<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Thank you David.<div>What an inspiration this TED Talk is, and he did it without mentioning the “15 minute” thing.</div><div><br></div><div>I initially was concerned about bis population projection, and wondered how he would tie that with climate adaptation.</div><div><br></div><div>Stay hopeful;</div><div>Allan</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 19, 2023, at 4:26 PM, David Walsh via craic <craic@lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><span lang="EN-US">A vision of sustainable cities (Vishaan Chakrabarti | Countdown Summit)</span><o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/vishaan_chakrabarti_a_vision_of_sustainable_housing_for_all_of_humanity?utm_source=tedcomshare&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tedspread" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">https://www.ted.com/talks/vishaan_chakrabarti_a_vision_of_sustainable_housing_for_all_of_humanity?utm_source=tedcomshare&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tedspread</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">This is an excellent talk with visuals that offer us many important insights; I like these two points:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">• The car has created a segregated landscape – we see this dominance in so much city planning.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">• How we need to be conscious of the ‘unintended consequences’ of many design decisions we make – such as accommodating cars, fire trucks.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">He offers a more humane vision for cities – how they could have character and affordability - his ideas are years ahead of the narrow perspectives of our politicians.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; 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