One impressive example of affordable living is the. Book the worlds first social Housing Estate it was built way back in fifteen twenty one by one of the citys wealthy citizens to provide homes for those in need since then state run organizations and charitable institutions worldwide have invested in countless Affordable Housing projects increasingly though governments are distancing themselves from this social responsibility and theyre relying on private enterprise to meet the needs. This is my life. Through my fellow so. Jewson hole has ten square meters cost around one thousand euros per boniface not much room in here. And what about washing your feet in the shower its pretty tricky. I suppose this. Is. Actually. Juice and doesnt have much alternative right now it all started when he fell into a depression after his divorce. He was too will to continue working as a catering manager and soon he couldnt pay his rent at first he camped out on friends sofas then he was homeless for a while before being offered a room by social Services Says he shares the rundown house and south london with five other men the state pays all their rents. They must be getting about five and a half thousand pounds to see almost coming closer six thousand pounds a month what used to be a true bedroom house this is only. Three hundred pounds less than what i was paying for chitral housing back and this cannot be value for money. The British Government pours around twenty five billion euros a year into rent subsidies a world record much of it goes on exorbitant rents like jane you sons some landlords hike their prices if they know the state is paying. Free market britain has long neglected social housing hard to imagine it was once the nations pride with around two hundred fifty thousand homes built per year. In twenty seventeen there were just three thousand left and that despite a rise in need. The government has Just Announced a new initiative but experts are skeptical demand they say is simply too high but the biggest improvement is the fact that people are moving out of london if we could make things better in the rest of the country so people felt they were getting what they want when that would be probably better if dealing with it. But in reality londons population increases by around one hundred twenty thousand people each year landlords can rent out flats fast regardless of how rundown or how she could they are but if you want three rooms youll have to splash out up to eight thousand euros per week and those who cant afford that have to be flexible like emily and ben theyre both employed and work in marketing but they still cant afford to rent a flat in the capital for a year theyve lived on a boat and change moorings every two weeks to avoid paying fees despite this its a huge improvement on how things used to be. No shared accommodation for the people and we paid around one thousand one hundred for that yeah for a double room per month and then shared obviously bathroom a share the toilets and there was not even a living room and live in there was also a bedroom so you get a large one in to make as much money as they can on the property. And thats what the London Renters Union is fighting the newly founded association campaigns for unlimited rental contract a cap on rents and more social housing they hand the Landlords Union a symbolic check for twenty two billion pounds which is roughly what the capitals tenants will spend on their accommodation over the coming year. They have and that was i think here better than i thought it was. A land of plenty of each and every five m. And ms. It was a curious thing and if we got back to the students ive known and conditions even things you think are going to very difficult for you i dont think so it was funny because he was like my god era accommodation may be a basic human right yet in reality and britain tenants are second class citizens owning your own four walls has long been seen as the norm here and that means no home no castle of your own and you have no rights thats still the case today tenants are often confronted with the vermin water damage and landlords who simply dont care that something jason knows well tenants here can be given two months notice no reason necessary hes supposed to move out next week but hes still hoping his appeal will be accepted and he wont have to leave. Its a struggle every single day in different ways because im devoting my time to sort this out and. The other aspects of my life is being compromised emily and ben want to stay in london for work reasons theyve transformed a desperate situation into a lifestyle choice they dont have a castle but they do have a boat the borg it cost them three hundred fifty euros a month its romantic here and of course mobile usually anyway. Last winter they can i was very sane you could a made so we ran out of water a or an out of gas like oil it was for yes so you basically just got somewhere to sleep and yeah and youve got no i mean it is that said if winter is the worst hardship they face then emily and ben are the lucky ones. Africas population is skyrocketing by twenty fifty projections say theyll be twice as many People Living on the continent as there are now and more and more of them are streaming. Into urban areas looking for work and Better Living conditions cities in africa growing faster than in any other region in the world the population boom means that in the next thirty years the continent will need around eighty five thousand he hospitals three hundred ten thousand schools and seven hundred million new apartments but whos going to build them and how. Millions of africans live in informal settlements like this one in kigali. Populations in africa cities are exploding and the continent is struggling to cope. And architects from a wonder christian but man now wants africas booming cities to flourish in this sort of moments. Where it gets difficult to reverse those trends if any of the governments of rwanda is doing a lot of efforts to provide basic services for the residents of such neighborhoods to make sure because living in safe clean but more citizen africa a first sort of the same challenges as well. From lagos to can schussler to nairobi governments are unable to manage durban ization and those moving to the city often cant afford to build proper housing or pay expensive rent so slums. Rwanda is well aware of the critical situation we are trying to establish different programs to go from this social program but also morgan to whites or to train to prepare the ground for their kind of makes it very much committed to promoting access to housing. But recent housing projects in kigali were more suited to the upper middle class fordable solutions for the masses are still missing like billy monitors training a future generation of african designers to find innovative sustainable and Affordable Solutions to the enormous need for infrastructure not only houses but hospitals and schools here in the northeast of rwanda a new Primary School is being built. Using as much local material as possible. To have a good quality index and theyre building their new reader nicely theres also this idea that the basic materials and lose focus traction in africa cannot be dolts it never got to it and you ought to for all. The thirty seven year old convince the government that building with bricks volcanic rock and locally made roof tiles is cheaper than importing expensive materials and that its worthwhile investing in local craftsman earlier more doors away people will bring in called specialized contractors to build things and leave you havent been successful so by you visiting in these people theres a chance that this could be replicated also used again here and if this report to migrate to other districts in the country its much more efficient to do it in chinas conflict as a turkish conflict as any man has studied in china where he saw megacities grow along with the challenges that come with him today hes the director of the African Design Center which opened in kigali two years ago. Eleven design graduates from eight african countries are learning here how to take on the challenge of africas enormous growth. Were trying to understand the real problems that were facing and not just browsing statistical data and say we need x. Amount of housing but. That housing for the residents of africa african city often urban living or does africa. For most africans urban living still means enduring slum conditions. Says theres a need for this new generation of african designers to come up with solutions thats going to strong belief in the things that we have this theory of trust in this country and in this continent to do things right at this particular. Can africa rise to that challenge Christian Ben amana and others are trying to make it happen. Urban planning is a huge challenge how many cities can the climate cope with and what about human health according to the u. N. And pollution now contributes to the deaths of four Million People a year so how can we keep the air in Major Population Centers clean. Cities have always had a strong appeal they offer medical care educational and Job Opportunities infrastructure and cultural institutions and other attractions is anything lacking at all yes nature but why do we need green spaces in cities. For food for example with so many people in cities it makes sense to produce food there urban gardening is popular lettuce herbs and other easy to grow greens are being cultivated on rooftops or in small plots. But not every part of the city is suitable. Plants that grow alongside busy streets are exposed to pollution. Urban green spaces can impact the climate cities account for seventy percent of global c o two emissions bad for the planet and its residents. Green leafy plants absorb Carbon Dioxide and produce oxygen. And trees and other vegetation help regulate the urban temperature they provide shade and cooling three that for ration. Plants and unpaved soil absorb water when it rains heavily our rivers overflow. And parks are places where we can rest and relax. But were not alone lots of animals have adapted to city life urban dwelling animals often have it better than their country cousins but only if they have access to plenty of green areas and trees. Many wild plants have also adjusted well to the urban jungle but they still require unpaved areas in order to grow. So green spaces in a city are good for the quality of life of all its inhabitants. In twenty ten there were already more than one billion cars on our planet and by twenty foreseen it could be as many as two million and that even though congestion is already a huge problem in fact in some cities drivers spend more than two hundred hours a year stuck in traffic jams many chinese cities have major problems but alternatives are making a comeback. This is what beijing looks like some twenty years ago china then was called the kingdom of bicycle that planners had a different idea. For decades they did everything they could to make beijing car friendly around six million vehicles now clogged zeros and highways and the kingdom of bicycles has become the capital of traffic jams. Then two years ago colorful rental bikes suddenly began appearing everywhere all you need to use one briefly is the app and they cost less than thirty euro cents per hour so anyone with a smartphone can now find a bike practically anywhere i went to find out if the new technologies encouraging people to get out of their cars. Mo bike was the first bike sharing company it launched in twenty sixteen and now claims to have two hundred million users worldwide and theres a better than. Edge first there was cutthroat competition there were over one hundred companies on the market and now there are just three or four left in you and youre not making a profit yet but were getting there bit by bit there are results in september were extraordinarily good i can tell you that much i would have got to get some help with that. One of my first questions how much are the rental bikes read being used. To some muscle when do you rent a bicycle. To do yeah well if i dont have to go more than twenty kilometers. I might go that far most beijing residents use the bikes for much shorter distances for the socalled last mile from the subway to their office or home for the first time in quite a while the number of bike journeys is growing zonda thats devices the Chinese Ministry of transport on behalf of the German Government does far off in fired up that was the positive effect of all the various bike sharing company isolating them and us and officials started rethinking things in the cities and instead of governments. Its a big discussion i mentally urban areas today all over the world the question of how we can get people to enjoy riding by ascot. Most roads in beijing have a bike lane like this and we are going to take a look now and what condition they are. In. This one is nice and why then pretty comfortable to ride on even if there are. A couple of obstacles along the way i just managed to squeeze past one calm making a turn and theres another issue too many vehicles stop a park on the bike path and then you have to swerve into the conning so a less than perfect situation. And there are other negative aspects to bike sharing like the numbers of rental bikes cluttering up streets and sidewalks or storage is now often just piled them up onto what looked like scrap heap. The bikes the City Administration has cleared and now unloaded here on the fringes of the capital every Major Chinese city has bicycle cemeteries like this one the remaining rental companies have to take back some of them nobody knows what will happen to the rest. More bike is grappling with new regulations for bike sharing in this city seven hundred fifty thousand of its bikes can be found on the streets of beijing the government wont allow them to deploy more on peak days their bikes can wreck up two million trips. Here i think many new Business Models need a phase of irrational competition but in the future this industry will become extremely environmentally friendly and sustainable. Every ride is recorded by the system not only knows how many of its bikes are being used it also has to be able to tell at a given moment where each is located just like. In the way that all rental Bicycle Companies now have to install live Monitoring Systems for their data from them is also transmitted in tandem to the government. But people like mr doom even more importantly he collects scattered rental bikes driving around the streets of john one town where beijings young i. T. Industry is located and loading them up. Mr dong brings them back to places where they need it. Like subway stations john one sees many young commuters and the subway is the hot spot for bike sharing the bike collector came to beijing from his village just a year ago he gets paid by the day for his labor in a month he can earn about six hundred euros thats about half the average wage ive got back nine in the morning is the busiest time by then everyone is in their offices the bikes are all over the place. I fill up my truck every few minutes. Our rental biogs really the solution to beijings traffic problems to find out more i take a detour in the history. District as the city modernized the old town became a symbol for backwardness for the old and the poor who lived here bicycles were a common means of transport today the charms of the old town are being rediscovered by young people and what about bikes this small shop wants to show the people of beijing that cycling can be fun customers can design their own bikes here to the i shant go. You know you can take any color you want. It took a c. V. To see which one you like solo though did the case. You know one boy a high that some customers rediscover cycling through riding rental bikes and they use them but they dont find them comfortable enough too small they dont have enough gears or only suitable for short distances and many rental bikes are in fact condition and are poorly maintained no one will use after riding the until bikes however people decide they want to buy one of their own and slowly but surely the bicycle culture is reemerging my legal court so bike sharing has acted as a catalyst helping beijing residents rediscover an important means of transport from the past now all thats needed is a sustainable plan for the traffic of the future. In creating an environmentally friendly transport system for the future a lot will depend on the efficiency of local systems and how different types of transport interconnect that developers around the globe a busy looking for solutions which in particular success in life you any of you. Getting me nasty that test lives in vilnius the capital of lithuania he doesnt need a car design he just uses the traffic. It pinpoints his location and supplies him with information on the most convenient Public Transport Services available nearby complete with timetables and connections he can also use the app for bicycle and car sharing schemes and he can pay for all these services via the app to. Declare to as uses his app every day. Yeah i think many people are using tracking the newest and largest thing in general and its especially popular amongst younger generation. The app was developed by a local startup the team program to map that compiles and centrally coordinates data. All of this is transport Services Including taxis. Its free for users. Companies like google maps also use the technology. Thats where the startup makes most of its money. Its now available in thirty cities worldwide from istanbul to jakarta to sao paulo the reason to go there was to solve their problems and those when i guess it is because we knew that transportation is some predictable on reliable its even hard for local people to understand how this system works and we wanted to launch that product and those big megacities to help to make it easier everyday life today. The authorities in jakarta gave traffic access to all the g. P. S. Data gathered by its public transport systems home to over thirty Million People its one of the most densely populated cities in the world theres no subway system those without a car check the bus the app provides detailed information the biggest challenge is to properly process the g. P. S. Signals and very nice to show that on the map hol actually recall is more so and what is that e. T. A. Expected time of arrival to the bus stop so that takes quite a lot of efforts and weve been doing this for twelve years and we still keep updating and im dating can improving the algorithms who does that. If taking the bus could be planned more efficiently more people would ditch their cars thats the theory anyway it remains to be seen if they really will twenty percent of people in vilnius use the traffic gap but it only has a population of five hundred fifty thousand and a relatively modest public transport system. In the future cities of control that want to try there was going to be a lot of problems. So city will have a platform where they will be able to see all the movement in the city and they will be even able to control their control parking slot control licenses who is driving in the city who is not in on which our switch not. Logistics services critics might worry about privacy issues but the mayor of illness has no such qualms he has a radical open data policy and has already incorporated traffics didnt pull into the cities or been planning. You saw the release date we will. Draw conclusions whether to invest more like for example to the saloons all to some public transport routes or to find some other solutions i think its still an initial stage we go into the future i think this kind of big data this is a very important for any city without it i think the planning of the searchers improvements. Although there is undeniable concern that the system can be hijacked for ulterior motives big data can help find public transport to peoples needs. And thats all for three thousand this week do drop us a line global three thousand d w dot com check us out on facebook believe Global Society see you soon take care. Of. Funny. Moment roadways your amount of europes most populous country stuff isnt. 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