a retirement home
Sunday’s visit and although it
Sick received me very arranged
Granny, you look great, I told her
encourage her
she stared at me and in attitude
socarrona answered me as if I’m not
sick the face
people come to Monterrey after
years and it tells you that modern until the
city that attractive how many things
new
the city is not sick the face
those of here on the contrary we see the
Traffic pollution disorder
urban
the answer is exactly the same
important diseases are not
of the face and then of my grandmother
I return 20 years and today in london was
student and one day I returned to my house
at midnight on a path that
unaware halfway to the
street towards a funnel towards a tunnel
pedestrian that passed by from glasses of
under the railroad tracks in
the opposite side of the street came a
black man
I saw it and immediately did the calculation
mental
which would give between two and four meters
behind me, he quickened his pace and
I take off no better I stop and let
the first pass between indecision and
the nervousness I did not do a thing nor the
other
happened exactly what I wanted to avoid
and in the tunnel
feeling it two steps back as a
involuntary act perhaps of nervousness
I started to whistle a tune when I left without
see us in the face in no time
he released four words loaded
recent
I feel like I remember as if it had been
last night just because I’m less like that is the
city the people we interact already
times without having to converse
we transmit messages that multiplied
for me they give shape to what we call
city
in the case of my tunnel partner and
I told myself that we do not know that
we are of a different race than the natural
between strange is the fear that the street
it is an insecure place and that therefore
we must avoid this type of encounters
I return 30 years more 1961 jay cocks
wrote a name he wrote a
book that would become a classic
of urbanism death and life of
big cities
in it explains jay coz the city is by
definition a place full of strangers
the cities flourish when
they turn into a kind of machine
for the good meeting of strangers
in the long run the welfare of a city
depends solely and exclusively on the
It fosters quality meetings as
if it were for magic
the machine that feeds
unpredictable encounters produce things
very good
here in this city the couplet
machine runs in the opposite direction
every day we build a kind
from tower of babel a tower of
lockers that on the one hand stops and for
the other homogenizes the interior centers
commercial colonies schools thought
with the deliberate purpose of avoiding
the meeting of strangers
this is ironic this city found
his first impulse in the oven
foundry
here a few meters away and we mixed
carbon and chromium iron to produce
steel construction there we learned
the mixture of elements as a source of
solidity resistance of new and
valuable properties the city that brought
engineers and other working sides
professional teachers yes so that
produce but also so that their
children will study together to play
together baseball and were champions
world so they prayed together
Sundays so that we all come together
to do the admired northern sultana
that city suddenly lost the compass
came the eighties the nineties the
new millenium
We adopt the world symbol model of
urban failure of the Texan city where
it’s not just about separating but about
separate large
we buy the pride of the world
corporate in the companies where of the
What is involved is that the boss and the worker
be as far away as possible
little by little we were walking towards the
more absolute contempt for space
public and street life result the
industrial leadership of a city that
mixed it became the failure
environmental mobility security and
until cultural of a city that
sickly separates strangers but
the disease is not terminal
give me the opportunity to check them in
the next few minutes that if monterrey
concentrates on a goal to envelop
propitiate the meeting of strangers’
go back to making that city look you see
to the future with hope a single
beginning
let’s forget for the moment of everything
others because our letter of
navigation to the future should be at
same simple time and express a
Ferro commitment a principle applied to
three vital activities in the
growth of a city and where in
which all of you participate
undertake to design organize me talk
my dad that our entrepreneur more
admired eugenio heron sada had the
custom of going to the technological all
the weeks
I think on Wednesday when I also
I used to eat in central
before ending your visit and getting on
automobile was looking for some student
in need of wright to offer
bring it to the center of the city in those
journeys naturally he had to know
young people from all over the country to
times for the opportunity of a scholarship with
the illusion of training as the best
engineers from mexico
one day it was my dad’s turn and
I wonder what they had in common
the patriarch of Monterrey the creator of
companies and institutions and a boy
Scholar arrived from a town in Coahuila
whose horizon of achievement at that time
It is to be an engineer to be an engineer the pec one
good engineer of the pec
certainly very little but something very
important the city that both
build that encounter had a trace
indelible
how could that boy not want to be
adopted by this city and commit
butt with her for the rest of her life
when he offered bridges to all
also with the most exalted of his
businessmen
undertaking is more than producing goods and
services
to undertake is the opportunity to expand
the public heritage and that happens
when companies and institutions are
understood as link creators
that happens when the employer sees in the
contact with the stranger not the activity
of an inn but the routine of that
who knows what is owed to the city and its
people
the routines of the organizations are
important but in the city
life goes on in the open space
I move to the second vital activity
design for this avenue
I go to my house every day it’s called
manuel gómez morín ends in a
natural sculpture known as the m that
It is part of a chipinque mountain
pride of who we are from here that a
turn is part of the mountain range
saw mother lung of Monterrey and the
northeast of mexico
from my point of view this avenue
had a call to be the most
beautiful of mexico in 15 years we did
dust that called in a decade and a half
in a one kilometer journey
we built 12 shopping centers with
468 stores in them with a tort
additional to the goods and services that
there are offered are accessible for 1
percent of Mexicans and if I
In some cases, they rush for 1% of the
1%
neither a single nor a single public space
to enjoy together the mountain that the
creator gave us in 15 years there is no
a park even if it is modest a bank
for a couple to enjoy
of the landscape on a Sunday afternoon in
instead we create an environment
we create yours not the politicians
us with our apathy our
silence and our consumerism
we create an environment like hundreds with a
runner like hundreds of those in
this city with the stated purpose
to segregate in a city designed like this
the formation of values by repetitive
that we are in this intention has a
very short range because when to a
child you talk to him about solidarity
Justice compassion good
Samaritan the field of application of
its values is the reality in which the
child lives and where he anchors his
learning is the concrete environment that
for him is the world
if we want to build a city
different that’s why designing a
city and its spaces expand or shorten
the moral compass of those who inhabit it
if we want to build a city
different
we need to turn our 180 degrees
180- degree urban causes
today the stranger is a nuisance that
it prevents us from going faster
that annoyance the encounter with the
strange is the opportunity that arises with
the appearance of cities two years ago
millennia and a half and that made us more
civilized
That’s why the challenge of redesigning the city
it is in our heart because
it implies going against our
impulses of our needs
immediate
there is that there is inner work to do and
then we have to organize ourselves
organize ourselves differently
five years ago the city lived the p
for security crisis in its history
in mid-2011 we got to do the
city with more stolen cars in
the world and with more murders in
Mexico from the organizations of the
society
We started moving to demand from the
mayors who undertook the same
measures in favor of security that
all the municipalities
here are nine will act as one
city against violence and
please return to restore peace
if in the field of politics the
differences and division were the
name of the game we had to
give a sample of the position of being able
to build bridges between
very diverse organizations but all
they committed and eager thirst for
recover security
everything was fine until some
they said in private miguel we are
different that do not add that they contribute
the others
the nascent organizations the
boys who defend the right to
sidewalk organizations
homosexuals who work for the
human rights of inmates who do not
all these add to the organizations
large structured with tradition with
decades of existing from our
old paradigms the rule was every
who in their causes and with theirs but
violence came and he presented us the
reality naked the coincidences of
pedigree organizations and
insurgents
we were on our knees
against organized crime
the crisis allowed us to raise our sights
and today mayor how are we going is a
platform that links all the
organizations of all kinds and puts them
in permanent contact with
authorities to recover security
mayor how are we going could bring the
strangers and is effective thanks to it
to you who were born in the in
the world of networks
I do not have to convince those who do not know
try to separate what it is about creating
ties and that’s where he’s from where
there is strength
of what I do have to convince them is
of the opportunity they have in front
for the audacity when carrying this
principle to practice if you undertake
design organize interact with the
strange is good then to undertake
design organize make cause with the
stranger is even better if you
overwhelms the traffic lives the problems
of mobility when driving your cause is not
the one of the automobile your cause is a
quality transportation for all
if you are a home builder
buildings your moment of truth versus
to the city faces the street at the time of
build the ramp for the disabled
the tree that gives shade to the pedestrian the
facade that invites and takes over
bring beauty to the city
If you pay for your private security
moment of truth in front of the city
is to contribute to public safety
being a good police promoter
example if you are a business owner your
moment of truth is in front of the
single mother who needs flexibility
labor is the city not only her
that needs that flexibility is in this
change of chip in our acting
everyday and concretized where we started
compose the soul to the city
we appreciate simplicity for a moment
of the formula today at the end of the day
your day will leave a balance to the
city a marker
the simplest of markers
On the one hand we will all write yes
I undertook this design you organized
for the contact of strangers
On the other hand, the enemy will note if
you separated there will be no magic and mystery
in what builds or destroys the
city today in the silence of the night
close your eyes and what is your
clear marker in the most hours
practices of the day will catch us the
anguish of those problems that no longer
They exceeded two hours to go through
the city
the dirtiest dirt dirtier than ever
violent crime in the street the
business that does not leave even a meter
square for public life but the
city to answer to how my grandmother does not
I am sick of the heart
of a city is to be a project that
seeks to include everyone as a project
so that no one is left in the margin and
part that touches you and me in that
project is always working
undertaking designing organizing for
the contact of strangers’ we have in
the hand the match that lights the oven
of casting the furnace that allows us
combine solar everything important
hope in the face of adversity a
concrete and shared project and a
personal task for all
Thank you
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