I'm Hans Monderman, I'm talking about road design and how you can change road design for cars into
road design for people again.

Actually I take you with a little learning trip about the things I've learned in the past about road design.
This is actually shared space. People share the space. It is shared maybe even the enjoyment of a cigarette
and this is what happend to us. Suddenly the car popped up and took a little bit of our shared space
and it wasn't very dominant. You could use it together. But it stopped when technicians took over the space for cars.
This isn't shared space anymore. This is typical a road for cars and the dominance
you can see in the width of the road and grandpa on his bicycle is a little bit lost in space now. This is what
engineers found out. This was actually what we called the walking lamposts. They blocked the street for
cars and it was actually a little bit war against cars. The problem was the picture before there was a problem
I was facing. People are asking for me please help us. We can't build a bicycle paths. We don't want to lose our
gardens but there were more than 6000 cars speeding with more than 60KM and actually society had a problem
and I couldn't do these speed bumps anymore because the politicians hated me for all these kind of stuff. I had
to find something new and I said, I don't know, maybe you should build a little bit more village like. When they
asked me what I meant I wouldn't have known but you'd especially so yes, you have to tell and this is the

solution we made. This is a little bit more village like and first I didn't dare to show my face. It thought
well this will go wrong anyway. No speed bumps, no sheetkongs, no red and white signs, just
a village that have kept silent and after a few weeks well I take my radar gun and let's measure
this peak and it was so strang when we make a lot of flower pots and speed bumps, speed drops
about 10 %. And this situation speed dropped more than half. Speed couldn't be measured with
a radar gun anymore. So what happened? When you want people to behave in a village, as in a village
you have to build a village but we didn't build villages, we built discos and
people behaved like that. It's that simple and actually we can build highways in a
wonderful way that's not a problem. We can build (inaudible) even that's simple. But the road
in between has the most erosion, has the most accident figures. And actually you shouldn't want a world in
between. This is a picture of the world in between. This is the world in between for drinking a cup of coffee
you would traffic sign into your knees. The world in between is the most historic place in our
country side. This is what engineers make of it or even we want for trees. As if people don't know what
trees are. We treat people like zombies, like idiots and then we are looking like, why do you behave so strange.
Yes, you treating like that.

I don't see a word. Or this, what do you think of this sign? What space do we build that we have to warn
people in this way and I think what you now is actually I think every risk has been eliminated.
All of politicians and all the civil servants can go to sleep, we have done our job in a (inaudible) well way.
But a cartoonist looked at it and said well it looks as if you just have only signs, only
regulations. It's not a world of poeople anymore. Now a little bit of explanation. When I translate this picture
to you from my profession, what you see is a road of 7 meters wide and there is a bicycle path. Along side is a little
house on the streen and in the middle of the street pass 6000 cars a day with a speed of
about 78 KM in a 58% velue. Four buses each hour. And I take another picutre.
This one. This is a Sandy Hill were the people like to live and there was a baronnet having a wonderful
house and someone had to take care of the hair when he wanted to (inaudible) in the afternoon. He lived in this little house
and actually people liked this place. It's a wonderful forest for waking a walk and it's dry and it's a nice
climate. It's a wonderful place to liver over here. Two stories on on two places. One is objective, the way of a
traffic engineer. The other story is a subject and actually what we learn now is that
people are not objects. People are subjects and space is not an object. Space is a subject but when you talk to a traffic
engineer he is always tell you a lot of figures. This is what a traffic engineer is like. A well organized place and this is
what the cartoonist think of it. That's what actually we make of our public space and for instance it was a group of musicians
in the past. Now a day in Holland it isn't any more. It's a civilian platoon. Walking on
the right side of the street, following the rules for cold wagons. Red on the back and white on the front and
darkness and there is a leader who shouild be assigned officially.

And this is what I saw the moment I left the ferry and this is what I saw. It's absolutely chaotic. But it's the start
of a holiday and after four weeks when you'r back home you think that was really quality. Here my holiday
started. The meeting all these people on these place and never an accident happens. So chaosis and quality ca
be the same.

And this is the most threating picture that I can show you. When you look at traffic behavior and you put
on the other side social behavior, they are contridictous. So whenever you saw someone behave in a
social way in a suite it's absolutely by accident. Government didn't look for it. It's not part of the system. We
design for two worlds and which world do we design for. We make mostly a mixture of it and that's war. This is
what can be done for instance in Copenhagen. The people got back the street. Their own maintenance money
and they organized their own behavior. When they want to pass that (inaudible) (inaudible). You have to make shut and
make it (inaudible) to the people. It's their street but it's still an open street or multifunctionality or

just organize (inaudible) around the street and you will see that the behaviors changes immediately.
Or use art, it's that simple. Or use architecture. In the past there were two villages, one on the left and one
in the right and now we change the road a little to the middle and suddenly you can see the church again. It's
that simple or when you want people to behave as in a village, build a village. This is a nothing more than a
village. That's what people need to know and you don't speed over here. It's that simple or a market place.
Why can't you meet each othe. With a camping site it goes quite well so why not in the traffic system and we did it on more than 100
different locations and it works quite simple. You hardly hear any complaints anymore. This is a big shopping
street with 6000 cars and we're learning to cope with the problem of the amount of traffic more and more. This
is a crossing with 12,000 cars a day. It works just as well and here in England you see we have got a lot of fences
keeping the pedestrians away of the street and now the reorganized it and they had a decrease in accident figures
for pedestrians for more than 60%. It's in a part of London, Kensington High street. Another place in London. Tokyo
have taken over these ideas already. You see it, the same principle. The is in Barcelona, Spain. This was in China. A new
city I was sent it by a colleague. He said well already shared space is part of China. Denmark is quite a (inaudible) in a
wonderful area for pedestrians. Barcelona again, another street. And this is the big crossing. This is the biggest
scheme I've ever did up until now, 22,000 cars a day. So a fairly crowed crossing. Many of the crossing here in
San Fransico will have the amount of more than 20,000 to about this figure and we took away all the signs and all
the rubish and clutter of the traffic system and this is what's left over. Quite a simple roundabout but it's park is just
as flat as the square is and what you see is absolutely social interaction between people. The flow of traffic is better. We
hardly have any accidents anymore. This is a wonderful place to be but that's the little problem where the people
are complaining a bit. They say well we feel socially more safe but the traffic system is more dangerous and I think
that's a little bit of price that people have to pay. The amount of risk is making them aware of the fact that they have
their own responsibility and people don't like that fact because all the aspect are fairly positive in what people think
about it. Everything goes better but when you ask them they say well it's a little bit unsafe or they mostly say
oh whenever you would have given another answer I would have changed it immediately because then it really
would have been really have been very dangerous. When you don't percieve risk anymore, then you have a dangerous
crossing. But explaining it is still difficult especially for politicians but it works wonderfully now and it's actually
quite simple. what you did is when you have a crossing and you build a context around it where people feel attach to.
They feel attach to the context and behave conforming to the context and the context is nice fountains and a theatre.
The place to be, a nice place to be and then they suddenly behave as human being again and it's so strange that we
have to find out it as something new because actually this was our human world and it was a traffic system that neglected
the human factor and when you bring in that human factor, you can bring it into new designs and we build wonderful
cities with cars but into our proffesion, the separation of pedestians and traffic was part of our thinking, of our profession
and what you actually can see is there is a new way of design in which you can mix culture, context, and people together
and you find wonderful effects except that people have to cope with risk a little bit. I thank you. Thank you.