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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 ....
welcome to arts twenty one this week we look into urban living. have the world s 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. we re 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 berlin s population will increase by the size of a small city over the next twenty years. but before we hear about that let s take a stroll through the international interio ....
this week on q and a, mary talks about his book president mckinley, architect of the american century. what was life like back in 1897 through 1901 in the u.s.? while i think the most important thing was that the country was burgeoning. it was expanding and poised to move to radically into the world. america is an expansionist country. we talked about james k. polk and how he expanded the country on the north american continent. but, what mckinley did was push out into the pacific and atlantic and caribbean the way another president had it. it happened because america was building and industrial base, was building economic growth and economic wherewithal, was building a navy. mckinley had a lot to do with it, but it began before him. it was gaining more and more interest in building the panama canal across central america. when we have ended up with conflict, serious conflict in the caribbean with the spanish empire, which controlled and owned cuba, it was inevitable ....
welcome to the al-jazeera news on live from our headquarters and. coming up in the next sixty minutes syrian government and strikes kill people in eastern pooter ahead of u.n. sponsored talks to find ways to end the war. on the opposition. the president. vote counting continues. how the impending trial of the turkish trader is testing u.s. turkey relations. and the tens of thousands of people evacuated and dozens of flights canceled as. volcano against. a government artillery bombardment has killed nineteen people and a rebel held on klav of syria s capital damascus that s the second such attack in forty eight hours in eastern go-to on sunday twenty three people were killed by shelling and russian airstrikes including several children well the attacks come at a key moment in the conflict a new round of u.n. backed talks to begin on tuesday aimed at ending the six and a half year war opposition groups and government representatives are jews who meet in geneva but u.n. of ....
eight hours the syrian government has bombed a rebel held on a claim of the capital damascus mine thousand people died in the attack on east and twenty three were killed on sunday meanwhile a new round of un back talks are centered again on tuesday aimed at ending the six and a half of war on diplomatic editor reports. peace talks in geneva was supposed to stop this bloodshed. but as we ve seen many times before the timetable of failed diplomacy is actually creasing the agony of the people of syria . parts of aleppo province. and the outskirts of damascus bombarded the assad government has been intensifying its own slaughter in the days and hours before talks judah s start. assad didn t leave a single corner that hasn t been destroyed if you want to fight it don t target civilians instead take on the armed groups at the front lines god willing they ll teach you a lesson briefing the u.n. security council in new york the man who s supposed to lead the talks on tuesday st ....