Dutch social scientist says redesigning our cities to be less car-centric will foster a sense of community, improve wellbeing and help the environment
But te Brömmelstroet wants Australians to arrive at the realisation themselves: that redesigning our streets for more bikes, pedestrians and non-car uses are logical answers to stubborn societal problems such as poor physical and mental health, road safety, traffic and even loneliness.
“Streets here have become places that we see through the eyes of traffic, and this is a recent way of thinking because our streets for a long time have served many different purposes. They could be so much more but it’s been given away for the current system.” “Promising bike lanes won’t win votes,” he said. “The point of the resistance and the vitriol shows we are framing it in the wrong way.”
“When people are not in metal boxes but are meeting and looking at each other and acknowledging them, they have a higher sense of belonging, a higher sense of community and trust.”
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