Smart Cities - Building for the Cities of Tomorrow (Documentary, 2015)

More people than ever are living in cities, while only 10 percent of the worlds population did so at the start of the 20th century. The number has grown to 50 percent today. By the end of this century, humans will be a predominantly urban species. As our cities grow, so do the challenges. Space is becoming scarce and social tensions, traffic, noise and pollution are all on the rise.
At the same time cities offer many opportunities such as more efficient use of resources, energy and infrastructure. After remaining a relatively small specialty field for decades, sustainable building today hold the technical key for the future.
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[@jdhenge]

Without oil money, you would never have heard of these guys. Luck and lottery allows them to be influential beyond their means.

[@jeanyambyambcapitalesoluti6778]

😅😅😅 why does it sound like you’re angry

[@joaocosta3374]

Still they are profoundly incompetent in solving the problems they have. That architecture is ugly, the people are accostumed to no fiscal responsabilities and they still live in a desert which is waiting to be re greened, but when you have money it's cheaper to import... absolutely incompetent.

[@darkisland04]

Ich denke Team Austria hat sich sehr gut geschlagen!

[@convon712]

Imagine a city of bubbles like sea foam along the oceanfront . For years I have wondered if deeply anchored dome shaped buildings would be able to withstand hurricane force winds. The recent devastation in Florida by hurricane Ian demonstrates the failure of flat surfaced angular construction to withstand high winds. A smooth surface without angles seems much more likely to survive the onslaught of high winds in hurricane-prone locations. I envision a dome shape with possible moving parts to be raised in fair weather and lowered in high wind situations. Perhaps even made flood proof from high water situations.

[@bigzigtv706]

how would you build that? the reason things are flat and angular is because our building materials are that shape.

[@convon712]

@@bigzigtv706 :: How have architects fabricate curved surfaces on their existing buildings ? Perhaps the huge amount of plastic floating in the ocean could be utilized. New materials are being developed constantly. Opportunities for entrepreneurs abound.

[@DeepThinkingGPU]

@@bigzigtv706 people build dome buildings, just google it bro

[@kelanzhi7269]

anyone knows the background music beginning from 3:12? thanks

[@BahariNyeusi]

Ke Lanzhi OMG, sorry I can't help but I was thinking of asking the same thing. Very good music.

[@profesionelviewer4458]

Thts a prayer i think

[@shingiraichiwakira1116]

@@BahariNyeusi me too dont know why i looked in the comments

[@anthonykornhuerelbraonclan8041]

Dunya-Karuan

[@kelanzhi7269]

@@anthonykornhuerelbraonclan8041 Thanks a lot! Amazing music!

[@markroest]

The best Ultra-High-Performance-Concrete (UHPC) uses round, smooth desert sand instead of jagged river sand. It is 5 to 25 times stronger than conventional concrete, ductile, and can last for hundreds of years instead of decades in harsh conditions. Its HQ are in Germany and Denmark.

[@carolinemarchand4743]

wind towers were part of the iranian architecture of centuaries.... plus they are looking gorgeous there! I wonder how many other clever ways of building have been lost in the name of modernity in the XX centuary

[@plaintruth996]

They should be called surveillance cities

[@ScottHardenbergh]

What is the name of the apartment complex toward the end of the video?

[@marka.m.kramer3309]

It appears that the "apartment complex" you are reffering to is in Salzburg, Austria. The place in the end is in Graz, Austria.

[@Mark-oi8rd]

10:44 well they are normal students too lol on the top of the wall "Life is better when you are drunk". In a smart cities in the futer will be direct beer supply to the houses trew the pipeline?

[@wayned3375]

Before even 1 minute in I feel I must enter the fact that I watched a video recently which stated citys don't get enough sunlight for power that fact typically realates to street level, most of the suns energy is shadowed and doesn't hit the streets. We as people have to move toward the light for energy new technologies are being developed to put solar in glass and on roofs, where the roof is a viable vegetable garden. The fasad of the building could have a pivoting solar array that moves with the sun also reducing the heat behind the glass of the building. The array could sit on a system of rails or other tech to move it with the least resistance as we would require power to combat that. This system would allow shade to be where shade is needed at all times of the day and power where power is gathered subsequently reducing air conditioning costs also the system could be moved while cleaning of windows happens. Or going further if glass solar works well and costs are economicly viable which like all renewable energy has the potential to be. We put new buildings windows on a full pivot so the outside and in could be cleaned via the inside locking at top and bottom when it needed. The outside of glass could generate power while the inside could reflect rays that pass through.

[@carson551]

They are blocking the sun in an order to stop fake global warming.

[@chrisd.2948]

@ Not Of This World bro were you high

[@carson551]

No, I just pay attention.

[@Yanaschaf]

Seestadt Aspern looks OKish, but as soon as the paint isn't as new anymore it will be just another bunch of squares and boxes. And there are way too few trees and shrubs etc.

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

Since the ancient times fans, surprising architectures became the golden asset and still they worth the most. If l could have all the money in the world l want l would build up all over again the legendary Babylon, the hanging gardens of Baghdad, the most revolutionary achievements of the humankind, until no desert will dare to mess up our planet's health, we must provide for keeping this huge baby quiet, only smart architectures are the answer friends, get involved plizzzzzz

[@jamesliston5693]

This video give me a hope in future ☺️☺️☺️

[@jaybee608]

Really?

[@ExistNNature]

You need to check out the episode on Black Mirror about the smart house..

[@rihadjc1178]

Does someone know what is the name of the song on 4:54?

[@millball]

Other comments are saying other songs in background is by an artist called karakoum (check the spelling) 😆

[@manaramapatra7831]

Good documentary. Cities of tomorrow are already built today. They are in an innovative progress. Cities of Los Angeles, Austria and Abu dhabi are the examples of this fact. Many students of institutes of technology in these countries are doing reaserch on this. People are happy in these eco friendly smart cities. Solar power is used and electric cars are also used in these cities. Best documentary. I liked this vedio.❤❤❤😢😢😮😅😊😊

[@LukacsPeter1]

170/5000 The dreams of Le Corbusier and Ceausescu's megalomania are fulfilled. Ceausescu solved the problem of electricity only 16 hours of electricity per day. All forward companions...

[@g_y.rtz420]

THE FUTURE IS NOW OLD MAN

[@markroest]

42% efficient solar thin film can be used as the outer sheath of buildings. It should last longer than 50 years. It has been modeled, but not yet physically developed.

[@yvonnehyatt8353]

5-G needs trees -for health.

[@yvonnehyatt8353]

Trees needed for and 5-G .

[@adminuser5810]

seriously, this video looks like propaganda, Masdar city has being declared to be a disastrous failure by the design manager of the city. and those "modern" complexes you've shown of Austria are in fact very similar to outdated designs from Latin America mainly for cheap social interest housing. very sad if that's your example of the modernity.

[@riskylion500]

31:13

[@LeanneDeath]

i have been sent here by school

[@evelynmckittrick]

same😭✋

[@moinsultan06]

Same 😪

[@g_y.rtz420]

School is cool dont do drugs™

[@bellablock8293]

Actually they just talk about "more of the same". More energy to be used. More high tech. That can not be the answer! That is not innovative enough. imho.

[@teksal13]

Actually, they talked about less energy usage.

[@Maperator]

the difference is sustainability and functionality

[@ExistNNature]

Spying on you too

[@marie5517]

What a dystopian nightmare. Pack people into dense areas, living, working & sharing kitchens and bathrooms. How utterly miserable. Thank god I own acreage out in the country. I won't be a slave worker shoved into a communal kitchen and "dense living space". Live free or die in the shackles of "progress".

[@billbraski2175]

you'll be forced into a city center

[@marie5517]

@@billbraski2175 No I won't. I guarantee it.

[@harryb3456]

Bruh were not living in India or china ok.

[@theuglykwan]

Are you living off the grid?

[@jaybee608]

@@harryb3456 not yet! Wait for it!

[@supermot34]

Disturbing and horrifying.

[@pmoO0]

If you can throw enough money at things ...

[@joaocosta3374]

This!

[@suhailsurajpal]

Everyone in this comment section missed the entire point of the video 🤦‍♂️

[@MUSIC4TRUTH....]

2020

[@shirousagi1099]

the most important thing is human behavior ,intent and desire. I don't want to be urban or diverse. What about people that want to be more homogeneous? What about finances ,socialism, identity . How can architecture make people feel safe,welcome and at home? What about capitalism . People need to have the space for public,lunch rooms, bathrooms, homeless shelters,sprawl space, room to grow, room to stay the same, football and other sports without cramping, working out , excersizing , traveling . marching , entertainment ,music ,etc.

[@lushbIood]

The life you're describing is the 20th century. Before that, any of the shit you listed was borderline impossible to any one person. You welcomed the technology you were born into but resist the same change that made your life more comfortable than the 19th century. Perspective can change a lot, considering all your perceived "people's needs" only apply to our most recent century where the technology allowed them to even think of those perceived needs yet those same needs does not apply to all of human history.

[@jamesnagib9141]

out hate and out spy >>> send me smart

[@anetapuzewicz]

Well they are trying but those buildings are endlessly ugly...Perhaps eco solutions and functionality of building doesn't allow it to be beautiful at all. Or perhaps need to give building ' modern look ' by designers make it quite disgusting mess of geometric shapes and structural twists ? If someone can find beauty in those examples more power to them personally I find them eyesore. They are usually almost empty when they finally stand due to price tag and oppressive feel.

[@gangelo2787]

Smart Cities - Building for the Enslavement of Tomorrow. Yea, that's about right.

[@joaocosta3374]

[@elliswhiteley3310]

Control

[@micahbodha6129]

Hell on earth.

[@99rylee]

these new cities are making our current way of life look antiquated. this will benefit the earth in so many ways reducing the carbon footprint by reinventing the way we look at power usage and oil and so many other things.

[@now591]

Good brainwashed citizen aren't you. Co2 is NOT a pollutant. Plants thrive on it.

[@AdrianaRamirez-jd8cq]

@@now591 the amount of CO2 being produced is so much that plants and other carbon sequestering biological beings aren’t enough to sequester it. Which is why it’s being concentrated at abnormal levels and thus heating the earth. Although some plants are slightly adjusting to sequester more CO2 most are being detrimentally affected as well by the changing climate as well as the other biodiversity that help these plants thrive.

[@ryanzacsanders]

if we want to reduce Ressources use we should serve only vegan food on such events like the decathlon... that would be the future

[@texasray5237]

Don't worry they're developing ways to reprocess waste materials into sustainable food products. Soylent Brown.

[@teksal13]

Reduce 'resources'? why not reduce waste and develop resources?

[@riseevolution]

That combined with no waste and complet reuse of things with the help of tecnology...

[@texasray5237]

_"We want people to stop using their cars"_ And what if the people want to use their cars??? Can we vote on it???

[@kelleren4840]

Texas Ray No. You can simply live in the 99.9% of the rest of the modern world that has eviscerated itself in an effort to accomodate cars. Somewhere like... Texas?

[@joshuamacbeath]

Kelleren is a control freak

[@jaybee608]

Nope!

[@abelardoandres288]

Defend on district of city, if city wants futuristic structures must followed the protocol if acceptable of designs

[@CGI__]

ugly buildings won't change the world. We already figured out how to have a sustainable city without cars in the renaissance. They're still beloved in europe. You have to create beautiful spaces. This ugly shitbuildings may save energy while heating but they're just not nice.

[@joaocosta3374]

At last someone who umderstands...

[@esthwhite8403]

利兹学院慕名观看

[@TRICK-OR-TREAT236]

AMERICA IS TURNING INTO A PRIMITIVE CAVE AGE SLUM COMPARED TO CERTAIN OTHER COUNTRIES.

[@presidentcyanats4005]

@John K It also has crumbling infrastructure, an awful healthcare system, failing education system and over half of our national budget is going towards military. Corporations are taking advantage of so many people with the government being currupted by them. So yeah, America STINKS! We have the world's largest economy but can't solve these problems.

[@TimSlee1]

Let me stress this. Why do modern buildings have to be so fucking ugly? What happened to the simple charm of old buildings? Why can't modern architects make anything competent now days?

[@joaocosta3374]

You're being subverted. In the West architecture was a staple of a country's cultural identity, property and sense of belonging in your ancestral lands, and the same as religion, and etnicity... you destroy those in order to further your control over the population to turn it into a consumeristic virtue signaling drone... 'you will eat the bugs, own nothing, and be happy about it'. One diserves what one tolerates...

[@ExistNNature]

No thank you

[@g_y.rtz420]

All of this is pointless once you take one look at mumbai Future city right there

[@fuckfannyfiddlefart]

"The Eremites are very open to new ideas" Like modern slavery, sectarianism and a mercenary army!

[@hashemgr3]

fuckfannyfiddlefart shut the fuck up u been slaving ppl since the beginning of time..

[@joaocosta3374]

Based.

[@ipxrso3454]

Schrott

[@marcosorduno9203]

America biggest Citys increase in population no no we don't do that

[@benjamins9873]

I despise modern architecture

[@theuglykwan]

Presumably you could make them look nicer.

[@Thecodytree]

i hate cities

[@harryb3456]

Why?

[@jaybee608]

Cities cities today are like going to the circus!