The 4 commandments of cities Eduardo Paes

so great honor to be here it’s a great

honor to be talking about cities talking

about the future of cities it’s great to

be here as a mayor I really do believe

that mayor’s have the political position

to really change people lives that steps

the place to be and it’s great to be

here as the mayor of Rio Rio is a

beautiful city a violent place special

place actually you look into a guy that

has the best job in the world and I

really wanted to share you a very

special moment of my life and the

history of the city of Rio and now

ladies and gentlemen the envelope

contained the result

to announce that the games of the 31st

Olympiad awarded to the city of Rio de

canela okay that’s very touching very

emotional but it was not easy to get

there actually was a very hard challenge

we had to beat the European monarchy

this is say one Carlos king of Spain we

had to beat the power for Japanese with

all their technology we had to be the

most powerful man in the world defending

his own city so it was not easy at all

and actually this last guy here said a

phrase a few years ago that I think fits

perfectly to the situation of real

winning the Olympic bid I mean we really

showed that yes we can and I really this

is the reason I came here tonight i mean

i came in i just showed to tell you that

things can be done that you don’t have

always to be rich or powerful to get

things on the way that cities are a

great challenge it’s a difficult task to

deal with cities but with some original

ways of getting things done with some

basic commandments you can really get

cities to be a great great place to live

i watch all to imagine real I mean you

probably fool thing about a city full of

energy a vibrant city full of green and

nobody showed that better than carlos

saldanha last year’s real

this is incredible

Oh

okay some parts of real I pretty much

like that but it’s not like that

everywhere we like every big city in the

world we got lots of people pollution

cars concrete lots of concrete these

pictures i’m showing here they are some

pictures from modulator it’s like the

heart of the suburb in rio and i want to

use an example of real that we’re doing

madrid in this region to see what we

should think it’s our first commandment

so every time you see a concrete jungle

like that what you got to do is find

open spaces if you don’t have open

spaces you got to go there at open

spaces so go inside this open spaces and

make that people can get inside can use

that spaces this is going to be the

third largest park in real I June this

year it’s going to be a place where

people can meet where you can put nature

the temperature is going to drop 23

degrees centigrade so the first

commandment I want to leave your

tinnitus city of the future has to be

environmentally friendly every time you

think of a city you gotta think green

you got a fing green and green so moving

to our second commandment that I wanted

to show you let’s think that cities are

made of people I mean lots of people

together cities a packed with people so

how do you do you move these people

around when you have 3.5 billion people

living in cities by 2050 it’s going to

be 60 million people so every time you

think about moving these people around

you think about high-capacity

transportation but there is a problem

high-capacity transportation means

spending lots and lots of money so what

I’m going to show here is something that

was already presented in Ted by the

former mayor of Curitiba you created

that a city in Brazil Jamie Lana and

it’s something that we’re doing again

lots in real it’s the BRT the bus rapid

transit so you get a bus the simple bus

that everybody knows you transform it

inside as a train car you separate lanes

dedicated lanes the contractors they

don’t like that you don’t have to dig

deep down on the ground you can build

nice stations this is actually a station

that we’re doing real

again you don’t have to dig deep down on

the ground to make a station like that

the station you have the sink on for the

same features as a subway station the

kilometer of these costs a tenth of a

subway so spending much less money and

doing it much faster you can really

change the way people move this is a map

of real all the lines the color lines

you see there it’s our high-capacity

transportation network in this present

time today we only carry eighteen

percent of our population in

high-capacity transportation with the

BRTS we are doing again cheapest and

fastest way we’re going to move to

sixty-three percent of the population

being carried by high-capacity

transportation so remember what I said

you don’t always have to be rich or

powerful to get things done you can find

the regional ways to get things done so

the second commandment I want to leave

here tonight is a city of the future has

to deal with mobility and integration of

its people moving to the third

commandment and this is the most

controversial one has to do with the

favelas the slums whatever you call it

there are different names all over the

world but at the point we want to make

your tinnitus favelas are not always a

problem I mean favelas can sometimes

really be a solution if you deal with

them if you put public policy inside the

favelas let me just show a map of Rio

again Rio has 6.3 million inhabitants

more than twenty percent 1.4 million

live in the favelas all these red spots

are favela so you see they’re spread all

over the city this is a typical view of

a favela in rio I mean you see the

contrast between the rich and poor so I

want to make two points here tonight

about favelas the first one is you can

change from what I call a visual circle

to a virtual circle but what you got to

do to get that is you got to go inside

the favelas bring in the basic services

mainly education and health with high

quality i’m going to give fast example

here this was an old beauty in a favela

in rio culinary denominator

that we just transformed into a primary

school I mean with high quality this is

a primary assistant in health that we

build inside a favela again with high

quality we call it Family Clinic so the

first point is that bring basic services

inside the favelas with high quality the

second point I want to make about the

favela sees you gotta open spaces in the

favela bring infrastructure to the

favelas to the slums wherever you are I

mean Rio has the aim by 2022 by volt

it’s favelas completely urbanized

another example this was completely

packed with house and then we build this

what we call a knowledge square this is

a place with high technology where the

kids that live in a poor house next to

this place can go inside and have access

to all technology we even build a

theater there 3d movie and this is the

kind of change you can get for that so

then by the end of the day you get

something better than a TED Prize which

is this great life from a kid that lived

in the favela so the third commandment I

want to live here tonight is a city of

the future has to be socially integrated

you cannot deal with the city if it

starts socially integrated but moving to

our fourth commandment I really wouldn’t

be here tonight I mean between november

and may 30 is completely packed we just

had last week carnival it was great it

was lots of fun we have New Year’s Eves

like two million people in Copacabana

beach we have problems I mean we find

floods tropical rains at this time of

the year you can imagine how people get

happy with me watching this kind of

scenes we have problems with the

tropical rains almost every year we have

this landslide which are terrible but

the reason I could come here it’s

because of that this was something that

we do that with IBM that’s a little bit

more than a year old it’s what we call

the operation center of real and I

wanted to show that I can govern my city

using technology from here from long

beach so I got your last Titanic know

everything we got to speak now to the

operations center this is also a Leo his

secretary of urban affair

so it’s all good to be there with you

I’ve already told it to people that we

have tropical rain this time of the year

so how’s the weather he real now whether

it’s fine we had a fair weather today

let me catch you our weather satellite

radar you see just a little bit of

moisture around the city absolutely no

problem in the cheat in terms of weather

today and in the next few days ok how’s

the traffic I mean with this time of

year again lots of traffic jam people

get married aamir so how’s the traffic

tonight well traffic tonight is fine let

me get you one of our budgets what about

8,000 versus arrived transmission

enzymes are real for you mr. mayor you

see the streets are clear now it’s 11pm

in real locking of concern in terms of

traffic I’ll get to you now the

incidence of the day we have heavy

traffic since early in the morning and

in the rush hour in the afternoon but

nothing of be concerned we are below

average in terms of traffic incidents in

the city ok so you show you how some

public services these are the cars

absolutely good to me let me get you the

fleet of our waste collection but this

is live transmissions we have gps is in

all of our trucks and you can see them

working in all parts of the city waste

collection on times public service is

working well ok let’s audio thank you

very much it was great to have you here

we’re going to move so they can make a

conclusion ok so dope files displays no

paperwork no distance 24-7 working so

the fourth commandment i want to share

you here tonight is city of the future

has to use technology to be present i

mean i don’t need to be there anymore to

know and to administrate the sea but

everything that i said it tonight are

the commandments are means a ways for us

to govern cities I mean invest in

infrastructure invests in the green open

parks open spaces integrate socially use

technology but by the end of the day

when we talk about cities we talk about

gathering of people and we cannot see

that as a problem that is fantastic if

there’s three

my five billion now it’s going to be six

billion then it’s going to be 10 billion

that is great that means that we’re

going to have 10 billion minds working

together 10 billion talents together so

a city of the future I really do believe

that it’s a city that cares about its

citizens integrate socially its citizens

a city of the future is a city that can

never let anyone out of this great party

which are cities thank you very much