Building Humane Cities

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Cities are symbols of hope and opportunity. But today, overcrowding and gentrification are hurting their most vulnerable residents. This hour, TED speakers explore how we can build more humane cities. Guests include architects Liz Ogbu and Vishaan Chakrabarti, writer OluTimehin Adegbeye, former Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry, and journalist Drew Philp.

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0:00.0	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:07.0	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:10.0	Ted.
0:11.0	Ted.
0:12.0	Technology.
0:13.0	Entertainment. Design.
0:14.0	Design.
0:15.0	Is that really what's 10 for us?
0:16.0	I'm never known that it delivered at Ted conferences around the world.
0:18.0	It's the gift of the human imagination.
0:19.0	We've had to believe in impossible things.
0:22.0	The true nature of reality beckons from just beyond.
0:26.0	Those talks, those ideas, adapted for radio.
0:31.0	From NPR.
0:33.0	I'm Guy Ross.
0:38.0	Have you lived in cities most your life?
0:42.0	Yes, I'm definitely a city girl.
0:44.0	Where did you grow up?
0:46.0	So I grew up here in the Bay Area in Oakland.
0:49.0	This is Architect Liz Ogbu.
0:51.0	Both of my parents are Nigerian immigrants.
0:54.0	So I had an experience of growing up in American cities,
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