Redefining urban space – placing people first
More than 70 percent of people in European cities breathe dangerous air, according to the European Environment Agency and 1 million deaths occur annually due to physical inactivity in Europe, states the World Health Organisation. The key to a healthier, more productive, greener and less polluted city could be a new planning and design strategy based on the idea of shared speed in urban space.The pandemic has given us new perspectives and revealed the flaws in street space distribution and public space as it disrupted people’s travel behaviour, compelling us to work from home, move shorter
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