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How did we go from being hunter-gatherers 10,000 years ago to building these gigantic cities in just a few thousand years?
I want to visit 25 American cities, and I want to shoot 4,000 or 5,000 people.
That video was made in the spring of 2011, and as of today I have traveled to almost 20 cities and photographed almost 2,000 people.
No cities like you see today in Doha or Dubai or Abu Dhabi or Kuwait or Riyadh.
It wasn't that they couldn't develop cities. Resources weren't there to develop them.
Not only cities that we're building, but cities with dreams and people who are wishing to be scientists, doctors.
Our objective is to be a millennium city, just like many millennium cities around: Istanbul, Rome, London, Paris, Damascus, Cairo.
It's a noisy material, and if we produce roads like in the Netherlands, very close to cities, then we would like a silent road.
That comes out at five to 10 tons daily per square mile in cities.
But by 1929, cities around the country had put in underground water pipes.
So the problems of sustainability cannot be separated from the nature of the cities, of which the buildings are a part.
And Copenhagen, although it's a dense city, is not dense compared with the really dense cities.
And now, out of typically 46 cities, 33 of those mega-cities are in the developing world.
So, if we think of the transition in our society of the movement from the land to the cities, which took 200 years, then that same process is happening in 20 years.
As Hubert was talking over lunch, as we sort of engaged in conversation, talked about this, talked about cities. Hubert was saying, absolutely correctly, "These are the new cathedrals."
Actually, we've got ourselves locked into this Industrial Era mindset which says that the only people who can make cities are large organizations or corporations who build on our behalf, procuring whole neighborhoods in single, monolithic projects, and of course, form follows finance.
But what if, actually, it's possible now for cities to be made not just by the few with a lot but also by the many with a bit?
And it raises really interesting questions about, how will we plan cities? How will finance development?
And in a way it should be kind of obvious, right, that in the 21st century, maybe cities can be developed by citizens.
We're aware that WikiHouse is a very, very small answer, but it's a small answer to a really, really big question, which is that globally, right now, the fastest-growing cities are not skyscraper cities.
They're self-made cities in one form or another.
And when it comes to architecture in cities, that really matters.
So what I did last year was we hired a car, looked up on Google, found a route into northern India from New Delhi which, you know, which did not cross any big cities or any big metropolitan centers.
That's why they migrate to cities. That's why in June of this year, we passed, as a species, 51 percent of us living in cities, and bustees, and slums, and shantytowns.
In developed cities, more people die by suicide than by crime.
And the reason I think that way is that today half of us live in cities, and that number is going to grow to 75 percent.
Cities and density mean that our buildings are going to continue to be big, and I think there's a role for wood to play in cities.
Now, one in three people living in cities today actually live in a slum.
But the challenge is, as we move to cities, cities are built in these two materials, steel and concrete, and they're great materials.
But only four years after it was built, Gustave Eiffel was building the Eiffel Tower, and as he built the Eiffel Tower, he changed the skylines of the cities of the world, changed and created a competition between places like New York City and Chicago, where developers started building bigger and bigger buildings and pushing the envelope up higher and higher with better and better engineering.
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