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=**RSTT Script** = Good morning, my name is Andreína Hernandez and I will talk to you about sustainable urban development and some ways to develop sustainable cities.  Let´s start with the definition of sustainable urban development: the UN defines it as "development that meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" But to this concept it is necessary to seek a balance between social, economic and environmental; this idea is expressed in the image. This picture shows the balance between the 3 factors and how we can find sustainability on it. But what does the city need to be sustainable? As I have been talking a little bit about the general idea of sustainable urban development, I would like to explain one of the points of this topic, which is sustainable mobility, one of the most important because we live day by day the transit chaos in our city Caracas. What is sustainable mobility? Sustainable mobility, in few words is a set of actions that aims and achieve a rational use of transport What kind of problems can it solve? > > In Caracas, as in most of the cities, the government attempts to solve problems as the insecurity, the quality of pedestrian spaces and the public transportation, factors that are extremely closed to the unsustainability Now I will show you two examples of cities that have applied some criteria of sustainable mobility, one in Latin America and one in Europe. The first one is Bogotá, where the use of car has been minimized since some time ago, encouraging the use of bicycles as transport, but to reach this point, the government of Bogotá conditioned the state-passages and created an interconnected system of bicycle routes to these public spaces. The second case is the city of Bilbao in Spain, where the solution was very similar to what Bogota´s government did to encourage the use of non-polluting ways of transport. In this case, they created bicycle parking to minimize vehicular pollution and traffic. These are two good examples that could easily adapt to the reality of our city, so little by little people will return to the non-polluting ways of transportation and achieve a better quality of life without harming the environment. We can apply the sustainable mobility to reality of Caracas and is necessary in our cities.
 * Parking facility.
 * Improve cycle paths, construction of pedestrian areas.
 * Promote car sharing.
 * Promote the Increased road safety education and public transport provision.
 * But what really would be a great solution would be to reduce car traffic to make more sustainable transportation in our cities.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Excessive use of cars is a problem that the environment has to endure.

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