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years we have a different approach. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not like dammit i'm not i look. at. you guys sort of jokes well handled in the sense that i've got to. sissy's of the culmination of globalization. nowhere else in the world a conflict so strongly concentrated as here. cities are of the ebus and the savior bustling with possibilities yet vulnerable. those wanting to hama society ambushed the city and its daily life

a. city is a defenseless against this form of terrorism. their inhabitants vulnerable. how do cities respond to this threat. and how does fish change our open lifestyle. that. cities are excited to see incredible cities all of human life. sediment haitians of all of human history they all landscapes of power.

london once the heart of the british. along with new york and home culture still the center of the global financial industry. symbol and driving force behind the international monetary flow. twelve million inhabitants over three hundred languages countless ethnicities and culture has london is a prototype of a global network to. megacity oratory for security measures a lot of the changes in cities since the nine eleven terror attacks in new york washington were already on the way before those attacks so it's important to to sort of stress that the nine eleven attacks have led to certain changes intensifying that we're already on the way most importantly i would say there's a increasing preoccupation with security as defined by the state as defined by big

companies and as defined by those in government. professor and also stephen graham teaches and researches on security and surveillance and the militarization of open space cities are getting more into the focus of conflict this is not entirely new currently however this new context is it's leading to another scout sense of renewed emphasis on the city a society of violence of conflict. throughout history rules of protected cities and their inhabitants now the rules have disappeared and borders are more open than ever. the enemy generally doesn't come from the outside he's already here living among us. the city is a fragile fabric abominable space. how

can we protect ourselves against the invisible even comprehensible against feelings of vulnerability you can see to hear of the original ones a father one monitoring this vehicle is coming up and down the street down the end there are further to hang up the corner of that building at the end of the street another one and then another two on the corner of that building these are hanging globes this building is one of my favorites it's completely encrusted in c.c.t.v. . some of which is almost impossible to work out what it is for. one they're monitoring the door it's the service entrance and you've got a globe which monitors the street and then there is a fixed camera there which just seems to be looking straight at the ground and there is no door. around the corner we've got another pin one which is coming out looking at this traffic interchange which is already being covered by that and then another globe which can obviously swing around and. on the other side there are almost as many cameras again all in all just from this one spot it's being watched

by sixteen c.c.t.v. cameras. cartographer george photographer henrietta williams discovered a disturbing pattern of security architecture in the middle of london they realized they were moving in a kind of visual parallel city the findings developed into an art project we called project ring of steel entering the put up tick on because we were really fascinated in this idea that when you're in the city of london every movement is traced by cameras. in exhibitions and on the internet and ran into williams and george showed a tight network of security cameras and structures. clearly visible on a map there will come a flow as to in real life. empty and easily overlooked control booths. a tree in the middle of a street surrounded by on bolts. a tank beriah disguised as a poem. together with the already present security cameras these

structures form a security ring around the city of london. remarkably enough the old books followed almost the exact same lines of the old city walls dating back to roman times the ring of steel as a molten fortress a matrix for other cities the projects about the ring of steel was primarily to make it visible so that people understood how to read the landscape i think that's what i find most interesting about the ring of steel is because it was so keen to not have this very visible defense it is not like a very mobile that way you can find it and see it very easily so we really wanted to explain to people like three mapping through photographs and also to a guided tour how to find it and how to be able to analyze what you were looking at and to understand how the system was operating.

ninety ninety three a truck with sixteen tons of explosives detonates in the city of london the oil rig brings terror to the capital and demonstrates to the british establishment we can hit you right in the center of your power. it's the worst of a series of attacks and a painful reminder of the city's vulnerability and hopelessness an act never to be repeated. bank's administration and police resolved to implement a system of continuous monitoring of the city send through limiting access routes building checkpoints i didn't stalling countless surveillance cameras. hey we're standing by one of the checkpoints in the so-called ring of steel over here. which was established in the ninety nine cease following some of the terrorist attacks by the irish republican army finance call of london the so-called city. it

was an effort to basically come fall access and so use the surveillance cameras as you can see here to create checkpoints around a smaller number of roads going into the financial core of the city and the idea is that you have to make the system fall registering and checking the number plates of all of the vehicles that are actually going in and out of the city of london. the system developed over eighteen is and is now largely computer operated checkpoint controls are quite rare and random. unpredictability is part of the system of potential attack should never feel safe the electronic system sees everything and can seal off the financial district as a moment's notice. increasingly people just take this for

granted people just assume that they are being digitally monitored that they are creating a track of their daily lives people increasingly embrace that sometimes it's important to stress that this is not. coercive big brother thora tarion state such as. the g.d.r. with the stasi a completely centralized system of monitoring political activity but there are all sorts of different efforts to collect data for all different reasons for all sorts of different geographical scales and those dates and those images don't all necessarily become centralized so it's better to think of a thousand little brothers if you like then wong orwellian big brother society.

more than twenty million traffic movements per day without an effect if electronic management system daily life in a mega city is impossible to organize cameras can be found even beyond the ring of steel in taxis buses and trains for the toll system the urban traffic control center and the police and of course all thirty two districts have cameras of their own all told there are well over twenty thousand surveillance cameras in london. we're living in the urban millennial more than fifty percent of the world's seven billion inhabitants now live in cities the numbers are increasing with the promise of jobs and prosperity cities leave the people from the surrounding areas the cities become mega-cities then evolved into urban landscapes. at the german aerospace institute in berlin technologies are being developed for effective

mobility and safety in emerging urban landscapes. martin roux it works in berlin but at any given moment he's on line in the transport control system and has a say capital of the under way province with five million inhabitants one of the most rapidly growing cities in china the daily traffic demonstrates the problems inherent in the massive influx of new comers. despite all their oases of tranquility more than one hundred fifty cities in china will have a population of some five million inhabitants by the year two thousand and fifty without proper controls this development threatens to cause supply and environmental problems as well as social unrest. once in his mission hopkins's arm and if lot of talks of us get together with our chinese partners

equipped a fleet of taxis currently one thousand are part of the program and it was on the fence when we finished oregon ten thousand automobiles will transmit their g.p.s. positions to the central computer every second on the olen and for kids. always these nines learn from these individual reports we can calculate the current speeds that can be driven on the streets and can forecast how traffic will develop in the next half hour and for example with the easy stuff a kit in the list and showing the bus routes once in fifteen go through a dished up person and pushed him in. so taxis are always in motion the system is dynamic and provides not only information on traffic conditions any deviations from normal traffic patterns are also recorded seismographic li the system immediately recognizes congestions disruptions in traffic flow and late in the threats to peace and order. bulletins. and

a lot of chinese cities automobile traffic is increasing astronomically. traffic jams and the threat of gridlock are becoming a dire social problem. this is why we want to continue to develop our partnership with germany we accept our responsibility and want to take appropriate measures to actively push this project forward in the future we want to have means and measures for countering the gridlock threaten to tell you this will also help us find ways to gain the upper hand over the environmental pollution and climate change resulting from traffic. it was a. very hard to take. to get. that

back would that make their lives. of.

with the help of the german chinese project each taxi movement can be monitored and directed on line by the traffic controls and. the big traffic management or total surveillance. the taxi drivers becoming security agents who controls all of the data. and who has access to it. in the middle ages it was said that city and liberates this meant complete a personal liberty and the anonymity of the city in contrast to the nearness of village life but will we lose our open freedom as our movements are increasingly

recorded. how can we maintain that delicate balance between our desire for freedom and our need for security. will the new conflict transform cities into digital fortresses. cities of always being principal sites for target saying during wolf going right back to the days of classical civilisation through many evil societies to the contemporary period. the crucial thing about this relationship today is that. we are not seeing states mobilize against other states and the cities we're seeing both in terms of the west and cities like london we see military and state and police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city who inhabit the

city. the balances he center and the seas are always heavily protected but since the nine eleven attacks high security architecture has become dominant and highly visible. symbolic locations of potential targets. the brandenburg gate as a magnet for tourists right next door the u.s. embassy. is security and public space still co-exist. but in the future will the security situation call for other solutions will potentially endangered buildings have to be conceived differently a downside the city center like the new u.s. embassy in london an entirely new embassy is going to be built at a cost of about walden billion dollars. the building looks almost exactly like

a twenty first century castle it reminds me very very much of the norman keep as a sort of structure it has a thirty meter moat filled with water believe it will not which is both a landscape feature an aesthetic feature and the security feature and it involves a whole lot of blast proofing architecture has a whole load of very intense security devices and systems many of which are confidential as you'd expect built into this glass and steel almost medieval castle like structure. are we witnessing a rare nascence of medieval architecture with electronics city wools and bomb proof modes. fortresses have always had to deal function protection from the outside and for rule is protection from their own

subject. major events such as the g eight and g twenty summits on the world economic forum demonstrate how the ruling classes are protecting themselves from their own citizens the security efforts are increasing from year to year. the distinction between police and military is blurry. at the two thousand and nine g. twenty summit in pittsburgh a sound kind of developed for the military was used for the first time against the civilian population. is normally little weapon as ideal for urban landscapes but they clearly fit containing civilian protesters. the security industry is developing more and more devices which can be implemented in war and on the home front drones can be used for attacks and for in surveillance .

the swiss capital has always been a fortified city more discreet and less visible today than during the period of says he will and towers. then heard at the end his partner pascal that has all of been developing architectural concepts for many is in two thousand and seven there were a commission to reconstruct the swiss parliament building the most important requirements transparency and security in all of his projects at the is interested primarily in public space. in soviet and i think far too little attention is paid to that is an architectural projects today not only in switzerland but also in other countries he could because there's the building which is

a published object and there's everything that happens around it which no one seems to care about but it's the public space that creates a sense of security in a city of say here i don't stop to talk to me. the square in front of the parliament building is a former parking lot. of. the n.t. stone space feels like an enormous carpet today the square is a very lively and popular location with people enjoying lingering relaxing or simply letting time pass by. one thirty if you feel totally safe because you have an overview of everything there are no spaces where you're not sure may i go there and be confident will someone pop out from behind a car he's thinking i think this is very very important. in this day and age and

with all the security requirements to imagine the terrorist attacks for which there is no one wants this to happen to them all but if you are afraid it will it's a horrible feeling it's just as anxious as if the design of public spaces is very important in making people feel safe that it's just once he says. everything is at his relaxed but the whole area is very discreetly and extremely well secured. beneath the square law enormous vaults housing the gold reserves of the swiss national bank. despite having to register a condition of the parliament building is in the middle of the city and there's no demarcation on the outside is anyone can go right up to the buildings facade this reflex switzerland's openness maintaining this was an important part of the concept

of hope and. it was the full necessary to combine two opposing aspects maximum safety for the government and the maximum openness toward its citizens for the invasion for us it was always important for security to be a part of the overall design without it being very visible and that security checks can be carried out for that all requirements can be met technically without necessarily being obvious that when you enter the building you notice you're being surveilled and it's put a you're in a secure area like in an airport but you don't get a funny feeling about it that makes your visit there a negative experience to see the building represents what sort of day the last and one should experience it and that's positive ways. i. i. i feel.

stomach plants and historic location in the heart of the city newly built off the german reunification in europe's largest in a city construction project. that see a month our goal was to recreate a hard for a bird in. the wall was only one hundred meters from here and we had the death strip here and yeah it was a desert and here you have a vista. of the reunification in one nine hundred ninety the berlin municipal government turned over the rebuilding of the square to private investors who implemented their own concept of a high rise city with the purchase the investors not only developed and constructed the streets and squares they also acquired the rights of passage for the public space. it is the investors who ultimately decide who is allowed to be here.

to put some up front find if my foot stemmer plots was actually once the heart of europe and clearly had the busiest streets with the first traffic light ever built in germany or some are in your open for that matter. it's was really vibrant dunes and the press district was nearby the famous house i thought had lost. a great music halls cinema and walls it was a really lively place and he has put the on the path. nothing ethne september i think not to hear after nine eleven things changed quite a bit for everyone became more cautious and for example when finding an object somewhere and. a man of the white a lot has changed but we still strive to be open to the public that is and

should be this is always a difficult balancing act to be. what's necessary and in terms of safety and sealing off what's going on and where would this destroy our concept for attracting people to come here often. can a public space be planned. the question of isolation or openness especially at the intersection of private and public open space is also a safety issue they fear hide it and security is a matter of feeling as an object of kind of security at a subjective sense of it and we determined that there are actually very few things which give a person a sense of safety the first one is cleanliness it must be light and there can't be any dodgy areas. have to be present which they are.

all this gives an objective and subjective feeling of security and without requiring a lot of electronics he wanted a month you knew in twenty all. the scarcity of cameras here compared to public spaces in other cities as much to do with the german theory of surveillance. many as skeptical because of the excessive control measures during the nazi period and by the stasi ajor in east german times in daily life however few people care whether a shopping center is public or private and how many surveillance cameras are watching them they're only desire is to show up at their leisure. also and we don't realize just how vulnerable crowded places are until an accident or attack disturbs the peace.

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