In this video, architect Alfredo Brillembourg addresses the challenges of urbanization in the 21st century as well as the social responsibility of architects and urban planners. Taking his home city of Caracas as a starting point, he describes the complex problems that arise for cities as a result of population growth and massive social inequality. Founded in 1993 by Brillembourg and other designers and architects in Venezuela, the Urban Think Tank (U-TT) develops sustainable concepts to improve the situation of poorer, often segregated urban populations in developing countries.
“This is a dispatch from the frontlines of social transformation. It is about the urgent need to implement systemic change, to engage with our collective problems, and to explore a new territorial ecology. What’s not sustainable in this world is the amount of poverty. Urbanization is political — and we must engage the politics.”
— Alfredo Brillembourg
