Border
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But I had to spend almost all my money to bribe the
border
guards in Laos.
But even after we got past the border, my family was arrested and jailed for illegal
border
crossing.
Near the Pakistan
border.
We've had very interesting conversations with customs
border
agents.
I had learned that many people tried to cross the
border
to China in the nighttime to avoid being seen.
North Korean
border
guards often shoot and kill people trying to cross the
border
without permission.
In the northwest corner of the United States, right up near the Canadian border, there's a little town called Libby, Montana, and it's surrounded by pine trees and lakes and just amazing wildlife and these enormous trees that scream up into the sky.
I mean, after all, Chernobyl's soil, water and air, are among the most highly contaminated on Earth, and the reactor sits at the the center of a tightly regulated exclusion zone, or dead zone, and it's a nuclear police state, complete with
border
guards.
This is happening just south of the
border.
It shares thousands of miles of
border
with Mexico that is its only route of access from the South, and so, as the former dictator of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz, used to say, "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States."
They have designed narco-tunnels that go across the border, and you can see that these are not "The Shawshank Redemption" types.
They have incredibly productive ties with the security organizations on both sides of the
border.
This area happens to be on the
border
of Peru and Brazil, totally unexplored, almost totally unknown scientifically.
And let me illustrate what I mean by understanding or engaging sites of conflict as harboring creativity, as I briefly introduce you to the Tijuana-San Diego
border
region, which has been the laboratory to rethink my practice as an architect.
This is the wall, the
border
wall, that separates San Diego and Tijuana, Latin America and the United States, a physical emblem of exclusionary planning policies that have perpetuated the division of communities, jurisdictions and resources across the world.
In this
border
region, we find some of the wealthiest real estate, as I once found in the edges of San Diego, barely 20 minutes away from some of the poorest settlements in Latin America.
So I've been arguing in the last years that, in fact, the slums of Tijuana can teach a lot to the sprawls of San Diego when it comes to socioeconomic sustainability, that we should pay attention and learn from the many migrant communities on both sides of this
border
wall so that we can translate their informal processes of urbanization.
So I've been interested as an artist in the measuring, the observation, of many of the trans-border informal flows across this border: in one direction, from south to north, the flow of immigrants into the United States, and from north to south the flow of waste from southern California into Tijuana.
I'm referring to the recycling of these old post-war bungalows that Mexican contractors bring to the
border
as American developers are disposing of them in the process of building a more inflated version of suburbia in the last decades.
So these are houses waiting to cross the
border.
Not only people cross the
border
here, but entire chunks of one city move to the next, and when these houses are placed on top of these steel frames, they leave the first floor to become the second to be in-filled with more house, with a small business.
They also taught me that similar to the migrant communities on both sides of the border, they engaged conflict itself as a creative tool, because they had to produce a process that enabled them to reorganize resources and the politics of the city.
This is in the Mandara mountains, near the Nigerian
border
in Cameroon, Mokoulek.
I had the privilege of going to a wedding the other day in northern Namibia, 20 miles or so south of the Angolan
border
in a village of 200 people.
Governments are using it for
border
security or helping with disaster response after floods and fires and earthquakes.
We finally made it across the Kenyan border, yes.
And they would cross the
border
into Lebanon, where they would find peace.
We captured this on the Syrian
border
to Jordan, and this is a typical day.
And all countries should make sure that no one fleeing war and persecution arrives at a closed
border.
And the reason, I don't know how many of you have visited Colombia, but Colombia is just north of the
border
with Brazil.
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