People's lives can change if you contaminate the system that they live in. Take away the car and let the urban life spread. Let people enjoy the city's simpliest daily pleasures. Let a new system develop in a network of confronted individualities.

contamination (n.)
the action or state of making or being made impure

Créer n'est pas déformer ou inventer des personnes ou des choses. C'est nouer entre des personnes et des choses qui existent et telles qu'elles existent, des rapports nouveaux.

I too am surprised, like you.

Or rather was.

I am already starting to get used to it.

We need sequences of space which arouse ones curiosity, give a sense of anticipation, beckon and impel us to rush forward to find that releasing space which dominates, which promises a climax and therefore gives direction.

A city can be friendly to people or it can be friendly to cars. But it can’t be both.

One person's freedom ends where another's begin

Urban residents had been denied the opportunity to enjoy the city’s simpliest daily pleasures - walking on convivial streets, sitting around in public, talking, gazing at grass, water, falling leaves and other people. And playing: children had largely disappeared from Bogotá’s streets - not because of the feat of gunfire or abduction, but because the streets had been rendered dangerous by sheer speed.

We found that if you make more road space, you get more cars. If you make more bike lanes, you get more bikes. If you make more space for people, you get more people, and of course then you get public life.

More people than ever got to live the dream of having their own detached home. The stock of cars - and bedrooms and toilets - far surpassed the number of humans who used them.

We like to look at each other. We enjoy hovering in zones somewhere between strangers and intimates. We want the opportunity to watch and be watched, even if we have no intention of ever actually making contact with one another.
This hunger for time among strangers is so widespread that it seems to contradict the urge to retreat that helped create the dispersed city in the first place.