Hidalgo has also loosened rigid building codes, allowing residents, for example, to plant trees in their neighborhoods–an act that previously required overcoming steep bureaucratic hurdles.
Meanwhile, engineers have mapped the city’s buildings according to their energy efficiency, the mayor says, and so far have retrofitted about 50,000 of them with better insulation and ventilation. From 2024, diesel cars will be banned from Paris. That includes the road on the northern bank of the Seine River, which for years allowed drivers to zip across the city in minutes now it is reserved for pedestrians. In the process, Hidalgo has eliminated thousands of parking spaces and shut several key roads entirely to car traffic. Hidalgo’s most controversial act has been to create about 870 miles of bike lanes that now crisscross Paris, a plan she intends to vastly expand. “They have to be redesigned to be healthier and safer.” “Cities are a relic of the industrial age,” says Richard Florida, an urban specialist at the University of Toronto. While cities occupy just 2% of the earth’s surface, they consume 78% of the world’s energy and produce more than 60% of its entire carbon emissions, according to U.N.
PARIS FRANCE LOCKDOWN HOW TO
But it is the cities, where most of the world’s population lives, that must figure out how to meet those targets.
It was national leaders who signed the Paris Agreement, a 2015 global climate pact on carbon emissions.
and Europe and even in the megalopolis of Istanbul, mayors have pledged to create millions of acres of new parkland, finance companies’ switches to solar-powered electricity, retrofit buildings and ban private cars from inner-city districts, all in an effort to cut carbon footprints and rein in pollution. Hidalgo is hardly alone among city leaders in trying to transform urban life.
0 kommentar(er)
