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i, she didn't on until the, she's such a call. and as somebody who's on their own, you can get this a sense of loneliness, but also a sense of being able to not be distracted by anything else. apart from what you see, ah, ah, you can feel the hairs on the back of your neck standing when you reach the top of that building and get a great view of the city. and you know, the timeline to kind of help you achieve that by creating that sense of hyper reality. i know i owe new york time, photographers,

and concerning architecture of photography. paradise. every way you go, there's a shop. i few cities divide opinion more than new york, a towering celebration opportunity for others, including one of europe's greatest muslim offices like a boucher, a beautiful catastrophe of elite spies, soaring above the pole. a new york didn't give to the skyscraper of 22 square miles to build on. it was always going to be a vertical city. mm. yeah. ah, 2 things change the face of the modern construction. the invention of steel framed buildings, which meant about a lower wall no longer needed to bear the weight of the walls above and safer

elevators. 6 stories had been the practical limit of most buildings prior to the 1880, and the necessity of trudging up 6 flights of stairs made the upper reaches home of the pole. the invention of the elevator, inverted this hierarchy from now on, it will be the rich hewlett of the town. i'm from new york delete the sky really was the limit. oh, for me, new york created, but we imagined modern metropolis to be the the new york skyline is what new cities around the world spicy, whether consciously or unconsciously, ah, when america's enemies wanted to attack the country, they chose to attack the new york skyline. specifically its tallest buildings.

13 years later, the success of one world trade center is nearing completion. the architect chosen in a public boat to come up with a master plan for this site was in many respects, a quintessential new yorker. i was an immigrant from new york and there's something so amazing about arriving by ship with all the other immigrants from all countries. looking at that silhouette and saying, my god, this is, this is like, think something out of out of the moon it's, it's not possible that people have built this kind of magical city. ah, new york is the best school of architecture, the city itself. as you look at the streets, as you look the way buildings are being built. as you look at the density of new york, ah,

and you see how hard people work, new york. that's 20 a lot about architecture because architecture is more than meets the eye. it's more than the glory of building a building. it's, it's what is life? what kind of life does it represent? and what does it contribute to people's life? louis soul and the father american architecture. in his 1900 speech to the new york architects that new york city has one got the got of money. nothing has change in a 100 years. new york is to the trade my money. but ambition, we want to build this. we want to build this. but how do you, with, if you build a private skyscraper for your client? how do you contribute something to the city? just to make some gesture to the public worth building? i mean, they spent a ton of money on the coupon, on the, on the spire of woolworth, which was mister woolworth's office. after all, it took a private office of

a millionaire. but there's something glorious it's, it's, it's, it's like a church. it represents ration. oh hi. so billing has that incredible sort of needle that was put on to it at the very end. so i think there's a lot to be said that within the private world of her money, there was an ambition to, to add a civic dimension to it. i think that's part of what makes new york still a very, very interesting. she has also many other cities that have a lot of tall buildings. but so what new york script system initially brought in to facilitate the parceling out of land in simple blocks, also lend itself to tall buildings. for me, it gives the city too much order

maps. the reason i'm so drawn to these spots where broadway the pre existing native american trail intersects with the rich it monotony of the great felts in 19 o 2 by one of the pioneers of a skyscraper, a flat iron building still feels modern. it's been described as resembling the power of a ship sailing a 5th avenue. it shaped maximizing the use of the triangular plot created by broadway as daniel says, a functional building. but a beautiful one to the golden age of the skyscraper was also the great age of american expansion. ah, in 1800. new york had

a population of only 60000. by 1900, it was a 1000000. in the 1920s, it overtook london as the largest city in the world. when the new york stock market crashed in 1929. the city already had more than a 180 buildings over 20 stories high the patron of the last mega structure of this era, john j rescue reputedly gave his architect a simple, brief build as high as you can without it falling our life. the result was the empire state the tallest building in the world for the next 40 years known in the trade as the empty state for its commercial failings. it was, nevertheless, a vertical statement with which no one in new york or elsewhere for that matter could compete

in the shadow of the empire state is the office of an economist. he's drawn parallels between the economic imbalance led to the 929 crash. and the situation today. fascinating things is that we got into this mass by over investment and housing and our development of housing in speculative development and housing. how we stabilized the problem by organisation in china, which is over investment in housing and over investment in albany, zation, if you look at the property markets around the world and london is over inflated, new york is over inflated. and to me, that means you're going to get back into the mass very shortly. how do you think we can break? i cycle one of the ways in which we can break it is to actually start to rationalize . the investment in urban eyes ation. and in order to do that,

we have to spend much more money investing in affordable housing for ordinary people. but that means that ordinary people have to have the money to pay for it. which means that actually you've got to get employment back to a position where people have an income stream where they can afford a decent house on a decent living environment. what is stopping the pot from boiling over right now was keeping the lid on ashley. the lid is off in many parts of the world. we seen just in the last year, eruptions and several cities in brazil. other has been on rest and stockholm, before that there was london paris and has a lot of unrest in urban areas out there, which i think is going to be very, very difficult to manage as to as time goes on is trouble brewing. it doesn't seem obvious in new york, at least not in its commercial epicenter at times square.

this was a high crime area for more than 50 years following the great depression. but today, it has a very different buying. it feels like a cathedral of consumerism. people come specifically to see the flashing lights with photographing them and each other with the same smartphones advertised on the billboard. another left leaning academic has labeled this pacification by cathy. as long as we have our branded phones and branded coffee, the content to ignore the big picture with when america began to find its feet after the depression, it was a boom driven by the same consumerism. a new york was at it. both the buildings and

the way that were built had changed, but not the staggering amount of money patrons were prepared to spend. the segan building on punk avenue cause more per square meter than any previously built . a cult of the architect had also begun. few people know who built the empire state for the architect now became as important as the building seagrams creat me, vendor ro, and his contemporaries, which are bringing the age of the architect as an item. the staff sees madness, and the patrons had very little sentimentality and many of the cities historic buildings with tone down the monolithic panam building now renamed metlife, was stuck on top of a delicate facade of grand central station. the station itself barely escaping the

wrecking bowl. and a city where money was still the only cause i guess it still is. new york prides itself on being the city that never sleeps, the financial capital of the world. i can't help but wonder what's going wrong today. so many cities seek to emulate without understanding the sacrifice this entails, but there is no that the architects are captured by my money. here you are, you need money to build a building. but money is not the only thing that should drive architecture. because we see the fatality if architecture is only driven by money and only by private developers ideas. then the city is going to become ghost towns because only the rich will be living in the centers of cities. and everybody actually works in the central cities, will live in some boondocks away, and the cities will be empty at night. and then we just investors and you know, who live far away, who's empty apartments have no light. it's not

a good idea. after all, that's what a city is, it's a creative place that people want to be in a city. they can get jobs, they can go to school, they can better themselves, they can meet other people. so if you segregate you create a horrible dichotomy that will be a failure and will lead to a, a, the end of city new york itself may be changing the original well trade center was an incredibly controversial project . it's detractors accusing it to have ignoring the people on the pavement in its race for the sky. the same fighting's critics point to, in today's mega structures, it's replacement has consciously taken a very different route involving the public right from the stall. my experience at the competition for grounds you are the world trade center,

which was a world competition with thousands of architects and millions of people being involved online and saying, i like it. i don't like it was really a symbol of the fact that architecture is become participatory that in an open society, architecture doesn't belong to anyone. i mean, somebody made my invested it, but it's part of the city. so everybody, every citizen, we can sit down. that's why half of the fight of girls here are streets council, public memorial, and museum. so you can design a city just for one class, give to design it for everyone. i think that's part of the social justice that a city represents. ah, how is may well be in planet, but it's wrong to assume this is an irreversible process.

city should come with a warning just as they rise. so come they for ah, these were one's thriving neighborhoods homes. people spent a lifetime paying for take them bank by nature dense housing demolished, i'm reverting to grassland. what has become known as the urban prairie? no city has fallen further or harder than detroit. it's become the post a child for urban decline. the michigan central train station it is unfortunately a building that a lot of the national international media have come to cast as

a symbol of detroit plight of the problems that the city's going through to me is just ruined poor to be quite frank with you this is, you know, the story of detroit in detroit, issues are much more complex there in which you can understand just by looking at the train station. the problems in detroit are not detroit problems there. american profit is an american city, a great american city. so when you're talking about a wholesale withdrawl of governmental support for industrialized cities and you know, i think that the flag being near the train station is quite appropriate because like i said, this is not just a symbol of detroit's place. but this is a symbol of america's play, neglect the place. let me. ready detroit, recent history might be want to decline, but this was, as darrow says, a great american city. it was also an instant, one the population of $285.00 pounds. and in 190-0100 reached almost 2000000 in 950 killed by the needs of one industrial

d industrialization is a common issue in the developed world. my own home town of nottingham in the u. k. went through to the 1900 eighty's and ninety's. detroit problem started long before that in creating the motor car for the mass market. detroit, so the siege of its own decline. when the con companies wanted to create new production lines all wanted to teach union ice labor less than they just moved out of town, taking with them the jobs and the tax revenue, the city needed to survive. at the same time, the freeways and cheap cars, suburbanite, detroit, just as they did the rest of america. it was a long, slow death. the auto industries

relationship with detroit seems a strangely unbalanced one. as does this relationship with the country as a whole, neatly stand up in the saying, what's good for general motors is good for america. ah . when general motors found for bankruptcy in 2009, the u. s. government stepped in to help what was good for jimbo was not necessarily good for detroit. when the city found for bankruptcy in 2013, no federal support was full coming to bankruptcy as head people here. very you know, we've been driving around and i've been looking at the cost. people are driving the all american cars, people who love the auto industry

a whole lot more than the auto industry love. detroit has always been known as a place where you could come get a job and own a home. you know me now in chandler, the one of those things. and so what we got was we got a housing crisis, we got a mortgage crisis, we got a meltdown of the housing market. no city was as harshly affected by that as detroit was. even when the president comes to visit detroit, are the only place he ever goes to the ca factory. because it was his idea to be allowed gm himself. a big part of is victory narrative is that i said, i saved the car company as well. you didn't say detroit, i wonder if you can save a city. it seems to me that you can't make people come to a place. you can only make it a place people want to come to. ah,

no one is more aware of the problems facing detroit than the people who live. i think for, for straits them is that too often the media chooses to illustrate the problems through their ruined buildings and not from everyone minus the best way to hold your lives, your pays your taxes, and now you're retiring. how things change in that period. shortly after we die, or we find out that we're going to be cut from our pension is going to be cut. i'm almost 60 and say we're gonna have to take 30 percent of your income. that's a big producing this huge increase. i mean, we're looking right now and we need to sell our house. not fair. this is what happens to a senior citizen. is the same story. say story, but i think it's a different lightweight because i was forced in the car. there was so many of the ways we could have blue school, he's fine, it's almost like they're going after last day. he's a wealth left in the city to the choices each week, finally should say which for this our own out of making the land lineage can build

on their lives and making copies of making factories. somebody has to be a champion for, and that's what i say. what we need is not just a simple mayor, have to have a coach, a coach is going to she treat me troy like as big team, then everybody's going to have an opportunity and that's what we need a stone's throw from the ruins enclosed, municipal buildings. you could be forgiven for thinking that this was already happening. the heart of the city has been given a brand may code of detroit make over is however, just that few of these people live here. the commute from the suburbs or attend conventions all come to watch baseball, london and new york or cities where the coal has become too expensive. detroit is a situates become too cheap. parts of the center have already been reclaimed by people attracted by the low cost of living and that all signs that

investors are starting to renovate the term like buildings anticipating that this will continue. some have pointed to this as a new beginning, but i'm not convinced it's any more desiccant and the ruins. graffiti looked suspiciously culprit real street artists tend to make their feelings know a little higher off the ground. if it is a true symbol of detroit, i like to think that it's the fist of joe lewis, one of the greatest heavyweight boxes of old time who move to detroit as a teenager it's one of my favorite time that says because until i began to work on it, i had no idea it was an object in motion. lewis said, every man's got to figure to get beat sometime, which is a force true,

but it's what you do afterwards. the really, council with the cities have always been in motion. they have to be to evolve and that, that what i think is different today is the speed of change. something which i fear is excluding us from the process. now, more than ever, we must consciously shape our city. because if we don't, on the service planet it's, i'll cities that will shape. ah, i've come back to san diego to revisit the fascinating part of calcium history. they were crazy, creative, even visionary. they were top lesta, not realistic. i was them as a child during and just pops into people still love them. it was basically too bad

to be true. what they were predicting can comedy hill ethnic divisions and national tensions that exist in bossier to day. once upon a time in sarajevo on l. j zed ah, [000:00:00;00] with and away we go with your headlines for the americans. hello everyone. bc's lower mainland going to duck and dodge mostly this next system that's reserved for the pacific northwest and northern areas of california. that's where we're going to pick up the weather story right now. nother round moves in after los angeles with

drenched through the top peaks of this year in nevada, we could see upwards of $200.00 centimeters of snow on it. to show you this, we've got warm air coming up from the gulf of mexico. it's bumping up those temperatures. kansas city 22 degrees is very likely to be a new record. they've got cold air coming off the rockies. the 2 are going to clash and sparks and storms upper midwest right down to the deep south as we get later into the week. ok for wednesday through the east. there is some of that activity popping up. we've got some c and dos, c and do smell for cape breton island. now for the caribbean, our usual scattering of showers. southern mexico believes and tourists nicaragua, also through the caribbean, but there will still be plenty of sign to be found. storms come in and go in through the top and south america, but this corner toward the southeast to brazil. that's really where the bulk of the activity is. so paulo rio de janeiro port to lay gray, which has a height of 23 degrees,

but sunny and commodore with the high of 22 on wednesday. ah, the step beyond the comfort zone, where assumptions are challenged, traveled to the ends of the earth. and further experience the unimaginable of the people who live it. this is probably the most extreme situation i've been involved in how quickly things contract award winning documentary is that also a perception witness. on al jazeera, the latest news, as it breaks, governments in the region are using security forces to clamp down on protests. instead of protecting their countries against armed attacks with detailed coverage in the absence of any hard data on how widespread overland they all become variant is scientists urging caution from around the world. political observers argue his

government has letty dismantling of democratic institutions. ah, wealthier nations are criticized by global health leaders for giving coded 19 boosters to their citizens, while millions and poor countries are yet to get their 1st job ah, on down jordan, this is al jazeera ally from della also coming up allegations that work as were prevented from leaving a factory before a deadly tornado storm struck in kentucky. the french partition german ambassadors to the united nations jointly criticized a rom, saying the situation on