Douglas Farr - Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature

[@SOAEVO]

I commend both the speaker and the poster of this video. You helped me immensely with my university subject sustainable urban design & development. Just sat for my exam the other day, and many of the concepts in this video were brought up. Thank you again !!!

[@engnoormalik7966]

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[@andysmithers6519]

This video shares a lot of ideas and gives that awareness to sustainable urban architecture. Brilliant event!

[@magialogica]

Great lecture and really useful for my students in Bogotá.

[@timbaxter681]

Thank you for Uploading this! We are all connected :)

[@shimonmagrill2472]

Great thought provoking material. Thanks!

[@Earth098]

Thank you so much for uploading!!!

[@CarolynPhinney]

fabulous...well worth the time.

[@Earth098]

At the beginning, I get a bad impression be cause of his Nickson......but I have to say this is a brilliant speech.

[@katherynedaradal9080]

Format based coding is a great concept!

[@MrMadvibez]

absolutely riveting and solutionary!

[@profkrumdieck]

"Festooned with evidence that they are green buildings" an aha moment - can I use that?

[@kaunas888]

Many good ideas here. I have a few more comments. Destroying perfectly functional items to replace them with "green" items is often less green due to all the resources needed to destroy the old item and replace it with a new energy saving one. These ideas to make buildings more intelligent are clever. However, the best way to have sustainability is to reduce our population. But no one wants to talk about it because it is politically incorrect. Instead they want to reduce our quality of life.

[@unmilon]

Very informative!

[@kaunas888]

New Urbanists hate setbacks. When done correctly there is nothing wrong with set backs. The problem is that setbacks have been taken to an extreme destroying any connection between the building and the street. If setbacks are only 6-8 feet and the facade is maintained, there is no reason why they cannot be used. It also gives a bit of a margin to play with, for instance if a restaurant needs extra outdoor seating space without blocking the sidewalk or if we want a little extra green.

[@seamonkey22]

Is this information still relevant?

[@rhuwabineda]

nice info...

[@BmoreIrish]

Since this was recorded, we’ve learned that the school issue sorts it’s self out. It just takes 10-20 years of young families moving into urban neighborhoods and then pushing for quality schools. This exact thing happened in my neighborhood. We went from awful schools around 2000, to now having two 5 star rated schools. Families moved in and over the course of that time they started staying longer instead of moving out for county schools. Also, school choice vouchers we’ve learned are garbage also and just end up with class and race segregated schools again. Detroit ruined their school system with vouchers.

[@dennism.3169]

These are the working ideas and approaches that Pres. Trump can put to use to revitalize America's inner cities. And these projects can be paid for by reviving American manufacturing industries to provide for the needs/demands of both the domestic and the international markets. Cheap energy and innovation/American ingenuity (instead of cheap labor) will in turn be the raw materials that can fuel the revival of US manufacturing prowess.

[@williamthomas8903]

Anyone from Salford Uni?

[@kaunas888]

There is a romance to the living local idea, which is good when done successfully. However, a lot of the living local means reduce options for work, business, shopping, etc. Small towns are generally not thriving because they are local and have less options. Large cities are where the rich generally live because they have more options and are not local in character. Madrid is all high density and not car friendly but commutes on public transportation are easily 1 hour each way.

[@kaunas888]

There are many good ideas in this talk. However, I would caution these architects to go easy on the ultra modern avant-guarde architecture, which so many of them are enthralled with. We are trying to make urban environments inviting and welcoming, and creating the latest ugly, cold, weird and off putting modern building is not the way to do this. I recommend that they stick to proven traditional styles or at least architecture that does not offend.

[@2602597]

Same thing here! :-)

[@kaunas888]

Unfortunately we can either have cities optimized for cars or pedestrians. I live in Spain, which is very walkable and pedestrian oriented. It also sucks to drive in. However, I believe that we can find a compromise between the two extremes which would be decent for cars and also good for pedestrians with designated pedestrian areas and connected but not dominated by effective highways.

[@AnnaKumacheva]

Very interesting speech. I am just not sure that it is such a good idea to create more density to provide a better walkability. I would guess that higher percentage of people with higher education might have a similar wishful effect.

[@assa6699]

WORTH WATCHING..but...the sustainable building design it sooo weird

[@kaunas888]

Banning incandescent bulbs and not been progress and is a classic example of how government mandates can and do go wrong. CF bulbs are expensive, do not last any longer under normal use, are incredibly fragile, and are loaded with extremely toxic mercury, which no one knows how to safely dispose of. LED bulbs are great but extraordinarily expensive (more than 20 times an incandescent) and the price has not really come down and may never.

[@kaunas888]

The idea about the solar panels is less that the man cannot afford them, and more that they make no economic sense. The panels would never pay for themselves in their 15-20 year lifespan. And this is the problem with a lot of alternative energy. It is too expensive or unreliable, so the masses will never adopt them while this is true. For alternative energy to be adopted it has to compete.

[@cameron0434]

delicious

[@verticalmatt]

the horror

[@bloorwestreno]

dry