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 settlement? In a visionary talk, urban designer Rahul Mehrotra explores the benefits of building impermanent cities that can travel, adapt or even disappear, leaving the lightest possible footprint on the planet.
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Great man
Nice
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We need to learn how to build on top of clouds!
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Great Video, Thumbs Up From Me!
How does the sewage system work?
locate street, pull pants down, execute bowel movement.
This would be good for natural disasters, concerts, and dire situation possibly.
Does this guy want me to live in a tent? Hmmmm
That floats…
would be great to see this …
Truely marvellous!
How about a bunch of self assembling 3D printed skyscrapers
Oh sorry we are about 1000 years too early for that
NEVERMIND
I hear it like people despise this life here on earth. I don’t understand that you hope in 12 yrs you get another chance for a ride out of earth to hopefully life in the hereafter or like.
It’s all just a moment So choose good at where you stand and you get the same granting of the truthful way of the journey of the hereafter. Ian.
PLANET EARTH GONNA END IN 12 YEARS! IT’S ALREADY TOO LATE! WE’RE DOOMED!
Permanent solutions for temporary problems tend to give us permanent problems with only temporary solutions
11:15 pause and see a trade mark track of the night time farmer being’s of earth. See tree’s on right side and the bark with all the white amber colors exposed beneath the tough look of exterior bark protection. Well the bare wood Should not be exposed (no look at other examples not in a flood) this type marking is actually a physical change, micro helps with seeing widdled wood and no shavings left behind etc.
Cheers on making this real.
Ian Armstrong aka Tinman Bigfoot Tracker Channel Canada British Columbia BC.
Fantastic!!!
What a beautiful speaker! Thank you for blessing us, we TED listeners!
I love you, Raphaël ❤️
Huygens is a major problem of such vestivels, the rivers are severly polluted includind corpses of cows, it affects downstream villages and cities.
This would be an elitists dream. Shove the majority of us in a tent city while they live in a “castle in the sky” directing the unwashen masses from above.