How can we fit more people into cities without overcrowding? Kent Larson shows off folding cars, quick-change apartments and other innovations that could make the city of the future work a lot like a small village of the past. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages at http://www.ted.com/translate. Follow TED on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to http://support.ted.com

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1. <3
2. i live in seoul ^^
3. hola
4. The Paris- Pittsburgh comparison is totally bogus because he used two totally different heights, and he didn't have the city center in the middle for P-burgh!!!
   
   Additionally unlike Paris, Pittsburgh has huge elevation varieties!!
5. Solvin' complex problems with more complexity!
6. Personalize your own cage, city people!
7. Began well, ended well, middle is a bunkum of technology
8. Stop your "everything small, independent, self-reliance, self-transport and everhthing on the first ground floor" bullshit. Fuck the bycicles. Build vertical (i.e. multifloor) buildings. THis is how you fit a lot of people into small volume. This is how you shrink distances 10-100 times and eliminate the need to transport a lot (and all other wastes also reduced 10-100 times in socialist, multifloor cities). You cannot have everything closely when you distribute all people in the first floor. You are idiots if you think so. If you do so you waste everything, starting from the lands. He manipulates us. If he was serious he would struggle for dense populations, which enable the public transport, the tramm in place of bicycle. You cannot have a tram in the 1-floor village. Again we hear about personalized bullshit. You must share to have efficient economy and fit the ecological frootprint. He talks about personal transport: bycicles and shrinked cars inplace of public trasport. He is agent of evil. We are sold ecodisaster under ecological facade.
9. In short; don't think so much of bicycling; you can be old, pregnant and/or sexy even while cycling. It's a great lifestyle if there's well connected and safe infrastructure.
10. All the people you describe use bikes on a daily basis in bicycle friendly cities around the world. I happen to live in Amsterdam, and there's ladies in pencil skirts riding bikes (although yes, pencil skirts are less popular because of the biking; but changing a cities infrastructure to allow women to wear pencil skirts is not good policy). My boss is pregnant and she bikes to work. All my ladyfriends bike with high-heels. Elderly who are not fit have an electric wheelchair for bike lanes.
11. Hmm, not so much for the elderly though. Yes, perhaps those who are healthy, but what about those who have mobility issues such as arthritis or back problems but still seek some independence and freedom? Also - women in skirts. Yes, perhaps long skirts but have you ever tried cycling in a pencil skirt or mini skirt or short dress? Or how about high heels? Or even pregnant women...? All these people require urban mobility and all their problems need to be addressed through innovative design.
12. Love the ideas from towards the end of the video. If they can do those things now, I want them now!
13. the subtitles are not that accurate.
14. electric longboards and electric bikes will be big soon
15. Wow, who is this guy. Who pays him and his team to figure all this out. And a lot of people believe there is no central control or direction in our society? The world just randomly bumps along into the future?
16. great work!
17. the way hes talking about it im sure the car will find you.
18. he states that most of the tech is available today. its only a matter of the city developers and planners to utilize them. some ARE applied these days just not in the multitude he is suggesting.
19. great ideas, but I feel they won't be plausible for at least 10-15 years, and by then, the problem will have become out of control
20. Just remember the tragedy of the commons when vandals break your shared resources.