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This is how it looked in 2013 after we built out 350 miles of on-street bike lanes.
And we've built 30 miles of these protected bike lanes, and now you're seeing them pop up all over the country.
And so we focused on the most congested areas of New York City, built out six bus rapid transit lines, 57 miles of new speedy bus lanes.
The Iranians built a special tarmac at the airport in Tehran, far away from the central terminal, so that no one would notice the large number of Israeli planes shuttling between Tel Aviv and Tehran.
You could scroll back through it, but interestingly, if you were watching it live, there was this suspense that built because the actual tweets, you had no control over when you would read them.
I think that in both of these examples, you're beginning to see ways in which people are telling stories with nonfiction content that can be built into new types of fictional storytelling.
My wife and I built a new house on an abandoned lot in Washington, D.C., and we did our best to clear the shelves of the sustainability store.
Over the past seven years, I've been following my fascination with the built environment, and for those of you who know me, you would say that this obsession has led me to live out of a suitcase 365 days a year.
The inhabitants literally built up these homes with their own hands, and this labor of love instills a great sense of pride in many families living in this tower.
While these apartments that they built for themselves appear to lack any planning or formal grid, each family specializing in a certain form of recycling means that the ground floor of each apartment is reserved for garbage-related activities and the upper floor is dedicated to living space.
Through this architecture by subtraction, these yaodongs are built literally inside of the soil.
Last year, I built my own self-driving car.
And I don't know what's worse, that we built a system that seems to be entirely optimized for the absolute worst aspects of human behavior, or that we seem to have done it by accident, without even realizing that we were doing it, because we didn't really understand the systems that we were building, and we didn't really understand how to do anything differently with it.
But we finally built this system, this global system, the internet, that's actually showing them to us in this extraordinary way, making them undeniable.
He built a playhouse for our daughter.
It's part of the human condition, and yet our system and our thinking isn't built to accommodate it.
Now let's go to some newer cities. Six downtowns built across six continents in the 20th century.
Why do none of these places have any of the charming characteristics of our older cities? Or let's go to six suburbs built on six continents in the 20th century.
And when you think about that, ask yourself: Are they condemned to live in the same bland cities we built in the 20th century, or can we offer them something better?
But we also have to acknowledge that all of these well-intentioned rules, they had the tremendous unintended consequence of making illegal the ways in which we used to build cities. Similarly illegal: at the end of the 19th century, right after the elevator was invented, we built these charming urban buildings, these lovely buildings, all over the world, from Italy to India.
What that results in is the thud, the dull thud of the same apartment building being built in every city across the world.
I was there covering the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident, as you can see by the look on my face, reluctantly so, but with good reason, because the nuclear fire that burned for 11 days back in 1986 released 400 times as much radiation as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and the sarcophagus, which is the covering over reactor number four, which was hastily built 27 years ago, now sits cracked and rusted and leaking radiation.
And so, differences aside, what these three organizations share is on the one hand, a very clear understanding that institutions cannot be imposed from the top, but rather they are built from the bottom up one interaction at a time.
It should be built in to all the systems we use.
What's going to change the situation for the rest of the world is to try to steer away from systems built in the United States.
It built a new sports arena, a new canal downtown, it fixed up our performing arts center, a new baseball stadium downtown, a lot of things to improve the quality of life.
He started MAPS for Kids, rebuilt the entire inner city school system, all 75 buildings either built anew or refurbished.
And I came to the conclusion that we had built an incredible quality of life if you happen to be a car.
We're even going back into some inner city situations where we had built neighborhoods and we had built schools but we had not connected the two.
We had built libraries and we had built neighborhoods, but we had never really connected the two with any sort of walkability.
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