This document discusses how neighborhoods of the future may be organized around mobility hubs. It outlines how cities have historically been transformed due to epidemics and urban planning efforts. Mobility hubs could be designed according to principles of 15-minute cities, with accessibility, shelter from weather, green spaces, and wind direction taken into account. Mobility hubs may become more resilient public facilities in a post-COVID world.

1. NEIGHBOURHOODS OF THE FUTURE AROUND
MOBILITY HUBS ?
Benoit Moritz, professor ULB
Coordinator of the Metrolab

2. www.mobihubs.eu

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4. Leon Krier- 1977
City as a federation of neighbourhoods

5. Richard Rogers - 1997
City as a mulipolar system organized around mobility hubs

6. Richard Rogers - 1997
City as a mulipolar system organized around mobility hubs

8. « Le ministère attaqué du Choléra morbus », estampe de Grandville - 1831
Paris choléra pandemic 1831-32 : 18.400 deaths
Paris choléra pandemic 1846 : 18.184 deaths

9. Paris urban transformation under Baron Haussmann (1852-1870)

10. Barcelona urban transformation under Ildefonso Cerda (1860)

11. Invention of peniciline (1928) and introduction of first antibiotics (1941)

13. Rapport climatique 2020 : de l'information aux services climatiques
www.meteo.be

14. Public Space & Public Life during Covid 19
https://covid19.gehlpeople.com/

15. 15 minute city – Paris
C.Moreno

16. Superillas – Barcelona

17. IMPACTS ON THE MOBILITY HUBS OF THE FUTURE ?
• Make it accessible in the logic of the 15 minutes city
• Facilitate the traject to the mobility hubs
• Give enough space to make the mobility hubs a resilient public facility
(social distancing)
• Cover it to protect people during the summer (heatwave) or winter
(more rain episodes) > shelter or building ?
• Introduce green to foster biodiversity and to help cleaning the air and
protect people from the sun
• Take wind direction into account in the design and orientation of
urban furniture and buildings