James Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities

Prevodilac: Ivana Korom Lektor: Sandra Gojic

The immersive ugliness

Preplavljujuća ružnoća

of our everyday environments in America

naših svakodnevnih okruženja u Americi

je entropija na delu.

is entropy made visible.

We can't overestimate the amount of despair

Ne možemo preceniti količinu očaja

that we are generating with places like this.

koju proizvodimo ovakvim mestima.

I najvažnije, želim da vas ubedim da moramo da se potrudimo

And mostly, I want to persuade you that we have to do better

if we're going to continue the project of civilization in America.

ako želimo da nastavimo projekat civilizovanja u Americi.

Usput, ovo ne pomaže.

By the way, this doesn't help.

(Smeh)

Nobody's having a better day down here because of that.

Nikom dan nije bolji zbog ovoga.

There are a lot of ways you can describe this.

Ima mnogo načina na koje ovo možete opisati,

You know, I like to call it "the national automobile slum."

ja volim to da zovem "nacionalni auto slam".

You can call it suburban sprawl.

Možete reći i prigradsko razlivanje.

I think it's appropriate to call it

Ja mislim da je prikladno da se zove

the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

najveće pogrešno raspoređivanje resursa u istoriji sveta.

You can call it a technosis externality clusterfuck.

Možete ga zvati tehnološko eksternalno nagomilano sranje.

And it's a tremendous problem for us.

(Smeh)

To je ogroman problem za nas.

Značajan - problem koji se ističe u vezi s ovim

The outstanding -- the salient problem about this for us

jeste taj da su ovo mesta do kojih nam nije stalo.

is that these are places that are not worth caring about.

We're going to talk about that some more.

O tome ćemo malo više da pričamo.

A sense of place:

Osećaj za mesto.

your ability to create places that are meaningful and places of quality and character

Vaša sposobnost da stvarate mesta koja su značajna

i koja poseduju kvalitet i karakter,

zavisi u potpunosti od vaše sposobnosti da definišete prostor građevinama,

depends entirely on your ability to define space with buildings,

and to employ the vocabularies, grammars,

i da upotrebite rečnike, gramatike,

syntaxes, rhythms and patterns of architecture

sintakse, ritmove i obrasce arhitekture

in order to inform us who we are.

kako biste nas informisali o tome ko smo.

The public realm in America has two roles:

Javni domen u Americi ima dve uloge:

it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life,

to je mesto boravka naše civilizacije i našeg građanskog života,

and it is the physical manifestation of the common good.

kao i fizička manifestacija javnog dobra.

And when you degrade the public realm,

I kada degradirate javni domen,

automatski ćete degradirati kvalitet svog građanskog života,

you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life

and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.

i karakter svih odredbi javnog i zajedničkog života koji se tu odvija.

Javni domen se uglavnom u Americi javlja u obliku ulica,

The public realm comes mostly in the form of the street in America

jer mi nemamo trgove ispred katedrala starih 1000 godina

because we don't have the 1,000-year-old cathedral plazas

i pijačne trgove, kao stare kulture.

and market squares of older cultures.

And your ability to define space and to create places that are worth caring about

I sposobnost da definišemo prostor i kreiramo mesta do kojih nam je stalo

all comes from a body of culture that we call the culture of civic design.

dolazi iz kulture koju mi zovemo kultura građanskog uređenja.

This is a body of knowledge, method, skill and principle

To je telo znanja, metodologije, veštine i principa

that we threw in the garbage after World War II

koje smo bacili u smeće posle Drugog svetskog rata

i odlučili da nam više nije potrebno; nećemo ga više koristiti.

and decided we don't need that anymore; we're not going to use it.

And consequently, we can see the result all around us.

I posledično, rezultat toga vidimo svuda oko nas.

Javni domen mora da nas obavesti ne samo o tome gde se nalazimo geografski,

The public realm has to inform us not only where we are geographically,

but it has to inform us where we are in our culture.

nego mora da nas obavesti gde se nalazimo u našoj kulturi.

Where we've come from, what kind of people we are, and it needs to,

Odakle dolazimo, kakvi smo ljudi i mora da -

radeći to, mora da nam pokaže kuda idemo,

by doing that, it needs to afford us a glimpse to where we're going

in order to allow us to dwell in a hopeful present.

kako bi nam dozvolio da boravimo u sadašnjici punoj nade.

And if there is one tremendous --

I ako postoji jedna ogromna -

if there is one great catastrophe about the places that we've built,

ako postoji jedna velika katastrofa u vezi s mestima koja smo izgradili,

the human environments we've made for ourselves in the last 50 years,

u vezi s ljudskim okruženjima koja smo sebi napravili u poslednjih 50 godina,

it is that it has deprived us of the ability to live in a hopeful present.

to je da su nas uskratila za sposobnost da živimo u sadašnjici punoj nade.

The environments we are living in, more typically, are like these.

Okruženja u kojima živimo, tipičnije su ovakva.

You know, this happens to be the asteroid belt of architectural garbage two miles north of my town.

Znate, ovo je prsten asteroida od arhitektonskog smeća

3km severno od mog grada.

And remember, to create a place of character and quality,

Upamtite, da biste kreirali mesto s karakterom i kvalitetom,

you have to be able to define space.

morate znati da definišete prostor.

So how is that being accomplished here?

Kako se to ovde postiže?

Ako stojite na ulazu u Wal-Mart ovde

If you stand on the apron of the Wal-Mart over here

i pokušate da pogledate Target prodavnicu ovde,

and try to look at the Target store over here,

you can't see it because of the curvature of the Earth. (Laughter)

ne možete da je vidite zbog zakrivljenosti Zemlje.

(Smeh)

That's nature's way of telling you that you're doing a poor job of defining space.

Na taj način vam priroda govori da nemate pojma da definišete prostor.

Posledično, ovo će biti mesta na kojima niko ne želi da bude.

Consequently, these will be places that nobody wants to be in.

These will be places that are not worth caring about.

To će biti mesta do kojih nam nije stalo.

We have about, you know, 38,000 places

Danas imamo, znate, oko 38 000 mesta

u Sjedinjenim Državama, do kojih nam nije stalo.

that are not worth caring about in the United States today.

When we have enough of them, we're going to have a nation that's not worth defending.

Kada ih budemo imali dovoljno, imaćemo naciju koju ne vredi braniti.

And I want you to think about that when you think about

Želim da se setite toga kada pomislite

na one mlade muškarce i žene koji se nalaze u mestima kao što je Irak

those young men and women who are over in places like Iraq,

spilling their blood in the sand,

i prolivaju svoju krv u pesak.

and ask yourself, "What is their last thought of home?"

Zapitajte se kakvo je njihovo poslednje sećanje na dom?

Nadam se da nije ivičnjak između Chuck E. Cheese i Target prodavnice!

I hope it's not the curb cut between the Chuck E. Cheese and the Target store

because that's not good enough for Americans to be spilling their blood for. (Applause)

Jer to nije dovoljan razlog da Amerikanci prolivaju svoju krv.

(Aplauz)

We need better places in this country.

Potrebna su nam bolja mesta u ovoj zemlji.

Javni prostor. Ovo je dobar javni prostor.

Public space. This is a good public space.

It's a place worth caring about. It's well defined.

To je mesto vredno pažnje. Dobro je definisano.

It is emphatically an outdoor public room.

To je nedvosmisleno otvorena javna prostorija.

It has something that is terribly important --

Ima nešto što je užasno važno -

ima nešto što se zove aktivna i propustljiva membrana oko ivice.

it has what's called an active and permeable membrane around the edge.

That's a fancy way of saying it's got shops, bars, bistros, destinations --

To je fensi način da se kaže da ima prodavnice, barove, restorančiće, lokale -

things go in and out of it. It's permeable.

stvari ulaze i izlaze iz nje. Propustljiva je.

The beer goes in and out, the waitresses go in and out,

Pivo ulazi i izlazi, konobarice ulaze i izlaze,

and that activates the center of this place and makes it a place that people want to hang out in.

i to aktivira centar ovog mesta i čini da to bude mesto gde ljudi žele da borave.

You know, in these places in other cultures,

Znate, na ova mesta u drugim kulturama

people just go there voluntarily because they like them.

ljudi jednostavno idu dobrovoljno jer im se dopadaju.

Nije nam potreban sajam zanata da bismo naterali ljude da dođu.

We don't have to have a craft fair here to get people to come here. (Laughter)

(Smeh)

You know, you don't have to have a Kwanzaa festival.

Znate, nije vam potreban Kwanzaa festival.

People just go because it's pleasurable to be there.

Ljudi idu jer je zadovoljstvo ići tamo.

But this is how we do it in the United States.

Ali mi u Sjedinjenim Državama to ovako radimo.

Verovatno najznačajniji promašaj u javnom prostoru u Americi,

Probably the most significant public space failure in America,

koji su projektovali tada vodeći arhitekti, Heri Kob i I.M. Pei:

designed by the leading architects of the day, Harry Cobb and I.M. Pei:

Boston City Hall Plaza.

trg bostonske gradske kuće.

Javno mesto koje je toliko tmurno da ni alkosi ne žele da idu tamo.

A public place so dismal that the winos don't even want to go there. (Laughter)

(Smeh)

And we can't fix it because I.M. Pei's still alive,

I ne možemo da ga popravimo, jer je I.M. Pei još uvek živ,

and every year Harvard and M.I.T. have a joint committee to repair it.

i svake godine Harvard i M.I.T. prave zajednički komitet za popravku.

And every year they fail to because they don't want to hurt I.M. Pei's feelings.

I svake godine im ne uspe, jer ne žele da povrede osećanja I.M.Peija.

This is the other side of the building.

Ovo je druga strana zgrade.

This was the winner of an international design award in, I think, 1966, something like that.

Ovo je dobilo internacionalnu nagradu za dizajn, mislim 1966. ili tako negde.

It wasn't Pei and Cobb, another firm designed this,

Druga firma je projektovala ovo, ne Pei i Kob.

but there's not enough Prozac in the world to make people feel OK about going down this block.

Ali u svetu ne postoji dovoljno Prozaka

da učini da ljudima bude okej da prođu ovim blokom.

(Smeh)

Ovo je zadnji deo bostonske gradske kuće,

This is the back of Boston City Hall,

the most important, you know, significant civic building in Albany -- excuse me -- in Boston.

najvažnije značajne javne zgrade u Albaniju - pardon - u Bostonu.

A kakva je poruka koja dolazi -

And what is the message that is coming,

kakve su reči i gramatike koje dolaze od ove zgrade

what are the vocabularies and grammars that are coming, from this building

and how is it informing us about who we are?

i kako nas informiše o tome ko smo?

This, in fact, would be a better building if we put mosaic portraits

Ovo bi ustvari bila bolja zgrada da stavimo mozaike portreta

Jozefa Staljina, Pola Pota, Sadama Huseina,

of Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein,

and all the other great despots of the 20th century on the side of the building,

i svih drugih velikih despota 20. veka, na drugu stranu,

because then we'd honestly be saying what the building is really communicating to us.

jer onda bismo iskreno rekli šta nam zgrada zaista poručuje.

Znate, da je to despotska zgrada;

You know, that it's a despotic building;

it wants us to feel like termites. (Laughter)

želi da se osećamo kao termiti.

(Smeh)

This is it on a smaller scale:

Ovo je isto to, malo manje.

Zadnji deo gradskog centra u mom gradu, Saratoga Springs, Njujork.

the back of the civic center in my town, Saratoga Springs, New York.

By the way, when I showed this slide to a group of Kiwanians in my town,

Usput, kada sam pokazao ovaj slajd grupi Kivanijanaca u mom gradu,

they all rose in indignation from their creamed chicken, (Laughter)

svi su u besu ustali od svoje filovane piletine.

(Smeh)

and they shouted at me and said,

Vikali su na mene i rekli,

"It was raining that day when you took that picture!"

"Padala je kiša kad si to fotografisao!"

Because this was perceived to be a weather problem. (Laughter)

Jer se smatralo da se ovde radi o problemu s vremenom.

(Smeh)

You know, this is a building designed like a DVD player. (Laughter)

Znate, ova je zgrada dizajnirana kao DVD plejer.

(Smeh)

Audio jack, power supply --

Ulaz za audio, struja -

(Smeh)

and look, you know these things are important architectural jobs for firms, right?

vidite, znate da su ove stvari bitni arhitektonski poslovi za biroe, zar ne?

You know, we hire firms to design these things.

Znate, mi angažujemo biroe da projektuju ove stvari.

You can see exactly what went on, three o'clock in the morning at the design meeting.

Možete tačno videti šta se dešavalo u 3 ujutru na sastanku projektnog tima.

You know, eight hours before deadline,

Znate, 8 sati pre roka,

four architects trying to get this building in on time, right?

četvoro arhitekata pokušava da završi ovu zgradu na vreme.

And they're sitting there at the long boardroom table

I sede za dugim stolom u sali za sastanke

with all the drawings, and the renderings,

sa svim crtežima i renderima

and all the Chinese food caskets are lying on the table, and --

i svim kutijama od kineske hrane koje leže po stolu i -

I mean, what was the conversation that was going on there? (Laughter)

mislim, o čemu se tu vodio razgovor?

(Smeh)

Because you know what the last word was, what the last sentence was of that meeting.

Jer znate koja je bila poslednja reč, poslednja rečenica na tom sastanku.

It was: "Fuck it." (Laughter) (Applause)

Bila je: "Zajebi ovo".

(Smeh) (Aplauz)

That -- that is the message of this form of architecture.

To je poruka ove vrste arhitekture.

The message is: We don't give a fuck! We don't give a fuck.

Poruka je: Jebe nam se! Jebe nam se.

So I went back on the nicest day of the year, just to --

Tako sam se vratio najlepšeg dana u godini da bih -

you know -- do some reality testing,

znate, samo da proverim realnost.

and in fact, he will not even go down there because (Laughter)

Ustvari, čak ni on neće da ide tamo -

(Smeh)

it's not interesting enough for his clients,

jer nije dovoljno interesantno za njegove klijente,

you know, the burglars, the muggers.

znate, provalnike, pljačkaše.

It's not civically rich enough for them to go down there.

Nije društveno dovoljno bogato da bi oni išli tamo.

OK.

OK.

The pattern of Main Street USA --

Šema Glavne ulice u SAD -

in fact, this pattern of building downtown blocks, all over the world, is fairly universal.

u stvari, ova šema građenja blokova u centrima

je svuda u svetu prilično univerzalna

It's not that complicated:

Nije tako komplikovano -

zgrade više od jednog sprata, izgrađene do ivice trotoara

buildings more than one story high, built out to the sidewalk edge,

tako da ljudi - znate, svakakvi ljudi mogu da uđu u zgradu.

so that people who are, you know, all kinds of people can get into the building.

Other activities are allowed to occur upstairs,

Druge aktivnosti mogu da se odvijaju gore,

you know, apartments, offices, and so on.

znate stanovi, kancelarije i slično.

You make provision for this activity called shopping on the ground floor.

Aktivnost koja se naziva kupovina odvija se na prizemlju.

They haven't learned that in Monterey.

To nisu naučili u Montereju.

Ako odete do ćoška tačno na glavnoj raskrsnici

If you go out to the corner right at the main intersection right in front of this conference center,

pravo ispred ovog konferencijskog centra,

you'll see an intersection with four blank walls on every corner.

videćete raskrsnicu sa četiri prazna zida na svakom ćošku.

It's really incredible.

To je stvarno neverovatno.

Anyway, this is how you compose and assemble a downtown business building,

Kako god, ovako osmišljavate i sastavljate poslovnu zgradu u centru,

and this is what happened when in Glens Falls, New York,

a ovo se desilo u Glens Folsu u Njujorku,

when we tried to do it again, where it was missing, right?

kada smo pokušali da to ponovimo, gde je nedostajalo.

So the first thing they do is they pop up the retail a half a story above grade to make it sporty.

Prva stvar koju urade je da podignu prodavnicu za pola sprata

kako bi izgledalo sportski.

OK. That completely destroys the relationship between the business and the sidewalk,

OK. To potpuno uništava vezu između posla i trotoara,

gde se nalaze teoretski pešaci.

where the theoretical pedestrians are. (Laughter)

(Smeh)

Of course, they'll never be there, as long as this is in that condition.

Naravno, njih tamo nikad neće biti, sve dok se ovo nalazi u takvom stanju.

Then because the relationship between the retail is destroyed,

Zatim, pošto je veza između trgovine uništena,

we pop a handicapped ramp on that,

ubacimo rampu za hendikepirane

and then to make ourselves feel better, we put a nature Band-Aid in front of it.

i onda, da bismo se osećali bolje, ubacimo prirodni flaster ispred.

And that's how we do it.

Tako mi to radimo.

I call them "nature Band-Aids" because there's a general idea in America

Zovem ih "prirodni flasteri" jer rašireno je mišljenje u Americi

that the remedy for mutilated urbanism is nature.

da je priroda lek za osakaćeni urbanizam.

And in fact, the remedy for wounded and mutilated urbanism is good urbanism, good buildings.

U stvari, lek za osakaćeni i ranjeni urbanizam

je dobar urbanizam, dobre zgrade.

Not just flower beds, not just cartoons of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Ne samo leje sa cvećem, ne samo slike Sijera Nevada planina.

Znate, to nije dovoljno dobro.

You know, that's not good enough.

We have to do good buildings.

Moramo da pravimo dobre zgrade.

The street trees have really four jobs to do and that's it:

Drveće na ulicama ima samo četiri uloge i to je to.

To spatially denote the pedestrian realm,

Da prostorno ograniče trotoarski prostor,

to protect the pedestrians from the vehicles in the carriageway,

da zaštite prolaznike od vozila na kolovozu,

to filter the sunlight onto the sidewalk,

da propuštaju sunčevu svetlost na trotoar

i da omekšaju grub izgled zgrada

and to soften the hardscape of the buildings

and to create a ceiling -- a vaulted ceiling -- over the street, at its best.

i da formiraju tavanicu - zasvođenu tavanicu - iznad ulice.

And that's it. Those are the four jobs of the street trees.

I to je to. To su četiri uloge uličnog drveća.

They're not supposed to be a cartoon of the North Woods;

Ona ne treba da budu crtež Severnih šuma;

they're not supposed to be a set for "The Last of the Mohicans."

ne treba da budu scenografija za "Poslednjeg Mohikanca".

You know, one of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding

Znate, jedan od problema sa fijaskom predgrađa

je u tome što je uništio naše poimanje

of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural.

razlike između sela i grada, između urbanog i ruralnog.

They're not the same thing.

To nisu iste stvari.

I nećemo rešiti probleme urbanog tako što ćemo dovlačiti selo u grad,

And we're not going to cure the problems of the urban by dragging the country into the city,

which is what a lot of us are trying to do all the time.

što mnogi od nas pokušavaju da urade svo vreme.

Here you see it on a small scale -- the mothership has landed,

Ovde vidite umanjeno - matični brod je sleteo,

R2-D2 and C-3PO have stepped out to test the bark mulch

R2-D2 i C-3PO su izašli da testiraju površinu

to see if they can inhabit this planet. (Laughter)

da vide da li mogu da nasele planetu.

(Smeh)

A lot of this comes from the fact that the industrial city in America was such a trauma

Mnogo toga dolazi iz činjenice

da je industrijski grad u Americi bio takva trauma,

that we developed this tremendous aversion for the whole idea of the city,

da smo razvili ogromnu averziju prema celoj ideji grada,

city life, and everything connected with it.

gradskog života i prema svemu što je s tim povezano.

And so what you see fairly early, in the mid-19th century,

I ono što možete videti prilično rano, sredinom 19. veka,

is this idea that we now have to have an antidote to the industrial city,

je ideja da nam je potreban protivotrov za industrijski grad,

which is going to be life in the country for everybody.

a to je život na selu za sve ljude.

And that starts to be delivered in the form of the railroad suburb:

I to se pojavljuje u vidu železničkog predgrađa:

the country villa along the railroad line,

seoska kuća uz prugu,

which allows people to enjoy the amenity of the city,

što dozvoljava ljudima da uživaju u prijatnosti grada,

but to return to the countryside every night.

ali da se vrate na selo svake večeri.

And believe me, there were no Wal-Marts or convenience stores out there then,

I verujte mi, tada nije bilo Wal-Marta ili marketa u okolini.

so it really was a form of country living.

Znači to jeste bio oblik seoskog života.

But what happens is, of course, it mutates over the next 80 years

Ali onda se dešava da to mutira u narednih 80 godina,

and it turns into something rather insidious.

i pretvara se u nešto prilično podmuklo.

It becomes a cartoon of a country house, in a cartoon of the country.

Postaje crtać seoske kuće u crtaću od zemlje.

And that's the great non-articulated agony of suburbia

I to je ta nepovezana agonija predgrađa,

and one of the reasons that it lends itself to ridicule.

jedan od razloga što se izlaže podsmehu.

Because it hasn't delivered what it's been promising for half a century now.

Jer nije ispunilo ono što već pola veka obećava.

And these are typically the kind of dwellings we find there, you know.

Ovo je tipično stanovanje kakvo tamo vidimo, znate.

Basically, a house with nothing on the side

U osnovi to je kuća bez ičega sa strane,

because this house wants to state, emphatically,

jer ova kuća želi da nedvosmisleno izjavi

"I'm a little cabin in the woods. There's nothing on either side of me.

"Ja sam mala koliba u šumi. Ne postoji ništa s bilo koje moje strane.

I don't have any eyes on the side of my head. I can't see."

Nemam oči na glavi. Ne mogu da vidim."

Znači imate ovu poslednju fasadu kuće,

So you have this one last facade of the house,

the front, which is really a cartoon of a facade of a house.

prednji deo, što je u stvari crtež fasade kuće.

Because -- notice the porch here.

Jer - primetite ovde trem.

Unless the people that live here are Munchkins, nobody's going to be using that.

Osim ako su ljudi koji tu žive patuljci,

(Smeh)

niko ga neće koristiti.

Ovo je ustvari TV koji non stop emituje program koji se zove "Mi smo normalni".

This is really, in fact, a television broadcasting a show 24/7 called "We're Normal."

We're normal, we're normal, we're normal, we're normal, we're normal.

Normalni smo, normalni smo, normalni smo, normalni smo.

Please respect us, we're normal, we're normal, we're normal.

Molimo vas poštujte nas, normalni smo, normalni.

But we know what's going on in these houses, you know.

Ali mi znamo šta se dešava u ovim kućama, znate.

We know that little Skippy is loading his Uzi down here,

Znamo da mali Skipi ovde puni svoj uzi,

(Smeh)

getting ready for homeroom. (Laughter)

spremajući se za školu.

(Smeh)

Znamo da Heder, njegova sestra Heder, koja ima 14 godina,

We know that Heather, his sister Heather, 14 years old,

is turning tricks up here to support her drug habit.

ovde radi, da bi održavala svoju navučenost na drogu.

Because these places, these habitats,

Jer ova mesta, ove naseobine,

are inducing immense amounts of anxiety and depression in children,

proizvode ogromne količine anksioznosti i depresije kod dece,

and they don't have a lot of experience with medication.

a ona nemaju mnogo iskustva sa lekovima.

Tako često uzmu prvi koji im se nađe pri ruci.

So they take the first one that comes along, often.

These are not good enough for Americans.

Ove nisu dovoljno dobre za Amerikance.

These are the schools we are sending them to:

Ovo su škole u koje ih šaljemo:

The Hannibal Lecter Central School, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Centralna škola Hanibal Lektor,

(Smeh)

Las Vegas, Nevada.

This is a real school!

Ovo je prava škola!

You know, but there's obviously a notion that if you let the inmates of this thing out,

Znate, očigledno postoji ideja da ako pustite zatvorenike ovog mesta napolje,

that they would snatch a motorist off the street and eat his liver.

oni će zgrabiti vozača sa ulice i pojesti mu jetru.

(Smeh)

So every effort is made to keep them within the building.

Dakle svi napori se ulažu da se oni sačuvaju unutar zgrade.

Notice that nature is present. (Laughter)

Primetite da je priroda prisutna.

(Smeh)

Moraćemo da promenimo ovo ponašanje, sviđalo nam se to ili ne.

We're going to have to change this behavior whether we like it or not.

We are entering an epochal period of change in the world, and -- certainly in America

Ulazimo u epohalni period promene u svetu i - u Americi sigurno -

-- the period that will be characterized by the end of the cheap oil era.

taj period će biti obeležen kao prestanak ere jevtine nafte.

It is going to change absolutely everything.

To će promeniti apsolutno sve.

Chris asked me not to go on too long about this, and I won't,

Kris me je zamolio da ne dužim o ovome, i neću.

except to say there's not going to be a hydrogen economy.

Osim da kažem da neće postojati hidrogenska ekonomija.

Forget it. It's not going to happen.

Zaboravite. To se neće desiti.

We're going to have to do something else instead.

Moraćemo umesto toga da uradimo nešto drugo.

We're going to have to down-scale, re-scale, and re-size

Moraćemo da smanjimo i promenimo veličinu i obim

virtually everything we do in this country and we can't start soon enough to do it.

skoro svega što radimo u ovoj zemlji i već je trebalo da počnemo.

We're going to have -- (Applause) -- we're going to have to live closer to where we work.

Moraćemo da živimo bliže mestu na kom radimo.

We're going to have to live closer to each other.

Moraćemo da živimo bliže jedni drugima.

We're going have to grow more food closer to where we live.

Moraćemo da gajimo više hrane bliže mestima u kojima živimo.

Doba Cezar salate sa udaljenosti od 5km se bliži kraju.

The age of the 3,000 mile Caesar salad is coming to an end.

Moraćemo - imamo železnički sistem kog bi se Bugari stideli!

We're going to have to -- we have a railroad system that the Bulgarians would be ashamed of!

We gotta do better than that!

Moramo bolje od toga!

And we should have started two days before yesterday.

I trebalo je davno da počnemo.

We are fortunate that the new urbanists were there, for the last 10 years,

Srećni smo da su novi urbanisti poslednjih 10 godina

excavating all that information that was thrown in the garbage

iskopavali sve informacije koje su generacije naših roditelja

by our parents' generation after World War II.

bacile u smeće posle Drugog svetskog rata.

Jer to će nam biti potrebno ako ćemo da naučimo da rekonstruišemo gradove.

Because we're going to need it if we're going to learn how to reconstruct towns.

We're going to need to get back this body of methodology and principle and skill

Moraćemo da povratimo ovu metodologiju i principe i veštinu

in order to re-learn how to compose meaningful places, places that are integral,

kako bismo ponovo naučili da stvaramo mesta sa smislom - celovita mesta.

that allow -- that are living organisms in the sense that they contain all the organs of our civic life

Koja predstavljaju žive organizme u smislu

da sadrže sve organe našeg građanskog života,

and our communal life, deployed in an integral fashion.

i našeg zajedničkog života, razvijene na celovit način.

So that, you know, the residences make sense

Tako da kuće imaju smisla,

deployed in relation to the places of business, of culture and of governance.

da su razvijene u mesta za posao, kulturu, vladu.

We're going to have to re-learn what the building blocks of these things are:

Moraćemo da ponovo naučimo šta su noseći blokovi ovih stvari.

the street, the block, how to compose public space that's both large and small,

Ulica. Blok. Kako skrojiti javni prostor koji je u isto vreme velik i mali.

the courtyard, the civic square

Dvorište. Gradski trg.

I kako stvarno iskoristiti ovo.

and how to really make use of this property.

We can see some of the first ideas

Možemo videti neke od prvih ideja

for retro-fitting some of the catastrophic property that we have in America.

za poboljšanje nekih od katastrofalnih nekretnina u Americi.

Mrtvi tržni centri. Šta ćemo da uradimo s njima?

The dead malls: what are we going to do with them?

Pa, činjenica je da mnogi od njih neće preživeti.

Well, in point of fact, most of them are not going to make it.

They're not going to be retro-fitted;

Oni neće biti poboljšani;

they're going to be the salvage yards of the future.

oni će biti otpadi budućnosti.

Some of them we're going to fix, though.

Mada, neke od njih ćemo popraviti.

And we're going to fix them by imposing back on them street and block systems

Popravićemo ih tako što ćemo ponovo nametnuti sistem ulica i blokova

i vratićemo se zgradama kao normalnim doprinosima razvoju.

and returning to the building lot as the normal increment of development.

And if we're lucky, the result will be revivified town centers and neighborhood centers

I ako imamo sreće, rezultat će biti vaskrsnuće gradskih i susedskih centara

in our existing towns and cities.

u našim postojećim mestima i gradovima.

And by the way, our towns and cities are where they are, and grew where they were

Usput, naša mesta i gradovi se nalaze tamo gde se nalaze i razvijaju se tu

because they occupy all the important sites.

jer zauzimaju sva bitna mesta.

And most of them are still going to be there,

Većina njih će i dalje biti tu,

although the scale of them is probably going to be diminished.

iako će njihova veličina verovatno da se umanji.

We've got a lot of work to do.

Imamo mnogo posla.

We're not going to be rescued by the hyper-car; we're not going to be rescued by alternative fuels.

Neće nas spasiti hiper-automobil; neće nas spasiti alternativna goriva.

No amount or combination of alternative fuels

Nikakva količina ili kombinacija alternativnih goriva

is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.

nam neće dozvoliti da nastavimo da radimo to što radimo na način na koji to radimo.

We're going to have to do everything very differently.

Moraćemo da sve radimo veoma drugačije.

And America's not prepared.

Ali Amerika nije spremna.

We are sleepwalking into the future.

Mi mesečarimo u budućnost.

We're not ready for what's coming at us.

Nismo pripremljeni za ono što nam stiže.

So I urge you all to do what you can.

Zato vas pozivam da uradite ono što možete.

Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally.

Život sredinom 21. veka će se živeti lokalno.

Be prepared to be good neighbors.

Pripremite se da budete dobri susedi.

Pripremite se da nađete poziv kojim ćete biti od koristi

Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful

to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens.

svojim komšijama i sugrađanima.

Poslednja stvar - ovo me uznemirava godinama,

One final thing -- I've been very disturbed about this for years,

but I think it's particularly important for this audience.

ali mislim da je posebno važno za ovu publiku.

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as "consumers." OK?

Molim vas, molim vas prekinite da o sebi govorite kao o "potrošačima". OK?

Potrošači su drugačiji od građana.

Consumers are different than citizens.

Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties

Potrošači nemaju obaveza, odgovornosti i dužnosti

to their fellow human beings.

prema drugim ljudskim bićima.

And as long as you're using that word consumer in the public discussion,

I sve dok u javnoj diskusiji koristite reč potrošač,

you will be degrading the quality of the discussion we're having.

vi degradirate kvalitet diskusije koju vodimo.

And we're going to continue being clueless

I nastavićemo da kao neznalice

going into this very difficult future that we face.

idemo u tu veoma tešku budućnost s kojom se suočavamo.

Hvala vam mnogo.

So thank you very much.

Please go out and do what you can to make this a land full of places that are worth caring about

Molim vas idite i radite ono što možete

kako bismo imali puno mesta do kojih nam je stalo

i naciju koju bi bilo vredno braniti.

and a nation that will be worth defending. (Applause)

(Aplauz)