Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Creative, sustainable solutions find their home in the thousands of informal neighborhoods across the world. Urban planner Jota Samper […]
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Take action on climate change at . Living in a city means accepting a certain level of dysfunction: long commutes, noisy streets, underutilized spaces. Carlos Moreno wants to change that. He makes the case for […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Cities are engines of culture, commerce, knowledge and community, but they're also centers of inequality and poverty. As the […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Almost a billion people worldwide live in informal communities and slums, often without basic infrastructure like clean water, toilets […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. By 2050, the global population is projected to reach 9.8 billion. How are we going to feed everyone? Investment-banker-turned-farmer […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Social media has become our new home. Can we build it better? Taking design cues from urban planners and […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Taking inspiration from nature, architect Ma Yansong designs breathtaking buildings that break free from the boxy symmetry of so […]
Every 12 years, a megacity springs up in India for the Kumbh Mela religious festival — what's built in ten weeks is completely disassembled in one. What can we learn from this fully functioning, temporary […]
Design gives form to the future, says architect Bjarke Ingels. In this worldwide tour of his team's projects, journey to a waste-to-energy power plant (that doubles as an alpine ski slope) and the LEGO Home […]
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