REVOLUCION DIGITAL Transformaciones Políticas , Sociales y Culturales

1. SEMINARIO NACIONAL DE PRESUPUESTO PUBLICO REVOLUCION DIGITALTransformacionesPolíticas, Sociales y Culturales Street: the ultimateurban public space Andrés Borthagaray Institut pour la ville en mouvement Consejo de planeamientoestratégico, Buenos Aires

3. UN HABITAT WORLD URBAN FORUM 6th THE URBAN FUTURE Latin American population is almost 80% urbanLA has 4 cities over 10 M hab, 50 over 1M and 150 over 0,5MStreets are estimated to represent between 25 and 30 % of urban surfaceThey are the privileged space of encounter, interaction, economic activity and social integration of the cityHowever, not enough attention is being paid to their design, management and governance

4. Oken exchan Some pedestrian streets survived since colonial times, still vital with commerce. Sunlight is essential. Some others, in car dominated cities, were established as welcome exceptions. Still, monofunctional streets as a rule sacrifice diversity. And sometimes they were offered as a compensation for less pedestrian space in other streets. How to achieve best/balanced street performance remains an open question.

5. Peatonales Livable pedestrian streets in Buenos Aires and Lima

6. UN HABITAT WORLD URBAN FORUM 6th THE URBAN FUTURE Streets are the place for many vital urban functions, they structure citiesabove ground they contain buildings, commerce, open views vehicle (all kind of vehicles, 4, 2 wheels) and pedestrian movement, articulate public and private space, (where windows and doors from private open) greenery, drainageunderground they carry subway, utilities, pipelines.

7. Streets are the place for many vital urban functions:

8. Paseo de la Reforma, México City Monumentality A successful integration of vegetation

9. Población Vital streets in popular neighborhoods: the most frequent example, sometimes ignored in social housing or urban planning

10. Paisajísticas

11. Everything sacrificed to car circulation

12. Funcionalistas Everything sacrificed to car circulation (twice)

13. Avenida Jiménez, Bogotá, Colombia A balanced integration of mass transit and landscaped public pedestrian space. The physical environment helped to recover social and economic activity.

14. BRT funcionalista Curitiba, a pioneer in BRT , tied transportation to land use and density. Others took only the most visible part, regardless of different environments

15. Social improvement through street space redesign in a modest neighborhood (Patio Bonito, Bogotá). A solution reached through a participative planning process

16. UN HABITAT WORLD URBAN FORUM 6th THE URBAN FUTURE A parallelism: Narrow economic measurementGDP reductionism and human development/happinessNarrow street design conceptsTraffic engineering reductionism and urban performance of the streetHow to widen the criteria for designing, managing and governing the street?Buchanan put the concept in crisis, but it still remains rather dominantBRT is not one type fits all situationsThe view from the bus: the legible city.

17. The view from the bus

18. By offering wider references to professionals of the built environment, decision makers and community leaders School books and professional guides too often mirror the narrow approach New options are needed to frame a better debate for our urban future. That is our challenge.