How does architecture interact with mobility in our cities?

How do our cities weave a relationship between architecture and mobility?

Architecture and mobility are linked, especially when it comes to designing public spaces. As an architect and urban planner, I’ve done a lot of work on spaces around stations and intermodal spaces. The design of mobility spaces is often overlooked. It’s not just a landscape project or a material or spatial project. We really need to integrate all these notions of intermodality, connection and transfer to another mode. For me, these issues are totally embedded in the design of public spaces or outdoor spaces.

How can urban design make public transport a priority for the city of tomorrow?

It’s not complicated, but you have to make choices. It takes courage sometimes, and you have to choose to give priority to certain modes. You have to choose to give space back to pedestrians and public transport. It’s true that cars have taken up a lot of space in cities over the last few decades, but we do have space, even if it’s limited. It’s our heritage, and we have to deal with it. It’s precisely the role of architects to come and try to find priorities and subterfuges so that all modes of transport can be accommodated in urban space.