Liveability Criteria Exercise - Puerta del Ángel (Madrid), España.
FC-02x Livable Future Cities (1st Run) - Compulsory Exercise 1
Uploaded on 2015-10-12 by ronsa
**Q1** 1 Safety. 2 Job Opportunities. 3 Culture. 4 Environment. 5 Health Care. **Q2** 1 Sense of Community. 2 Job Opportunities. 3 Culture. 4 Environment. 5 Urban Mobility. ![Madrid Río (Environment)][1] ![Floating Cabaret Party (Sense of Community and Culture)][2] ![Solidarity Market (Sense of Community)][3] **Q3** My own place of residence fulfills almost entirely my ideal livability criteria. Is fulfilled with the 5 criteria I’ve selected in Q1, furthermore there is a profound sense of community. The only downside is very important: despite having a good urban mobility, it can’t be considered as sustainable urban mobility because there is very little road space for pedestrians. Most of the road space is allocated to the motor vehicle. It has come to the situation of finding sidewalks occupied by vehicles; there is therefore little pedestrian mobility. (Scale 100% rate ideal livability criteria). (Scale 75% rate my ideal livability criteria). **Q4** If I were the mayor of my place of residence I'd take into account the concept of urbanism defended by visionaries like Jane Jacobs and William H. Whyte supporting the vitality of public space. Especially, according to Jacobs, I´d take as measures: a security model based on trust of the neighborhood, the generation of diversity, combining primary uses, the need for concentration, etc. All this argues for the importance of the relations of people with public use and social cohesion, both reviews require, among other things, the existence of public road, but not a public road any but an urban space where people decide which city they want based on their daily experiences, summarizing a bottom-up planning in the opinion of society is present in planning decisions. **Q5** I don’t want to move, but in case I had to move I’d choose: Toulouse. Barcelona. Berlin. Qualities of these places that played important role during my decision process: 1 Sense of Community. 2 Job Opportunities. 3 Culture. 4 Environment. 5 Sustainable Urban Mobility. [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/144464736614132.jpg [2]: http:// [3]: http://