During our visit to Pontevedra, together with the city authorities, we, as the Placemaking Europe Team, started to reflect on the themes of the #PlacemakingWeekEurope2022 . During our stay we went everywhere on foot. We learned about the transformation that Ponteverda experienced over the last 20 years oriented around human-scale; witnessing first-hand that a city can and should organise itself around pedestrians. Pontevedra implemented, and now maintains, many smart, and not necessarily expensive, traffic calming strategies. These included hardware (i.e. infrastructure solutions), orgware (e.g. coalitions, tools, policies) and software (e.g. usage, wayfinding, pedestrian flows, walking and driving experience) transformations.
For example, the city has intentionally and gradually made changes to the infrastructure in order to increase space for pedestrians, rather than cars. As the organisation of a street naturally depends on the specific contextual needs of its location – such as the available width – some streets are designed for pedestrians only, while others may involve the coexistence of pedestrians and cars.
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