Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city

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  • How can we fit more people into cities without overcrowding? Kent Larson shows off folding cars, quick-change apartments and other innovations that could make the city of the future work a lot like a small village of the past.
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  • @Waranoa
    @Waranoa 10 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    All the people you describe use bikes on a daily basis in bicycle friendly cities around the world. I happen to live in Amsterdam, and there's ladies in pencil skirts riding bikes (although yes, pencil skirts are less popular because of the biking; but changing a cities infrastructure to allow women to wear pencil skirts is not good policy). My boss is pregnant and she bikes to work. All my ladyfriends bike with high-heels. Elderly who are not fit have an electric wheelchair for bike lanes.

  • @ShinkaTV
    @ShinkaTV 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love stuff like this. So cool, innovative, creative, and, like he said: Solving problems that don't exist yet. Depth of vision is an admirable thing.

  • @Waranoa
    @Waranoa 11 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    A vehicle useable on bike lanes, accesible to buisinessmen, women in skirts and the elderly, already exists; it's called, 'the bicycle'.

    • @happinessiscereal
      @happinessiscereal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you!!!

    • @fareshajjar1208
      @fareshajjar1208 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you want to walk anywhere in Philly or st Louis or Chicago. Diversity is the end of walking.

  • @King8james9
    @King8james9 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These are the talks that make me love Ted, one day I'll see it live n__n

  • @PaulHolder
    @PaulHolder 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the ideas from towards the end of the video. If they can do those things now, I want them now!

  • @Captain_MonsterFart
    @Captain_MonsterFart 9 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Solvin' complex problems with more complexity!

  • @kozu459
    @kozu459 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was so far my favorite Ted talk so far this year.

  • @LJDisparity
    @LJDisparity 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic ideas. I love the future!

  • @Manjunn
    @Manjunn 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you for a brilliant video, this has really inspired me to be smarter in design and not just design because it's pretty.

  • @Skawagon
    @Skawagon 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I do like much of what Kent Larson have to say however I strongly believe that congesting bike lanes with all sorts of autonomous electric vehicles does not solve obesity, congestion or energy issues. If anything ti can only move them to another dimension.

    • @suryahr307
      @suryahr307 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      its not even a full scale plan, he mentions that the facility could be only for elderly, differently abled or women

  • @lanceseidman
    @lanceseidman 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    AMAZING!

  • @landdcollection
    @landdcollection 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    These are the type of things that make me excited fro the future, not robots that do our job for us, but people making things for people to make human other existential natural life better.

  • @0architect-
    @0architect- 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful ideas

  • @falconseye97
    @falconseye97 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like it! Nice talk!

  • @Fairfaxclimatewatch
    @Fairfaxclimatewatch 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    great work!

  • @lillbrorsan
    @lillbrorsan 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is awesome!

  • @Jedmanuel91
    @Jedmanuel91 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    amazing.

  • @ReadingAdam
    @ReadingAdam 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I do agree that his solution seems to draw ever more on energy use. Just about everything in the small customizable apartment has to use electricity. Perhaps if tiny Thorium plants could be at the center of every 20-min walk radius^2 if would be feasible. The problem at that point is what sort of jobs are going to be available to pack so many people into small spaces?

  • @LanceWinslow
    @LanceWinslow 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great job, I like it.

  • @78646666668
    @78646666668 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow this is amazing

  • @PontusWelin
    @PontusWelin 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I believe the idea is to have shared use. And that would mean that you don't need to get a specific car. You just need to get any car.
    That way there is no issue with cars being in the way of eachother.

  • @hfanti
    @hfanti 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you build a city so I can go live in? Love it.

  • @etcsuta
    @etcsuta 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    AMAZING!
    But shouldn't the picture at 5:11 say 1 mile diameter?

  • @emerald1one1
    @emerald1one1 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    show a demo of how that mini auto works on winter roads , like where the snowploughs come by . or the steep city winter streets , where's the studded tires.

  • @Waranoa
    @Waranoa 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    In short; don't think so much of bicycling; you can be old, pregnant and/or sexy even while cycling. It's a great lifestyle if there's well connected and safe infrastructure.

  • @Gukslaven
    @Gukslaven 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    That kind of makes sense. Still, one problem is someone needs to make sure all of those cars are serviced and roadworthy; and whose going to pay? Some car's service will be more expensive than others.
    But I get your point; I can see it working, but it would become very complicated I think.

  • @imakemusique
    @imakemusique 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "I think you need to build dumb homes and put smart stuff in them". Genius.

  • @gr0gg0
    @gr0gg0 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Easy access and energy efficiency.

  • @landdcollection
    @landdcollection 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I understand what you mean, don't worry. As much as it is a very valid point, it is also important to remember that even with jobs of all sorts available there is still lack of jobs. Many people in the lower spectrum of the economy have to deal with this way too often. People want to work, even if it is in a McDonalds or as a janitor to work an honest living, but it is hard even then. The amount of jobs per person is in a very small percentage, and it is being proven more and more that the

  • @fewthinkers
    @fewthinkers 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The main concern i have with high population density is noise pollution from neighbours and traffic. There's going to have to be some revolutionary new materials to absorb sound energy of all frequencies which can fit into a thin wall.

  • @JustPlaneNuts
    @JustPlaneNuts 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool stuff!

  • @GigaBoost
    @GigaBoost 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is so cool.

  • @Gukslaven
    @Gukslaven 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good point.

  • @kaaven
    @kaaven 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Although I strongly support decentralization, this is a great idea to start working with a cell structure, to make a big blob many minor districts within an area, it seems to take away several of the negative aspects related to living in crowded cities.
    It seems some misunderstand what it told here, they work on a solution to handle overcrowded cities where more people try to get in an already full area, by using the areas better we can remove the feeling of living as fish in a barrel.

  • @jrklein
    @jrklein 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    INTELLEGENT DESIGN

  • @Lofaastnehodymaar
    @Lofaastnehodymaar 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Its an autonomous system. Pick any car, the one right infront of you will do, then drive off. For parking, you get off at one point, and the car parks itself. Thats what autonomous is. Saves space.

  • @akram4179
    @akram4179 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think its meant to be used in the case of shared vehicles. Your'e not going for one specific car, your'e just going for the first car you can reach.

  • @TheFirstClassLounge
    @TheFirstClassLounge 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Although I'd like to see how they make these concepts affordable enough for the general population, but it will probably work, much like the plummeting price of digital storage and the like.

  • @dabiruddimahmed1649
    @dabiruddimahmed1649 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic! I agree but this is not the final solution. There are many things to think........Eng. Dabiruddin

  • @NeillWylie
    @NeillWylie 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    In storage for wintertime like most peoples winter tyres are :)

  • @jacmunbong
    @jacmunbong 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    yes,i agree

  • @geza96
    @geza96 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's call canberra in the act that is a small cell city. It's strange driving from one town to the next.

  • @superhamzah85
    @superhamzah85 11 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I went to a pillow fight, I was released from prison just now. Apparently suffocation was "not the intended method of pillow fighting." I scored 18 kills though, so I won at least. :/

  • @jrklein
    @jrklein 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Intelligent design!

  • @ForeverTributesNL
    @ForeverTributesNL 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some great ideas. However in Holland we had those shared cars and bikes. Didn't work though. People rather use other means of transport and there was a lot of vandalising :( The adaptable homes could work.. I'd rent one for sure

  • @KungFuOu
    @KungFuOu 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    The cars are meant for shared use... so the cars on the perimeters will get used first.

  • @xtootsiexo
    @xtootsiexo 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    amazing

  • @yellowklayman
    @yellowklayman 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Detroit is beautiful this time of year.

  • @middlemonster
    @middlemonster 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    All of this can be done using synthetic materials. My car uses 100% synthetic oil for lubrication. Tires and paint can be made out of latex. Plastics can be made from cellulose and starch. These are all thing we currently have the technology to do.

  • @cv5330
    @cv5330 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    informative.

  • @Tenosyn
    @Tenosyn 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    That is pretty damn cool.

  • @mistajames3213
    @mistajames3213 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the wonderful circularity of your argument. It has a certain beauty about it.
    There was a time that I didn't banter with theists about religion. I thought everybody paid at least some pittance of concern to the inner logic of their arguments before they brought them forward. And here the internet is, teaching me a lesson yet again.
    Also, I find it hilarious that, if I were popular, that would be sufficient for you to send me $10. Keep digging yourself a hole.

  • @rRobertSmith
    @rRobertSmith 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    it does not charge itself! (@8:51) it might plug into the power net or put up a solar umbrella...

  • @Destro7000
    @Destro7000 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm worried he's not thinking through the house with robotic walls. There's airflow and chemical smells in the air, your food preparation air space would essentially be the same air as your bedroom, insects could get trapped in machinery and mount up, electrical maintenance would be needed more often, having your stuff on shelves that auto-fold away would be a pain to move. There's lots more variables to think about.

  • @Alloxic
    @Alloxic 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jacque Fresco's circular cities woooh!

  • @IseeRightThrough2you
    @IseeRightThrough2you 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:55 Why is the sign backwards but the writing on the pavillion isn't?

  • @EthanNin0
    @EthanNin0 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Put bristles on the bottom of the moving wall, and viola, self sweeping floors.

  • @TheSnobar
    @TheSnobar 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    damm i like this ! brilliant

  • @IseeRightThrough2you
    @IseeRightThrough2you 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's like a bus, or one of the bicycles in the row he showed earlier. It's somewhat inconvenient, but workable.

  • @HenryWilly
    @HenryWilly 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    00:16 Great

  • @qotsaandsoadfan1
    @qotsaandsoadfan1 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in Melbourne :P

  • @zonedabone
    @zonedabone 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:15
    Enjoy.

  • @D0UGLAZ
    @D0UGLAZ 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    7:48 show the city car

  • @shrunkensimon
    @shrunkensimon 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Jobs/Work needs to be addressed. We continue to work for peanuts at things that, in the grand scheme of things, are pointless and accelerate the destruction of ourselves and our environment. That has to change. This whole talk is based around the idea that we'll continue in our current direction for another 100 years, which is very unlikely. The modern city is all about money and selling services, again something which has out lived its purpose and usefulness.

  • @joemaffei
    @joemaffei 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    The main problem with overcrowding in cities is how we manage the amount of time we have in one day. I don't know how it is in Europe or Asia, but in the Americas only a small fraction of businesses stay open 24/7. Think about it... if everything were open 24/7, you could have at least two work shifts, resulting in separate rush hour times, effectively cutting human presence at any time of the day by half. Such system is being deployed in Sweden, we'll see how it pans out.

  • @nodvick
    @nodvick 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    how much is one of those folding cars if I want one as a POV?

  • @SilverSpade92
    @SilverSpade92 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    We just need people, to DO those things.

  • @Oldschool_Gamer_
    @Oldschool_Gamer_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I could not imagine a way to live a more miserable life.
    I'm just fine with the place i live, lovely village, house along a canal, (glad I got out of the city)
    working in the tech industry in a nearby city 30 mins bike ride away...
    got all the stores and services i could need 20 mins away
    oh, and the bike route to work has just 8(!) crossings with cars, even though it goes right past the city center.
    Half of that route is right along the canal as well, beautiful and relaxing ride to work.
    Internet is top notch, should i ever get a car i have access to the highway in less then 5 minutes.
    Really don't know what else to mention...
    When it comes to whatever you'd want in housing, you name it, i got it... on minimum wage.
    I don't see why people are so desperate to move to the cities, when just outside it works just as well.

  • @wobblycogsyt
    @wobblycogsyt 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting but it doesn't address two key issues. What do we do about existing infrastructure (we can't exactly demolish our current cities) and what do we do about medium distance, 100 miles say, travel for which we currently need our own full sized car.

  • @itsme1275
    @itsme1275 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    they could simply add a system of number plates or even just a thumb scanner and you register the vehicle as yours for a select amount of time..

  • @twiddlebit
    @twiddlebit 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shared transport, meaning you just pick a car and get in it. Though typically people don't like to hare so I don't think it'd work so well

  • @saifulmuhajir
    @saifulmuhajir 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want this house and car.

  • @matthewjay660
    @matthewjay660 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd live, study, and work in one of his city-scaped designs.

  • @NeillWylie
    @NeillWylie 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was my concern also. Sure if you're going to 1 place, great. Any more than that and there's the problem.

  • @Vois07
    @Vois07 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Consider that there will be other cars/bikes/apartments using the same technology. If everybody had the same car how would you find yours if you left it in front of the supermarket?

    • @thezoo6679
      @thezoo6679 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vois07 paint them and put license plates

    • @KookiesNolly
      @KookiesNolly 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      don't go to the supermarket, then

  • @JohnMcclaned
    @JohnMcclaned 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Understandable. But look up countries that are running out of space. There are approximately 30 countries with 300 people per sq km and most of them don't have the financial backing to employ this alternative technology. Secondly, the purpose of car they have designed doesn't address the problem as well as you think. Yes you can get 2 people with minimal cargo from a to b and park in tight spaces but it is a HIGH DENSITY AREA.. the car isn't efficient enough like the people movers they have now.

  • @tontonremi
    @tontonremi 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    it looks very much like the Venus Project (zeitgeist)

  • @MrTheGrabber
    @MrTheGrabber 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah, that was what I was thinking.

  • @Uncerten
    @Uncerten 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    The first issue is policing highrises. So many people in such small areas means concentrated problems.

  • @someonedoesitbetter3151
    @someonedoesitbetter3151 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    he states that most of the tech is available today. its only a matter of the city developers and planners to utilize them. some ARE applied these days just not in the multitude he is suggesting.

  • @ChrisRokers
    @ChrisRokers 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We need more Hong Kongs, that's it!

  • @freesk8
    @freesk8 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your sarcasm is duly noted.

  • @jimud
    @jimud 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    100% man. It's crazy but true. My mom said the exact same thing as you ;D I just enjoy winding them up lol ;D it is very sad but at least there isn't as many of them now. They will slowly die out, with a little bit of faith.(y)

  • @middlemonster
    @middlemonster 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Having robots doing a lot of the labor jobs (construction, garbage collection, custodial, secretarial for example) will allow others to pursue higher and more complicated fields like medicine and sciences. Or for those who prefer arts can focus on music or acting careers. When you have robotic labor, less money is required to run these facilities and people will have more freedom to do things they want. I'm not doing a very good job explaining, but I hope you get what I mean.

  • @freesk8
    @freesk8 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Order often arises spontaneously. Ever see the recent experiment they did in England? They turned off the traffic lights at an intersection and measured the results. Traffic got through faster than with the lights and their were fewer accidents due to mutual accommodation. But roads used to be built as toll roads with private owners. This is better. Local developers should build the streets to people's houses, not the govt.

  • @TheChillStudyCorner
    @TheChillStudyCorner 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow cool

  • @freezman13
    @freezman13 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    not sure, but I think he was talking about "sharing" vehicles . He didn't go in depth though so I don't know how that works.

  • @karld1791
    @karld1791 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amount matters. We need to build a lot of homes and a lot of transit. The most important tech is in the building to make enough cheap enough that living and traveling become affordable. Then the real limit is zoning and regulation- getting permits to build things.

  • @kendomyers
    @kendomyers 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    i live in seoul ^^

  • @IseeRightThrough2you
    @IseeRightThrough2you 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    You take one of the cars on the outside. They're publicly shared cars, so it's not as though you have to get to a particular car.

  • @PontusWelin
    @PontusWelin 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you need to be able to leave things in the car you can instead install lockers next to parking where you can leave stuff.

  • @10daxing
    @10daxing 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Go Melbourne!

  • @WakeUpWorldTV
    @WakeUpWorldTV 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shared-autonomous cars is the future of transportation in modern cities. In future cities there will be no need for cars.

  • @busetgadapet
    @busetgadapet 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I understand what you mean, yes it's so true unless
    unless food , education are free,
    imganine if your parent is poor, if the education is not cheap or free, then all simple things like cashier job, waitress, are being done by robot , then how can I pay for my tuition ? or even how could I pay my rent room ?
    can you answer that ?

  • @chend7948
    @chend7948 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    the subtitles are not that accurate.

  • @bobtehzombie
    @bobtehzombie 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    The future is teach people to want what they need.

  • @nomainreason
    @nomainreason 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is what the LIKE button was created for. Things like this are meant to be liked and shared.

  • @hasanaliraz5608
    @hasanaliraz5608 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like some of the ideas but not all of them..some of these complex systems won’t work for all..energy efficiency and shared public spaces and vehicles r good initiatives and can be done easily anywhere♻️♻️

  • @Anonymous247n
    @Anonymous247n 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I view it as presenting a superior design and letting people choose. The transition to a society most people would call utopian today should happen like this: a city is planned out, the project made public. People who want to work on the project join and try to make it work. Others look, and if they see if it suits them, they join in! No forcing people into anything - at least that's what the venus project says :)

  • @larissashen4874
    @larissashen4874 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like how there are a lot of supportive comments rather than the usual trolling.