Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future | Liam Young

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🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Get transported on a stunningly rendered, sci-fi safari through Planet City: an imaginary metropolis of 10 billion people, from the brain of director and architect Liam Young. Explore the potential outcomes of an urban space designed to house the entire population of the earth -- and imagine answers to what is possible, and what is sustainable, for the planet.

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0:00.0	It's Elise Hugh. You're listening to TED Talks Daily. We're about to be transported into a vision, a fictional vision of the future in which an entire planet fits inside one city. It's the work of director and architect Liam Young. And in his imaginative talk from Ted Monterey
0:21.3	2021, this experiment in scale will challenge our notions of what's possible and what's
0:27.1	sustainable for this planet.
0:31.3	More than 10 billion people. Over 7,000 languages spoken. 90 million songs. Forty-two billion fruit trees.
0:45.4	900 zetabytes of data. 90 million beehives. Six million dentists, 142 million square kilometres of protected park, and one city.
1:07.2	A planet city.
1:12.4	What I've just described is my thought experiment for this world called Planet City.
1:37.7	An imaginary city for 10 billion people, the projected global population of the world in 2050.
1:47.6	I design environments for the film and television industry,
1:51.2	and I believe that by creating imaginary worlds,
1:54.3	we can connect emotionally to the ideas and challenges of our future.
2:02.5	So we've been creating Planet City
2:04.5	in response to the rising red line
2:07.0	on the graph of climate change.
2:09.9	Because world building and storytelling
2:11.8	can do so much more than just visualise this data.
2:16.2	They can help us to dramatize data.
2:21.0	So in speculative cities, we can immerse ourselves
2:24.7	and the various consequences of the decisions we face today.
2:28.9	They can be both cautionary tales or roadmaps
2:33.2	to an aspirational future.
2:39.0	So, I invite you all to join me as we journey along the canals of Planet City.
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