i this one is darren gold to help smart nature. the more likes watching it on youtube. dw documentary, the best to live in columbia is copied to book at times to cop traffic sustainability, agriculture and harmony with nature. the housing crisis orifices the solution. the many cities around the world have one thing in common. housing shortages, billions of people locked out the correct housing. meanwhile, with remote work on the rise, a large portion of office space is sitting empty. so why not combat those offices

into apartments? while many of us are now back in the office, working from home is here to stay. for instance, 35 percent of us workers who can work from home still do. but vacant workspaces aren't a new problem. long before the pen demick, aging offices were already becoming less desirable because it's been in for about the last 10 years and trends that we called flight to quality. stephen painter, an architect, one of the world's biggest firms, focuses on adaptive reuse. people when renewing a lease is an older buildings are going to be lots of will be built because they offer that kind of amenities to kind of locations, people and all these empty officers aren't just a waste of space. they mean less of rent for owners, lower tax revenue, and the decline of entire neighborhoods. we have beautiful buildings. we have a wonderful plaza to have sort of all of the physical assets. we just have vacant

buildings. and so you don't see that vibrancy used to, you know, kind of look down these key car doors, and you would see just streams of people coming down the street. and you don't see that as much anymore. literally, luckily, as a planner in san francisco, another city addressing high vacancy levels, almost 95 percent of our tax revenue comes from a business tax from downtown about 80 percent of our g. d. p came from from downtown companies in 2021. it is our economic engine, and so it needs to drive so the city can thrive roughly a 3rd of offices are vacant in the city. it's 3rd most expensive housing market into us. or at the same time, the construction of new housing is causing a whole different host of problems. construction accounts for 13 percent of global energy related carbon emissions within 5 times that of the ation industry. ready in order to meet climate targets, but also other sustainability targets,

we will need to actually stick with what's already built. for him i had for research as urban sustainability at stock homes, royal institute of technology. even in this new production of housing and buildings is done with very energy efficient and an optimized technologies. this won't be enough. we will also need to reduce the total amount of new production. and this is what brings us to frankfurt. here in office tower built in the 19 ninety's will soon be reborn, is around 150 furnished apartments. can you mean as the developers regional european head believes it's the way forward the data for the environmental factors obvious since the building show is already standing in the show alone, usually accounts for about 50 percent of emissions during construction. it's a,

a fairly significant portion of the title, but it doesn't only save on emissions. re vamping and office building can be up to 30 percent cheaper and construction can be done in half the time, but it varies. this one wasn't much cheaper than a new bill, but faster. so fed up side, i think the time factor is really critical. yeah. it allows us to start generating rental income through the property pretty quickly. repurposing an old building to serve a new function is called adaptive reuse and can extend to structures life. think of turning old factories into artists, lots or warehouses into ubiquitous street food calls for retrofitting an existing structure is a lot more complicated than planning. every thing from scratch, as developers of found out apartments and offices part always a $1.00 to $1.00 fit depends on when and where they were built. modern open plan offices weren't built for living in 1st you have to divide up large areas while

ensuring rooms get enough sunlight and you can't just have one big bathroom for a whole for each room needs ventilation, heating and power to and for all you know, the old building is full of as best of stephen painter, the adaptive reuse specialist as even developed an algorithm to measure whether offices or good candidates to be reincarnated as housing. this means to end up with shiny new apartments. many conversions essentially rebuild everything except existing foundations. and facades. these constrains make many offices just too much work to convert. according to painters research. roughly 30 percent of offices are ideal candidates. if you look at the us market where we're doing a lot of this look is about a 100000000 square feet of office space. and if you come by just the vacancy are about 70 percent of that you can create between $6.00 and $7000000.00. but just

turning offices into apartments isn't going to be enough. neighborhoods that are just office blocks can be a bit inhospitable, crawling with finance bros. by day morphing into a ghost towns outside of business hours, ensuring people live not just work. there could change that. like in this district of frankfurt once filled just with offices? no, it's residential to fit into. it would have been interesting to be there on a saturday afternoon. you'd be totally alone. all of the infrastructure was unnecessary. the train was still running, even though it was empty. frankford residing the area, turning parking lots into green spaces and kindergartens. more apartments and shops are under construction. and the end there will be 6 cell departments here other than the other stuff. so i'm gonna leave now that the areas livelier, the officers of actually become more attractive. so it's easier to rent them out. he's the 1st to come meetings his best on the canadian city of calgary, which started working with painter to revitalize its downtown in 2021 is

a case in point calorie had about 38 percent vacancy in their office and i was assigned one of the listing well, a very quickly actually for our program together, which gives you $75000.00 square foot to compare the building and move forward with the red tape out of the way to make these projects move more quickly. the 1st 5 projects and now under construction, represents about $750.00 new homes, and they have 10 more pretty much of this housing will be affordable and built with families in mind. however, adaptive reuse often has even more red tape then new builds painter says that'll have to change the turns around as an example. there's a ruling in the downtown you can offer to your office space. it's protected as a point that was created in the seventy's and they just never got it because it, there was no need to change it on out as a desperate need to change. and it's,

it's kind of holding up these parties happening, such arbitrary regulations are quite common and approval for conversions often takes as long as it would for a new build. even though the structures already in place. according to recent studies, cities all over the map have lots of office space that they can potentially convert . frank, forget it with careful city planning. and the more that's learned, implementing such projects, the greater the savings. many property developers have already expressed an interest series like san francisco in calgary, already support this very promising approach, the or the,

the needs of paradigm shift in the way be and living with separate from nature. so at not having planned it findings told me the guy g i grew up in bombay school in long the college in the us or as a consent into the last the work i did was a analyzing toxic emissions into a waterland. and my direct drawer was to analyze the data. when you look at so much data it's, it's a big daunting also because then, you know, the question is, where do i as an individual or family, can i make that change?

that's when i go back to the, to the phone because we've always had this phones since speaking young to it, knowing too much. and i wanted to get people everybody, what i knew. but nobody went to the same by clear because i am, i was in on king which strong city background i didn't speak the language also didn't have the speech of for from i'm in a bit. yeah. good society over my time, my community saw that i'm not going any list. so they started to now pay attention to what i have to say. ready i think what our needs right now is being harmonious with nature, not speaking. then you need the modified practices,

the student going to small shortage tonight using the photos to have that teacher to, to mimic that environment, to, to extra agree that this when both meet your needs, this human intervention. and that's something that the harvest, once a week, me, i'm just fresh, produce those to some of those so that it's as fresh as possible. we'd package it leaves as best as possible it up into the launch of bank. and then transport it early morning via 1st bus and then train people from the 5 was starting to become a waiter for not waste for the waste of the from me, nor destroy no from kukes spring. then gibbs and gibbs unlocked and very often produces and not able to get that launched and consumer one of the largest in the

life we do to start preserving food and extending the life of the food. but that for preservation also allowed for another source of income. the so much conversation about the, the wood and climate change and be the experience be as pharmacy quite a bit actually hope things are changing with nature. and also that is a good i need a feel for us to redefine how we live our life. the wanting to share knowledge with. try to touch barrows of tomato, hesitate as to what the host now it's called the funds for the 1st one and the goal is to strategic then

agriculture. so that 50 years from now and there's so much change in climate they don't have to do with learning to skip the whole over the us create a curriculum, bring it into schools. it's definitely started with the right intention. the, so the house on what sources of we mean off i'm in and it's something that's i find very unique to the city as a to this farm. is that the lumina heavy to see system, and they configured the table to invoice the thoughts and over the years, activity instructor, voice much more. then every wednesday there's we may not invite you to

file and we share space and talk about everything. and what i've seen that's done is communities for women to work on this, then it's you need the most solidified in themselves. it's given them a voice in a village that they're financially secure. on the 2nd one can bank account and secret savings. it's changed their own nature in the homestead no longer just you know, the one making the best times during the cooking during the total that they are responsible, even financially the the good wish separate from nature the i had to say

advice, someone i would save, try to find that because it's, it's that it's, it's within all of us, the housing you cause a dream for many people around the world. but what happens when that dream comes true? because local streets pollute. d a and create noise. and every yeah, around 18000000 more were built. that's a huge part of myself, a columbia as capital book, a tall people have had enough welcome to to go to the capital of columbia and the metropolis with some of the worst traffic in the world . the new innovative concepts to change that in the sense that each a neighborhood, the pilot project barrios, b, toddlers, which means lives. the neighborhood was tested on the 38 hector area and financed

by the city. the world's bank was an advisor for the project. come really, how do you like it here? what you were level for i like it is very quiet, is peaceful when you woke about there's no noise freely without much noise without much pollution because it is really quiet and peaceful on the street. and we look at the new look us. dano is an engineer, and javier guerra is an architect. both are part of an urban planning project that began in 2022. it was inspired by their super blocks in barcelona and the low traffic districts in london. at 1st it was tested on 8 city blocks in boca time. since then they've added 3 more neighborhoods. stephanie found the sold a burial spit tell is project was introduced and essentially pay that was traffic in old directions. the vehicles used it as a short cut because bobo, to has traffic app,

would guide them around the neighborhood to avoid traffic jams. in other areas. we definitely have more traffic in the past. not today. you hardly see any cars here, but the streets have not been close to traffic. the direction of traffic has been changed so that the neighborhood is turned into a kind of may use, making it difficult for drivers to get from one side to the other. out in a battery, we started it on the new road layout, and the loops allow us to distribute through traffic across bigger street instead of people in c. and that prevents drivers from using san felipe a is a short cut? yes. yes. here you gotta keep us in port, keep go on, somebody pick them on one bottle really at the local time is considered one of the worst cities for traffic in the world, a rotating driving. then based on the last digit of a cars license plate,

has hardly convinced citizens to leave their cars at home and switch to public transport the out of respect for others. please get back in line. some of the reasons may be that the transfer you then your bus system is overcrowded on seats and expensive to decades ago. city officials, so exclusive bus lanes would be a better, cheaper alternative to building a subway. but in the end, the system didn't work and we'll go tom with it's 8000000 inhabitants and more than 2 and a half 1000000 vehicles is still waiting for a subway to the fact that there was a green oasis here in the middle of all this traffic is rather unusual, but it's the result of long term planning to transform the neighborhood at the center of the city. i said job with not letting them know that the look at how i live. it is a visa suspect,

but it keeps getting bigger. it's not just about this axis, you can see that the shops on the cross streets have also sets out the tables outside to see the tables look very nice and give everything here more color and more life cody must be and instead of the areas were designed by the residents themselves for the benefit of pedestrians with painted flower pots and bicycle racks on the street. they're all measures that are cost effective, simple and quick to implement things on the when yeah, we worked with the community from the beginning. i mean, they told us the problem of what my bill is. he was like in the neighborhood. i mean, yeah. a yeah. but then we made this design and tested out in a few pilot projects in columbus when we implemented it here, that was a bit of fear and the community in front of it, especially among businesses younger for kids, they sold that people wouldn't come into the neighborhood anymore,

i have which would lead to less income committed to see on pick out a car. according to us, the focus is on the contrary to this change has helped us on this seems to be more of a residential area. now, it's used more commercially. the houses have been converted into galleries, which also helped a lot of ideas done in the forward is in leather. inform us as the change has been try again to can such a short time, a business has increased to the art scene has grown. the whole district has developed very quickly for the benefit of the community more, more, more, more, more, more, more videos, a buyer. and if you sure thought everyone knows the delivers, the residents can go for walks more easily. right? the yellow is kind of the car is now drive slower and we can walk around and enjoy the neighborhood more with that. and most of bobby, you must come all year to date done. sheila is driving to both the port of any in another book which on neighborhood where work is underway on a 2nd tomato project. there's anything. yeah. let me

ask you, how did it go? what happened to you for the good? sorry, i'm a little late. i was in the trends millennial and it took me awhile to get to bed. here we all. i wanted to ask you how everything is going. oh, the most affordable need is alyssa of proven. yeah. is an important neighborhood for children. we have full schools. we have a kindergarten, the districts, university done. everything is very close. you don't have to go phone any when now improving accessibility in the neighborhood on boat or by buying opinion basically . you know, the red yellow get ready and green. and i wanted to see how the children of the groups were doing with our activities. this whole has

a lot to do with sustainable mobility and traffic safety. the idea is that the children stuff in gauging with these top outside a very early age and take them home with so that they can be role on less than that . parents became part of the patio speech of these project teams to transform additional city neighborhoods and gradually create a different sustainable boca time. the island level kenya is combining a passion for ox. was careful how environments collecting discarded, flip flops is the 1st step to process. she has invented 10 plastic pollution into something useful. uganda, like many places around the world is listed with hundreds of thousands of plastic flip flops. this one, this farmer pulls out of his field is about to be given a new creative purpose. newman, there was some surprise this girl collection,

and we see her getting out beautifully. things will die, so never kenya tends to flip flops into paint, which she uses to make works of outs and other objects for the offices. it's a way of coping with the mess. people have been making of the world around them. and besides the saving of that environment. um we are promoting the cultural recycling in our country. so this would be, could be something very interesting if either a to scan actually come on and try it out. i to flip flop collection point now, but can you begins to reclaim the original bright colors that's in ties to people to buy the food with in the 1st place, scrubbing the flip flops. why has leaving them in the sun to dry is a laborious job. but it's crucial for her project,

transforming them into art materials. back in the studios, she uses a bell sending machine to reduce the food with to a fine dust, which she collects and mix these with a bind to to make paints. with such as a variety of discarded slip slopes, never kenya has been able to create a pallet of both colors with which she express herself. she has also brought in other materials into her artworks such as stripes of discarded vehicle tires novel kenya is making a name for herself and looks impala all 12 and internationally, with the auction makes from flip flops of slippers, as they know locally hot technique is so unique and there is and that's why i laugh, i love it because of that text. yeah. and um, another thing is um, sure, cause of that environment. so by using the past and t as, yeah,

instead of binding and, and, and i'm filling them my way back to that, that she turns them into life. never kenya, hurts that. how aust can raise awareness of all effects a nature and change people's attitudes towards per adults that we no longer have a useful tool to save nature. people have mismanaged with a lot and we're here to tell them that this can be interested around. and after the functionality that they actually know about, they can maybe do something else on these. this is an ending life on ending life. besides her paintings, allen never can. you also designs and adult inspection items. the uganda and office is located at more useful her recycled paper with so many flip flops still to be

removed from the environment. she says she could produce house things as well the, the, the

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