Stewart Brand: Why squatter cities are a good thing

Translator: Nika Kotnik Reviewer: Matej Divjak

Basically, there's a major demographic event going on.

V bistvu, se odvija velik demografski dogodek.

And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point

In morda je več kot 50-odstotna stopnja urbanizacije

is an economic tipping point. So the world now is a map of connectivity.

ekonomska ločnica. Svet je sedaj zemljevid povezanosti.

Včasih so bila Pariz, London in New York največja mesta.

It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest cities.

What we have now is the end of the rise of the West. That's over.

Sedaj je konec rasti Zahoda. Tega je konec.

The aggregate numbers are overwhelming.

Skupne številke so velikanske.

So what's really going on? Well, villages of the world are emptying out.

Kaj se torej dogaja? No, vasi po svetu se praznijo.

The question is, why?

Vprašanje je, zakaj?

And here's the unromantic truth -- and the city air makes you free,

in tu je neromantična resnica-- in mestni zrak te osvobodi,

they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places

so rekli v renesančni Nemčiji. Nekateri ljudje gredo v kraje

like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.

kot je Šanghaj, ampak večina jih gre v skvoterska mesta, kjer vlada estetika.

In to niso ljudje, ki jih ogroža revščina.

And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty.

They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.

To so ljudje, ki iz revščine bežijo, kolikor hitro se da.

They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers.

So glavni gradbeniki in v veliki meri, glavni oblikovalci.

Imajo domačo infrastrukturo in živahno mestno življenje.

They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.

One-sixth of the GDP in India is coming out of Mumbai.

Ena šestina BDP Indije pride iz Mumbaja.

Neprestano se nadgrajujejo, in včasih jim pomaga celo vlada.

They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.

Education is the main event that can happen in cities.

Izobrazba je glavni dogodek, ki se lahko zgodi v mestih.

What's going on in the street in Mumbai?

Kaj se dogaja na ulicah Mumbaja?

Al Gore knows. It's basically everything.

Al Gore ve. Praktično vse.

V skvoterskih mestih ni brezposelnosti. Vsi delajo.

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.

One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

Ena šestina človeštva živi tam. Kmalu bo ta delež še večji.

So here's the first punch line:

Tu je prva poanta:

cities have defused the population bomb.

mesta so ublažila populacijsko bombo.

And here's the second punch line.

In tu je še druga poanta.

To so novice iz središča mesta. Tu so še v perspektivi.

That's the news from downtown. Here it is in perspective.

Stars have shined down on earth's life for billions of years.

Zvezde so sijale dol na življenje na Zemlji več milijard let.

Now we're shining right back up.

Sedaj mi sijemo nazaj gor.

Thank you.

Hvala.