Phyllis Orrick<p>From the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GuardianUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GuardianUK</span></a> on <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/5minutecity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>5minutecity</span></a></p><p>“If you go back in time, when you did city planning, you would say: ‘Where do the roads go? How do the cars get from A to B?’ That was your main priority,” says Riemann. “Then we’d put bike lanes next to the roads, pedestrian areas next to that and so on. Here, we did the opposite. We said: ‘What does a walkable city look like? What do the streets look like? What do people like to experience as they are walking?’” Transport-wise, they started with a new metro line, then cycle routes. “At the end, it was like: ‘OK, so now that we have all this infrastructure for walking, biking and public transit, is there still some room for cars?’”</p>