I already said robert park
the city is the most coherent attempt and
generally more successful of the human being
to remake the world in which he lives
according to your deepest desires
but what do we know about the cities
here some pictures that are going to
to illustrate
I for example come from a city that
in the last 35 years he grew a 60
percent to its population
currently going through severe problems
public transport is a complete
chaos infrastructure for people
with disability
there is simply nothing to say about the
green areas and public spaces
every time they are less for healthy
recreation and do not say the subject of the
Insecurity is an issue that concerns us
absolutely every day
They know what city itself because I refieron
surely they thought of city of
mexico monterrey and guadalajara good
aires sao pablo new delhi or toluca
city where I come from now I live in
Cancun a very curious city
product of a master plan of the years
70 that in tourist terms
surpassed the success that any
person would have imagined on the motorcycle today
Cancún is a city of almost one million
of inhabitants a cosmopolitan city that
just to size a little
let’s imagine that in just 46 years
it grew what I do to jaca cost him
more than 500 years, 60% of which
we live here very surely those who
we are here present
we come from another part of the planet
around 90 countries and of course
of the 32 states that make up Mexico
but how fast the city grows
product of migration
let’s imagine what they do with arrive a year
16,000 people to live making a
very simple account and dividing those 16
thousand people between 365 days we have to
daily they come to live in cancún 44
people and if this figure still
we divide between the number of people
average that a family has that is
equal to three points without
we have that cancún has as a challenge
cater for housing health work
transport security to 13 families that
they arrive daily to live and what to say
of the main economic activity of
this city tourism today considered
as the destination of sun and beach more
important of all Latin America that
currently offer more than 35 thousand
hotel rooms distributed in more
from 150 hotels that receive more than 4.5
million tourists same figure of
tourists that receives all of Chile with the
only difference that cancún only
represents the 0 2 percent point of the
Chilean territory but this model
proposed in the fifties and
sixties is no longer facing
the current needs
today we have a cancún that presents a
very marked urban duality
on the one hand a hotel zone that
concentrate all those developments
real estate and tourism and on the other
part the proliferation of new
urban colonies called regions that
they are characterized by being areas of poverty
marginalization unemployment insecurity and
especially of the lack of
infrastructure and public services
recently onu-habitat made a
study in collaboration with the
national institute for the promotion of
housing evaluated 152 cities between
they can coll and through 40
indicators defined the index of
prosperity being evident two
great challenges that we have as a city
on the one hand, urban mobility and
another the economic agglomeration but
this is how you explain how you eat very
easy around urban mobility
we have that cancún is one of the
cities with the motorization index
highest nationally very by
above
the national average in terms of
public transport we do not have a
Massive public transport
there is even an involution in this
specific topic
and what to say about the lack of promotion of
non- motorized mobility we do not count
with infrastructure under criteria of
accessibility around
economic agglomeration very simple
most of the units
economic aspects of this city are
concentrated in a single strip called
hotel zone staying like this
completely relegated to the downtown area
and other areas of the city with a
center that in recent years has been
characterized by a very poor
urban image high crime rates
a pretty economic depression
considerable but there is a point in
specific that we are concerned about the lack of
valorization of this downtown area as
foundational zone
all this leads me to talk about life
Young Cancunense average of just
25 years from the peninsula of
yucatán this young man has just two
years in cancún and crosses one of the
critical stages because because here
we say that cancun at two years or
that adopts or aborts and because the very
simple comes from a stage of
euphoria the stage of euphoria of the mexican
red lot party a lot of beach but that
yes a lot of work 11 hours a day of
I work a single day of rest
It is worth noting that this young man
get to his workplace he had to
take two transport units
public that they took approximately
two hours
and what to say about the units and the
zonal service of ascent and descent
as well as schedules do not exist
the driver fighting unit with unit
to climb the highest number of passengers
this young man to be able to get to take his
truck had to go through
kings with some degree of deterioration by
lack of lights and that yes always
vigilant caring for your safety
and what to say about that day off
Now that’s a challenge no longer
knows whether to eat beach or shopping center
shopping center and beach
why because at its center no
find recreational social activity
bring it and I’m not going to get
theme of the urban environment
he just does not feel proud of his
center does not feel any roots
all this brings us to a conclusion not
it is asserting one of the
rights that should not only be
recognized and not put in place to the
brevity which this right the right
to the city this right that we have to
see it as a collective right that we
allows to reconfigure and claim
our city from our
deepest desires but eye
these wishes must be linked to the
kind of people that we want to be at
nature that we want to preserve
social relationships that we want
encourage and even the aesthetics of
place that we want generates us identity
and it is clear if we already know that we
it hurts and we need that we have to
do
undertake the urban revolution and
it says easy but it is not
there are many interests that do not allow
a rapid transformation
however my experience in both the
public sector as well as in the sector
Private has given me a great lesson
the only way that will take us to a
rapid transformation is through
urban social movements
so what cause of them of the
Mexican revolution that the
horses
we decided to take the bicycles
and this is how the collective was born
urban mobility cancun a collective
integrated by universities bodies
Collegiate non-governmental organizations
and even government that today
I represent and that’s how we put together a
army of cyclists an army of
cyclists whose objective is to change the
current model of urban mobility in the
City of Cancun
that is the goal the first step
absolutely aware all
sectors of the problem that we have and
second identify other alternatives
of transportation and this is how this
collective saw the birth of their first baby
called cars cancún know with that
it has been defined as a space
completely free of engines where
promote social values and styles of
healthy life is a space where
families have the opportunity to generate
coexistence that much lack makes us
but not only eight
editions has managed to gather more than
33,000 people but nowadays
It also gives us the possibility of
recover the public spaces that are
of society and has also been
become a forum for demonstrations
artistic and cultural and with it and
thanks to this army of cyclists is
that have triggered other projects
projects already of cycling infrastructure
for our city
without this citizen spark this
it simply would not be reality and what
say of in a medium term which
cancún will already have a system of
public bicycle a system of
alternative public transport whose
vehicle will be the bicycle but
we left the bicycles and went to
conquer and revitalize the downtown area
from the city of cancún
what was our weapon
citizen tables a consultation process
and reflection with citizens that we have
allowed not only to the investment
in basic infrastructure but already
also the declaration of 38 goods
cultural elements that will be part of
our heritage or the assets of
our children of yours I am not
father and also an image regulation
urban that will allow the field a center
show your best face
it’s easy but it’s not
all this has happened in just one year
a year of intense work a year in the
that not only was it required
active and responsible society but
also specialized technicians and
also of a government that generates
terms
however to this triangle I would
I want to add a special ingredient
an ingredient that we like
society we have to dissolve and dissolve
because there are paradigms
prejudices that float in our city
so it’s that number one point to be young
it’s not being a fool
with just 22 years old
I had the possibility to enter as
public official and in many
Sometimes it was better to conceal or hide
age to avoid being belittled
even ignored with some
initiatives that I believed could
change our reality point number 2
they are not about careers or
professions it’s about vocation
it’s about capabilities and an interest
genuine for the city and point number 3
to lead a whole life in a city not
gives us no more or less right than the
that just yesterday arrived are the same
challenges are the same goals that we have
what to overcome
So, gentlemen
and hours we do not throw in our broken bag
revolutionary spirit
let’s not let those ideas that we
accelerate die
today this social discontent and this
generational change allows us to
absolutely all of us who are
here from your trench join in this
revolution that today with a lot of pride and
Much passion I dare to invite you
Thank you
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