place like the polonium cape so that
First I have to tell him that I am a
bit obsessive and he always talked about
city
the city is an obsession and in
particular the city of montevideo
I think it’s a good place for
city just because it’s the opposite
of a city is could be the seed
from a city of Cape Polonio
but mostly I like to talk about
here because able to what
places like Cape Polonio follow
exist and that my children and grandchildren
know him
we are going to have to make
our cities places much more
much more friendly greens much more
dense and when I say of the sun tam
I do not want them to think about overcrowding
I want you to think rather of a
sustainable use and
democratic vital space of the
cities I’m not an architect, I’m not
urban planners a visual artist as well
I had however the issue the
city so much to my work some way
because it concerns me and it worries me and I think that
we do not worry everyone should
worry all of us all the matter
of the city is taking a
very particular aspect in this 21st century
to get an idea from the
2010 for the first time in history the
humanity there are more people living in
cities than in rural settings
that of course brings huge challenges
and new problems, not as always
that there is a challenge motto ‘I like it
think that there is an opportunity
opportunity in this case that would be
able that we have to start thinking the
world not subdivided into these units
Territories known as countries that
they are becoming more and more
anachronistic most obsolete and the slope
a lot to solve the problems of the world
current and think the world as governed
by cities that we will all be or
almost everyone living in cities look
that by 2030 it is already forecast that
60 percent humanity lives in
cities
so this kind of ideas can
see one
blatter great of benjamin barber
which is called the mayors
they will rule the world
with this population growth
world
the city is understood to expand without
limit practically in Uruguay
we have an example that is called the
city the coast this moment is so light
I’m going to apologize to those who
they live in the city the coast
I have many dear friends who live
in the city the coast but I have to
warn that we are facing a problem
quite pretty big with this guy
of urbanizations of the city the coast
to define it briefly is a suburb
of the metropolitan area of Montevideo
that in the year 96 had 65 thousand
inhabitants and in 2011 already had
113 thousand inhabitants is the most suburb
Large metropolitan area and the montevideano
second most populous city in Uruguay
However, in front of all this I say
that the nor the population of uruguay the
population of montevideo in particular
increased in that period very by the
the opposite decreased so we can
affirm without fear of being wrong that the
growth and expansion of the spot
urban Montevideo do not have anything that
see with the growth of the population
and if with economic phenomena
variables that forced a lot of
people not being able to access the areas
consolidated city and have to
look for life in other places by
example the city Acosta had a stock
of existing holiday homes that
little by little they were transformed into
permanent houses but yes yes yes
We also think about the city of Montevideo
It has been at least 40 years since
takes care of its growth and only
grows informally or with
phenomena ‘pont years long
duration by spontaneous at last as
the city of the coast or with city of
silver or with cantegriles and villas
misery
so that throughout those of the
governments and over the years are adding up
dog eradication programs
diagnosis of all kinds so that
this one if this situation happens
actually these diagnosis the only
What they do is stay in the
desks of the bureaucrats and the
reality shows us that these
Situations do not stop growing the city
the coast is a perfect example of
city diffuses the city in tasty way
in the world they can be divided into diffuses
or compact the city
the diffuse city phenomenon is
characterized by growth
exponential and fast and messy
especially from the suburbs the
fundamental characteristics of the
diffuse city are those that appear here
low population density
many very few people in the area very
large with the result of
reducing the natural green space
abusive use of the soil has to
know that the soil is our one of the
greatest treasures on the planet is a
non-renewable resource
almost exclusive car dependence and
cars that part almost always travel
with only one person and the lack of
infrastructure in general
at the other end are the cities
compact more compact are those
where housing work places
of leisure trade live overlapping
in a more limited territory and remains in
clear where the city ends where
the city where the field begins ends
but we got a little bit of Uruguay
let’s talk about a couple of sites that sure
we all know but even though we have not
I do not know what they would like more
ecological the new york city or the
sunny california
I will not wait for the answer I think that
most will seem more
ecologic california and it’s obvious why
we are really there with him with
the idea that in a city like new
york is like an incubus not a place
where humanity is there
so nothing living in conditions not very
be healthy is one thing that I’m going to
tell them that we fight with constructions
I want to explain what maybe the
solution to make sustainable silver pass
for living in the city and not occupying the
countryside
it has nothing to do with these new things
york however despite being that
number of people who live there
it’s a very compact city then
has a transportation system
terrific and the and a lot of people do not
use auto then the air quality is
of the best in the United States by
example a the average new citizen
york consumes as much fuel as a
American citizen of the 20s
they are something like New Yorkers
as 3 percent of the population of
united states and they are responsible just
of 1 percent of the emission of gases
of greenhouse effect consume half
of electricity that a citizen of
san francisco for city that is in
california state that also holds the
sad privilege to have in your
territory
eight of the ten most cities
polluted united states and these
they know because it’s because of the abusive use of
auto because they do not have good system of
transport
but let’s go back a little to the city of
the coast
the to this day the city the
Costa is a national that do not have
sanitation are now
thinking if it rains a lot has big
chances that your house without a desire to
that your street without a that you can not
leaving the bar on the corner does not exist
the cinemas and theaters either and the
shopping people do it for the most
part climbing a car going up
an avenue that looks more like a
road where architecture has
gave way to the empire of the cartel to each
which more ugly big screaming why
because obviously these posters do not
they were designed for pedestrians these
posters were designed for people who
He goes by car very fast to the chimera of
good thing that going to live at the
city the coast and have a garden and
grinder reality is gaining the
reality that people have to
lattice house put alarm put on
electric fence distrusting up the
neighbor and if they thought that a move would
was going to be like a solution or or today they’re going
to have a healthier life
with this the car becomes
difficult and those who do not have car
depend on a transportation system
almost monopolistic companies almost
monopolies that charge much more expensive
the ticket
the service provided by a fast train
that one to the city of the coast with
Montevideo does not exist or anything that is
look and more things happen to
consequence that all these people left
to the city of costa montevideo lost
a lot of population and abandonment
just central neighborhoods of the
city that had everything that they had
these this incredible architecture type
who had food had
sanitation they had sports clubs
shops teaching centers about
of the jobs and these many neighborhoods
neighborhoods in the city and not precise
say if they did upload if they walk around
keep it look so full of holes
of abandonment of acs as it is very pathetic
It is also a thing that always thought
because nobody thought of it
having all this put it as an option
make a new city
away that I did not have any kind of
infrastructure
even when in montevideo not even
when you’re in the center a picture of
center of Montevideo does not overwhelm you
center center already enough
has many trees in parks and
squares is never far from the
rambla
this this phenomenon of the
growth of the suburb without ton
They are
it’s not a thing that happened at night
in the morning it’s not something they saw
come generations we could almost say
this height and like many things the
Uruguayan mine on the other hand and let
pass and well after the problem what
they will solve other
but well I do not want to follow many
crying over milk spilled on
We are here to share
ideas I have some ideas to make
montevideo a little more but that could
easily ecologist bleu there is no
fourth but it’s quite graphic and I
would like to take it as a test field of
these urban experiments to the city
old is left because the city
ja is where montevideo started with
ciço dense where half of the
life montevideo its almost 300 years
these walls happened behind
so well we could take it as
testing laboratory and rehearse some
things that do not even need a lot
silver they are decision to do it
especially as for example increase the
pedestrians of the old city
we could take every four apples
make a big apple and the streets that
they cross in the middle we make them
pedestrian for that you have to do
more than decree that such a day to the
week to start rehearsing what’s not even
of days a week a business day and 11
weekend and see what happens to see
how you take the neighbors users
so that one of the first things that
you have to do is take out the buses
old City
there is no city the historic center in the
world of a city that boasts that
let cars in, much less
bus that enters the old city of the
Most enter empty
then we take out the buses we put a
good circular electric tram
we let the media take the ravine
he will not walk two blocks
more we do not put parking lots
underground in the ravine also
because many people who arrive by car in
The old city
but able that I went ahead and
we should have started by bringing in
new to the city of Montevideo and its
central area to the people there is a
definition that I love about city that
it is being said that a city in the people
that inhabits it
so an abandoned city is
condemned to death and so that
have an idea the old city
I would admit three times more times four times
more people who have now the
center in the same thing you have to support the
initiatives that talk about milk for
deactivate the abandonment of high school
montevideo is in parliament ago
years does not advance but still without that
law there’s a lot of legislation and
of regulations to warn the
owner because there’s a whole issue with
private property to realize that
when one owns something
he also has obligations about that not
can have abandoned 40 years true and
also because many of these houses
of the northern city old town center
of aguada are tremendous house
tremendous houses where we could
rehearse new forms of coexistence
new way of family know how many
families in Uruguay that presents its
families in uruguay are mom dad and
the children 26 percent of the
families although all the advertising is
directed at that 26 percent only and
although all the real estate businesses
they are aimed at that type of families
or speculation
then these houses would not serve to
rehearse that sealed group of friends
people who have
than setting up a workshop on the ground floor and
live up or take advantage for me is
a golden opportunity to have all that and
do not use it
then we can do many things not
we can be green roofs are
full or you’ve got cities like
montreal and copenhagen that already demand that
the new buildings have roof
green a matter of thermal comfort
and for a matter also of saving
energetic
now I see it difficult none
authority demanding the promoters
try the construction of who else
have to put green roof because
that idea is also very much in Uruguay
if we demand the one who puts the money
too capable that they do not put silver on me
I do not think that’s how we could start
by exonerating the people who build their
green roof on the roofs
we could also take over the
people from the sidewalk tree
I plant the campus to the square that
take charge and took over we all know
that when something is from one, it asks for a lot
more truthfully good to identify densify
the city should under no circumstances
mean to demolish what exists for
build something new
this is a before and after
you do not believe it
We decided to remove it from above the mansion
to new to build this mode that
I honestly do not understand it sincerely
I do not understand it because that palace was
can identify can be done
apartments inside even had a
garden he walked another block back
but of course it will not give as much money as
this
but this is bread for today
for today hungry for tomorrow for me is
hungry for today hungry forever
one thing is a nonsense
to testify is not that to build is to use
what there is and give it new uses add
floors the house being at the house of
call home sausage la la la
skylight and add a couple of floors to
each a little more retuned has
been the level of the path we put
viewpoints of race that gordillas many
things that stopped being done in
Montevideo and it is a pity that
lost that kind of traditions to see it
able I would summarize it if I do not know
it should take more nothing to occupy
all the wastelands of the city
every hole in the city to occupy
all the infrastructure that is
abandoned because what is built is
pure speculation
there is a problem that which more or less
he has some lines while he spoke
but there is the issue of transportation not the
transportation in the metropolitan area
as the axis because in transport to the
people are leaving his life his life is going
and we have to have a system of
much better transport faster but
especially multimodal
so there are many options for
transportation until the 60s
apart in Uruguay these things happen not
Great things were and are
they made patents until the 60 in
montevideo that could take a bus
a taxi like now but more
trams you can take trolley that
could take commuter trains that
can take a hydroplane and to go to
buenos aires could however good
air could cross from the hill to
center in vaporetto that happened with everything
that happened that they won other interests and
the bad guys win but not good to others
interests won the trucks what the
omnibus the sale of private cars there
applauding people applaud that they sell
50 thousand cars per year in Uruguay for
me that’s is a maximum catastrophe
especially when it happened to others
cities this because I do not take the example
the definitive cities chop
I sincerely think that it is possible to
everything does not wait for this to happen
We can actually make our mouths with
these things well let’s go doing
mouth with these utopias with these
imagination is because to imagine a
happiest city
we do not think a single weight very many
Thank you
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