7 PRINCIPLES FOR BULDING BETTER CITIES BY PETER CALTHORPE

Today in our society we are experimenting different problems, these are all related to the way we are solving our cities and living our live in our socity. These problems are the environment change that we are creating, the pollution, global warming, bad connections, traffic, the insolation of or community and families, high life costs and many others.

In the conference that Peter Calthorpe did about the “seven principles for building cities” he talks about his ideas of urbanism and his projects to solve these problems. His idea of the future is of a city that can thrive with high population and low density, well connected and with less contamination. The seven principles of Calthorpe are; first the conservation of the natural environment, that we as a society can create limits and be more friendly with our planet, secondly create a mix between land use, different groups of people and incomes, third create more walkable spaces, were the people can be able to walk or to ride a bike to different places, fourth more connection, public transportation that can give you access to everywhere, fifth transportation that is efficient and can give ride to all the people, and finally focus to the transit in the city not only thinking in one thing but taking all the information around us.