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It was a very high, it was a very impersonal time in
design
and we wanted to say, the content is what's important, not the package, not the wrapping.
We can
design
new materials, new products, and new facilities.
It involves the
design
of cities and the
design
of city streets.
So the
design
of cities is a key issue for our future.
The
design
of a street can tell you everything about what's expected on it.
The
design
of this street is really to maximize the movement of cars moving as quickly as possible from point A to point B, and it misses all the other ways that a street is used.
This is the final
design
for Times Square, and it will create a level surface, sidewalk to sidewalk, beautiful pavers that have studs in them to reflect the light from the billboards, creating a great new energy on the street, and we think it's going to really create a great place, a new crossroads of the world that is worthy of its name.
"So, can you change the
design
and put it on my forehead, so I can, you know, do this and eliminate my phantom fingers?"
So I'm a city planner, an urban designer, former arts advocate, trained in architecture and art history, and I want to talk to you today not about
design
but about America and how America can be more economically resilient, how America can be healthier, and how America can be more environmentally sustainable.
But I can't give
design
arguments for that that will have as much impact as the arguments that I've learned from the economists, the epidemiologists and the environmentalists.
I believe that this American healthcare crisis that we've all heard about is an urban
design
crisis, and that the
design
of our cities lies at the cure.
Designed in very specific ways by this group of people who haven't had any education in architecture or
design.
It's remarkable to see the
design
decisions that they're making, like when everything is made out of red bricks, some residents will cover that red brick with another layer of red brick-patterned wallpaper just to make it a kind of clean finish.
While from the outside, these homes look like any other informal structure in the city, when you step inside, you are met with all manner of
design
decisions and interior decoration.
From Makoko to Zabbaleen, these communities have approached the tasks of planning,
design
and management of their communities and neighborhoods in ways that respond specifically to their environment and circumstances.
So what the experts call "denial," I call "hope," and I'd like to borrow a phrase from my friends in software
design.
In the
design
of our commodity exchange in Ethiopia, we've done something rather unique, which is to take the approach of an integrated perspective, or what we call the ECX Edge.
And how we
design
those urban areas could well determine whether we thrive or not as a species.
So when we're asked, as architects, to
design
a new street, we have to look at drawings like this, that tell us how high a curb needs to be, that pedestrians need to be over here and vehicles over there, a loading zone here, a drop-off there.
That would enable us to
design
humane streets again, streets without curbs, maybe streets like the wooden walkways on Fire Island.
Or maybe we could
design
streets with the cobblestone of the 21st century, something that captures kinetic energy, melts snow, helps you with your fitness when you walk.
Imagine if we could
design
the hovercraft wheelchair.
I have clients there who have asked us to
design
a 21st-century open-air village that's sustainably heated using today's technology, in the heart of their downtown.
The first example started with an invitation to
design
a multistory shopping mall in Ethiopia's capital city Addis Ababa.
And this is the type of building we were shown as an example, to my team and myself, of what we had to
design.
So I thought, this is what I really want to design, not a shopping mall.
When I went to the site, the first
design
operation we did was to extend the existing streets, creating 12 initial blocks similar in size and characteristics to the ones we have in Barcelona and other cities in Europe with these courtyards.
These two examples, they have a common approach in the
design
process.
And when we
design
bridges like these, I have to balance the probability that loads will be excessive on one side or the strength will be too low on the other side.
It was designed by a chap called Leon Moisseiff, no stranger to suspension bridge design, but in this case he pushed the limits just that little bit too far and paid the price.
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