Meh. More like hey lets just put some ditches next to roads and make moss grow everywhere. Not inovative, and no science that proves it helps temperature. Also this wont work in many other places like england, cause a lot of rainfall will cause flooding easily in those ditches.. Not the best of ideas to have no way to get water out of that part of the city.
@HicaptainWorld As an urban planner student researching this subject, I can tell you that a lot of modeling and research goes into the form and placement of ditches and other local drainage solutions, and it's proven to work in Copenhagen, which has much as the same climate as England. There is plenty of research done that have shown that trees and other plants cools down a city a lot. The plants are there exactly to get flooded, so the rest of the city doesn't suffer
I'm a high rise window cleaner and we love cleaning buildings that have vegetation growing on their roofs. It's so much cooler up there. There are way to many black rubber or asphalt roofs. They are hot as hell! But many building management companies are switching to the white roofs which are better but blind your eyes if you don't wear glasses up there.
You are the one who needs to learn how to fucking read. If you go onto a white rooftop that is bright, it is a lot easier to wear sunglasses than it is to avoid looking down the entire time.
Jon 183742 I Don't wear sunglasses when working near ledges. They are a lens, and most sunglasses refract light a noticeable amount. You don't wanna take the chance of judging distance slightly wrong and falling to your death. Jesus. A conversation about sunglasses got you pissed off enough to call me retarded. Congratulations, you're a passionate asshole about sunglasses.
gotta love the germans This is the kind of environmentalism I support. Not the kind the touchy feely tree-hugging type environmental attitude, but an engineer's attitude.
thruthewormhole / steve What do mean that it's legal? Anyhow, engineering has always been the most probable way of doing it. It's just that you need some sort of enforcement when it comes to industry becsause often being more environmentally friendly is expensive and puts you in a disadvantage against your competitors, so sometimes the government will place an industry standard so no company is more disadvantage than any other and yet environmental goals are still met. I am still hoping for something akin to fusion or the wider adoption of thorium reactors. Placing solar panels in the deserts of the works would also be fantastic. Particularly in the Middle East, Africa, South Western U.S. and Australia.
Touchy feely tree-hugging has it's place too, we need engineers to create innovative green spaces, we need hippies to keep them tended year after year for free.
If by "touchy feely tree-hugging type environmental attitude" you mean not understanding that city trees need maintenance and won't die or suffer from cutting a few branches, I agree. It's not a right or left wing politics thing, more like whether or not people use the logical part of their brain. Anyways, I think the solution is for cities to be built underground and for the surface to remain wild. Nature is beautiful and amazing, so humans should work with it instead of pave it over in arrogance or ignorance.
One of the GREENEST cities in Europe, it's absolutely incredible and the air quality is just amazing , especially compared to Paris or New York. Can't be berlin, cheap food, cheap real estate.
Side effects are: - no need for air condition = safes money and electric energy = enough capacities to power other electric consumers like trains and stoves. - cleaner air, less waste gases from power plants The city of Berlin once had a nick name like "Electropolis".
@@biohazardlnfS actually no. rubber roofs are much more seceptible to extreme weather, and a cooler city helps to reduce the likelyhood of extreme weather occurances. When there is a lot of energy in the air, a heated parkinglot or city can be enough to trigger an extraordinarily heavy rainfall. Due to this being less likely with a city concept like this, I'd argue that the maintenance costs are actually lower.
TheSensismoker Where you ever in Berlin or why are you hating basicly everywhere? Where have you got your information from? From Fox news ? Btw I reportet your comments, hope it helps
Daylight Games Lmao fifth GDP in the world, our chancellor is the leader of the Free World, biggest European economy...should I go on? Germany is a great country, whose only problem is the refugee crisis. If we manage to build better policies for this crisis, Germany will go on prosper without any barriers.
Merkel is the leader of the free world? And people think Americans have a false sense grandeur. Sorry to break it to you but Germany is a big fish in a small pond. The EU as a whole doesn't even lead the free world, let alone Germany.
@@JohnDoe-xl7xd Ahem notice the present tense, they're not doing that now, and haven't for 70+ years, there is never an excuse for doing that sort of thing but surely we can move past those stereotypes, considering it's actually illegal (as far as I know) to spread any sort of Nazi-type propaganda etc...
Because some US citizens think that they know what's like in Germany and how all of it is dying because of da evul muslimz. I may not be religious but I cannot hear this anymore.
The video portrays an innovate approach to the rainwater/big cities question. It could and should be applied to other large cities all over the world. Wouldn't it be more constructive to consider how this technique could be popularised and applied in other major cities? That's what I expected in the comments.
Welcome to youtube! Wanna have a tour into the bowels? We are going to visit some comment sections from videos that concern themselves with topics like the Armenian Holocaust and US Civil War alternative history possibilities. The first tin foil hat is on the house! ;)
I never heard of this concept but I think it is a great idea. Most cities I've been to in Germany are trying to incoporate more green into the city. I thought it was for air quality but I did not think about that. It's a great idea. But scrolling through the comments, I can only shake my head. First of all, how do you get from an enviornmental video to refugees, and secondly have any of you been to Germany? I study in a larger city but I live out in the countryside. Yes, you can sometimes see more non-ethnical northern Europeans in the cities since the refugee crisis BUT it is not the way you guys are trying to paint it. The majority of people is still German or at least looks like the stereotypical northern European person. I also do not feel less save in the evening than before. I don't deny the reports that some refugees cannot or do not want to integrate themselves but only a tiny fraction of them are potentially harmful. The rest of them are people like you and I. And show me one country or society without jerks and idiots who left their brain behind in their mother's womb?
MissDatherinePierce ^ this ^ As a German studying, working and living in a green city, I can confirm 100%. (Especially West) German cities are already melting pots for different nationalities. I live next door to Taiwanese, Indians, Turks and Koreans and we all get along great. I couldn't even tell who is a refugee in my daily life, everyone's just a normal customer to me (at the store I'm working) and I still go out safely at night. They're mostly just normal people. It's not at all like some Sodom and Gomorrah like raping pit like some (strangely often americans) suggest. We're just fine thanks. lol
Totally agree with you. Yes, I noticed I see more people of different nationalities in Hanover than in Magdeburg for example. I mean I grew up near Wolfsburg and our region has many people who descend from Italy and Turkey because of the economic wonder in the 50s and 60s. There are also a lot of Russians. Two of my friends descend from an Italian family and from a Russian. If you would see them on the streets you would not even know they are not German. I also read reports that refugees were flooding the universities. Well, I have not seen one. I study English so I guessed there would be at least one person but not that I noticed. Also there are just the usual exchange students but they come mostly from European countries. For me, nothing changed, except you may see a tiny bit more people of arabian descendance but I could not really tell them apart form the ones of Turkish descend whose parents might have already been born here. The only thing that I noticed a teacher in training is that the classes for integration need way more teachers and better material. They do their best and my university actually worked (and I think still works) with a school to help them. Some students even do their internship in these classes. But we can only do so much as we are still in training and most internships only last 4 to 5 weeks or once or twice a week for a semester. Many of these kids went through hell and they deserve a chance of a normal life and a good education as long as they are here (many I talked to wish to go home again when it is save)
I visited Berlin last year. I found the surprisingly green and it didn’t feel like a big city, more like a lot of connected villages. I really liked the city and I will visit again
That's interesting considering how a lot of us germans actually hate Berlin because we consider it to be one of our ugliest cities. Glad you enjoyed your visit!
Ben Hussain here we go again. Can you ignorant ass people stop with that shit ? Like damn y'all blame refugees and immigrants on everything. Fuck outta here
John Doe the US is fueling that shit tho . How hard is it for you to understand??? Like damn I live in the US and it's a great country but how many times has it not stirred conflict ? Jesus.
This was the original Bauhaus idea... nothing too new. Just a hundred years old but the ideals of the Bauhaus style were cast aside and the more useful aspects were abused to optimize the economic value of structures.
I am living in Berlin for years, but have not heard or noticed of the sponge city [program]. However, samrt city planing often stays below the radar of headlines.
dear concerned americans, before you go out of your way to criticise us for "SOMETHING SOMETHING IMMIGRANTS SOMETHING SOMETHING RAPE" You should rather be concerned about issues in your country, for example police violence, racism, poverty, poor gun laws that lead to 7 homicides each hour, poor education system, terrible taxation, terrible health care, terrible economy and, last but certainly not least, your terrible government. kind regards germany
John Doe I think its a question of how patriotic you are. Germans dont love germany as much as americans love america, therefore you are more concerns about your country
American GDP per capita is about 40% higher than Germany's, which Americans agree should be even higher. So we will continue to focus on that instead of forcing our corporations to grow moss on their rooftops. The social problems that you listed are primarily localized to leftist controlled urban areas, they are not indicative of the vast majority of America.
I don't experience "unending self shaming and hatred" for what some dick has done 70 years ago, frankly I care about the presence instead of whining about the past, which is what everyone should do. I acknowledge what happened and agree that this was a terrible thing but theres nothing for me to personally feel ashamed about :) also, looking at America, there so much more nazis over there than here. that's a fact, by the way.
it's true, patriotism isn't a big thing in Germany, but then again, why should it. here you don't get beat up for not standing up when some hymn plays. that isn't a big issue in my opinion
I feel like this political show that's being put on is just dividing people so they go and fight eachother (be it verbally like cowards on the internet or be it physically like brainless idiots in riots), it's distracting people from bigger things that are happening and need attention
Ludivico Carthage It is what Germany is about, Muslims (vast majority of them there are leeching opportunists, not the refugees you think they are) are gonna become the majority in ~2030 at this rate after all, you might as well be called Saudi Germania or Germanistan at that point.
Random Guy From Texas Seems like the first guy is right, you can't seem to chill about politics even in a video like this. There are some reasonable Trump supports out there but people like you don't know how to be chill about about it.
Why? Because most people are stupid and their brains tend to work like a broken sound recorder - just repeat the same stuff they heard elsewhere, even though it has nothing to do with the topic. They know so little they don't even realize how much more there is the be learned and discovered. Only a small percentage of all of humanity is capable of having a meaningful conversation on innovative an creative topics. The rest revert to the few bits of skewed information they have, and they think they already know everything on a topic and tend to be loud and vocal due to this ignorance. Only intelligent and educated people are humble in regards to what they don't know and skeptical towards any information they acquire or have acquired. Is this a good enough answer for you?
oh lord, this comment section... I am from Berlin and I am a young woman and I can tell you, there is no problem with refugees. I experienced things like sexual harassment from German citizens as well as from other nationalities. It has nothing to do with the nationality. Furthermore most of them are actually really nice and are willing to learn German and get a job to not be depending on the government. It's true that not everyone is like that but the same goes for German citizens. Equal amount of assholes. Like i said, it doesn't depend on the nationality. I felt most of the times respected from other cultures "even when" they were muslims. This video is about how cities are planned, not about the current situation in Berlin or Germany. I don't understand why so much non-related negativity has to be shown in the comment section of an obviously neutral video about Berlin.
if it "doesn't depend on nationality", does it mean that you will ever live in a majority non-european country? if not, then your unicorn beliefs are just the usual vomit-inducing shitlib hypocrisy.
Ever heard of women getting charmed by North African men, only to see their true faces once they move to the mens' motherland? Now imagine the Western World become their motherland too. What do you think will happen? Will we still see the respectful muslim who will accept you as you are at that point? I don't think sooo...
Vergiss es. Das ist der moderne rechte Abschaum der Gesellschaft welche die sozialen Medien als effektives Propagandamittel für sich entdeckt haben. Unter jedem Video über westeuropäische Staaten wirst du mittlerweile derartige Kommentare finden.
Hana, the statistics & the evidence do back you up, as well. Honestly, I guess that American exceptionalist nutcases & alt right white nationalists are just triggered about a vibrant multicultural city succeeding @ green architecture.
That is not true. We don't have to import words like "trumpster" - we have other words and groups that hate immigrants and immigration. I hardly even heard anyone say the word trumpster here.
Allen, denen die ganzen amerikanischen "Berlinexperten" in den Kommentaren hier auch auf die Nerven gehen, lege ich ans Herz, sich mal Ernst Buschs "Ami go home" anzuhören, das beruhigt wunderbar
@@AnX555 where I stayed there were plenty of trees and beaches so your idea of sterile and mine must be totally different. When I think of sterile I think of downtown Manhattan not Helsinki.
Catherine Kilgour NYC is the exact opposite of sterile... They leave their garbage on the streets so the streets smell of garbage and are full of rats. Cockroaches everywhere, I don’t think, Ive ever seen a cockroach in Helsinki. Then the subway... oh boy. We’ll, it’s disgusting. Some of the stations get unbearably hot and humid, at temperatures that regulators would shut down here... Not to speak of the absolute zero handicap access anywhere. Again regulators would shut it down instantly over here and etc... But that’s what makes NYC/Manhattan what it is. It’s designed horribly, but that’s the charm of it. Somehow people can stand the rats and smell of garbage so they get the chance to live in the big apple. And I think you have some nerve to tell me what Helsinki is or what it is not when I am the one who lived here my whole life and you’ve just stayed here.
@@AnX555 as already stated your opinion of sterile is obviously different to mine. I don't see a city full of nature to be sterile, which seems to be your definition. I did find the lack of eye contact weird but that is more a reflection of difference in culture than what I think of the built up environment.
Crawley in west Sussex, England was built post war and I'm quite impressed how green they have left the built up environment separating roads from streams with scrub woodland and floodplains that are allowed to flood.
even if that's a problem (humid & heat is uncomfortable), humidity have a useful ability to neutralise pollution & pathogen in the air. Research have shown that rats with flu didn't contract/transmit virus well in humid air, and micro-particulate from combustion will clump together in humid air into a bigger particulate that is less harmful to our lung. Plants in the area will emit volatile organic compound and shed organic particles into the air as well... in a tropical forest this has been shown to produce local cloud and rain in the vicinity. Shed organic particles, like plant virus, might also excite our immune system without actually being a pathogenic or infectious, and the plant's leaf itself is good at rejecting infrared heat from the sun away from the ground. With roof made of plants, it is insulated from the heat and according to a study; doing this (is an alternative to painting roof white) will reduce 80% of your AC bills.
xponen have you ever been in a rain forest ? Humidity is painful, it can induce a heat stroke in people not accustomed to it... The roof top growth is fine, however if the ground gets too dense, then problems will occur
@phoenixkool , I don't think the growth in that video is too dense. For example, an open grassland have more growth & soil than that, and it wasn't as humid as in a forest
But Berlin is not on a tropical place, the summer temperatures don't rise to the extremely high values of a rainforest, with August temperatures on an average of 19ºC, it's average summer rainfall is also nowhere near the rainforest values, so even if they filled the city with plants you wouldn't have the unpleasant combination of heat+humidity that you have on a tropical place.
In many italian town old roads are still kept because their outer layer is actually made of stones or san pietrini (levigated and squared ones) because concrete won't help with the heavy rains that sometimes occur. As the gaps between them let water be absorbed by the ground. Also, are less expensive to mantain as rock is way more resistant and doesn't break in winter like tar, and citizens are safer as they hear incoming vehicles from the corner.
They wont because that's not generate money and no profit from it. No profit means loss and china wont waste their space on some grass, they prefer to lease instead.
@@mymagicloulou4394 well, think about the air pollution. If the air would be clear, then more tourists would travel to some city's, exploring and spending money. Also the citizens of that city would spend more money on activities you could do outside. The city also can reduce their budged for cleaning to some extend since it doesn't have to scrape that much dirt & dust of the streets / buildings. Maybe there is potential to make money, maybe not.
It not even about the water imo. thats just a bonus. Look at having green parks basically on the top of otherwise useless buildings. So suddenly people have more natural areas to relax. Birds as well. The more we can combine cities and nature the better for the environment, people and wildlife. Just imagine how much this could help bee's, which has really hard living condition and risk going extinct. If suddenly roofs had flowers etc on them. There is just no down side here. Imagine if you started to interconnect roof stops. Suddenly people can walk above the city and enjoy not only green vegetation, but actually seeing more of the horizon and sky..
This is a good idea, they can also put down some storm drains, that only operate when there is flooding, just in case. Those drains can be easily automated using a pipe and a flowmeter. The flowmeter measures the volumetric flowspeed of the rain through the pipe, and activate the drains if that speed is above a certain level, for a set amount of time. This can be done using only analog systems, and shouldn't even need electricity to work.
Or an even cheaper solution can be special street drains, that have a plug below them, and that plug can be held in place using a spring. If the water pressure above the drain gets above a certain level, the spring wouldn't be able to hold the plug in place, and the drain will get activated until the pressure falls below a certain level. This would be a very cheap "emergency flood release" system.
I am curious on the scale of maintenance for the plant life. Naturally they have to keep their eco sponge from growing out of control so I wonder if the city created a new job system for this. Creating gardeners like you would create waste collectors to get rid of people’s garbage.
It does flood sometimes (in part because Berlins sewer system is somewhat outdated). But adding more soil and plants instead of concrete actually helps quite a lot with floods, because they absorb a lot of water.
Beautiful architecture ! Berlin is high on development : ) Latest Indian smart cites are under construction in Gujarat,India too... I wish they could get this german architects ..
I live in Hamburg, Germany which is has pushed through this concept (extremely green city with 1.8 mio people). Here are little perspective on the Downsides: -a lot of insects...really a lot...this sucks -Your appartment will cost more -Idk how it is in Berlin but at summer in Hamburg (maybe because it is a port city) it is like in the Jungle (humidity) and in winter it feels like even with 0°C like -15°C (humidity) ->high humidity -More rain days But it is all worth it, you have really little polution and other great effects.
this is really cool. i've never lived in berlin, but i lived in the south with my grandparents before moving, and i remember the recycling laws being crazy. germans are crazy about the environment unlike the other two countries i have lived in. in israel people compost and that's really it and in america i see plastic wrappers and mud water on every corner, and cigarettes on the floor:
It looks cool and natural but Berlin has to be one of the last places on earth which has problems with high temperature, it is just way too much to the north, they actually have to search for heating options
The water that evaporates during warm temperatures causes increased humidity. So although the temperature may be lower by a degree or two the increased humidity, especially during hot days, will make it feel warmer than what it is.
The Canadian prairies used to have sod houses over a century ago. Some aspects of sod houses will be making a comeback on a few buildings in Edmonton, Alberta as roof systems on an office building and a renovated warehouse. There are a few houses with flat sod roofs.
Some of this already happens in Scotland. Rainwater and surface runnoff is treated on site before being released into the environment. Stormwater is collected in crates under the surface which then regulates its release into the treatment system. There is a safety overflow though into conventional sewers to take water away if it cannot be treated or stored. It's known as SUDS - "Sustainable Urban Drainage System"
This is the first thing I've heard about the sponge city concept - which surprises me after living here for >20 years. Unfortunately the report doesn't mention the scale these projects have reached by now.
@@gearandalthefirst7027 if you know what the problem is, shouldn't you be spending your time doing something about it? I would certainly be trying to do something about it if I knew what to do.
Not only flooding but also pests like mosquitos in the summer months are probably a big issue with such designs. Looking forward to see improved versions of this.
BRO!!!! I went through there!!. I remember that! It's the only memorable thing I saw while passing through that tunnel. It's a small world!! (I travelled to berlin for a week and we saw very good graffiti
This works on so many levels. This keeps the cities cooler in general, which makes it more comfortable to go outdoors. It also makes the cities aesthetically more pleasing. This can encourage people to go outdoors more, which can help with public health. A cooler city also means lower energy demand for air conditioning, thus lower energy demand in general, lowering the strain on the energy grid, very helpful to the transition to renewable power.
Zach Jordan what you ideally want to do is have plants endemic to the region that grow/decay without a large amount of growth and that is compact. While trees aren't ideal, many grasses are pretty good as they are tall enough to block out smaller invasive species. While it looks a bit dreary in winter, the spring, summer and fall months are amazing. This way, you need perhaps one or two maintenance interventions per year. Probably a small price to pay for the reduced cooling costs.
+TheSensismoker Yeah it doesn't create any new jobs because they already exist (Straßen und Grünflächenamt) but it's not a waste of money, first of all, it keeps the city cool and secondly it reduces carbon dioxide and no, +Martin Adams is not wrong, the green areas usually consist of mixed meadows. Mixed meadows don't have a lot of growth and are maintenance free, except for spring (but every green area is maintained in spring)
this is just a kind of prototype. we need way more areas with this systems and this area which exist are small.i live in berlin and i can say, that the most parts of the town are sealed with concrete and tarmarc.
Concrete actually acts like a sponge already (because of cement), so if you have much vapor around for long you will get mildew build up easier on the inside especially with the new type of plastic insulating windows. Also where the sponge-earth meets the concrete eventually there will be water damage in those areas.
This would have been really helpful for Houston. Have read that new Houston development, particularly post-recession, has not put much thought into retaining water in the city, but rather moving it away through pipes, dams, and even the highway. This inevitably breaks down in heavy rains, like we are seeing for Hurricane Harvey.
This is an excellent example of the intelligent application of city planning. I wish more cities would consider this.
HereticNews - really 😐
Meh. More like hey lets just put some ditches next to roads and make moss grow everywhere. Not inovative, and no science that proves it helps temperature. Also this wont work in many other places like england, cause a lot of rainfall will cause flooding easily in those ditches.. Not the best of ideas to have no way to get water out of that part of the city.
Who is from Berlin ?
HereticNews why it's a bad idea just plant trees
@HicaptainWorld As an urban planner student researching this subject, I can tell you that a lot of modeling and research goes into the form and placement of ditches and other local drainage solutions, and it's proven to work in Copenhagen, which has much as the same climate as England. There is plenty of research done that have shown that trees and other plants cools down a city a lot. The plants are there exactly to get flooded, so the rest of the city doesn't suffer
I'm a high rise window cleaner and we love cleaning buildings that have vegetation growing on their roofs. It's so much cooler up there.
There are way to many black rubber or asphalt roofs. They are hot as hell!
But many building management companies are switching to the white roofs which are better but blind your eyes if you don't wear glasses up there.
note to self: if i go on-top of a roof, bring sunglasses, esp if the roof is white
You are the one who needs to learn how to fucking read. If you go onto a white rooftop that is bright, it is a lot easier to wear sunglasses than it is to avoid looking down the entire time.
Jon 183742 sunglasses obstruct your peripheral vision and warp it. Not a good idea more than a story up.
How slow do you have to be to have trouble wearing sunglasses more than a story up? This is not a problem for 99.99% of the population
Jon 183742 I Don't wear sunglasses when working near ledges. They are a lens, and most sunglasses refract light a noticeable amount. You don't wanna take the chance of judging distance slightly wrong and falling to your death. Jesus. A conversation about sunglasses got you pissed off enough to call me retarded. Congratulations, you're a passionate asshole about sunglasses.
gotta love the germans
This is the kind of environmentalism I support. Not the kind the touchy feely tree-hugging type environmental attitude, but an engineer's attitude.
thruthewormhole / steve Give this man a beer. Reason over feelings!
I just got in college so it's legal.
thruthewormhole / steve
What do mean that it's legal?
Anyhow, engineering has always been the most probable way of doing it. It's just that you need some sort of enforcement when it comes to industry becsause often being more environmentally friendly is expensive and puts you in a disadvantage against your competitors, so sometimes the government will place an industry standard so no company is more disadvantage than any other and yet environmental goals are still met.
I am still hoping for something akin to fusion or the wider adoption of thorium reactors. Placing solar panels in the deserts of the works would also be fantastic. Particularly in the Middle East, Africa, South Western U.S. and Australia.
Touchy feely tree-hugging has it's place too, we need engineers to create innovative green spaces, we need hippies to keep them tended year after year for free.
If by "touchy feely tree-hugging type environmental attitude" you mean not understanding that city trees need maintenance and won't die or suffer from cutting a few branches, I agree. It's not a right or left wing politics thing, more like whether or not people use the logical part of their brain. Anyways, I think the solution is for cities to be built underground and for the surface to remain wild. Nature is beautiful and amazing, so humans should work with it instead of pave it over in arrogance or ignorance.
One of the GREENEST cities in Europe, it's absolutely incredible and the air quality is just amazing , especially compared to Paris or New York. Can't be berlin, cheap food, cheap real estate.
The Modern Investor its very ugly though due to ww2 destruction...you can not compare berlin to paris or london since its prestige is way lower
The Modern Investor What about Lisbon? It has the biggest urban park in the world, it's relatively cheap, has good food and it's beautiful
Maciej Schulz That only accounts for it being relatively cheap. Lisbon being green and beautiful is a whole other matter.
Manuel Cunha Rocha Lisbon is great but I think central park is bigger.
William bigger than monsanto parque? dont think so
Side effects are:
- no need for air condition = safes money and electric energy = enough capacities to power other electric consumers like trains and stoves.
- cleaner air, less waste gases from power plants
The city of Berlin once had a nick name like "Electropolis".
Björn Mundt ok
Side effects are used for generally bad things, I would better say Advatages
Side effect would be higher building Maintenance
@@biohazardlnfS actually no. rubber roofs are much more seceptible to extreme weather, and a cooler city helps to reduce the likelyhood of extreme weather occurances.
When there is a lot of energy in the air, a heated parkinglot or city can be enough to trigger an extraordinarily heavy rainfall. Due to this being less likely with a city concept like this, I'd argue that the maintenance costs are actually lower.
@@VoodooGMusic plants degrade building materials overtime.
This is just a really complicated way to get rid of sewers so we never have to deal with Pennywise the clown again
T.J. Corcoran You do realise that there's still a sewer?
T.J. Corcoran A city of 3.5 million people without sewers wouldn't remain a city for long, lol
Pascal but you wouldn't have to worry about that damn clown so Im down
DasJulian not the part where the rain water falls into it tho
This guy gets It.
sounds like it should be renamed a "common sense city"
TheSensismoker Where you ever in Berlin or why are you hating basicly everywhere? Where have you got your information from? From Fox news ?
Btw I reportet your comments, hope it helps
Robinio It is without a doubt a failed state and reporting comments you disagree with won't help the situation.
Common sense is in short supply these days. Basic human decency however seems to be almost extinct.
Daylight Games Lmao fifth GDP in the world, our chancellor is the leader of the Free World, biggest European economy...should I go on? Germany is a great country, whose only problem is the refugee crisis. If we manage to build better policies for this crisis, Germany will go on prosper without any barriers.
Merkel is the leader of the free world? And people think Americans have a false sense grandeur. Sorry to break it to you but Germany is a big fish in a small pond. The EU as a whole doesn't even lead the free world, let alone Germany.
Clickbait i saw a whole lotta of city but ZERO sponges in this video
Bobs UrUncle I expected to see spongebob
a whole lot of of city?
Daddy jake and the american school system told me to dab on them haters
MrCreekyify uh oh grammar police, am i under arrest?
The nature itself is the sponge
Germany... you're doing amazing sweetie.
Mert Aygün Holocaust
JJ JJ bruh
@@JohnDoe-xl7xd Ahem notice the present tense, they're not doing that now, and haven't for 70+ years, there is never an excuse for doing that sort of thing but surely we can move past those stereotypes, considering it's actually illegal (as far as I know) to spread any sort of Nazi-type propaganda etc...
@@ninjaz5736 It's indeed illegal.
topic: german capital doing something good for the environment
comments: ETERNAL POLITICAL HELLFIRE
I have seen virtually no political comments but a million comments complaining about them.
lmao
every time there's an knternational video about germany. Every. Time.
@@kayseek1248 I'm seeing a lot of em
The video is about ecology and architectural solutions. Why are the comments full of racist screeching?
Because some US citizens think that they know what's like in Germany and how all of it is dying because of da evul muslimz. I may not be religious but I cannot hear this anymore.
The video portrays an innovate approach to the rainwater/big cities question. It could and should be applied to other large cities all over the world. Wouldn't it be more constructive to consider how this technique could be popularised and applied in other major cities?
That's what I expected in the comments.
If only we could remove every one of these people from the internet. They're disrupting the peace and they're being incredibly destructive.
Welcome to youtube! Wanna have a tour into the bowels? We are going to visit some comment sections from videos that concern themselves with topics like the Armenian Holocaust and US Civil War alternative history possibilities. The first tin foil hat is on the house! ;)
Because some of my fellow Americans lack intelligence. On behalf of the ignorant American population, I am sorry. Please ignore them, seriously.
I never heard of this concept but I think it is a great idea. Most cities I've been to in Germany are trying to incoporate more green into the city. I thought it was for air quality but I did not think about that. It's a great idea.
But scrolling through the comments, I can only shake my head. First of all, how do you get from an enviornmental video to refugees, and secondly have any of you been to Germany? I study in a larger city but I live out in the countryside. Yes, you can sometimes see more non-ethnical northern Europeans in the cities since the refugee crisis BUT it is not the way you guys are trying to paint it. The majority of people is still German or at least looks like the stereotypical northern European person. I also do not feel less save in the evening than before. I don't deny the reports that some refugees cannot or do not want to integrate themselves but only a tiny fraction of them are potentially harmful. The rest of them are people like you and I. And show me one country or society without jerks and idiots who left their brain behind in their mother's womb?
MissDatherinePierce ^ this ^
As a German studying, working and living in a green city, I can confirm 100%. (Especially West) German cities are already melting pots for different nationalities. I live next door to Taiwanese, Indians, Turks and Koreans and we all get along great. I couldn't even tell who is a refugee in my daily life, everyone's just a normal customer to me (at the store I'm working) and I still go out safely at night. They're mostly just normal people. It's not at all like some Sodom and Gomorrah like raping pit like some (strangely often americans) suggest. We're just fine thanks. lol
Totally agree with you. Yes, I noticed I see more people of different nationalities in Hanover than in Magdeburg for example. I mean I grew up near Wolfsburg and our region has many people who descend from Italy and Turkey because of the economic wonder in the 50s and 60s. There are also a lot of Russians. Two of my friends descend from an Italian family and from a Russian. If you would see them on the streets you would not even know they are not German.
I also read reports that refugees were flooding the universities. Well, I have not seen one. I study English so I guessed there would be at least one person but not that I noticed. Also there are just the usual exchange students but they come mostly from European countries.
For me, nothing changed, except you may see a tiny bit more people of arabian descendance but I could not really tell them apart form the ones of Turkish descend whose parents might have already been born here.
The only thing that I noticed a teacher in training is that the classes for integration need way more teachers and better material. They do their best and my university actually worked (and I think still works) with a school to help them. Some students even do their internship in these classes. But we can only do so much as we are still in training and most internships only last 4 to 5 weeks or once or twice a week for a semester. Many of these kids went through hell and they deserve a chance of a normal life and a good education as long as they are here (many I talked to wish to go home again when it is save)
MissDatherinePierce finally some people with some sense, thank you your comment slightly restored my faith in humanity
I was born in and live in Berlin and i can only 100% agree to your comment. Thank you for restoring quite a bit of faith in humanity for me :)
MissDatherinePierce thx, I can only agree, most people don't know what they are talking about
US: *wHat iS PrOper CiTy PlaNNing*
Hey, Chicago is the birthplace of city planning
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Actually the US has the best city planning in the world, look at New York and Chicago for example
@@pinakinkale Some areas do, but then look at Florida.
William Dukane yea but Florida constantly suffers damage through its hurricanes and storms, so it is constantly rebuilding structures
How long until the Wall Street Journal reports on this with the headline "Germans Stealing Rainwater!"
Germans Invading Natural Water Sources!
the withering production well its barely an invasion either, I mean The water comes to us.
Lol this is hilarious
niko 2064 stop
That sounds more like a Fox News headline.
I visited Berlin last year. I found the surprisingly green and it didn’t feel like a big city, more like a lot of connected villages. I really liked the city and I will visit again
That's interesting considering how a lot of us germans actually hate Berlin because we consider it to be one of our ugliest cities. Glad you enjoyed your visit!
Man, more cities need to do this. Not only does this plan make cities cooler. It keeps cities green and generally a nicer place to live.
Cities worldwide should learn from Berlin.
Ben Hussain here we go again. Can you ignorant ass people stop with that shit ? Like damn y'all blame refugees and immigrants on everything. Fuck outta here
John Doe the US is fueling that shit tho . How hard is it for you to understand??? Like damn I live in the US and it's a great country but how many times has it not stirred conflict ? Jesus.
Jorge Gonzales no it's not sorry sweaty , try again
Ifan lusnn you have no idea what you're talking about sweaty
Yeah especially when it comes to airports. 3Billion wasted and we still have only a pile of concrete shit.
I love the extra greenery it adds to the city : )
This was the original Bauhaus idea... nothing too new. Just a hundred years old but the ideals of the Bauhaus style were cast aside and the more useful aspects were abused to optimize the economic value of structures.
I am living in Berlin for years, but have not heard or noticed of the sponge city [program]. However, samrt city planing often stays below the radar of headlines.
Sponge is my City
Patrick my name.
dear concerned americans, before you go out of your way to criticise us for "SOMETHING SOMETHING IMMIGRANTS SOMETHING SOMETHING RAPE"
You should rather be concerned about issues in your country, for example police violence, racism, poverty, poor gun laws that lead to 7 homicides each hour, poor education system, terrible taxation, terrible health care, terrible economy and, last but certainly not least, your terrible government.
kind regards
germany
MIGHTY america is better of than germany, america is the No.1 Superpower of the entire world wtf are you talking about
John Doe I think its a question of how patriotic you are. Germans dont love germany as much as americans love america, therefore you are more concerns about your country
American GDP per capita is about 40% higher than Germany's, which Americans agree should be even higher. So we will continue to focus on that instead of forcing our corporations to grow moss on their rooftops. The social problems that you listed are primarily localized to leftist controlled urban areas, they are not indicative of the vast majority of America.
I don't experience "unending self shaming and hatred" for what some dick has done 70 years ago, frankly
I care about the presence instead of whining about the past, which is what everyone should do. I acknowledge what happened and agree that this was a terrible thing but theres nothing for me to personally feel ashamed about :) also, looking at America, there so much more nazis over there than here. that's a fact, by the way.
it's true, patriotism isn't a big thing in Germany, but then again, why should it. here you don't get beat up for not standing up when some hymn plays. that isn't a big issue in my opinion
Awesome idea, terrible comments section.
The worst comment section. These people dont really hate each other. They just love to hate.
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Why everybody talking terrorism and shit, that's not what the video about
Ludivico Carthage Trump supporters are very obnoxious and bring their hate-filled politics into everything.
I feel like this political show that's being put on is just dividing people so they go and fight eachother (be it verbally like cowards on the internet or be it physically like brainless idiots in riots), it's distracting people from bigger things that are happening and need attention
Ludivico Carthage It is what Germany is about, Muslims (vast majority of them there are leeching opportunists, not the refugees you think they are) are gonna become the majority in ~2030 at this rate after all, you might as well be called Saudi Germania or Germanistan at that point.
Random Guy From Texas Seems like the first guy is right, you can't seem to chill about politics even in a video like this. There are some reasonable Trump supports out there but people like you don't know how to be chill about about it.
Why? Because most people are stupid and their brains tend to work like a broken sound recorder - just repeat the same stuff they heard elsewhere, even though it has nothing to do with the topic. They know so little they don't even realize how much more there is the be learned and discovered. Only a small percentage of all of humanity is capable of having a meaningful conversation on innovative an creative topics. The rest revert to the few bits of skewed information they have, and they think they already know everything on a topic and tend to be loud and vocal due to this ignorance. Only intelligent and educated people are humble in regards to what they don't know and skeptical towards any information they acquire or have acquired.
Is this a good enough answer for you?
oh lord, this comment section... I am from Berlin and I am a young woman and I can tell you, there is no problem with refugees. I experienced things like sexual harassment from German citizens as well as from other nationalities. It has nothing to do with the nationality. Furthermore most of them are actually really nice and are willing to learn German and get a job to not be depending on the government. It's true that not everyone is like that but the same goes for German citizens. Equal amount of assholes. Like i said, it doesn't depend on the nationality. I felt most of the times respected from other cultures "even when" they were muslims.
This video is about how cities are planned, not about the current situation in Berlin or Germany.
I don't understand why so much non-related negativity has to be shown in the comment section of an obviously neutral video about Berlin.
if it "doesn't depend on nationality", does it mean that you will ever live in a majority non-european country? if not, then your unicorn beliefs are just the usual vomit-inducing shitlib hypocrisy.
Ever heard of women getting charmed by North African men, only to see their true faces once they move to the mens' motherland? Now imagine the Western World become their motherland too. What do you think will happen? Will we still see the respectful muslim who will accept you as you are at that point? I don't think sooo...
your personal experience does not disprove statistics
Vergiss es. Das ist der moderne rechte Abschaum der Gesellschaft welche die sozialen Medien als effektives Propagandamittel für sich entdeckt haben. Unter jedem Video über westeuropäische Staaten wirst du mittlerweile derartige Kommentare finden.
Hana, the statistics & the evidence do back you up, as well. Honestly, I guess that American exceptionalist nutcases & alt right white nationalists are just triggered about a vibrant multicultural city succeeding @ green architecture.
So many edgy teen trumpsters who never left Urban America hating on an absolutely wonderful city :')
Trust they haven't even been to urban America lol
They haven't even left their mother's basement.
Urban areas are fully of leftist hipsters not trump voters. At least get your demographics straight before you start throwing out generalized insults.
imOpinionn I lived in Germany for 3 years. Y'all are memes. I rather live back in Bulgaria
That is not true. We don't have to import words like "trumpster" - we have other words and groups that hate immigrants and immigration. I hardly even heard anyone say the word trumpster here.
Allen, denen die ganzen amerikanischen "Berlinexperten" in den Kommentaren hier auch auf die Nerven gehen, lege ich ans Herz, sich mal Ernst Buschs "Ami go home" anzuhören, das beruhigt wunderbar
Go home, Ami, Ami, go home,
Spalte für den Frieden dein Atom ♫
Stimmt, Chicago ist immerhin auch nicht viel besser als Berlin. Nur 1 kleines bisschen.
Random Guy From Texas What the fuck is your problem?
Burak Coskun fuck off and learn to speak english
Burak Coskun yea ok but its not like usa won, russia did ;)
Lots of people here sharing their ignorance rather than learning. Disappointing really.
The most advanced technology is the least detectable and works in harmony with the environment
wow, not only is the better for the environment but it also makes the city look much more beautiful and lively!
🎶What lives in Germany over at north?🎶
🎶Berlin SpongeCity!🎶
Never knew this. Always thought Berlin was a sterile and boring like Helsinki, but now I have more respect.
Maybe you should have traveled out of the city center if you thought Helsinki sterile and boring.
Catherine Kilgour I live in eastern helsinki. Sure there are spots like Kontulan ostari, but otherwise pretty sterile.
@@AnX555 where I stayed there were plenty of trees and beaches so your idea of sterile and mine must be totally different. When I think of sterile I think of downtown Manhattan not Helsinki.
Catherine Kilgour NYC is the exact opposite of sterile...
They leave their garbage on the streets so the streets smell of garbage and are full of rats.
Cockroaches everywhere, I don’t think, Ive ever seen a cockroach in Helsinki.
Then the subway... oh boy. We’ll, it’s disgusting. Some of the stations get unbearably hot and humid, at temperatures that regulators would shut down here...
Not to speak of the absolute zero handicap access anywhere. Again regulators would shut it down instantly over here and etc...
But that’s what makes NYC/Manhattan what it is. It’s designed horribly, but that’s the charm of it. Somehow people can stand the rats and smell of garbage so they get the chance to live in the big apple.
And I think you have some nerve to tell me what Helsinki is or what it is not when I am the one who lived here my whole life and you’ve just stayed here.
@@AnX555 as already stated your opinion of sterile is obviously different to mine. I don't see a city full of nature to be sterile, which seems to be your definition. I did find the lack of eye contact weird but that is more a reflection of difference in culture than what I think of the built up environment.
8.5/10 IGN
Too much city not enough sponge
It makes the area look beautiful too!
The building my apartament is in works this way, It's beautiful
Crawley in west Sussex, England was built post war and I'm quite impressed how green they have left the built up environment separating roads from streams with scrub woodland and floodplains that are allowed to flood.
God damn. Is someone here, who talk about video? When i read the coments, i understand why the earth becomes more and more ugly.
Random Guy From Texas than we got some similarities.
Ps: i am not ur bro.
gam mal WE WUZKANGZ AND SHIEET
gam mal when they invented every practical useful thing in your life
Plot twist: They are putting grass on buildings to confuse bombers in the event of world war 3
If WWIII starts, it will be between the turbans and the rest of the world....so not much of a war.
@@tygonmaster Turbans? Ottoman Empire 2 electric boogaloo
@@isaac_aren Pretty much.
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@@tygonmaster Well then its not a world war.
OMG This is incredible. HOUSTON ARE YOU WATCHING THIS???
Don't need that cooler in Estonia it's fucking cold already
I like the idea, however if you keep the rain at the ground level, wont you create a HUMID environment? Seeing that is an urban environment
even if that's a problem (humid & heat is uncomfortable), humidity have a useful ability to neutralise pollution & pathogen in the air. Research have shown that rats with flu didn't contract/transmit virus well in humid air, and micro-particulate from combustion will clump together in humid air into a bigger particulate that is less harmful to our lung. Plants in the area will emit volatile organic compound and shed organic particles into the air as well... in a tropical forest this has been shown to produce local cloud and rain in the vicinity. Shed organic particles, like plant virus, might also excite our immune system without actually being a pathogenic or infectious, and the plant's leaf itself is good at rejecting infrared heat from the sun away from the ground. With roof made of plants, it is insulated from the heat and according to a study; doing this (is an alternative to painting roof white) will reduce 80% of your AC bills.
xponen have you ever been in a rain forest ? Humidity is painful, it can induce a heat stroke in people not accustomed to it... The roof top growth is fine, however if the ground gets too dense, then problems will occur
@phoenixkool , I don't think the growth in that video is too dense. For example, an open grassland have more growth & soil than that, and it wasn't as humid as in a forest
Yes, but buildings add insulation as well, nvm, dont have time to keep debating this. You're right.
But Berlin is not on a tropical place, the summer temperatures don't rise to the extremely high values of a rainforest, with August temperatures on an average of 19ºC, it's average summer rainfall is also nowhere near the rainforest values, so even if they filled the city with plants you wouldn't have the unpleasant combination of heat+humidity that you have on a tropical place.
In many italian town old roads are still kept because their outer layer is actually made of stones or san pietrini (levigated and squared ones) because concrete won't help with the heavy rains that sometimes occur. As the gaps between them let water be absorbed by the ground.
Also, are less expensive to mantain as rock is way more resistant and doesn't break in winter like tar, and citizens are safer as they hear incoming vehicles from the corner.
I hope China can copy this example. I think California may take this example.
They wont because that's not generate money and no profit from it. No profit means loss and china wont waste their space on some grass, they prefer to lease instead.
@@mymagicloulou4394 well, think about the air pollution. If the air would be clear, then more tourists would travel to some city's, exploring and spending money. Also the citizens of that city would spend more money on activities you could do outside.
The city also can reduce their budged for cleaning to some extend since it doesn't have to scrape that much dirt & dust of the streets / buildings.
Maybe there is potential to make money, maybe not.
@@mymagicloulou4394 That's an interesting view on it.
I'm gonna take a look the development of China's city's now.
Have a nice day. :)
It's funny because we are already getting so much rain here and so little sun.
the newer student housing facilities at my university have similar designs. all the new developments have sustainability in mind
Where is it, specifically, you are referring to?
its nice to see a middle eastern country putting more greenery. it gets pretty hot and dry there.
0:39 Kaufland in Adlershof. Gleich erkannt!
It not even about the water imo. thats just a bonus. Look at having green parks basically on the top of otherwise useless buildings. So suddenly people have more natural areas to relax. Birds as well.
The more we can combine cities and nature the better for the environment, people and wildlife.
Just imagine how much this could help bee's, which has really hard living condition and risk going extinct. If suddenly roofs had flowers etc on them. There is just no down side here. Imagine if you started to interconnect roof stops. Suddenly people can walk above the city and enjoy not only green vegetation, but actually seeing more of the horizon and sky..
keep these type of video coming...loved it.
I love that idea and to combat extreme rainfall there could be a pumping system to remove excess water.
love it, looks so much better as well.
This is a good idea, they can also put down some storm drains, that only operate when there is flooding, just in case. Those drains can be easily automated using a pipe and a flowmeter. The flowmeter measures the volumetric flowspeed of the rain through the pipe, and activate the drains if that speed is above a certain level, for a set amount of time. This can be done using only analog systems, and shouldn't even need electricity to work.
Or an even cheaper solution can be special street drains, that have a plug below them, and that plug can be held in place using a spring. If the water pressure above the drain gets above a certain level, the spring wouldn't be able to hold the plug in place, and the drain will get activated until the pressure falls below a certain level. This would be a very cheap "emergency flood release" system.
it's nature-friendly and looks good, sign me up
Love the endings words to this video. It is in our best interest to be working with nature when it comes to cultivating a civilization.
This could use in Nevada
sky 1187 I think you need rain for it to be effective.
Rain machine broke
Lol everything would die in nevada
We barely get any rain but when it does rain the streets flood. Nevada is the most bipolar place to live
@Bacon like Texas but worse.
You gotta love the comments sometimes.. just so much chill people.
German engineering never ceases to amaze
Reminds me of that time Berlin was an artillery shell sponge
This makes me so happy and proud
I dream of the day when my city implements something sustainable :( I want to cry watching this. The whole thing could solve so much of our problem.
Aren't the plants going to corrode the buildings faster or idk I'm not an expert in these things
I am curious on the scale of maintenance for the plant life. Naturally they have to keep their eco sponge from growing out of control so I wonder if the city created a new job system for this. Creating gardeners like you would create waste collectors to get rid of people’s garbage.
Does it ever flood in Berlin? Removing too many sewers and drainage systems could backfire if it does flood
It does flood sometimes (in part because Berlins sewer system is somewhat outdated). But adding more soil and plants instead of concrete actually helps quite a lot with floods, because they absorb a lot of water.
Dude, who did the music in the background? That synth is hypnotic and I love it.
It's amazing how germany is 50 years ahead of other industrialized countries
I'm really liking the animations. And that Australian voice narrating the video, go Aussies.
Beautiful architecture ! Berlin is high on development : ) Latest Indian smart cites are under construction in Gujarat,India too... I wish they could get this german architects ..
I live in Hamburg, Germany which is has pushed through this concept (extremely green city with 1.8 mio people).
Here are little perspective on the Downsides:
-a lot of insects...really a lot...this sucks
-Your appartment will cost more
-Idk how it is in Berlin but at summer in Hamburg (maybe because it is a port city) it is like in the Jungle (humidity) and in winter it feels like even with 0°C like -15°C (humidity)
->high humidity
-More rain days
But it is all worth it, you have really little polution and other great effects.
this is really cool. i've never lived in berlin, but i lived in the south with my grandparents before moving, and i remember the recycling laws being crazy. germans are crazy about the environment unlike the other two countries i have lived in. in israel people compost and that's really it and in america i see plastic wrappers and mud water on every corner, and cigarettes on the floor:
I'd move out of America but if all the people who care leave it'll just get worse
It looks cool and natural but Berlin has to be one of the last places on earth which has problems with high temperature, it is just way too much to the north, they actually have to search for heating options
I've been doing this since forever in sim city
I miss living there so much, but I’m also very happy living in Warsaw.
thanks for sharing this!
remarkable idea
The water that evaporates during warm temperatures causes increased humidity. So although the temperature may be lower by a degree or two the increased humidity, especially during hot days, will make it feel warmer than what it is.
How beautiful & clever !
I know I'm like really late but it feels so nice to have some pure positivity in this comment section füll of hate 💓
The Canadian prairies used to have sod houses over a century ago. Some aspects of sod houses will be making a comeback on a few buildings in Edmonton, Alberta as roof systems on an office building and a renovated warehouse. There are a few houses with flat sod roofs.
I want a sponge house
It's called a coffin
Lol look up rain gardens its a well worth start
Some of this already happens in Scotland. Rainwater and surface runnoff is treated on site before being released into the environment. Stormwater is collected in crates under the surface which then regulates its release into the treatment system. There is a safety overflow though into conventional sewers to take water away if it cannot be treated or stored. It's known as SUDS - "Sustainable Urban Drainage System"
Best city in Europe. Lovely people x
I have been thinking this for years.
Some Permaculture people have been thinking about this since the late 70's.
I absolutely love this!
dammmn i wish every countries have this kind of thinking and not just thinking about the aesthetic but the overall quality
Zie Germans are once again doing cool stuff.
This is the first thing I've heard about the sponge city concept - which surprises me after living here for >20 years. Unfortunately the report doesn't mention the scale these projects have reached by now.
Am I the only one that accidentally read the title as 'Spongebob City'? Only me? Ok.
Working with nature instead of against it is something we should have been doing a long time ago. Let's do our best to get back on track.
We were doing this a long time ago, then came Christianity...
@@gearandalthefirst7027 if you know what the problem is, shouldn't you be spending your time doing something about it? I would certainly be trying to do something about it if I knew what to do.
God I love Berlin.
@Rebel Jesus, let him have his own opinion
@Rebel I'd prefer more black and minority people in Beelin because too many racist shithead like you
Not only flooding but also pests like mosquitos in the summer months are probably a big issue with such designs. Looking forward to see improved versions of this.
Done properly, I'd imagine there's fewer mosquitoes because the water doesn't lay stagnant in sewers, I could be wrong however.
3:25 i found my graffiti!!!
ni ni 😂
BRO!!!! I went through there!!. I remember that! It's the only memorable thing I saw while passing through that tunnel. It's a small world!! (I travelled to berlin for a week and we saw very good graffiti
Buildbanner 😂❤ thanks
Ha! Yorckstraße. Grüße aus der Nachbarschaft
Daniel D haha geil
My favourite city in the world just keeps getting better!
In my city we implemented this system years ago...
Because we don't have money for concrete! :D
This works on so many levels.
This keeps the cities cooler in general, which makes it more comfortable to go outdoors. It also makes the cities aesthetically more pleasing. This can encourage people to go outdoors more, which can help with public health.
A cooler city also means lower energy demand for air conditioning, thus lower energy demand in general, lowering the strain on the energy grid, very helpful to the transition to renewable power.
And who is going to, cut, prune, plant, and maintain all these new plants??
Zach Jordan what you ideally want to do is have plants endemic to the region that grow/decay without a large amount of growth and that is compact. While trees aren't ideal, many grasses are pretty good as they are tall enough to block out smaller invasive species. While it looks a bit dreary in winter, the spring, summer and fall months are amazing. This way, you need perhaps one or two maintenance interventions per year. Probably a small price to pay for the reduced cooling costs.
Even that is a good thing because it generates jobs that wouldn't be there before
Not really, we have the Straßen and Grünflächenamt. They maintain green areas and the streets.
Skilled workers making a livable wage, with all the ancillary jobs and attendant economic benefits that provides.
+TheSensismoker Yeah it doesn't create any new jobs because they already exist (Straßen und Grünflächenamt) but it's not a waste of money, first of all, it keeps the city cool and secondly it reduces carbon dioxide and no, +Martin Adams is not wrong, the green areas usually consist of mixed meadows. Mixed meadows don't have a lot of growth and are maintenance free, except for spring (but every green area is maintained in spring)
this is just a kind of prototype. we need way more areas with this systems and this area which exist are small.i live in berlin and i can say, that the most parts of the town are sealed with concrete and tarmarc.
such an innovative idea
Concrete actually acts like a sponge already (because of cement), so if you have much vapor around for long you will get mildew build up easier on the inside especially with the new type of plastic insulating windows. Also where the sponge-earth meets the concrete eventually there will be water damage in those areas.
they're going to regret this in a hundred years when a sinkhole opens up around the city
Mario on the Moon by then we all gonna live on the moon ;)
It won't, the water drains into the massive water reserves under most major landmasses, which is how wells work.
This would have been really helpful for Houston. Have read that new Houston development, particularly post-recession, has not put much thought into retaining water in the city, but rather moving it away through pipes, dams, and even the highway. This inevitably breaks down in heavy rains, like we are seeing for Hurricane Harvey.
German Engineering at BEST
Rebel stop lying u third worlder
Thats something you dont see every day. Imagine if all cities adopted this across 20-35% off new builds let alone all!