Also, in places that we feel invited to sit for a while and enjoy, like that street in Frankfurt, the human scale is str

Having said that, I think it’s important for us to realize how cities for people bring so many advantages to our quality of life while being closely linked to sustainability and safety. This shows the amazing potential this type of city has to solve 21st-century hurdles, such as carbon dioxide emissions, urban mobility issues, air quality, and many others. The only bad news people-friendly cities carry is for cars.

As stated by Jan Gehl, the more highways are built, the more cars appear, but — fortunately — the same goes for bikes. The more cycling infrastructure, the more people will feel invited to bike. He demonstrates this point by referencing the process that’s been happening in Copenhagen for the past few decades. The city’s been removing car lanes and parking lots to create better and safer conditions for bikes. The population, year by year, is increasingly invited to use their bikes.

According to Jan Gehl — author Cities for People — cities that invest in creating better conditions for pedestrians, as a result, see significant improvement and growth in social activities. To illustrate this, Gehl mentions Melbourne, Australia. In the 1980s, the central area of Melbourne was nicknamed “donut”, owing to the fact that it was an empty space. Between 1994 and 2004, the city underwent a series of improvements to intensify city life. People-friendly squares were created, many of the city’s neglected lanes were incorporated as staying space for pedestrians, sidewalks were widened and new urban furniture was created. In consequence, the city grew from 1,000 people living there in 1992 to 10,000 in 2002. Besides, pedestrian influxes during the day increased by 39% and during the night by 50%, since they also elaborated a great lighting system.

Take Vancouver for example, the downtown area is very dense, it has a mixture of uses and is very bike-friendly. As a result, the streets are always filled with people. Also, housing prices are incredibly high.

We can only talk about pain in terms of itself because there is no language for pain outside of pain. The pain itself is a sense, a feeling that we don’t recognize like seeing and smelling and hearing. Instead of sensing light or chemicals or audio waves, pain is the sense for things that are breaking or being broken, which is happening all the time around us and to us, inside us. Maybe we are feeling the pain of things breaking out there as well and instead of listening and changing or understanding, we ignore and control.

For a moment, I felt lighter, brighter, but the pain was still attached to me. Maybe I should have performed some ritual with the cut-off hair, buried or burned it. Maybe I didn’t do enough — that is always the next thought: What could I have done differently to keep the pain away? Or maybe the story I was telling didn’t have an ending (no burning or burying, no ritual), so it keeps going.

As put by the brilliant Jane Jacobs in “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, on successful streets, people must appear at different times. The mix of uses ensures precisely that. Restaurants, shops, and residential uses all have different operating times. Restaurants and businesses that stay open until late at night are especially important, since streets tend to be less safe at night. That guarantees more “eyes upon the street” — as Jacob calls it — which means people occupying the street, and that’s what makes them safer.

Having said that, I think it’s important for us to realize how cities for people bring so many advantages to our quality of life while being closely linked to sustainability and safety. This shows the amazing potential this type of city has to solve 21st-century hurdles, such as carbon dioxide emissions, urban mobility issues, air quality, and many others. The only bad news people-friendly cities carry is for cars.

“Pain isn’t real; it’s just an electrical signal sent from an injured part of the body to the brain.” This is the mantra (or some variation of it) that self-help books tell us to repeat to remind ourselves that the terrible, mind-altering (literally, physically mind-altering) pain we are suffering is not really real pain (by which they mean the pain from an acute injury: a cut, a broken bone, a burn, a heart attack), but only a message we can choose to ignore. But what if it is “real?” What if it is another sense, like vision, that feels something out there or in here that we can’t sense in other ways? A sense for violence. A sense for things that break and cut, burn and penetrate. A sense for things that are breaking in a way we can’t sense otherwise. What would it feel like if the liver was trying to communicate that it was processing too much insulin and failing?

The mix of residential and commercial use is essential for people-friendly cities, for it shortens the distances, making the city more walkable. But also, it makes the streets safer.

Although, as Jane Jacobs points out, the development of modern city planning has frowned upon high density — based on an erroneous relation between high density and slums — this trait is a crucial source of vitality.

Besides, the lesser use of resources and the depletion of pollution are other advantages of high-density urban settings. This configuration allows people to walk or bike to work, school, shops, or other places in the city. Cars can almost grow into obsolescence in this context, especially if it is thought-out alongside great public transportation infrastructure. Consequently, air quality improves, as well as urban mobility, and, of course, carbon dioxide emissions decrease.

Shopfronts, people to watch, friends to run into, spontaneous conversations with strangers, the richness of details in the urban space, great sidewalks are a few traits present in cities that regard its social functions as essential — that’s what makes walks interesting.

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ogy at his father’s funeral, Malcolm talked about how his dad married his mother, a Black woman, in 1959, because he loved her. He didn’t need any other reasons. He didn’t question what society would think. He didn’t lose any sleep worrying about if it was a good decision or not. He simply did what felt right.

Investment in cycling infrastructure means more than just caring about the environment, as I brought up previously. It means caring about city vitality, for it creates more “eyes on the street”.