Detailed description (English): The action is part of the line of work of the Child Friendly Cities, an international initiative proposed at the UN conference on Human Rights held in 1996, where the need to ensure the participation in society of children and young people was established. as well as their protection and support, providing them with a healthy living environment.
The scientific literature (psychological, sociological and urban), gives us the image of a city that is increasingly inadequate to meet the needs of citizens. The logic of differentiation and specialization of uses, which has guided the urban transformation in recent decades, has ended up fragmenting the city into separate places, making it lose its original nature as a place of meeting and social exchange. In this new dimension, which should mainly correspond to the needs of an adult and working citizen, the car becomes the main protagonist: it occupies public spaces, contaminates the air and kills a large number of people. The action involves students of the Degree in Architecture that are redesigning the urban space of the campus of our University to provide safer spaces, trying to solve the main problem of our campus: traffic.
Target group(s): CEU UNIVERSITIES STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS
Objectives: The design of the student will create priority zones for children with interventions that include ways to reduce the speed of traffic, streets and areas that are organized exclusively for games, with urban furniture for children, pop up parks that are generated in some areas, improvement of paving and sidewalks, with indications on the ground in colors to indicate play areas, zebra crossings, clearly identifiable and visible to children. A new safer urban environment is been designed through a strategy that refers to transportation. Safer environments with protected bike lanes, a more efficient bus system, and new parks and playgrounds.
Partner: FAB LAB MADRID CEU
Spain