{"id":3412,"date":"2024-03-25T09:36:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T21:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shapingourfuture.org.nz\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:18:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T23:18:50","slug":"an-inspirational-day-with-salvadore-rueda-queenstown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shapingourfuture.org.nz\/an-inspirational-day-with-salvadore-rueda-queenstown\/","title":{"rendered":"An inspirational day with Salvadore Rueda"},"content":{"rendered":"
A few months ago, Otago Regional Councillor Alexa Forbes emailed us<\/span> that a renowned European urban planner\/designer who had made legendary changes in Barcelona was coming to New Zealand and together <\/span>we invited him down to Queenstown and see if we could learn anything.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Our idea was to tour an old, a medium old and a new suburb, so we took Salvadore & Australian Urban Geographer Marco around Fernhill\/Sunshine Bay; Lake Hayes Estate & Shotover Country & Hanley’s Farm.<\/span><\/p>\n
We invited Queenstown locals, Councillors & Council staff to an evening public workshop to hear his reflections as well as a Q&A and a typical Shaping Our Future session with post it notes and wall charts. We could have carried on for hours \u2013 after all Barcelona is the city that put AirBnB back in its cage and we didn\u2019t even get to talk about that.<\/span><\/p>\n
Salvadore is most well-known for his Barcelona based \u201cSuperblocks theory\u201d where you manage traffic around and within urban areas to dramatically reduce speed and number of vehicles within the blocks which allows the \u2018citizens\u2019 who live there to re-purpose the spaces for other things \u2013 like playing with kids, conversations, fresh air, cafes\/bars.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>He\u2019s achieved huge change in a whole raft of other areas \u2013 primarily by leading and taking support from those who live in the community.<\/span><\/p>\n