to see a wide spread race as depression today. history, we need to talk about here, the stories, shadows of german colonialism. the our planet is getting hotter, bringing dramatic consequences for both us and nature. and humans learned to live with extreme weather. to me some of the same, it changes forcing us to adapt and we have to react and take structural precautions for testing. the weather is out of control worldwide. the relationship water and people has been shift and those broken leaves nice to repair. the clock is ticking, but there is still time for us to decide how we want to live in the future.

the . it's a hot day in the district of golf at some dressed in germany, which is good news for these 2. dr. astrid zima and from the university of dresden needs high temperatures, to do her job. there wasn't sure what official underscore who we've also seen us, but we're actually doing here. we're looking for where we head is when and of course people speculate that we're taking photos with google or measuring radio activities and lessons utilize your activities they are measuring something, but it's temperature. most of these buildings were constructed in the 1980s. extreme heat has become an issue in carpets which is home to around $21000.00

people. astrid z mine as a media or ologist, she hopes her work can help improve their quality of life. she finds urban heat islands on the streets or squares to identify which outdoor spaces need work. one last check isn't the exact one good. this backpack allows us to make sure that he thinks the issue of people in an open area in the device he in measures the temperature wind and to meet the c. p is the solar radiation is measured. and here, a heat wave mediation is measured from above from the side, and also from below the window according her research can help dressed in to become more resilient to heat. something people here realized was important 20 years ago. in 2003 europe experienced one of the hottest summers on record. an estimated 70000 people died from he related causes, with around 7600 tests in germany. in 2020 to 60000 people died from heat related

causes in europe with 8200 tests in germany. these numbers show help crucial effective heat resilience strategies have become. astrid ziemen has been working together with other scientists for 5 years on a government funded heat resilience research project. well, her focus is on outdoor space. that's professor thomas now mind studies how buildings react to high temperatures. he's a civil engineer from the university of applied sciences addressing and tries to protect indoor spaces from overheating. thanks to everyone here acting in concert their efforts are paying off. dresden is on its way to becoming a heat resilient city. today, thomas now mind will visit buildings that have already been equipped with heat protection measures. he's keen to see what the data says and hopes, buildings can be made even more energy efficient in the future. around the world, cities are being forced to take action against heat weights

for city to be heat resilience, it should establish alarm chains to flag heat, make buildings more heat, resilient for cooler indoor spaces. create green spaces which lower temperatures and have water reserves. in case of droughts, but it's not just heat that's threatening cities. bangkok, thailand, scrolling capital is facing another kind of extreme weather. the metropolis often has too much water. patrick corner of our icon grew up here. she's worried about her city. slice here used to be very different. 8 identity and use to me it is to be our it

gets to the same here. people in bangkok used to co exist with water. now they feel threatened to buy it. and for good reason, ben called is one of the most rapid thinking city in asia. and i think some part of our city is already on the sea level and the landscape architects and i'm looking towards to safe my city. the megacity was built on the flood plains of the chow prayer river. water comes down from the mountains when it also rains heavily. thing can fill up like a bath tub because the water can no longer flew out. the sea. patrick horns are awesome, says bank hoc needs less great concrete and more green plants and earth that can absorb water. the city was built on swampy ground where the chow pay or river flows

into the gulf of thailand. used to be a small fishing village but grew rapidly into a concrete and steel megacity. meaning most of its surfaces are sealed over the city changed and its water troubles have gotten worse and worse. only 15 minutes of rain fall, the whole city shut down. because we have a lot of run off that we can manage. the consequences are often catastrophic. around 11000000 people live in the metro area of been caught. they regularly experienced the effects of climate change firsthand. boys in damages every year. the office of the prize winning landscape architect lies outside the inner city, patrick corner of our office, a works across asia and teaches at harvard university in the u. s. together with her team, she comes up with ideas for the city of tomorrow in the so a so if the office is

a kind of laboratory for the future here she developed her vision for a climate resilience city. at the moment she's focused on a very important construction project. the new government center which is being built in northern being cocked. her priority is to make sure it's green and courts so that water can get through that. ok, and i think being colorado is, is really related to delta city like bank. com and many people mention about spawns cities. but being par us is adding another layer of quality of water is not really just to hold a water, but is also when is at the right time, it will, i know, need to go through it to the fact that she was commissioned to make the building ecologically friendly is a sign of changing attitudes that governments level bank have the last screen

public space per capita along mega cities around the world. and we have a lot of development, a lot of concrete. so glenn is lice horace. we have no room for water on the way to the site. she sees many examples of what she doesn't want to build but can we build without any concrete? yes, so many who argue for sustainable and environmentally friendly construction. increase on in lower bavaria. people have been using an alternative to concrete for a long time loan, a kind of sandy clay. gail acosta, is alone experts. he knows almost everything about the sustainable material, such as that house is made of low withstood extreme heat for centuries, which is just one of the materials. many advantages might yes to light for them, but my goal was always to build houses, which when they are no longer needed, can simply be filed down in full that can just be put back into the earth and level

to nature without much buddy. only a good issue poetry. at 1st, it was difficult to get others interested in building with natural materials. few people saw the benefits of sustainability 20 years ago, but now he has a company with more than 20 employees and has built around 300 loan houses. but again, today he is sending teams to 3 different construction sites. his company builds houses, hotels, and commercial buildings. it's working. yes, all good. the plan had been for gay or casa to join his father's brewery, hoped in till 4 months i took over my father's john, and was head of a branch offices with 15 or 16 employees. so but, but it wasn't my call and the kind of craftsman i like to dig my hands at the clay stick. it just wasn't for me as well as looking at this minute he managed to follow his calling in today. he's an expert in modern name construction. he spent several

years developing difference, lo, mixtures himself. he's on his way to visit a friend, he's been working with for years. his friend also values building with natural materials and works with fluffy as low mixtures to make construction products. step on again, there is an engineer who also started his own company. he's eager to show day or coffer, his latest invention. a robot that's currently working in a converted greenhouse environmentally friendly machine plows, the loan, so that an optimally drive in the sun to be processed further. the so i'm sorry you missed to make luminous as carbon neutral as possible miss to ensure that not only the materials and the finished product tre eco friendly because of the whole production process is also sustainable. the solar lunar drying is the 1st step is that the processing that

follows is also solar powered. step one, egging, or a seas loan is a sustainable solution for both residential and commercial construction. his company exports to half of europe. there are various loan based products are in demand for music, afford it more and more public buildings are being built with loomed size can, from kindergarten schools to administer some buildings. one can use of lumen construction is on the rise and we use more every year. but the, yeah, this came off in 5. 1 example is the supermarket company on the tour as the so called working environment in darmstadt. the space has room for $500.00 employees. it's europe's largest office with a ramped earth facade. with sustainability becoming increasingly relevant for consider action flow has attracted the attention of several real estate developers . but many know little about this re discovered building material the

developer of this brick building ordered loan plaster from gain or call for the loan. plaster is only 2 centimeters thick and bonds well with the brakes and its benefits don't stop there. it also works like an air conditioner that doesn't need electricity hold. this is a way, this is a very dense one square meter of wall ways around 40 kilos. balls so it's very good at absorbing heat. our master builders back in the day, we're already using the mass to absorb energy in a key of to name a foot loam can do more than just store warm. it can also keep out the summer heat, optimize humidity, and it's 100 percent recyclable. the loan pioneer has a clear vision for how houses should be in the future degree. and just

a moment to plant, we need more green, more plants, and more green to to bring we need to bring nature back to the cities. i also think there could be a kind of symbiosis with loan or patrol. we need to get rid of the sealed surfaces on just a, i think having green cities with reasonable growth and reasonable natural materials is the only way forward. it took a little time to change has made this type of thinking more and more urgent in the construction sector. over in carpets and dressed in tests are already under way to see how cities can prepare. the neighborhood has become a kind of real life laboratory. professor thomas now man is putting, measuring devices in the building that already has various heats protection measures installed. he wants to know how effective the measures are. the building residents are briefed about the research project. this apartment is home to an 87 year old woman. she's grateful that her building cooperative took steps to protect the property against each. now mon and his colleagues are installing to measuring

devices that record various factors. kristof in yet is curious. that's what it's about. what this will stay for a few weeks and then through the whole period is supposed to be helpful to the side . let's see here all here on the top, it's the temperature here, humidity, and then oxygen levels. i've skimmed, i've been v o i. when i was a child, we also had hot summer, but nothing this extreme, if i can do something to boxes by closing everything this tomorrow on the check out, these are sure have those mice blinds out there and they keep the he's out. now pete, it's up industrial housing like here in gob, it's has several weak points thermally speaking, but they are both small and large measures that can be done to make high temperatures, more bearable gigs. that's an either community. and in contrast to other weather events, we stays like flooding heavy rain or hills storms. so when it comes to heat,

actually just notified, protecting the building from what's improving people's life quality for the mention . and the people who live here are crucial for the research as well. for the project to succeed, they have to actually use the mattress that includes putting down the blinds when it's hot outside a custom that has long been common practice and more southern countries. thomas now and finally has all the results they show how important the team's work has been the house to the left with no heat protection measures installed gets very hot. the one on the right which has measures stays much cooler. this is a success. but dressed in plants to do much more to become a heat resilience, city back and bank thoughts and the new governments center more than 2000 people are working on the construction site patrick corner of our,

our home visits regularly. urban planning expertise has significantly shapes the project. for instance, their planned tools that have been integrated into the ground that can store water and active streams. she has long been working towards making gray cement green. in 2017, she found to be poor city networks, which aims to insert porosity into hard paid cities. coastal regions in thailand and in malaysia have joined to the network. the goal for city is to stop being planned against water and to work with it. instead. these gutters in the ground also collect rainwater, which will be stored in tanks. like many countries in asia, thailand, experiences extreme weather, including heat weights. the landscape architect must consider all of this in her planning. and for this particular project, she must also keep it special purpose in mind. but be useful because well,

as the government center of the nation, the line of the building complex also includes a parking garage. each floor protrudes to a different degree. the roof will be covered in vegetation, have a solar system and a small roof garden. rainwater will be directed so that it flows down the facade. tabio has to rain and flying the plan in the article, but it is not only the prism and most people to walk around here and then the building project manager has arrived. he's very interested in the plants and appreciates that smart landscape architects can help create the resilience and sustainable cities. are the 5 whole level of care of your time is good for the climate because

this will be so wonderfully green. with grateful for the project, i would love to see these types of greeting project. so when i have of hancock and across china team to make idle maps. patrick horns are awesome. previously completed another project, which showed how important her line of work is for climate stricken bangkok she roost of fame with a 2 long corn centenary park located in the middle of the city. this park can hold almost 4000000 liters of water. it was completed in march 2017 and received global attention. the 11 tech to your area has a gradual incline of 3 degrees. this means that rain flows off easily. it's been gathered in underground tanks and, and the retention pond. vegetation helps regulate the temperature and provides

protection from the sun on hot days. the wetlands and water bodies have become a home for many species and for bank cox inhabitants. the park is a place of rest and recreation. but the part is only one part of the solution. if i say i have the 400 time be good and this is still not saving back home. we need more more, more. but the message that this part to way is for us to leave with water one again and not see a of lot, but leave it benefit to share it should set are branded as part of our lives. as a result of man made climate change, awareness of the value of nature and the city is growing. nature based solutions will become increasingly important in the future. besides green spaces,

canals or another important part of bangkok strategy to make the city more porous again, and improve life quality for its population. back in the day, a whole network of canals or clones, used to stretch through bangkok. these were then paved over to make space for concrete buildings and asphalt streets in her left for the future. patrick, one of our awesome is planning to reactivate. old canals is an important step because for the city to become ports of water must be able to circulate an escape. the canal is actually the key, but we destroyed it, but by destroying it the existing canals do not connect us. you can see so many water, these so many low disconnected disconnect that is connected. so what my team and i tried to do to at least minimize all of these connection and linked to it and combine it with the 2 big part of the city to

to let the land breeze again and run the line can breeze the people can enjoy the benefits to reimagined a city in this way is a huge endeavor with around 60 percent of the world's global population living in cities. it's also hugely complicated. patrick, one of our awesome has nonetheless found a way to do it back and dressed in the media or ologist astrid seem on is once again looking for urban heat islands. the past summer as have shown the extent to which high temperatures negatively affect life quality and corvettes. one part of the problem is that many of the surfaces are sealed and, and we use this a lot really consistent and it's variable list of those. and yet every station should be like this really hard to stay if they re doing station. so adding one, he was for the should always make sure that people have shaved chewing hot periods,

so it's a straight freeze on. so vertical, green billing. i'm the global coal is how good us the research group conducted a survey which revealed that many people would like bus stops and transportations to be cooler and have more shade. that's why the no doubt wouldn't. well, that's exactly why we did this project to be able to give precise measurements to of inside of the stuff, to the office for the environment for this. and we create a space agency help. so if you need these precise values, often to be able to say that the information of who is implementing the the one and says own so sets, it takes many smart people to make a city heat for resilience. thomas, now mine is about to meet someone who use this technology to this cent dressings. smart city manager, sir. nice to see here the mutual and is an expert. he wants to use artificial

intelligence and temperatures sensors to identify urban heat islands. a sensor here will be one of how many interested in things go. this is status is one of our 300 sensors. my colleagues should be arriving shortly. they'll bring all the setup equipment with the cargo bank so that the installation is as environmentally friendly as possible. i went to the sensors, record temperature and humidity in real time. this data is then used to create a heat map of the city because we can't install thousands of sensors, but we can extrapolate temperature trends in the city with our 300 sensors. thanks to the system. heat islands can also be predicted, meaning this technology can be used to warren residents and to prevent hotspots through appropriate planning. this is also important for roads as it's expensive to

repair, split asphalt or heat warrants, trucks, meetings, this team thing about estimates from keep up with this system. we'll have quantitative data for the 1st time about what it means financially to build here or elsewhere. and yet, so, but i'm not, i'm on the old stuff that you've thought about where to build and how to build. and that's then you can feed that into the system. and it can tell you how that will impact the heat development in the city of proof. of items and that's and that input is interesting for us when we decide whether to go for an option a or option b. would it be by end of the smart sensor network will help me construction more robust and better adapted so that the city becomes more heated resilience. it can also help future proof of already existing buildings mitchell and says, interested in now months data from residential buildings. i've haven't yet had he protection measures that it must be used as a carpet plot for indoor claimant to always start with a building with new measures. and the ones that he wasn't going to on the read

shows how much the state heats up when it's hot outside room for room, strongly affecting its residents. by contrast, a building that has heat protection measures is much greener. to start from more, there was some close to a great extent the city of tomorrow already exists. today we will be altering a lot of existing building use or size of the truck. that's the most sensible strategy for both in terms of energy consumption and the economy and on climate change on possible whether it's heat size, heavy, rain or flooding. stocks is forcing us to adapt once disease we have to we actually are going to take structural precautions just for soccer traffic. the prize winning research project keep resilience, city shows that there is still time to react to those in smaller cities like dressed in and, and mega cities around the world's like bang. cox, learning to live with extreme weather and urban environments is possible.

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