How we can design timeless cities for our collective future | Vishaan Chakrabarti

humans are samey, and cats, dogs, every other product of natural species. Theoretically there can only be one 'best way;' to do something so if we all had the best it would all be samey :)

I'm kinda conflicted here, I'm both for and against what he is saying. Weird feeling. I agree cities in North America need to change their design completely. It's very hard to get unique and affordable all in one sentence. I can equally understand how people like me not going all in, will sabotage any drive to change and do what he outlines though.

AMEN

All he said painted him like he wants to build himself a city he would like to live in suited to his needs and have people praise him for it. Maybe he should just get into a city builder game.

We have no future in the US. We're all gonna be Russian citizens. The GOPinsky party said so.

and to answer that question you need funding.

Excellent ! We love Chakrabarti

This is the future, is an argument, is go back to the way it was. NO!! try new things that can accommodate a huge population and inject imagination and creativity.

I refuse to watch this video based on the pretentious title it has, it reeks of BS

Heh. "Our Collective Future".

As an urban planner I found this very insightful and elucidated my ideas about today's standards of city development.

Down with endless suburbia.

Great voice

I like this "bending" stuff. That was good.

So we surpass our wildest dreams can have it all in a prettily wrapped bow .

8 trees between buildings as a minimum would be nice to have !

Unfortunately, the money is what demands today. Larger buildings to accommodate more people, cheaper construction materials, faster projects. We could easily apply our identity to our own garden but to change the big metropolis we are in the hand of the big companies.

"lets compare 3 places I handpicket from the entire world to an average downtown area"
Well what would one expect?...

Jacque Fresco designed cities that solved, by my understanding, all of the issues that were addressed in this video

What I took from this is: start murdering people in wheelchairs. Message Received, sir! They're destroying our cities and they must be stopped!

Wow the current structures are so bland and boring sigh

This chappie facies himself as the Monopolists' Roderick Fick designing new dystopian Marxist hellholes

I long for the day when an architect realize that the style of a city is based on current trends, and to make an argument that you should build in Victorian or Gothic or whatever building style is just a subjective argument. Too long have the cities been built after the architects individual visions and not the inhabitants's. Let the people in the city decide what building style should be implemented in their city. This comes from a structural civil engineer.

So we need to get rid of the cars...

And we need to stop our cities from becoming large shopping malls.

No. Our modern suburbs don't have the charm of the small country town I grew up in in the 1960s. But the population is three times as big. For transportation sake, people live in high-rise apts in large urban areas. Small tree lined street with seperate houses are great, but the ecologist say we should be living in urban beehives, connected by subways.

How do you get around the problem.

Not substantive at all.

Great talk.

loved it

I love this idea.

Great Ted Talk.

If you are an architect or urbanist you know that, this talk is amazing and inspiring, because the change is already happening, no more buildings for economist, and more buildings for humanity

You know what's outlandish? Making a speech about livable beutiful cities and never mentioning public transportation as a solution for urban bligth. Also, regulations and mass production are not the problem. The agendas behind those regulations are the problem. Of course if you desgin cities for cars or to accomodate only the needs of industry (manufacturing, construction, energy etc) the result will be awful. I agree we should design for human needs, but which humans are we desgning for? all humans or just our clients? this is a question we must try to answer. If we start by stating the real causes of the problem out loud I think we can make a difference

As an urban planning student this video is so great, i hope i can my my city better in the future

i dont like your suit

Modern architecture is an abomination and a crime against eyes.

The dude is Indian and he had to pronounce Jaipur wrong.

Who wants to live like zoo animals in Victorian housing built in the 1800s, in an overpopulated cramped city...all for 21st century pricing? Not me! But I do eat honey wheat bread. lol

I believe we can blend modern housing, including technology centered urban centers, and have it be affordable. And we don't have to turn the clock back to the high tower project buildings that usually become feeding ground for high turnover place of isolation.

SF has a high surplus for high income housing with a shortage on affordable housing. As the funding comes for the low income class, it's important to understand the basis of the urbanist from the past, like Jane Jacobs, to build buildings that are livable. And as Chakbarti suggests "co-mingle" so they don't turn into a place of isolation.

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by Professor Yu-wan, Tang
(Architecture & City Design in Dadaism School, University of Yale)

I think that this problem of homogenous cities is beyond the control of urban planners and architects. As urban planners, for instance, we are able and willing to design cities that reflect the diversity and original thinking that Vishaan is referring to. However, what carries more weight beyond our plans are the intentions and agendas of investors. He who owns the funds determines the type of projects that end up being implemented on the ground...For example, in the case of most South African cities, white supremacists are the gatekeepers of the the property development sector hence the prevalence of such urban spaces like Menlynn Maine in Pretoria and the entire Cape Town city-region in the Western Cape Province that are characterised by the racial enclavity of the past apartheid dispensation.

Also, if the incumbent leaders (in local government structures) are corrupt and anti-conservation, its hard for urban planners and architects to ensure the execution of projects that uphold the imperative of development thats coupled with environmental sustainability. Such leaders overlook our recommendations. Instead, they go for projects that benefit their interests and not the environment.

timeless cities are trash. i want evolving cities.

if he has paper on this please share the link

I am pro-urbanism, but boy was this talk stupid and vague. He wants to improve cities, but it focused on completely the wrong things. Whenever someone preaches how the world is going to change because of new technologies that don't exist yet, just stop listening. Yes, technology has changed the world, but people are notoriously terrible at predicting WHAT the technology is and WHEN it will be created. I assure you there is a TON we can do to improve the walkability and uniqueness of our cities that has almost nothing to do with new technology.

现代建筑，已经失去了99%的美。取而代之的是工业加工

flying wheelchairs... uh okay

Organic architecture and biodesign

As an architect and firefighter for 30 and 37 years respectively, your comments on fire trucks - whether regarding rescue or maneuvering - are the kind of under-informed, over-generalizations that give us as architects a bad wrap. I truly appreciate your work and PAU’s values, but modern tractor-drawn aerial (‘tiller’) trucks are some of the tightest turning trucks, of any type, available - and rescue is generally much less than a third of their purpose in most contexts. A drone will be very challenged in the complexity of safe, informed roof ventilation techniques necessary for effective fire attack or to enable the placement of elevated master streams of water to extinguish large fires while protecting adjacencies - urban or otherwise. Fire trucks are custom designed for cities in concert with their mandates for building fire protection systems, cities are not designed around fire trucks. Now the suburbs, well as you know they aren’t designed by anyone but developers, civil engineers, and real estate agents with a horrifically violent single viral strain that voraciously consumes our earthly home and creates a whole other fire protection risk to our open and wild spaces. Otherwise strong work.