who do evil but by those who watch them
without doing anything
let’s not prove this guy right he’s
proven a couple of theories right in his
lifetime so recently I was presented
with this amazing opportunity I design a
city in China as the city is called
Ansan
it’s located where you see here and the
the next picture is the picture on the
side is of wayde’s oh where the city
resides and swayin is a third-tier city
it’s a tear threesome Utley about three
million folks live in that city and so
it’s got a kind of a middle-income its
up and rising this is the site it’s
literally at the center of the city and
basically it’s a redevelopment project
there are existing about 20,000
inhabitants on the site and they’re
these mountains are called karst
formations and they were formed by the
dissolution of the land through kind of
acidic rain and other things over
millennia and I was looking at these
sites and I was looking at the mountains
when I was on site and I thought to
myself wow you know something seems
really familiar here so I called up my
dad and I said didn’t didn’t grandfather
didn’t grandpa fight the war in these
mountains and my dad confirmed that he
said yes he did the Battle of Mount song
was a pivotal battle in China during the
I know Japanese war in which the Chinese
began to take back China and my
grandfather fought diligently in that
war in the third battle before they took
over he actually got wounded and but the
Chinese one obviously eventually and
then he moved to Shanghai and then
Taiwan and then the US where my family
and I grew up but he took back China and
now growing out America I live and work
back in China China as you all know is
about 1.3 billion people but that’s only
accounted for the there about two to
three hundred million not accounted for
there about sixty different distinct
minority groups in China as well so it’s
quite a diverse community in China but
China is crowded and industrialization
hasn’t been really great to China it’s
caused a lot of crowding over building
but also caused a lot of loneliness
people at web cafe people taking dumps
in the subway not knowing where the
bathroom is neglected seniors people on
the ground that fallen and nobody helps
them out cities that are built but
nobody actually lives in them even
though it’s crowded
kind of a weird paradox isn’t it and
then there’s cities that are polluted
terribly because of industrialization
cities that are just horrible to live in
dust and grime and smog children suffer
suffer remarkably as well in these
cities so I saw it to myself my god I’m
back at the site I got a lot to do I got
a lot to figure out here so we don’t
kind of repeat those mistakes so I
thought real estate development could be
what determines the future of humanity
and I reflected upon in terms of real
estate being a cradle a cradle for our
values a cradle that determines how we
interact as a community but technology
hasn’t been kind necessarily technology
like the elevator have lifted us off the
land that we toiled and on but
technology has also brought us elevators
that have done this created terrible
spaces cars bring us from point A to
point B but they’ve also created
disparate social conditions in which in
which people are separated safety is an
issue 50% of paved roads in 50% of the
land in China is paved road and then
big-box retail is thriving because of
the car and I’ll show you a video from a
zombie video from World War Z what Brad
and no sorry this is actually from Black
Friday two weeks ago and you can see how
much people care for each other as
opposed to that old toaster but so there
are so many divisions in the world right
now there are mental their political
truck oh sorry so excuse me sorry
there are their country divisions there
are topographies roads apartments walls
all sorts of divisions in the world
right now how can we begin to heal those
divisions bring people back together
make communities happen and we can look
at this video and kind of get a sense of
how that could be possible we did was we
took one rat who is always the free rat
and then we had a stable of strangers so
on each day and we do 12 days of testing
each day the three rats saw a different
track track and they open for strangers
just like they were cage mates however
when these rats were tested with rats
from another string in this case a black
caked variety they would not help the
stranger in distress that think that
there might be some kind of social bias
will rational only help rats who are
similar to them and that’s the question
we paired the two rocks of different
types and house them together and we
found that once they were housed
together those rats
for each other so they were willing to
help each other even though they weren’t
similar to each other to figure out
whether helping the Navy required
familiarity with an individual or with a
string
the researchers house albino rat report
picked one for two weeks
the albino rat was then green house with
another albino rat before testing they
still remember living with these this
one one individual black cape breath and
consequently they ended up opening for
the black cape strangers what that says
is that by Iraq needs to know one
individual of that type in order to
extend a very pro-social feeling towards
others that look like or smell like or
feel like that so in other words it’s a
birth social environment make them so I
cut that off a little bit but a diverse
social environment created empathy
empathy empathy empathy indifference
because of a lack of shared experience
if a cat and a dog can hug each other in
this very cute little picture here so
can humans rights so can humans just by
having experience together I’m sure they
didn’t just get together today they got
together because they were in the same
space so back to the site again so we
look at the site and say oh my god now
now we have a way of looking at this in
a special way how can we build a
sustainable community for 45,000
individuals that bridges diversity using
technology in the right way that that is
really represents our high values and we
look at the site and it’s beautiful it’s
got these cars formations so how can we
take those cars formations and not
create who knows what Midwestern City is
this who knows where what city this is
in China so how can we create a city
that has some character here right that
doesn’t become any old city that was
Nanjing I don’t know what the Midwestern
city is it just
so you have these land formations
outside of the city and then you have
the future planned roads inside the city
that then begin to cause those divisions
again right there are seven plots of
land here there could be seven different
divisions there but we’ve been begin to
take those cars formations and the idea
of them and begin to integrate them and
create these peaks and valleys in the
site and begin to bridge those divisions
lift those gates and we’ve caught we
begin to create these interconnected
paths similar to how you have in Hong
Kong but we we’ve widened them so that
they have kind of these Park connector
issues and then there are these
waterways and and peaks and valleys in
the site that are the buildings and then
there’s the section where where people
can walk across the street feel safe and
not not feel the division of the road
and that’s the plan and the beauty of
this particular site in Gwaine so is
there are 20 distinct minority groups
currently living on the site and instead
of assimilating them we are integrating
them into the fabric of the site we are
taking them allowing them to farm the
land on the site farm the the urban
farms allow them interact with the
communities the social activities that
occur on the site allow them to the farm
survive thrive for themselves and for
the communities beyond and sell and make
living for themselves they’re working
with Hitachi to do that we working with
Hitachi to to bring the best of
technology in terms of AI and
supercomputing into the sensors into the
community to be able to track and
monitor everything in the community and
keep the affordability of the community
key real estate is what really
undermines the the the divisions in in
poverty and in people in the world right
now and there are sustainability as well
we’re making sure that all these
communities are sustainable and
affordable by by introducing solar
panels and greens and waterways and and
water conservation and passive and solar
heating cooling so these are some of the
photos from the site we’re terracing the
residential to allow for that urban
farming we’re creating
conditions where the center of the site
is this big Greenway you never see any
roads hopefully in the site and you
bring people together and the buildings
become those karst formations that
exists in the site and they Terrace back
and and people are hanging out and the
buildings become these kind of
sculptures in the landscape and people
are having fun and and it’s only in a
third-tier city imagine if we could do
this in a third-tier city and this is
that karst formation condition and this
is a rendering of the condition so in
the next 10 years this is going to be
built piece by piece so empathy and
design design and empathy empathetic
design we believe is key to really
bringing and bridging families and
communities together and I would hope
that I could make my grandfather proud
of the country he saved and children
raised in these communities can lift
those gates and hopefully one day save the world themselves thanks