A stealthy reimagining of urban public space | Elizabeth Diller
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
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Cities are becoming increasingly privatized: commercial real estate dominates the streets, carving up open space that once belonged to the public and selling it as a commodity to the highest bidder. Architect Elizabeth Diller explores the causes and effects of this growing threat -- and takes us on tour of her groundbreaking projects aimed at creating landscapes for the public to enjoy, from the High Line in New York City to Zaryadye Park in Moscow.
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I feel like the need for shared outdoor space where people can eat, socialize and appreciate art is or should be expanded on in a big way! I loved seeing this happening and the idea of taking any space we can get.
It seems to me this woman invented the city park, that's genius.
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Yes...I agree about the importance of public space!
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We need more developers like this especially Urban Developers
I visited the NYC site at the beginning when they started around the old meat market area and it's BEAUTIFUL!!! AMAZING what they have done there!! Thank you!!
I 100% adore this movement. I wish to have her boldness as a sneaky designer activist
I wanna hug her and say thank you for being awesome for us 🤗
She just gave me goosebumps! And I am not even an architect!
Damn that was really good. As a student of Urban design, this is inspiring work
I'm happy you find it interesting. I'm a former urban planner and I eventually had to give-up my profession because of the widespread corruption and bigotry that I encountered in that field. I quickly discovered that for a lot of cities the planner is just a stumbling block that prevents bringing in tax revenue (and sometimes personal revenue too). While projects like those shown here are really interesting for the people, you need a strong team of hard headed collaborators to bring it to fruition.
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Where do all the tax revenue go anyway? Cities like San Fran must make so much but I never see it used anywhere.
@@bananian Cities have a lot of expenditures. And everything is dreadfully expensive simply by the scale of the city. When we look at the city, we think of city hall, public libraries and parks. But there is still aqueduct services that need to clean the water and then pump it through a network of hundreds and thousands of miles. And there's sewers, roads, sidewalks, gutters that all need maintenance. For that you need equipment like trucks and mechanical brooms. Then there's refuse collection, recycling. When you consider that a single truck costs over 100,000$ and you multiply all this, it really adds-up. In order to acquire new equipment or repair infrastructure, cities mostly have to borrow that money, so they have to pay interest on that. And I haven't gotten into staffing the various positions that are required. But all this spending comes with a slight twist: cities are now allowed by law (in most places) to declare a financial loss at the end of the year. That really puts pressure on the managers.
Just to give an idea, at the end of my street there is a small park with a small playground. Last summer it was re-built to the latest safety standards. That means all the equipment was hauled-off, new concrete was poured and new jungle gym and slides were installed. The whole thing cost close to 1 million $ for just an 80x80 ft. playground.
The city of San Francisco has 1,260 miles of paved roads. Just imagine the asphalt bill for patching those.
And I'm sure that I forget some stuff... That's why cities often take the easy way out and simply build anything anywhere just for the sake of generating income. Don't forget that elections happen every 4 years (at least that's the case in Canada), so elected officials just care about that time period while citizens will have to live with their choices for the rest of their lives.
@Francois Laverdure in your experience do builders overcharge the city because it is Govt spending because there is no regulation. It just doesn’t make sense it could cost that much if you compare a $1 million home to tiny park. Also besides regulation, do you see ways of rethinking how to get the revenue, such as having businesses/organizations sponsor the space etc? @Coldfire I want you to have hope that things can change.
Thanks for your kind words.
I need to know where they got those cool hats with the lights on them those were fun
More of this stunning work needs to be publicized! Perhaps more practice will be implemented. Inspirational.
Lived in New York my entire life, never been on The High Line since it's opening. Only when it was prohibited. 🚫 I was one of the regulars. 😄😄😄
Best Quote, Strong People rarely have an easy Past.
This is amazing and truly inspirational!! I love the look of natural beauty meshed perfectly with urban settings.
Yes we are !
"As free and abundant as the air we breath." Those were the days, weren't they?
@TED Interestingly pointless troll you have going on there.
I visited the high line a few years back and I really enjoyed the beautiful and fresh space in the midst of urban busyness.
Wow, she is a great architect. I never knew about these buildings even though I live in new york.
Thank you Elizabeth Diller for all the persistent and thoughtful efforts which made our city even more special! ♥️
Beautiful! Thank you for what you do! 👏👏👏👏
Brilliant inspired work and great talk from the no audience TED.
The Highline is great and with regard to tourism its world leading, but the people behind it always make out that it was the first of its kind; The Promenade Planteé in Paris has been around since 1993 and has been a huge success in its own right!
Superb! What a vision. Well done on not giving up. Perserverance is a rare quality.
"In 2004, my studio came into the orbit of two inspired citizen activists who launched a campaign to save a 1.5 mile stretch of derelict infrastructure and convert it into a public park."
Wasn't even looking at the screen, and immediately knew it was the High Line.
New York City does that to you.
Wow what a great video and great ideas by the architects.
Interesting to see the unpredictable effects that these projects cause!
This was refreshing! Thank you
This was beautiful! Such an amazing insight to the level of work that goes unrecognized. These great people work behind the scenes for the people, reminding the ruthless rich ''hey, what about the people?''. Even if we only get a strip or a square we know you will make the most of it for all of us! Much love and respect
This is the type of things we need on our cities!!
thank you for uploading this ✨
That was fantastic.
Undoubtedly one of the best examples of great Urban Design potential and experience!!
Bravo. Thank you Elizabeth Diller.
Thank YOU!
Great points.
it was a pleasure to listen who did and proyect this great park, high line, I had learn about this proyect few years ago an use as one of my resources to developed one of my proyects in my carrer- I study architecture- it was great see how a old construction can be use to integrate and give life at teh city especially right now, when our cities continues expand and it looks like how goverments forgot the importance of the public space and how important is the nature for us.
beautiful!
The mile-long opera is really pertinent. You made the space a more emotive wilderness as well as a green/organic wilderness.
Agritechture! Well done!
wow, this is inspirational. and interesting, but most of all , I like the understanding of the importance of this project and creation that the woman narrator talks about and explains. the example she showed, of that former railyards being converted into parkland, is fantastic. Urban public space is real important for the vitality and psychology of people's well being IN A CITY.
Thank you too.
4:56 :D Hiding in the bushes for a smoke lol
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Beautiful
This is beautiful ❤️
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she is amazing
I am 40+ years old and I just learn this TODAY ?! .... I used to live in New York an now living in London, UK.
I'm sure your Moscow clients will be happy with your kind words.
Oh my God! Another clown-activist criticized Russia once again, what a surprise!
They made a good park, people liked it (and even "bloody dictator Putin" appreciated it "), and that's the only thing that matters.
@@MrSkoresh Куда же они без упоминания "кровавой гэбни"? Тогда лайков меньше будет! "А в Америке негров линчуют!" (с)
how can you put the caption in Portuguese?
less concrete more trees
@TE D i don't think so
Now more than ever, the uniting freedom of public spaces is as obvious as it is important.
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That’s beautiful 😍
The UK needs to change their shift on commisioning landscape architects to design public spaces that encourage people to gather in the evening. Obviously because it's an over-controlling nanny state they would rather everyone just watched tv at home in the evening. This has essentially created a culture whereby in order to catch up with friends in the evening you have to go indoors to a bar.
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Yes. We need more natural buildings like this to save our resources.
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The Portuguese subtitles are out of sync, they start way before the speaker. You should take a o look on that
this is why most public schools feel like a prison. the building of the school does not seem like an open and relaxing space. It seems like a small city of cubicles and walls and small rooms and BRICK and stone and cheap wood.
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Thank you kind stranger! May you find success in life too!
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Yes u too
I agreed in every single point of this video, but careful, cuz for example, Cheonggyecheon, in Seul was made in 2003, and The High Line in NY, 2009, by my searches… So Korea was not inspired but USA, maybe the opposite…
Stop scrolling ang read this "Our time here on this planet is limited. Focus on what brings you joy - not brings you stress."....
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Based on my experience in cities skyline, hexagonal cells are the best design.
It's interesting to see the genesis of the highline, but it has become a total tourist trap, and they've closed off all entrances except one during covid. Doesn't really feel like a public park.
Reminds me of Akira...
i found a tick in my hair after walking along that path in ny. anecdotal yes
I'm from Pakistan ....this helps me imagine
Sodosoopa of southpark
What a imagination it's great
Standing up applause (lasts for 10 minutes)
Unfortunately not applicable in my country because of some goons 😩
I spy a fleeting glimpse of the London Garden Bridge - a vanity project from the (then) mayor Boris Johnson. Wasted millions, never got built.
Ha
I agree with more public space... but this is like saying the chef should sneak in goodies in the meal without the boss knowing it. Why can't our democracies just rule that there should be more public space in projects?
"Hire us and we will slip our own agenda into the project your paying for"
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Winnie-the-Poohutin
i want her to be my grandma
This is like a portlandia skit
Meanwhile....99.9% of all projects that architects take own are for corporations and or private development...preach on!
So she got the client, and is now bashing the client…. I wish I could be that daring.
I think she's a bit of a dinosaur as far as her ideas go, but the pinciples and practice of the Highline are excellent. I think we need to plan for cities with at most 40% of their current population and these things will be more than public spaces as she conceives the term. They will be farms and living spaces.
Unfortunately in America , most women and people like this woman in video are almost totally ostracized and criticized. IN EUROPE, urban design like this is MUCH more common and socially acceptable.
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The crime rate in this “park” is overwhelming.
3:45 Commie on Commie violence is so sad.
Talking about Zaryadye Park, she talks so passionately about the fighters against the regime and freedom, as if there are no Sokolniki, Gorky Park and other similar parks in Moscow. All her political undertones are as crooked as her teeth.
Will covid make everything 6 feet apart?
thats some self j.o.
Oh ho first comment
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Abolish land lords
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Hahahaha.
Some architects remind me of vegans.
Love it but I'm triggered ;) How pretentious with that volume of words, unnecessary and not really effective. Less is often more. Academics and linguistics talking about art makes me cringe.
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complicit with soft genocide
What are you talking about? 🤨
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Propaganda comes in all shapes and colors.
Designer: Let sneakily steal land from private citizens and give it to the government to manage.
Also the designer: THIS IS DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM!
Hush, capitalist servant
Doesn't the woman talk excessively emotionless and soulless?