Name: THE FUTURE OF CITIES
Uploaded: 2016-12-21T09:18:33.000Z
Duration: 18 min 13 s
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This is the sound of a garbage truck in Taipei.

I ended up in here because I was looking for the City of Tomorrow.

Songdo is the largest private real-estate development in history. It’s a master-planned

and entirely state of the art smart city. While Songdo doesn’t look like that future,

It’s only impossible until someone does it.

Just 25 years ago PSY would have been dancing on THIS.

Here are some other cities built on water.

There is a race to build a functioning workable

city and to replicate that model all over the world.

China alone would require 500 Songdos to sustain their growing population.

So how did we get here, with an entire industry racing to build smart cities from scratch?

Technology is the answer, but what is the question?

Are we just building cities of the future

so we can have cities of the future? Let’s take a step back.

When cinema was born only 14% of the world’s population lived in cities.

Right now we’re at 54%. And this is where we’re headed.

Cities today are growing at a pace that none of us have ever understood.

Now, that’s a huge deal when you think about it, because the resources that built the megacities

of the 20th century aren’t sustainable today.

We do damage to nature, and we do less damage to nature when we occupy less of it.

We’re not gonna make our planet grow and thrive by continuing to sprawl out.

They’re basically saying that when density

is done right, it’s the best if not the only solution to our growing climate crisis.

So is future urbanization going to be a good thing? Or a bad thing?

If you care about people, this is the defining question of our time.

The Nantucket Project asked me to explore that question, because that’s what they do, explore!

So I read books, talked to experts, travelled

around the world, asked the internet for help and got responses from people in all of these cities

They’d show me around, and when I couldn’t visit in person they’d send me footage.

The best thing about cities and the internet is they connect people. So this movie is about

exploring what an even more connected urban future could look like.

Mayor Cavanagh: There is a renaissance in the city and I’m honored to be a participant

That was Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, making a bid

50 years later, population still in decline, Detroit went bankrupt.

In 2014 we had the water shutoffs in Detroit.

Thousands of homes lost water due to shutoffs.

And I wanted to focus on helping resolve that

so I created an application called City Water that’s gonna give Detroit residents their

That might sound boring compared to a drone

delivering your pizza but let’s remember that cities only reached their full potential

when they became healthier places to live.

At the start of the 20th century America’s

cities were spending as much on water as the federal government was spending on everything

We’ve come a long way to an exciting area!

This is Abess. He saw my video announcing the project and wanted to make sure his city

I was born here, and I’m really passionate

about bringing the city back to the point it was. We’re no Silicon Valley but we’re

tryin’ to become a city that brings tools and brings solutions and brings jobs back.

Detroit is his company’s first client. That means they’re using data to prevent

And the citizens say, “I don’t need to

have a smart city, but whatever new innovation comes, if it helps me, I’m going to embrace it."

And it’s really encouraging just the fact

that the city is willing to do a project like this and we’re hoping to launch that in

January of 2017 and take that to other cities across the country.

Because cities don’t inherently compete with each other, there’s a huge opportunity

We could take the best practices in sustainable

urbanization and spread them around the world as quickly as possible. That is the promise

It’s easy to imagine adopting Abess’s

app in Santiago and Los Angeles is a city that has never taken water for granted.

Well what can we do the rest of the city needs drinking water.

We use water from 1400 miles away. That is

transported long distances using over 19% of our entire energy budget for the state

David uses solar power to turn air into clean

water which he gives away for free to his city or sometimes turns into food. Awesome!

Every building ideally can make its own water

In the same way future cities won’t need

telephone lines, maybe they also won’t need water pipes.

You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes

the teapot. Be water my friend..like that you see?

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THE FUTURE OF CITIES

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