older adults older adults are hungry but hungry of knowledge they wonder about music and gardening and planning just imagine we have been born in Turkey 150 years ago which is nothing the life expectancy was 35 most of us will be dead by now now it's almost over 80 you have more than double the life expectancy it's very clear that we have learned how to survive but when we still have all of these issues it's clear that we need to learn how to live an urban 95 and children in cities is about learning how to live because a big part of this is about the built environment how are we gonna do it older adults are terrified losing the driver's license almost as much as when they are told that they have cancer because they love cars because they love mobility people wanna age in place visit the same stores and we need to think how are we gonna make that city nice for children and as for older adults but whenever we do playgrounds I love this cable path not only because it has nice street but because it has a nice place for parents and grandparents every time that we do a playground we need to do a nice cosy area for grandparents this is a magical moment that the grandparent and the child go into the park it's fantastic and of course there gonna be lots of uses and activities by far the number one activity is walking every single park in Turkey should have and around the world should have a walking path whether it's a big park or a small park walking path because it's the most used but there are many other things I'm talking about children in multi generation or inter generation and grandparents and grandchildren is kind of magical so we need to have that nice cosy place as important as the swing or the cosy area for the grandparents so that we can find these magical moments taking place this was when I was at a session with Berdar Baler in Amsterdam we placed making week or this is in Copenhagen anyway this was last week it's magical that inter generation so those activities let's walk on that and make it our reality and the third element that I said children or girls and the four I'm not talking about equality you're there someone need a cartoon that explains this is equality and this is equity said you know some people are starting so far behind and some might not need a book some always might need two or three boxes and some might say okay that's equality and that's equity maybe this is reality but in Istanbul you are even smarter because you say okay let's take outside the book maybe it's not about moving boxes maybe it's taking down the wall and we have not done a good job especially with children children living in poverty the U.S. is the wealthiest country in the world and the U.S. has many good things equity is not one of them one out of five children living in poverty South Korea one out of 14 Denmark one out of 37 for the point of view of mobility the people that have a car they spend one out of five 20% of their income and mobility if they do public transit or walk out of the woods spending only 5% so this would be great for the law personal economy as well as for the local economy because if people don't have the woods spending that money in the restaurants fixing their houses all of this how do we want to live so I just want to end by saying all of this is doable think outside the box this is not a financial issue this is not a technical issue this is political but political with a big P everybody needs to participate all citizens this is not a time to be spectators we need to create alliances alliances like a three leg is two one of the legs are the elected officials or the city the country another leg is the public sector staff but not only planners we gotta get planners and public health one of the best public health economic development environment personal recreation and the third leg is the community the activists the media, the universities the businesses how do we get the three legs working together what is the clue the clue is developing a sense of urgency each city has a different sense of urgency sometimes even each neighborhood has a different sense once you have the sense of urgency then you develop a shared vision but you need the vision and you need action some cities develop the vision but no action so they become frustrated because they know what needs to be done but they don't do it others the opposite develop action they do here and here but they don't know where they're going so it's like a franchise but when you have a vision and you have action you can really transform cities into vibrant and healthy communities so you're going to move from talking to doing and they're going to tell you what we're doing yes you're doing but you're going to do more and you're going to do it faster so Istanbul let's do it now thank you gil and thank you everyone and maybe I can invite you to sit down because you want to be so I'm going to make some brief comments because I think it's more and like them to continue listening to you and all the brilliant ideas they've shared with us today but I do want to highlight something because I think it's very important that after this two days of discussions I think that the one issue that we didn't talk about was mobility so I do want to highlight how enlightening it is to hear you and of course coming from South America I'm very familiar with the experience of Bogota and I know that it also has a lot of challenges and I know that the current mayor which is your brother has also had lots of challenges in trying to promote these ideas around equity and around promoting a healthy city so I'm very curious to continue the discussion of these topics but I would like to focus on two specific things I think what you have shared with us today is that we have the great opportunity of really transforming Istanbul into a more thriving city into a more vibrant city I think Istanbul is one of the most vibrant cities I've been to but meaning that when you think about converting this city into a vibrant city you take into account equity and healthy and promoting equity and healthy which seems to be one of the ideas that we defend in Urban 95 as well I do want to say that we've been trying to convince Gil that when he talks about 880 he also talks about 8 months because we really think that babies have a different stage and as you have shown in many different examples I think this is definitely true but I want to come back to my question and I would like to ask you Gil what do you think are some of the political challenges because I would definitely agree with you that we need the political will in order to promote these changes and we all need to be part of this change but sometimes when there is a political will promoting these changes can also have lots of challenges and I know this through basically for example when you show that picture on both of that on the investments that were done in order to prioritize pedestrians and people and bikes and not probably investing on the car industry you are making a political decision that has a huge impact but that also represents a huge challenge when you are working with people can you share some of your thoughts on how you can overcome some of these challenges because I think this doesn't always make you the most popular mayor it brings difficult challenges and I think it would be very enriching to share some of those thoughts I think that if you want to be a popular mayor if you want to be a beauty queen don't do any change that's one of the biggest problems when cities have they don't have term limits it's indefinite then usually when a city council or a mayor wins their number one priority that same night of the win it's hard to get re-elected 4 years or 5 years of death and the easiest way to get re-elected is don't do any change just do more of the same so unfortunately that is one of the reasons why it's important that you participate in politics and hopefully get elected mayors that want to do as mayor because many don't want to be mayors just be mayor go in on cocktails, inaugurations via an international scene but don't do anything the reality is that many times it's harder and then some mayors they don't get re-elected Mayor Livingstone in London did a lot of really good things for walking, for cycling creating the congestion task and then he was not re-elected but he's totally okay with that and he said if that is the cost and that is a big problem you have big city like Bogota for example that most of the mayors they don't want to be mayor of Bogota they want to be presidents of the country so they are only using the term as mayor it's a stepping stone to something else so it is very very important I think that in this term in the case of my brother he's doing a lot of decisions that are not very popular for example people want to do an underground subway and then he said okay that's fine they do the underground subway but that underground subway is going to eat up all of the resources for public transit for the next 20 years and we're going to move 4% of the people how are you going to move the other 96% oh no no we don't care how the other 96% but there is no city decided about that without a subway I'm not asking if there is anything oh no but Mexico City has a subway no I'm talking about Mexico how are you going to move the other 96% and of course if it had come in and had committed all of the budget for the next 20 years into one then he probably would be the most popular mayor in the country today so I think that it's important for you to get engaged and participate and hopefully the councilors and mayors that want to do whatever is right by the way we not only need to do things right but also we need to do the right things let me give you an example if you do a street without any sidewalks and people say only do it right maybe doing it right is doing it cheaper or doing it faster if you still do it without sidewalks then you're doing it right but you're not doing the right things so it's a big difference between doing it right and doing the right things those experiences that he has been able to do many of his big changes and now you're doing and advocating around the world about this so I would like to ask you again what do you think is the best way to advocate for young children because of course that's our interest and what do you see has worked on your work in advocacy sharing all of these good ideas but I think there's a big step between inspiring people I'm sure that everybody who lives this room today will be very inspired and very engaged and continue doing these things but of course this represents a lot of advocacy but I'm trying to ask you what do you think works better from an advocacy point of view or what have you seen work that works better when you want to start implementing things because you did like he didn't mention this but for example the the first city that started with Ciclovia started reproducing and it was replicated in almost every Latin American city the capital city that I know and it's been very popular and it still is very popular but I think you were the first follower you were the pioneers doing that come on you're in many cities what I would say is this in the heart not the brain whenever you go to decision makers people think too much about the brain they do numbers and statistics and studies forget about the studies 99% please keep doing research more research is helpful but we already have most of the information to create a city that is good for small children we've known for the last 40 years and the first 5 years of the latter the most important gormans are not putting the importance I mean I live in Canada in a wealthy country playground to go to daycare in Ontario is more expensive than to go to university it's crazy I never understood since I immigrated like 19 years ago how can it be elementary free secondary free university heavy subsidized but daycare is extremely expensive it's more expensive and we know so why is it that when I went to Tel Aviv and I went to 26 I couldn't find one single with anything for children 0 to 5 I think that big part of it is we need to get electro pieces in the heart we know the numbers we know the statistics but then we need to make a connection so we need to connect for example I was you mentioned the Ziklovia or open street that we call in North America I was in Christchurch in New Zealand and she I learned that she has recently started a huge program against obesity and she has a daughter that has huge problems of obesity so then I'm starting to talk to her about obesity and about lucy weight and whatever and then I knew that was going to hit in the heart and then I said oh by the way in both we have this program on Sunday that we get 1.7 million 1 out of 4 citizens and this has also working she loved the idea she had never heard of the word Ziklovia or she had never heard of the program she said are you going to be here tomorrow morning can I invite you for 2 hours and I go to her office and she has all of the counsellors and the members the commissioners and we start talking about she said I want you to tell us about Ziklovia I speak for an hour then we debate for an hour and in 2 hours she said we need to pass a law that in 90 days we're going to start an open streets program in Christchurch so it was about if I had come out and started with the number the statistic and say oh look the quality of the air no no it's not about the numbers once people like anything then they tell one of their assistants or something say look we want to do this play for 0 to 5 give me a study of 100 pages to justify anybody can justify but we need to get them engaged so I said don't talk too much about children 0 to 5 but talk about the benefits they are talking about having children 0 to 5 for example if the mayor is really into economic development look all of the young people they want to go and live in cities where they are nice playgrounds and parks then you know they did a search where they want to set up their headquarters like a hundred cities they narrow down to 5 and then they sent their top executives to all 5 and they chose Chicago the number one reason because of the parks and activities these modern days are millenials people that now are between 30 and 45 and they have children and they want to live in a city that has playground so they these people we don't know but the decades if they have parks for children but another mayor might not care about economic development but the other mayor is into environmental so then you can tell them oh you know by the way the trees and the white kids the air and the noise and these cities and they went down so the issue of the children 0 to 5 is the means the end is how to have the city economically vibrant how to have the best young minds because behind them they are going to be the best companies or how to have the cleaner city or the best climate change or the best education or the best culture but focus on the benefits much more than on the issue itself and of course do the research maybe if the mayor or the council who is making the decision has children or grandchildren try to make that link because making that emotional link decision makers in the heart and then the head because usually we do those oh we gotta have a study that's what they always have an excuse oh give me the numbers that's because they don't wanna do it but if you give them in the heart then forget they get the number of them so we know why this is important but focus on the benefits couldn't agree more and I think that one of the attention that let's have cities and the measure of good cities to be the city where you wanna sleep home and you wanna live outside that's very important especially because for example I work in many low income cities and when I'm in the low income cities you gonna say oh you know the poor people they have so many needs you know one word about sidewalks I said no if you really care about poor people when the poor people really feel miserable it's in the initial time when you work in the present of the bank of Turkey or the minimum wage worker cleaning the floors has similar experience maybe even the present has more stress but in the initial time the present has movies and theater and restaurants and country clubs and travels and so the minimum wage worker does it so if we improve that it's even more important so we need in the low income neighborhoods when I'm saying imagine we had a magic one and we could be two the best one we would do it even better well over the next 30 years we're gonna do the equivalent of one third of Istanbul how are you going to do it and make sure that in the low income you need even better sidewalks and better bikers and better parks and better schools and better connectivity because the reality is that the low income are gonna live in various more houses 30-35 square meters and it's gonna be almost impossible to do it bigger they're not gonna live there they're gonna live outside so the low income need even better public space and this is an issue of equity and it's something that is really important it's not only just for the upper income unfortunately in most countries we are doing great public places only for the upper income you go to Mexico City and they say oh now we have public bikes yeah all of them are in Palaco and Mendesa where the wealthy people of the city lives and they say oh now we'll grab these bikes and again 90% are in the wealthy neighborhoods no we really need to work on equity I need to know the other sometimes it's good to do it in the upper income neighborhoods as a sample so that it becomes aspirational the wealthy people of Mexico City when I live like the wealthy people of Miami the wealthy of Miami wanna live like the wealthy of Paris so then maybe but the reality that we need to invest is where the lower income people live but those the children the lower income need a lot more facilities and programs than the others that's why what I'm saying Copenhagen 410 playgrounds they have a passive and activator it's not just about having the games about having an activator in 410 playgrounds from 4 to 7 pm and especially where more immigrants and more people that maybe are not used to to playing outside and so on that's what they are doing thank you Gil and with this I would really like to thank you I think you've put into into the topic for us a part of working with Urbanity 5 has to do with trying to support equity because we do believe that a lot of the inequity in the world is concentrated not only in children but in young children and women so I think we have a great challenge to solve there and I'm happy to see that all the people here are part of that change so thank you very much for inspiring us tonight and giving us all this beautiful ideas that I think are very easy to replicate and adapt and just see great success in the future thank you and I just want to say keep in mind there is not going to be a march coming down to fix Istanbul or any other city in the world it's up to one of us working together the teachers, the public health and professional, the elected officials the city staff, the person from the media everybody but at the same time it's doable a lot of examples as simple as that teacher shouting down the park of course it wasn't easy she said the first day I thought the parents were going to beat me up they were sober but I said good morning, good morning and the children love their first time as a pilot and they are doing those kind of things there are a lot of things that are very inexpensive sometimes I tell people start with the impatience what are the impatience are things that are the impatience are flowers that are nice low cost, low risk high visibility because that will give you the credibility to do things that are bolder and more expensive the other day someone said okay when I'm with my children walking on the sidewalk the sidewalk is very dark and I said yeah but that's not an impatient low cost low risk that's an orchid because the orchids are higher pot and 2 years 205 so it's very inexpensive when I'm walking home the sidewalk is very dark but the street is very well lit don't need so much light because the cars already have lights all I'm asking the city is for someone to go up on the ladder turn the light 90 degrees and share the sidewalk the same pole, the same light, the same cable when I go to cities most cities and you will see when you go out in Istanbul most streets are very well lit and more sidewalks are very dark and it's as simple that is two lessons one is that there are a lot of things that are very inexpensive that we can do tomorrow and two is that we get a lot of benefit from communicating with the citizens from listening to the community from honestly listening not just because the politicians ask for it so that all the new kind of community yes check, no, it's because we actually want to hear and the community has fantastic ideas that are doable thank you Gil and thank you everyone for everything alright, I hope we do it again in 2 years if not earlier thank you so much for being with us and all of our presenters and response panels for all the lovely conversations I would like to just invite so thank you I would just like to invite for a photo any of you who want to be in touch with us, we already have those of you who have registered through our web page we have your emails and we will send a short note eğer bizim zaten eğer web sayfasımız herindan email adresleriniz var hala yaptırabilirsiniz kayıt yapanlara bir iletişim notu biz de atacağız eğer ilgilenmek isterseniz bu konuya daha fazla yetişimde kalabilirsiniz çok çok teşekkürler