12 years ago
this economist who have here
opposite decided to have a change of
total course and I decided to look for a
master’s degree in urban planning that
not only changed my destiny as
professional but also led me to
more than 13,000 kilometers of this
homeland our costa rica
this and one of the reasons why I
I went was precisely because I was worried
very much the subject city from the
competitiveness perspective country of
issue of environmental treatment and
quality of life of us the
inhabitants and you can imagine that
do urban planning in canada
a bit more complex when one
think that the climatology happens
from minus 40 degrees centigrade to 40
degrees Celsius
not only on such obvious issues as the
transport you are seeing on screen
but also at the time of
When planning housing
plan how we live
experience plus the city
the reason of becoming costa rica
it seemed to be a little bit, it was always
it was the dream was to go back to my country and
to be able to make some kind of contribution and
think about how like certain issues that
maybe they felt more complex in
Canada could suddenly generate a
learning for costa rica of canada
it took me ten years of experience but
mainly of learning and of a
country from which I thank you very much
for that space
casually studying the mastery a
of the great concerns for
developing countries in
particular in latin america was that a
Although the city is born with the
reason for
get together are basically the
agglomeration of people where
we can know ourselves homeless and so on
what was happening in many of
these countries as the examples that
They have a screen in Brazil and in
our neighbor panama is that we were
creating walls that divide people
that divide ideas that divide us the
one another and they do not allow us
know each other and see our different
realities and one would think that the coast
rich equal and ethics that does not happen to us by
I remembered just an experience that
had at school with a little girl from
seven years that is called to graciela that
it was a marginalized community east of
san jose and grace was my student I would
I helped with math and other subjects
but mathematics punctually cost him
very much and one of the things that a
day I asked him what he wanted to do
when it was big to see if out there
more or less day pulling some
Mathematical concepts and their answer
It was already what I wanted to do when
outside was cleaning houses and I
I asked why and I say that
all the ladies that I know my
community the mom of my friends all
clean in houses and then I gave myself
also account that many times when
we come from a family of lawyers or
engineers or doctors usually the
families sometimes influence us what
that we want to be
but that also where we are born and
where did we grow that community
also affects the options that
we can see and have in sight
and that is coincidentally reading when
we see san jose or the area
metropolitan we have a series of rivers
that without having to build a wall
we have those walls that divide us the
communities that divide us sometimes
scarce paddle by Cariari and
we can continue to see with many other
communities that what those videos do
they just separate and when we see them
a much closer scale
we do not realize that they do not allow us
to be able to connect to us that is the function of
the city is to connect us what they are
the others and learn and give new
perspectives and different ways of
understand of seeing and wanting to be the world
and even at microscale these rivers
invisible by the city of
backs to the city had not been
become an opportunity rather
of meeting but in that barrier in that
wall studying the mastery one of the
things people to whom 30 was one of
the great urban planners of
country that told me no no here is already
all done already to come out the plan
metropolitan will leave all the
regulatory plans of the central valley and
everything is done
obviously you can imagine my
answer and I for this I have a sheet
until I put the papaya down for
all the people who tell us not to
it is very complicated may have to
throw to that messi
and those people who tell us something
it is not possible and that we can not
change our community
our neighborhood our our country
world and that
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he came to the country ten years later and
This is the reality
obviously not everything is done and
just because of this problem
it costs us a lot
economic invoice passes us invoice
environmental passes us a human invoice
the third cause of death in this country
are the road accidents and that includes
to pedestrian cyclists and and that’s something that
the rest has been advanced in 20 years
of the world but if we see again of
new to the rivers we find ourselves with
these spaces in the city is
the part of the bridge the incurable in the
border between goycochea
and thinking just about that in that
reality and in that place where we could
to escape that we do not see is that
a route foundation is born
nature vanas to connect to
people to the city through the
nature and born as a
mainly as a collaboration not
only from my company but six other
organizations that we decided that together
we could do it and we thought about how
we could create from these spaces that no
they look and turn them into these spaces
where could I have a coffee from
walk to the office walk hear the
green feel that nature
those birds and now and see all those
bugs that inhabit the river and
mobilize month in fear without noise
of crossing a street crossing a line
the film and really think about
accompanied by nature and that’s what
we did that we are proposing for
25 kilometers from the city and rather
think of that as rather rather than
that the city pollutes the river that the
river clean us and save us to the city
and how can you think about that bears
lazy people who are stuck in the
University of Costa Rica or breath no
could we eventually see them in
the morazán park and in the park
metropolitan the savannah the peace and that
those follies were very difficult
do it alone
and just as we started the
foundation and organization as a
collaboration between companies
we also started listening to
different people and perspectives and their
environmental concerns and how
assemble the project so that we could
transform spaces that are not
visible like these that come behind
mine and be able to convert it into the place that
we pride ourselves as Costa Ricans
instead of telling tourists to san
josé do not visit us
rather come to moshé that enzo
society and that even space that
we have to you should
come and happen in collaboration and
thinking how we solve issues
legal financial issues
when we think of him with city theme
it’s a complex issue
all professions serve to
build city and they are important is not
a profession which is not to solve
the city and thinking about how
we could create again to generate a
space like that little girl graciela that
could eventually across the river
connect with another bunch of people
that they could give her and she give them
to them different perspectives and how
we can as a society connect each
day more not only with nature but
with ourselves
that is the spirit that collaboration and
is he the dream is achieved by working
together listening to each other
learning from each other to
give a little idea we can do
an immense transformation we can
to achieve this
this year we are designing the first
kilometer we get financing
and we hope to inaugurate the first
kilometer of route nature vanas
I invite you to join us and that
be part of this movement
thank you very much
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