[Music]
ah
Y
how many of you remember that they were
doing on the afternoon of March 29,
2017
that day that afternoon the worst began
natural disaster of the history of this
city commodore rivadavia here in the
heart of patagonia
I’m sure all of you still
they have those images in their memory and
those experiences that they had to live
from that difficult afternoon where the
streets through which we travel
daily in this city it
transformed into rivers of mud that
they dragged everything they found to their
step from the hills to the sea
that afternoon in which many of our
friends our family members
neighbors in the city had to
abandon their homes because they could no longer
prevent water from entering
that afternoon in which many were
picking up their kids in schools
of the city where it was beginning to form
the usual traffic of each day and where
suddenly chaos appeared in the
history of this city fell so much water
in such a short time
the water the rain did not give a truce
some days nothing more but in just
nine days a second temporary returned to
be destructive reburied this
time in mud to many of the houses in the
city and
again caused a lot of
evacuated and situations of anguish and
of a lot of impotence that is what
we felt at that moment all of us
I devote myself to planning at
urban and regional development for
many years working for the bank
inter – American development or I was part
of a team that implemented a
urban planning methodology
more than 50 cities in 26 countries of
Latin America and the Caribbean
this is an urgent challenge for all
our region because 7 out of 10
inhabitants in this continent live in
cities
one of the main aspects of
our work
in this initiative was to help the
cities to better plan their
growth but also to prepare
better in front of events
traumatic that nature generates and
natural disasters such as
fire earthquakes
floods
climate change globally makes
that these events occur every time
more frequently and have each time
greater intensity
but I did not have to live the city what
what happened in the city I did not live
the flood the storm with an expert
urban I had to live as an inhabitant
more like all of you
and what he gave me was an appreciation
different perhaps more profound of all
the problems and all the crises that
existed in this city before
the temporary
extreme social inequality
and a little respect for nature
problems of land use planning
of how we organize ourselves and what
we do with the use of the earth
and we do with mobility
and a development model that does not generate
I developed a growth model that
generates wealth but that does not generate
development in the city
what gave me also to have been here
at that moment dwelling this dear
city
can be part of the greatest experience
of solidarity that there is probably
existed in the history of how
the crisis was so profound so
unexpected that all of us had
that learn to help us and I’m sure
that each of you found the
way to help the one who needed it
in all the neighborhoods these appeared
heroes that first helped not to
lose more lives than those
they lost but they helped to recover
that the most difficult thing when the water goes down
with the mud goes there were the
neighbors were the friends doing and
helping you in everything you could
at that time I was wondering from
then it is something that resonates in me
head as a city after living
an event like this so traumatic that
It changes us forever to us and
change as city how can we
take advantage of it positively how
we transform
to that event in an opportunity
and in the world there are cities that have
fact
there are cities that have managed to go from
a difficult situation and that maybe a
very deep crisis has helped them
change and do even better than before
what happens
I want to talk about three cities
they are good examples but this did
I could talk about many other
the first is a city that we
Today we associate all around the
attractiveness that cities have
Europeans a vibrant dynamic city
interesting to know with a lot of life
cultural but nevertheless very recently
time the city of bilbao in the country
Basque ‘lived a deep crisis
economic a crisis where your
industrial monoculture your industry the
steel was in decline where
30 percent of the population does not
I had work I did not have expectations
and in the middle of that context after
many years from the 70’s
where the city entered a decline every
the worst is the worst
flood of its history in thousand 983
where the river after a week of
rain overflows the river as they say
he overflows and gets to advance
up to the water level until
first floors of the city a river that
by the industries it was contaminated
which not only destroys businesses
homes and lives but also leaves a
extremely high pollution level throughout
the city
a city that is almost the same
latitude that we but on the other side
of the pacific ocean called christchurch
in the second city of new zealand
he was also in a situation
difficult economic situation with the need
reinvent the industries or the
commercial or economic activities that
he had been given had helped him
grow they no longer had the same dynamism
and at that moment in its history in 2011
in February, one of the replicas of
one of the earthquakes that had happened
a few months ago much stronger but
this replica had its epicenter
practically below the city to a
level very close to the surface and it was
tremendously destructive
practically the historic center of the
city was completely worn
185 lost 185 people lost
their lives and many thousands more
they lost their homes
the third city that faced a
crisis that I want to tell you about is
medellin
Crises sometimes do not cause them
nature many times we provoke them
people
[Music]
in the case of Medellin in a situation
also from a very difficult economy of
a deep social inequality of a
extreme concentration of the wealth of
an absence of the state
and from a very high unemployment appears the
drug trafficking in the 80s
the first image that comes to us
head unfortunately when we think
in Medellin
the epidemic of urban violence that
arose from that moment came to
its peak in the year 2009 91 where they died
for homicides more than 6,800 people are
he met me at Medellin at that time
as the most violent city in the world
with the capital of homicides
these three cities
had
the ability to see can take advantage of their
hardest time the moment when
they hit bottom to reinvent themselves
They decided to be different and be better
I want to talk to you about that
and not because I think there are recipes that
we can apply
from one place to another I do not think that those
formulas he does served a city
that will serve us here in Commodore
but if since I think about these things
that the flood occurred
I try to analyze what things are
that those cities all these that
I mentioned there are many others had in
common elements someone common in a
city that takes advantage of its worst moment
to be better than before
I said no, I do not think it’s a formula
what this analysis can give us
What you have to give us are ideas for
have the conversations that are us
missing in the city to have the
constructive dialogues of where
we want to go
the three elements that I want
highlight and I want to talk with you
are fundamentally planning the
innovation and participation
concepts that may sound abstract
but when we see it how they served
that these cities can take off from
a difficult situation we are used to
rethink some things first
said the planning and the
planning is basically knowing towards
where we go planning is not
improvise
know where we want to go is to have
a vision of the future a vision that we
inspires and that allows us to structure a
plan or a road map to reach it
and at the moment this can be changing
it is not a process that is a check that is
something to fulfill is something that we
allows us to have a sheet of
clear concrete route to start
move towards where we want to go maybe
this is the main learning of
bilbao
bilbao as I was saying was a city
that had a series of difficulties and
that in his
main asset that is the estuary
they were
the shipyards industries all
the port equipment
that he also had his laugh completely
contaminated by what he discarded the
city and industries
and that nevertheless he could create a vision
collective where they wanted to go and the
central axis of that vision had to do
with recovering the river for people
with generating quality public spaces
with making that city attractive
so that all the young people the
city do not choose to go to look for a future
different future better elsewhere if not
also attract talented people
that here if they wanted to take advantage and live
there in that city
the icon perhaps of this transformation
so tremendous and so deep that
Bilbao experiment is the museum
guggenheim
but that museum would not have been so
successful if there had not been a vision
a planning that made sense
many cities wanted to avoid them
creating a museum were not successful
because they lacked that strategic vision
that ability to structure an entire
city and an attractive and a development
oriented to make a city of
services a city of knowledge
an entrepreneurial city
the second element that I wanted
highlight is the ability to innovate
the cities can also be
innovative
innovate involves fundamentally having
the courage to make difficult decisions
to change what we do not like and
risk to make mistakes there is no
innovation without the possibility of error
they told me he did tell me and here we see
the cable car metrocable is maybe
the biggest symbol that has the
transformation of the city seemed a
crazy to think that the cable car
it could be a public transport without
But the main challenge was
Medellin was to integrate the neighborhoods
vulnerable people who lived in the zones
high of the city with the rest of the
city not only raised it as
ideas but they proposed that what
they were going to do what they did they financed
and today is an effective solution as
they are also for example stairs
mechanical
in the public space that allow
connect and save many minutes and
travel hours to the most
humble people who lived in the high areas
from the city
and finally the plan
Planning and innovation are
interactive activities activities that
they do not make sense without the interaction of
people
that’s why the third element that I want
highlight is the participation the
participation puts everyone at the center
these processes to the people in the case
from the city of new zealand first thing
what they did when they had to start
to plan how to resurface how
rebuild their urban center that had
been completely destroyed and
unusable the first thing they did
he said he was listening to people
they created this initiative that was called
share your idea
tens of thousands of people of all
the ages took into account the
guys of course many times this is
forget but it is essential to think about
all in all possible views
everyone has something to contribute to the
collective construction of the city
they started by asking the
people and from there structure
a planning a city idea
that I had that I had a vision of being a
greener city more sustainable than
that were earlier prepared to do
in the face of natural disasters and that
put people in the center
city of human scale
in Medellin
the participation is in each of the
achievements that the city has reached
there are spaces where participation
is effective not only in planning
but in the management in the design of the
public policies and in the evaluation of
how effective those have been
public policies
and there is an element that many times
forget when you talk about the successful case
of medellin and is the identity that they have
the paisas the inhabitants of that region
the pride for their region the love for
his city
Respect and love for their traditions
for its values because of its history because
that is the basis that allows us to
we participate in something being part of
something more important than ourselves
experience shows us that neither
fires or floods and
earthquakes not even wars and
nuclear weapons as in hiroshima can
destroy a city because the city does not
are the buildings the city are the
people that we make a city
exist and make sense
when people believe
that the change is possible
when people have confidence in
that collective construction then the
change is possible
and as we discovered in the worst
moment of our history that we could
be a team that we could leave
ahead
this is the time to build
from that solidarity of that
tenacity that we had at the worst moment
build a better city
let us make March 29 , 2017 be
the day the reconstruction began
Commodore the day we started doing
that commodore is a better city is
possible
[Music]
ah
or not
ah
Y
how many of you remember that they were
doing on the afternoon of March 29,
2017
that day that afternoon the worst began
natural disaster of the history of this
city commodore rivadavia here in the
heart of patagonia
I’m sure all of you still
they have those images in their memory and
those experiences that they had to live
from that difficult afternoon where the
streets through which we travel
daily in this city it
transformed into rivers of mud that
they dragged everything they found to their
step from the hills to the sea
that afternoon in which many of our
friends our family members
neighbors in the city had to
abandon their homes because they could no longer
prevent water from entering
that afternoon in which many were
picking up their kids in schools
of the city where it was beginning to form
the usual traffic of each day and where
suddenly chaos appeared in the
history of this city fell so much water
in such a short time
the water the rain did not give a truce
some days nothing more but in just
nine days a second temporary returned to
be destructive reburied this
time in mud to many of the houses in the
city and
again caused a lot of
evacuated and situations of anguish and
of a lot of impotence that is what
we felt at that moment all of us
I devote myself to planning at
urban and regional development for
many years working for the bank
inter – American development or I was part
of a team that implemented a
urban planning methodology
more than 50 cities in 26 countries of
Latin America and the Caribbean
this is an urgent challenge for all
our region because 7 out of 10
inhabitants in this continent live in
cities
one of the main aspects of
our work
in this initiative was to help the
cities to better plan their
growth but also to prepare
better in front of events
traumatic that nature generates and
natural disasters such as
fire earthquakes
floods
climate change globally makes
that these events occur every time
more frequently and have each time
greater intensity
but I did not have to live the city what
what happened in the city I did not live
the flood the storm with an expert
urban I had to live as an inhabitant
more like all of you
and what he gave me was an appreciation
different perhaps more profound of all
the problems and all the crises that
existed in this city before
the temporary
extreme social inequality
and a little respect for nature
problems of land use planning
of how we organize ourselves and what
we do with the use of the earth
and we do with mobility
and a development model that does not generate
I developed a growth model that
generates wealth but that does not generate
development in the city
what gave me also to have been here
at that moment dwelling this dear
city
can be part of the greatest experience
of solidarity that there is probably
existed in the history of how
the crisis was so profound so
unexpected that all of us had
that learn to help us and I’m sure
that each of you found the
way to help the one who needed it
in all the neighborhoods these appeared
heroes that first helped not to
lose more lives than those
they lost but they helped to recover
that the most difficult thing when the water goes down
with the mud goes there were the
neighbors were the friends doing and
helping you in everything you could
at that time I was wondering from
then it is something that resonates in me
head as a city after living
an event like this so traumatic that
It changes us forever to us and
change as city how can we
take advantage of it positively how
we transform
to that event in an opportunity
and in the world there are cities that have
fact
there are cities that have managed to go from
a difficult situation and that maybe a
very deep crisis has helped them
change and do even better than before
what happens
I want to talk about three cities
they are good examples but this did
I could talk about many other
the first is a city that we
Today we associate all around the
attractiveness that cities have
Europeans a vibrant dynamic city
interesting to know with a lot of life
cultural but nevertheless very recently
time the city of bilbao in the country
Basque ‘lived a deep crisis
economic a crisis where your
industrial monoculture your industry the
steel was in decline where
30 percent of the population does not
I had work I did not have expectations
and in the middle of that context after
many years from the 70’s
where the city entered a decline every
the worst is the worst
flood of its history in thousand 983
where the river after a week of
rain overflows the river as they say
he overflows and gets to advance
up to the water level until
first floors of the city a river that
by the industries it was contaminated
which not only destroys businesses
homes and lives but also leaves a
extremely high pollution level throughout
the city
a city that is almost the same
latitude that we but on the other side
of the pacific ocean called christchurch
in the second city of new zealand
he was also in a situation
difficult economic situation with the need
reinvent the industries or the
commercial or economic activities that
he had been given had helped him
grow they no longer had the same dynamism
and at that moment in its history in 2011
in February, one of the replicas of
one of the earthquakes that had happened
a few months ago much stronger but
this replica had its epicenter
practically below the city to a
level very close to the surface and it was
tremendously destructive
practically the historic center of the
city was completely worn
185 lost 185 people lost
their lives and many thousands more
they lost their homes
the third city that faced a
crisis that I want to tell you about is
medellin
Crises sometimes do not cause them
nature many times we provoke them
people
[Music]
in the case of Medellin in a situation
also from a very difficult economy of
a deep social inequality of a
extreme concentration of the wealth of
an absence of the state
and from a very high unemployment appears the
drug trafficking in the 80s
the first image that comes to us
head unfortunately when we think
in Medellin
the epidemic of urban violence that
arose from that moment came to
its peak in the year 2009 91 where they died
for homicides more than 6,800 people are
he met me at Medellin at that time
as the most violent city in the world
with the capital of homicides
these three cities
had
the ability to see can take advantage of their
hardest time the moment when
they hit bottom to reinvent themselves
They decided to be different and be better
I want to talk to you about that
and not because I think there are recipes that
we can apply
from one place to another I do not think that those
formulas he does served a city
that will serve us here in Commodore
but if since I think about these things
that the flood occurred
I try to analyze what things are
that those cities all these that
I mentioned there are many others had in
common elements someone common in a
city that takes advantage of its worst moment
to be better than before
I said no, I do not think it’s a formula
what this analysis can give us
What you have to give us are ideas for
have the conversations that are us
missing in the city to have the
constructive dialogues of where
we want to go
the three elements that I want
highlight and I want to talk with you
are fundamentally planning the
innovation and participation
concepts that may sound abstract
but when we see it how they served
that these cities can take off from
a difficult situation we are used to
rethink some things first
said the planning and the
planning is basically knowing towards
where we go planning is not
improvise
know where we want to go is to have
a vision of the future a vision that we
inspires and that allows us to structure a
plan or a road map to reach it
and at the moment this can be changing
it is not a process that is a check that is
something to fulfill is something that we
allows us to have a sheet of
clear concrete route to start
move towards where we want to go maybe
this is the main learning of
bilbao
bilbao as I was saying was a city
that had a series of difficulties and
that in his
main asset that is the estuary
they were
the shipyards industries all
the port equipment
that he also had his laugh completely
contaminated by what he discarded the
city and industries
and that nevertheless he could create a vision
collective where they wanted to go and the
central axis of that vision had to do
with recovering the river for people
with generating quality public spaces
with making that city attractive
so that all the young people the
city do not choose to go to look for a future
different future better elsewhere if not
also attract talented people
that here if they wanted to take advantage and live
there in that city
the icon perhaps of this transformation
so tremendous and so deep that
Bilbao experiment is the museum
guggenheim
but that museum would not have been so
successful if there had not been a vision
a planning that made sense
many cities wanted to avoid them
creating a museum were not successful
because they lacked that strategic vision
that ability to structure an entire
city and an attractive and a development
oriented to make a city of
services a city of knowledge
an entrepreneurial city
the second element that I wanted
highlight is the ability to innovate
the cities can also be
innovative
innovate involves fundamentally having
the courage to make difficult decisions
to change what we do not like and
risk to make mistakes there is no
innovation without the possibility of error
they told me he did tell me and here we see
the cable car metrocable is maybe
the biggest symbol that has the
transformation of the city seemed a
crazy to think that the cable car
it could be a public transport without
But the main challenge was
Medellin was to integrate the neighborhoods
vulnerable people who lived in the zones
high of the city with the rest of the
city not only raised it as
ideas but they proposed that what
they were going to do what they did they financed
and today is an effective solution as
they are also for example stairs
mechanical
in the public space that allow
connect and save many minutes and
travel hours to the most
humble people who lived in the high areas
from the city
and finally the plan
Planning and innovation are
interactive activities activities that
they do not make sense without the interaction of
people
that’s why the third element that I want
highlight is the participation the
participation puts everyone at the center
these processes to the people in the case
from the city of new zealand first thing
what they did when they had to start
to plan how to resurface how
rebuild their urban center that had
been completely destroyed and
unusable the first thing they did
he said he was listening to people
they created this initiative that was called
share your idea
tens of thousands of people of all
the ages took into account the
guys of course many times this is
forget but it is essential to think about
all in all possible views
everyone has something to contribute to the
collective construction of the city
they started by asking the
people and from there structure
a planning a city idea
that I had that I had a vision of being a
greener city more sustainable than
that were earlier prepared to do
in the face of natural disasters and that
put people in the center
city of human scale
in Medellin
the participation is in each of the
achievements that the city has reached
there are spaces where participation
is effective not only in planning
but in the management in the design of the
public policies and in the evaluation of
how effective those have been
public policies
and there is an element that many times
forget when you talk about the successful case
of medellin and is the identity that they have
the paisas the inhabitants of that region
the pride for their region the love for
his city
Respect and love for their traditions
for its values because of its history because
that is the basis that allows us to
we participate in something being part of
something more important than ourselves
experience shows us that neither
fires or floods and
earthquakes not even wars and
nuclear weapons as in hiroshima can
destroy a city because the city does not
are the buildings the city are the
people that we make a city
exist and make sense
when people believe
that the change is possible
when people have confidence in
that collective construction then the
change is possible
and as we discovered in the worst
moment of our history that we could
be a team that we could leave
ahead
this is the time to build
from that solidarity of that
tenacity that we had at the worst moment
build a better city
let us make March 29 , 2017 be
the day the reconstruction began
Commodore the day we started doing
that commodore is a better city is
possible
[Music]
ah
or not
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