City twinning activities between
Belo Horizonte and Santiago de Chile
Site visit report
Belo Horizonte and Santiago de Chile
Site visit report
Elaborated by Eveline Trevisan
Reviewed by María Rosa Muñoz Barriga
Background
The Urban Pathways project has been supporting Belo Horizonte (Brazil), one of its four pilot cities, in the implementation of sustainable mobility pilot projects, with a strong focus on non-motorised transport (NMT). Accordingly, Belo Horizonte’s Transportation and Transit Agency (BHTRANS) has been invited to participate in several forums, workshops and trainings mostly in Latin American cities.
In September / October 2019, Urban Pathways supported Belo Horizonte in the implementation of a Zone 30 using tactical urbanism as a tool in the surroundings of the Anne Frank School in Belo Horizonte’s low-income neighbourhood Confisco. The successful implementation of this Zone 30, led to important lessons learnt, as well as the need to understand and learn from similar processes being carried out in the region.
In January 2019, during the Cities Sustainable Infrastructure Forum organised by Urban Pathways in Quito, Belo Horizonte had the opportunity to know the work of Ciudad Emergente[1]. Ciudad Emergente is a Chilean NGO a vast experience in implementing urban projects operated at multiple scales in more than 10 countries, mostly in Latin America. Their projects go from short-term actions known as tactical urbanism, to social innovation processes, addressing citizen participation as well as urban design projects, architecture and long-term strategy planning for cities. Urban Pathways has relied on the expertise of Ciudad Emergente for several workshops and webinars.
In this context, after a series of calls, e-mails, webinars and other virtual exchange, with the support of Urban Pathways a site visit to Santiago de Chile was organised, in order to promote peer-to-peer exchange related to the processes and methodologies behind the public space interventions that have been carried out in both cities, Belo Horizonte and Santiago.
Eveline Trevisan, UP focal point and part of the UP Change Maker programme, was appointed to represent Belo Horizonte in the aforementioned site visit. Eveline is the Sustainability and Environment Coordinator at the Belo Horizonte Transportation and Transit Agency - BHTRANS, from where she leads the Bicycle Mobility Program and the processes for the implementation of Zone 30 projects that aim, in addition to promoting a new use of public space, to increase road safety for pedestrians and cyclists.
[1] https://ciudademergente.org
Reviewed by María Rosa Muñoz Barriga
Background
The Urban Pathways project has been supporting Belo Horizonte (Brazil), one of its four pilot cities, in the implementation of sustainable mobility pilot projects, with a strong focus on non-motorised transport (NMT). Accordingly, Belo Horizonte’s Transportation and Transit Agency (BHTRANS) has been invited to participate in several forums, workshops and trainings mostly in Latin American cities.
In September / October 2019, Urban Pathways supported Belo Horizonte in the implementation of a Zone 30 using tactical urbanism as a tool in the surroundings of the Anne Frank School in Belo Horizonte’s low-income neighbourhood Confisco. The successful implementation of this Zone 30, led to important lessons learnt, as well as the need to understand and learn from similar processes being carried out in the region.
In January 2019, during the Cities Sustainable Infrastructure Forum organised by Urban Pathways in Quito, Belo Horizonte had the opportunity to know the work of Ciudad Emergente[1]. Ciudad Emergente is a Chilean NGO a vast experience in implementing urban projects operated at multiple scales in more than 10 countries, mostly in Latin America. Their projects go from short-term actions known as tactical urbanism, to social innovation processes, addressing citizen participation as well as urban design projects, architecture and long-term strategy planning for cities. Urban Pathways has relied on the expertise of Ciudad Emergente for several workshops and webinars.
In this context, after a series of calls, e-mails, webinars and other virtual exchange, with the support of Urban Pathways a site visit to Santiago de Chile was organised, in order to promote peer-to-peer exchange related to the processes and methodologies behind the public space interventions that have been carried out in both cities, Belo Horizonte and Santiago.
Eveline Trevisan, UP focal point and part of the UP Change Maker programme, was appointed to represent Belo Horizonte in the aforementioned site visit. Eveline is the Sustainability and Environment Coordinator at the Belo Horizonte Transportation and Transit Agency - BHTRANS, from where she leads the Bicycle Mobility Program and the processes for the implementation of Zone 30 projects that aim, in addition to promoting a new use of public space, to increase road safety for pedestrians and cyclists.
[1] https://ciudademergente.org
