What Will Cities Look Like In Future????

 

- Hiii, guy's I isha from master programming welcome back to you my new post Cities all over the world are bursting with people. More than half of us live in cities now, and by 2050 that numberjumps to nearly 70%. That's a lot of people. So how do we grow cities sustainably? And with the climate crisis, figuring out how we do that is more important than ever before. But there's one city thatmay be doing it better than any other place on earth. - We want to become the first carbon-neutral capital city by 2025. - So we packed up our gear and headed here to Copenhagen,Denmark to find out how. (upbeat music) It's not surprising to learn that two-thirds of theworld's carbon emissions come from cities. That number is getting worse as more of us move into cities, which means a higher demand oninfrastructure and resources. So Copenhagen is on amission to cancel out all of their carbon emissions. - My name is Frank Jenson, and I'm the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen. When I became mayor westarted this process, we decided that we wantto become the first carbon neutral capital city by 2025. - What is carbon neutrality actually mean? For a city, it's creatingmore renewable energy than the dirty energy it uses. It's all about achieving a net zero. And their plan is focusing on mobility, pollution, and energy. - We have introduceda lot of new solutions in Copenhagen. Our bicycle infrastructure is world famous because today 62% of theCopenhagener's use the bike for daily transportation. - Everyone in Copenhagen bikes. And I mean everyone. So the city is leaning into that. In the last 10 years it hasinvested nearly $300 million to improve biking infrastructure. All that money has paid off. There are more than fivetimes the amount of bikes than cars in the city. That goes a long way whencutting down on carbon emissions. But the effort doesn't stop there. Copenhagen has totallytransformed their waterways too. Only a few decades ago,the harbor was contaminated with industrial waste, oilspills, even dead fish. - When I moved to Copenhagen back in 1987, this harbor was so polluted, you could never dream tohave a swim in this harbor. But today you can swim. We have a harbor bath wherepeople can have a swim with their kids after school or after job. - Though Copenhagen has made huge strides with their mobility and pollution efforts, by far their biggestfocus is on energy use. It makes up about 80% oftheir carbon neutral plan. To cut down on their consumption, Copenhagen uses one of the world's largest and most successfuldistrict heating systems. It works by using a network of pipes to capture left over heatfrom electricity production, then delivers that heatto homes across the city. - 99% of all householdsin Copenhagen are linked to our very efficientdistrict heating system. 

We have also introduced district cooling, where we take the cold outof the water in the harbor and distribute cold in pipes beside the district heating pipes. So you can reducetemperature in buildings, in server rooms, in factories. We can reduce electricity usefor cooling down buildings for 70%. - To come up with these kindsof sustainable solutions, Copenhagen collaborates withpartners across the city. Like Copenhagen Solutions Lab. An incubator for smart city initiatives. - What Copenhagen Solutions Lab does is actually solving someof the bigger problems in the world by using technologies in order to accelerate this transition into a carbon free economy. So for instance, a problem of air quality, people in cities are dying too early because of bad air. And that is a global problem, not just here in Copenhagen. Getting rid of our waste,measuring air quality, managing traffic, we're trying to solve these problems down in Street Lab. - Contrary to how it sounds, the Street Lab really isn't a laboratory. It's a two kilometer longchunk of downtown Copenhagen that serves as a testing area. - Placing a lab such as this downtown, in a real urban environment, makes it very realistic. Everything we're testing here will be able to survivein other parts of the city and will be able to bescaled to a city-wide level. This is a new generation of technology that makes it possibleto measure air quality by a sensor. And now we're lookinginto mounting sensors actually on a Google Street View car to make it possible tomeasure each and every street of Copenhagen. - With these sensors, thecity can better locate the source of pollutants to help improve overall air quality. The technology hasalready proved so useful, that Marius and his teamare shipping sensors to countries like Norway,Mexico, Austria, Greece, and the US. Though Copenhagen is leading the way in sustainable smart city solutions, experts and policy makers will tell you that the true secret tothe city's transformation is the people. The residents here actually want to help build a sustainable city andare willing to work for it. - The citizens of Copenhagen, they demand a high quality of urban life. They are willing to do a lot themselves. They want to sort their own garbage, they want to bike to work. Citizens involvement iskey to the way we think in Denmark and in the Nordic countries. And that's a huge driving force behind being a carbon neutral city by 2025. - Since I became mayor in 2010, we have had a growth rate in the number of citizens with 20%. And even that, we havecut our emissions with 42% in the same period. So we show that you can have growth with green transformation if youdo the right investments in the city. - Copenhagen's transformationhasn't been easy. And of course their size and wealth helps. But they've made it work for their city. Regardless if they hit theircarbon neutral deadline, their ultimate goal isto serve as an example for cities everywhere. - The green transformationof cities and livability and also very important, good economy. Goes hand in hand. I see Copenhagen as a front runner to show for my colleaguesand decision-makers, you must go green. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed our series about the Future of Cities, check out our website for even more content. And don't forget to subscribe to Freethink.  

What Will Our Cities Look Like in 100 Years? Our cities have a major impact on how we liveour lives. Traffic, housing, infrastructure . . . allof these play a role in our day-to-day. With urban technologies advancing at breakneckspeed, what will our cities look like in the future? Are you a fiend for facts? Are you constantly curious? Then why not subscribe to Unveiled for moreclips like this one? And ring the bell for more fascinating content! Perhaps the most important aspect to considerin designing a city is the threat of natural disaster. Cities on fault lines, for example, have differentconstruction codes from those built in hurricane areas. As global temperatures continue to rise, andheat records are broken every year, melting ice at the poles will lead to rising sea levels. We could very easily see ice-free Arctic summerswithin our lifetimes. If we fail to address the problem, we’llhave to change how our cities are built. One rather extreme solution is the creationof floating cities. Some companies and governments are puttingtogether plans to create large livable areas which float on the surface of the ocean. In 2017, French Polynesia made a deal to allowthe Seasteading Institute to explore the first steps in constructing a floating city. This would address the problem of rising oceansand eroding coastlines. One of the hopes in creating floating citiesis that they’d exist in international waters and be able to govern themselves better. Similar to floating cities, are underwatercities. Japan construction firm Shimizu Corp has releasedplans to deploy a 26-billion-dollar underwater city called Ocean Spiral by 2030. It would house several thousand people anddraw its energy from the seabed and ocean currents. Plans for this city include residential andbusiness zones. It would contain many of the necessities humansrequire to live. The project is backed by the Japanese governmentand Tokyo University. Then again, maybe underground cities wouldsuit us better. We already have buildings with large undergroundspaces, and subways are common in cities throughout the globe. So it wouldn’t be too much of a stretchfor humans to develop more extensive underground dwellings, potentially powering them usinggeothermal energy sources. In the past, underground living areas beendeveloped in emergency situations, such as when the Vietnamese built the 75-mile longCu Chi Tunnels during the Vietnam War. They included sleeping quarters, recreationalareas, and medical sections. Wherever we build in the future, technologywill revolutionize our urban environments. WiFi is becoming more and more pervasive,and cities of the future could become connected in more ways than we can imagine. Once cities embrace being connected, we couldhave amazing reception everywhere we go. This would also mean that advertisers mightconnect to you as well. When you drive past that billboard on yourway to work, it might know you’re passing and display a product you’d be especiallyinterested in. Speaking of driving to work, we might soonlive in a world where self-driving cars and transportation systems are common. This would make navigating cities easier thanever, and allow goods and produce to be transported more efficiently over long distances. The only problem would be fuel . . . Due tolimited oil reserves and climate change, at some point we’ll have to switch from gasolineto electricity - and from coal to renewable energy sources. On the plus side, a city redesigned to takeadvantage of renewable energies could provide a grid that allows self-driving cars to rechargeeasily. The rise of autonomous and electric vehicleswill create a big change in how we design and build our cities. When horse-drawn carriages gave way to automobiles,roads changed from dirt to pavement. We may see similarly dramatic changes withthe advent of electric, self-driving cars. All these new technologies and structureswill require some serious natural resources. However, extracting them from the earth oftencomes at great environmental cost. Several countries and companies are exploringways to harvest the rich natural minerals within asteroids and other space objects. One trip from the local asteroid mine couldyield amazing amounts of precious metals. These materials could then be used to buildthe smart houses of the future. These homes would be connected to the internetin all kinds of unique ways. Maybe your alarm clock will tell appliancesin your kitchen to start preparing breakfast, or your car to warm up automatically. The modern world is more connected than ever. . . but we all run into cell and wifi reception from time to time. In the future, satellites will continue toimprove, making communication faster and more reliable. All this high-speed access could mean thatmany jobs can be performed from home. We can already phone into meetings halfwayacross the globe, but virtual computing would make it like we were there in person. Teams could meet in virtual spaces withouthaving to travel at all. This means that there’d be fewer peopleon the road and potentially less pollution. On the subject of work, workers of the futuremight need to work a lot less because of automation and efficiency improvements. At first, this could have a devastating impacton employment, robbing many people of their livelihoods. In the long term however, people may one daylook back at our working culture the way we look back at factory jobs in the IndustrialRevolution. The whole idea of work will have to be re-examinedas we come to realize that many of the things we need such as food, water and shelter areeasily provided thanks to advances in food production and robotics. With more free time, people could developmore communal areas for their cities. These spaces could provide many basic servicesfor the population and serve as a way for people to feel more connected in an otherwisedisconnected world. If floating, underground, and autonomous citiesdon’t excite you, then how about space cities? If we continue to overpopulate the planetand fail to answer our climate problems, humanity might be forced to move to the stars. Instead of looking out the window and seeinga parking lot or run-down building, you might see the entire earth floating in front ofyou. Plans are already underway to put people onMars, so it wouldn’t be a stretch to envision cities on the moon or rotating around Earthlike satellites. The future of our cities depends on a lotof things, but if we can solve some key issues, then they’ll be some truly exciting places. What do you think? Is there anything we missed? 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