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- There's a creeping sameness in many of our newest urban buildings and streetscapes, says architect Vishaan Chakrabarti. And this physical homogeneity -- the result of regulations, mass production, safety issues and cost considerations, among other factors -- has blanketed our planet in a social and psychological homogeneity, too. In this visionary talk, Chakrabarti calls for a return to designing magnetic, lyrical cities that embody their local cultures and adapt to the needs of our changing world and climate.
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As an urban planning student this video is so great, i hope i can my my city better in the future
What is urban planning like? starting my first year in September
I usually don't "like" TED talk videos, but this one is TOO ESSENTIAL to ignore. Good job Mr. Chakrabarti for spreading social awareness for progressiveness, like the Renaissance period
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
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.
The state of human civilization is often caused by reactionary changes rather than by intentful design. Blocks falling into a clutter with gaps of various sizes. Not even the core of people's beliefs are founded on reason but in reaction to the events in their own lives. Architecture reflects the societies in which they are built. All work and no play makes towers a dull shade. There are no artists who do business in these buildings. There is no art more precious than money in our society. If our cities weren't grey or uniform people would complain because our people are grey and uniform.
Bravo
I'm feeling the core idea of what he's saying. I was born and raised in a major city, and it's weird to see the older, walkable parts of town peppered with skyscrapers. Some of them look cool, but you'd be surprised how fast shiny steel and glass can turn grungy.
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.
Use stone...everything made out of stone still stands to this day...
It was there before us and will be there when we are long gone...
As an urban planner I found this very insightful and elucidated my ideas about today's standards of city development.
The difference is all the new cities were built around the same era. The older cities are separated in time by hundreds of years.
also, they were build when we were less than 500 million on this planet. the number of people have dramatically increased and we need to build fast, reliable and cost effective.
when we hit the pic demographic we will start working on this
Now all you have to do is write the word "peak" and your arguments will be fine.
What about New York? I see the time difference from Venice to a suburb, but there’s also a huge gap in between Venice and New York. Yet, Central Park is still beloved, the Natural History Museum is an amazing building. I don’t think it has to do with time, so much as for why these places were built. The focus for more modern “wonders of the world” like Central Park, is enjoyment for the people. If there was a way to connect both the practicality of mass-produce architecture, and the feeling of the places we remember, maybe we could achieve something like Venice or the Taj Mahal today. Like Central Park.
Richmond VA has multiple party locations, why? Built before cars, so its a great walking city.
Richmond VA is amazing, check it out sometime, come for the history and stay for the party.
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.
Common people have bad and tacky taste. If we ask people how new buildings should look like you will get horrible things. You can google new houses in Kabul Afghanistan. Due to lack of regulations in housing sector the new build houses are a nightmare.
The Auravana Project is building upon the work of these architects to build cities of difference in a community network of cities.
Excellent ! We love Chakrabarti
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.
I love this idea.
Whats one of the most beautiful things is to be in a room amidst silence with your headphones on, to be watching a TED talk like this one & hence be communicating with the speaker via his talk, whilst critically thinking & analysing things :)
loved it
Great talk
Great talk.
An architecturally ergonomic vision for promote our cultural heritage and to keep it sustainably relatable for better social cohesion. Fantastc talk! Nice one!
we all have the same cultural heritage tho of course, your great great great great super great grandmother used to bonk neanderthals don't you know :)
Jacque Fresco designed cities that solved, by my understanding, all of the issues that were addressed in this video
Great voice
Great Ted Talk.
8 trees between buildings as a minimum would be nice to have !
Lets do it...I'm with you🍻
Ahh, a vague desire. Well worthy of a Ted talk!
13:14 Wall-E is here
AMEN
If you want local identity you have to let local architects do the work, but i guess this is also influenced by education, i remember growing up with this concept that global is the future of everything, i'm pretty sure global is good for big corporations but thats in deep conflict with local differences just as the beer example suggested, i think theres no way around it
5:24 I swear, I SWEAR I slept in that hotel in Rome, meters away from the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
lol!! was it hotel everest? near the train station?
if he has paper on this please share the link
Timeless? Collective future?
The hubris of this man...
Ah, exactly. The ego of the central planner who thinks he has the answer for other people's property.
You Libertarians DO NOT GET IT. Don't take this the wrong way, but you're drastically uninformed and childish.
+daniloalmeida Who said they were a Libertarian here? I think you're strawmanning some invented character into the conversation and addressing them as if they're here.
quit crack
I'm not wasting my time arguing. You're wrong, period. Go study architecture and urbanism. Stop jerking off to the sovereignity of private property and go outside talk to people. I know everything you're going to say, and I'm already tired and you're wrong. Stop studying that fucking austrian bullshit and do something to help your community
Captain Hindsight!
Organic architecture and biodesign
9:33 uhhh not gonna happen but good talk none the less.
You want timeless cities, watch the TedTalk on walkable communities (Bill Lindeke). That's all you need.
I like this "bending" stuff. That was good.
But the sad story is despite all of us knowing the consequences we ignore and do things like a heard of sheep does.
Make it all ramps for peds and wheelies.... Larry Niven of science fiction reputation talked about how star trek- like transporter technology was smearing global uniqueness of nationalities into a global sameness.
So we surpass our wildest dreams can have it all in a prettily wrapped bow .
I think allowing a developer to pay only 1 architect & build similarly elsewhere should be outlawed.
But so should the crappy building designs you get from variation.
But to do the latter is hard. Because it would require all heads of state to have great artistic taste & preferences, and not all of them has that - to know what to approve & disapprove.
Furthermore not every head of state is a dictator. So they cant remain in office for long, to continuously approve or disapprove designs. Nor is every dictator deserving of that title
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.
I was waiting to see a lecture about how we can accelerate cities to the speed of light to get more time to fix all our and Universe problems, or something :P
could they be gravitating to modern cities because the cities attract them just fine! and thus do not need your non-bland buildings? and that they like mind numbing similarity?
Solid insight.
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.
The overhead photos of cities look like computer chips.
Well he's not up to speed with technology exactly, but he's right.
This is the space we work and live in every day. The psychological impact alone should be enough of a motivator if we factor it in our over all cost.
Oh and there likely will be almost no wheelchair bound people in ten years. Medicine and exoskeletons are changing a lot.
I'm sorry but this felt like complete nonsense...comparing not wanting processed food vs. processed architecture makes 0 sense. Also he only gave solutions that change the way we mobilize and therefore we could keep the same old cities that we had; how about finding ways to put local identity in the actual architecture while keeping the same practical advantages?
i agree, this make no sense to me either, i get that the old citylost is lost in our new construction, but we don't exactly have any alternatives, we have to build and fast, or else we will be overrun by slums.
once we hit pick demographic, i'm pretty sure we will start improve on this, until then, it's not a choice
Yeah, let's leave it to big corporations to put out fires with their drones. Call it a private/public project. it's not like our government isn't treasonous, causing floods and fires and stealing land with fake economic crashes or terrorist attacks. I thought this TED video was total baalcrap, and I see it often enough that I'm sorry I recommended TED to people years ago.
His comparison made perfect sense. I make comparisons like this all the time and every now and then I get people like you say it makes no sense. There is an educational gap between us, that is all. Be open minded and let your mind branch out a little, and you'll be able to understand the logic as well. THink of the various ways you can compare earth to water. Think of the various ways you can compare wind to lightning. Just do some exercises, and create comparisons that make sense to you and you'll one day branch out and see his does make sense. He's saying we reject staleness, which just happens to be economical and cost effective, for a reason. And that kind of reasoning can be readily applied to architecture and how we design cities..
Agree....I didn't hear why I should care? What's in it for me?
Did he just use a food analogy
Down with endless suburbia.
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
So we need to get rid of the cars...
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.
If you clicked on this video for the subject matter, skip to 3mins in. The first 3 is pointless filler..
oh what a shame, i dont have the mental capacity to get through 3 mins. get outta here
6:16
Maybe if more urban areas were created than suburban areas, people would be less likely to live in a suburban areas :P
A flying wheelchair would be kind of the epidemy of stupid problem-solving
stairs suck anyway everything should be ramps :P
and to answer that question you need funding.
The cities may be poor, but the quality of the humans they house in general is poor. The humans which contemporary cities are for are not the same as those of old. And the old cities were more like towns. The type of human who chooses places like modern cities deserves them. WHEN the average human concerns themselves with over-population; environmental destruction; bettering education; etc; etc, . then we can talk about giving them a 'nice' place to live. But those choosing to be rats scurrying from a job they hate to an apartment where their primary functions are creating plastic waste, consuming media, and drinking themselves into a stupor, bring the level of general humanity down to where timeless / pleasant architecture is neither appreciated nor deserved.
He didn't really say much.
No....a gathering of cool futuristic ideas. It would be for affluent middle class people, mostly.
No... a gathering of cool futuristic ideas. Mostly for affluent, middle class people.
What we need is synchronized autopilot cars, cars in a group that accelerate and decelerate at the same time as if they were connected like a train and move in unity and don't take so much space. The cars would also talk to the traffic lights and in turn be directed by a super computer that instantaneously direct traffic flow.
Just don't build any clock.
And we need to stop our cities from becoming large shopping malls.
Stalinist Architecture is the way to go for our collective future
wunderkind scary stuff!
wunderkind it's pretty good a ton of people already live in it :P
nope!!! live it to us russians we can handle it
Yo don't you sit here dissing brutalism
I'll fight you
and the FRACT it does not work means nothing to you!
Selamun Aleyküm
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.
Some of his ideas, like hover chairs, are stupid, but the core idea is actually pretty good.
Maybe not hover wheel chairs, but how about wheel chairs that can climb stairs. That's what I thought when he mentioned them.
It's still not the proper solution. The proper solution is to give everyone their legs back.
Well of course, ideally
Not just ideally. If you can make walking chairs you can also make prothetic legs or exoskeletons. Now that I think about it, exoskeleton is pretty much the same thing as a walking chair...
We were talking about wheel chairs that could climb stairs, but definitely, I hope exoskeletons will be cheaper and more accessible soon to those who can use them. There are still those, however, whose only current solution is the wheel chair, so improving on its design is still needed. What do you think?
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.
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It was processed wonder bread.
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His basic error is the same as so many other central planners, he's thinking he can plan from the top down and get spontaneous order.
Those two things are irreconcilable.
Abolish zoning. Eliminate regulations. Allow property owners to build as they see fit, as was the case when cities were "magnetic, lyrical cities that embody their local cultures and adapt to the needs of our changing world".
LOL
Need arabic translation
Which part? pin it please.
SJArmstrong all vid 😂
All we need now is a hover chair, hello WALL-E world
I think the quality of our lives isn't subjected to the architecture, for to be in beauty with our environment we have nature and the already exsiting beautiful cities. As long as we can find hapiness within ourselves, cities should remain, from my point of view, as comfortable vehicles to achieve such personal satisfaction, being how they look a secondary matter
I bet the people who disliked this video didn't even finish it
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flying wheelchairs... uh okay
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.
现代建筑，已经失去了99%的美。取而代之的是工业加工
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 :)
Felt like he was setting up this new way to do things and then threw a bunch of same old same old stuff at us. Probably one of the worst TED talks I've seen. I hope this guy's ideas are not implemented.
I refuse to watch this video based on the pretentious title it has, it reeks of BS
I watched it for you. You were right.
So this dude has rich clients who want a village to themselves. I wonder if there will be a money bin complete with diving boards like Scrooge McDuck had in Duck Tales.
Wow the current structures are so bland and boring sigh
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
The dude is Indian and he had to pronounce Jaipur wrong.
Not substantive at all.
My template perfect villages that can adapt to anything anywhere are far superior to anything he is offering... I solved that in the 70's and nothing has changed and i am still owner of the most advance wisdom mankind ever could know...build what i teach and your world and the galaxy thrive. I have the solution and it was possible 4000 years ago maybe even father back in time so it would of worked any time in history and can work BUT mankind built wrong and then overpopulated to fit capitalism sickness on the planet survival as it ruin the future for today and exploits ALL for greed and vanity. They that learn what I have will survive and the others will not.
"lets compare 3 places I handpicket from the entire world to an average downtown area"
Well what would one expect?...
There is but one future for you humans and it all ends in your extinction
The Unknown King of Nothingness You’re not wrong...
All things end in extinction because the universe won't exist forever.
ゆい714 There for true immortality doesn’t exist in this realm of existence however we are all immortal till the end of time we all live forever in just a different plane of existence
Lance N. - Just another nut.. just wait patiently until a squirrel will take him away.
Lance N. When did I ever say I’m an angel I could care less what humanity does or think all I stated is humanity’s inevitable future no matter what route you take it will always end up in the same destination
build material using graphene, it will someday be dirt cheap
how to get a richness man by which business
This was the Craigslist equivalent of TED. This was a poor presentation and looked more like a spam ad.
Why is he speaking like Trump?
timeless cities are trash. i want evolving cities.