Constructing buildings is awful for the environment. With 60% of the world population set to live in cities by 2030, how can we make buildings…not suck?

Reporter: Beina Xu
Video Editor: Beina Xu
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read More:

Urban Sustainability Transitions in the Global South: https://link.springer.com/article/10....

Global South Urbanisms and Urban Sustainability: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...

Understanding Sustainable Architecture: https://ia801907.us.archive.org/22/it...

Global greenhouse gas emissions from residential and commercial building materials: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...

Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2019: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-st...

Tracking Buildings 2021: https://www.iea.org/reports/tracking-...

Sustainable housing and the urban poor: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

Revisiting the built environment: 10 potential development changes and paradigm shifts due to COVID-19: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

2020 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: https://globalabc.org/sites/default/f...

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
01:10 The building industry
02:12 The most energy-efficient house in Germany
05:55 Berlin’s circular house
09:36 What the future bodes