the bye for now the, [000:00:00;00] the best to live in columbia is copied to the times to cup 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 not out there. what housing meanwhile, which were, might 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 workspace is aren't a new problem. long before the pandemic, aging offices were already becoming less desirable because it's been for about the last 10 years of the trend. the whole flight to quality stephen painter, an architect to one of the world's biggest firms, focuses on adaptive reuse. people when renewing a lease is in the buildings are going to the new laws that will be built because they offer that kind of amenities of 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, you know, coming down the street. and you don't see that as much anymore. literally as long as we is 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 to 3rd most expensive housing market in the us. 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. more than 5 times that of the ation industry in

order to meet climate targets, but also other sustainability targets. we will need to actually stick with what's already built in my head for research as urban sustainability at stock homes, royal institute of technology. even if 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, an office tower built in the 19 ninety's will soon be reborn, is around 150 furnished apartments. can you mean by the developers regional european head believes it's the way forward, the data point. the environmental factor is obvious, since the building show is already standing and i'm

a show alone usually accounts for about 50 percent of emissions during construction . it's a, a fairly significant portion of the long time, 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 artist slots or warehouses into ubiquitous st. food halls. retrofitting an existing structure is a lot more complicated and planning. every thing from scratch, as developers have 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 floor. 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 during a longer slack 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 to work. there could change that. like in this district of frankfurt, once filled just with offices? no, it's residential to fit. 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. when they frankford re zone, 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 is an apartment to your other stuff. there's nothing to leave now that the areas lively or the offices that actually become more attractive. so it's easier to rent them out here. so this has to have meetings as best on the canadian city of calgary,

which started working with painter to revitalize its downtown in 2021 is a case in point calgary had about 38 percent pregnancy in their office market and i was assigned one of the listing well and a very quickly actually for our program together, which gives you $75000.00 square foot to conduct 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. then they have 10 more for you as much of this housing will be affordable and built with families in mind. however, adaptive reuse often has even more red tape than new builds. painter says that will have to change the terms around. as an example. there's a ruling in the downtown you cannot bring to your office space. it's protected as a point that was created in the seventy's and they just never got faces because it,

there was no need to change it on out as a desperate need to change and it's kind of holding up each product 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,

the, the needs of paradigm shift and we be living with separate from nature. so at not having planned it findings told me the guy a broken bone be into school in the college in the us or as a consultant to 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, if it's a bit daunting also because then you know, the question is,

where do i as an individual plan, can i make that change? that's when i came back to the phone because we've always had this phone 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 2 because i am, i wasn't on the side. i came with from city background. i didn't speak the language to didn't have the speech of for from a woman in a beach. 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 see the i think what our needs is right now is being harmonious with nature,

not speaking. then you need the modified practices. the student going to florida is tonight using the photos to that teacher, to mimic that environment, to, to extra agree that this when both meet your needs, this human intervention. and that's something that the hottest once a week, the heaviest, fresh, produce most of sundown. so that it's as fresh as possible package and leaves as best as possible it up into the launch of bank. and then transport it early morning via 1st bus and then train. it goes from the bible starting to become a wait a lot of waste for the waste of the, from me, nor destroy know from kukes and then cubes and gives it

a lot and very often produces are not able to. ready get that launched and consumer why that lot just in the life we need to start resolving 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 the, the experience be as farm i see quite directly how things are changing with nature . and also that is a great need a few for us to redefine how we live our life. the wanting to share knowledge with try the torch metal as of tomorrow has made us to what we host now.

it's quite fond school. the of course, one of the goal is a strict each 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 the me off i'm in and 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 can fit to the table to invoice the thoughts and over the years, activity instructor voice much more,

then the it'd be wednesday that we may not invite you to fall. and we share space and talk about everything. and what i've seen that's done is communities. the women will work on this man. it's you need the most solidified in themselves. it's given them a voice in the village. it's that they're financially secure. on the 2nd. ok, bank accounts savings. it's changed their own nature in the homestead. no longer just you know, the one making the buttons doing the cooking channel that they are responsible even financially the, the good wish separate from

the i had to see 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, so many people around the world. but what happens when that dream comes true? because local streets pollute, the create noise and every yeah, around $18000000.00 more were built. that's a huge part of myself. in columbia capital book, a tall people have had enough welcome to to go to the capital of columbia and a 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 college,

which means lives. the neighborhood was tested on the 38 hector area and financed by the city. the world, the bank was an advisor for the project. come really, how do you like it here? what is to 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 la castiano as an engineer and heavier where to is an architect. both are part of an urban planning project that began in 2022. it was inspired by the super blocks in barcelona and the low traffic districts in london. at 1st, it was tested on 8 city blocks in bogota. since then they've added 3 more neighborhoods. somebody 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 cods because both of the traffic app would guide them around the neighborhood to avoid traffic. jones, 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 the bottom, you'll reset it on the new road layout, and the loops allow us to distribute through traffic across bigger street instead of people a c. and that prevents drivers from using san felipe is a short cut. yes, yes. here you gotta keep us in port to go on separately, pick them on. when about a 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 the exclusive bus lanes would be a better, cheaper alternative to building a subway. but in the end, the system didn't work. and bobo town with its 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 the know the look at how i live. it is a visa suspect. 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 i'm going to open up 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 care,

they sold that people wouldn't come into the neighborhood and you know, i have which would lead to less income was committed to see on because i can come on a quote with us, the logistics on the contrary, this change has helped us on, on the 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 for valid. yes, he is with them in the forward is and the other information as the change has been gigantic and 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 in the future thought everyone knows the delivers, the residents can go for walks more easily, right? the yellow is kind of the cars now drive slower, and we can walk around and enjoy the neighborhood more for that that, and those are the barbie's must come all year. to date angela is driving to both the port of any in another book or time neighborhood where work is underway. on

a 2nd to model project review me. 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 in the 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 get phone me when now improving accessibility in the neighborhood on boat or by bike save opinion. basically. you don't need any red yellow. get ready and green. i want you to see how the children,

those 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 the very early age and take them home with so that they can be rolling on less than that. parents became for the spiders. the body or speech hotley's project aims 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 to turn plastic pollution into something useful. uganda like many places around the world is listed with hundreds of thousands of plastic slip slopes. this one, this farmer pulls out of his field is about to be given

a new creative purpose. newman, there were some i surprised this girl collection and we see her guessing our beautiful things will go through novel kenya tends to flip flops into paint, which you use is to make works of art and other objects for the with such a variety of disc, water slip slopes, never kenya has been able to create the pallets of both colors with which she express herself. she has also brought in other materials into her artworks such as stripes of discarded vehicle tie is novel, kenya is making a name for himself in the compiler, otwell and internationally with ok. she makes from flip flops of slippers, as they know locally hot technique is so unique and there is and that's why i love, i love it because of that text. yeah. and 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. she turns them into life. never kenya, hurts that. how often raise awareness of all effects and nature and change people's attitudes towards per adults that we no longer have a useful. i'm here to, to save nature. people have mismanaged with alert and we're here to tell them that this can be twisted 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, the 10 year also designs and adult inspection items the uganda and alters this new

kid apps more useful her recycled pain with so many flip flops due to be removed from the environment. she says she could produce house pain as well. the, the,

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