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How can cities dedicate more urban space to their inhabitants? | With Giulio Ferrini
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What are cities look like and what we use urban spaces for was of course a major consideration before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. But now it is set to take on added importance as city dwellers demand more from the areas they spend most of their time in. With the expertise of Giulio Ferrini, Head of Build Environment at Sustrans London, the environment and transport journalist, Sam Morgan, wonders how more space can be allocated to city-dwellers.
#WebTV #UrbanPlanning #UrbanSpace
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What is EIT Urban Mobility? A European initiative to create liveable urban spaces! EIT Urban Mobility, supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), acts to accelerate positive change on mobility to make urban spaces more liveable. Learn more about EIT Urban Mobility: https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/ -
How can cities be agile to tackle the Covid-19 challenge? | With Tom Holbrook, Stefano Recalcati
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Covid-19 has rapidly driven change in cities for more sustainable means of urban mobility. Close to overnight, the world has seen a drastic improvement in how cities are performing in terms of mass transit and public transport – following decades of percentage point increases. How can you drive agility to deliver urban mobility projects in a post Covid-19 era? In collaboration with RMIT University, the Academy WebTV is travelling to London, Barcelona and Milan to discover three agile approaches to tackle the Covid-19 challenge.
With the participation of Tom Holbrook (Mayor's Design Advocate, Greater London Authority), Gonzalo Recio Domenech (Researcher at inLAB FIB, UPC) and Stefano Recalcati (Associate Director, Arup)
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What is EIT Urban Mobility? A European initiative to create liveable urban spaces! EIT Urban Mobility, supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), acts to accelerate positive change on mobility to make urban spaces more liveable. Learn more about EIT Urban Mobility: https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/ -
How can cities shift people to more sustainable transport? | With Sam Morgan
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One of the most challenging questions facing city administrators, not just in Europe but across the world, is how to manage the number of vehicles coming into urban spaces. There are numerous factors at play, ranging from human health and pedestrian safety to economic factors and simple traffic jams. So, how do you approach it? How do you get people out of their vehicles and convince them to take a more sustainable transport? How to multiply the eco-friendly travels? Those are the questions the environment and transport journalist Sam Morgan is trying to answer to in this video.
ERRATUM : at 00:36, air pollution causes an estimated 400,000 deaths every year in Europe, according to the European Environment Agency's (EEA) latest official data. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_2168
#WebTV #SustainableTransport #EcofriendlyTravel
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What is EIT Urban Mobility? A European initiative to create liveable urban spaces! EIT Urban Mobility, supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), acts to accelerate positive change on mobility to make urban spaces more liveable. Learn more about EIT Urban Mobility: https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/
A European initiative for the future of urban mobility
