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Sweden imagines life after cars with âone-minute citiesâ As most greenhouse gas emissions occur in cities, by far, we need to demonstrate how we can switch out old systems and cultures for new ones, retrofitting our existing environments.
If you took the cars away, what could you fit in a parking space?
That’s what cities in Sweden are trying to answer through a new project called Street Moves that works with local communities to transform urban parking spaces into “one-minute cities” for sitting, storing bikes, growing plants or whatever else the neighborhood feels it needs. The end goal? To make every street in Sweden “healthy, sustainable and vibrant by 2030,” according to Street Moves material reported by Bloomberg CityLab.
It was a couple of parking spaces a few days ago. But now the area outside Malin Henriksson Talcoth’s gourmet sausage shop in Göteborg has a bench, a picnic table and racks for cycles and e-scooters. It also has people talking, eating and enjoying themselves, despite sub-zero temperatures. The workmen had arrived the previous week and built the wooden unit with benches facing, importantly, towards the pavement. “When the sun was out on Friday.