Welcome to arts twenty one this week we look into urban living. Half the worlds population lives in cities and the tendency is rising urban areas are densely packed reason enough to ask how people live and how we want to live our twenty one travelled around the world to find answers. We talk to Award Winning chilean architect and a handle and have enough if we do nothing they will go and leave it in slums we spoke with the collective assemble they build where no one else wants to and create stylish yet socially responsible housing. Were really interested in how you give people the tools to change the environments that are indifferent. And we look to berlin the german capital has turned into an under rado for speculators and a test. Ground for urban development again but still very mixed in the prognoses are correct berlins population will increase by the size of a small city over the next twenty years. But before we hear about that lets take a stroll through the International Interiors
A Citizens Committee and has known the Housing Project from its beginnings in two thousand and three the slum was torn down into more royal used to consist of shabby shelters some of them without windows. Residents were moved out while the quarter was redeveloped but they took part in the planning from the start the chilean state provided a seven thousand dollars subsidy for each apartment the project was a challenge for alexander out of enough and for its residents. Predict a seat on the way the architect about the project was beautiful but we had a different opinion until he explained that we could later add extensions on to the buildings that changed things i think but a first we thought the whole thing was quite ugly. So who is this man who has had an astonishing career building simple Public Housing rather than glittering high rises we meet the pritzker prize winner in his office in santiago. What motivates alexander out of him and his team studio elemental. This is what we do us
Welcome to arts twenty one this week we look into urban living. Have the worlds population lives in cities and the tendency is rising urban areas are densely packed reason enough to ask how people live and how we want to live our twenty one traveled around the world to find answers. We talk to Award Winning chilean architect and a handle on a day now if we do nothing they will go even in slums we spoke with the collective assemble they build where no one else wants to and create stylish yet socially responsible housing. Were really interested in how you give people the tools to change the environments that are indifferent. And we look to berlin the german capital has turned into an underwriter over speculators and a testing ground for urban development. But still he makes the prognoses are correct berlins population will increase by the size of a small city over the next twenty years. But before we hear about that lets take a stroll through the International Interiors show in cologne t
About the same this is all just the other live from doha also coming up pope francis wades into a centuries old conflict in chile calling for unity in the struggle for indigenous rights. Protests in the u. S. As politicians try to prevent a possible Government Shutdown on the anniversary of Donald Trumps first year in office. Will take a dive into a one of a kind cave in mexico that could help shed some light on the mayan civilization. If hell be or has freed an Opposition Leader as part of a mass release of prisoners who were jailed over antigovernment protests in two thousand and fifteen made a good in and was released with more than four hundred others getting always denied violating the law his release is part of a government drive for National Reconciliation paul brennan as more. Moronic idina is a hero to his supporters and thousands of excited well wishes to guard of honor to restore his convoy to nine miles from the Detention Center on the outskirts of his apple to his home in