Caracas, The Informal City 1/6 (9.33 of 50 min)

The first in depth documentary to tell the inside story of the new informal urban developments, this groundbreaking film explores our changing world -- the great debate over globalization, architecture and the future of our society.


"This is not a mountain full of houses, it is a house as big as a mountain."

In Caracas, the most dangerous megacity on the South-American continent, petrol is cheaper than water, yet the rich spend billions of dollars on private security only to end up behind their own barbed wire fences.

Over the last decennia, like a magnet gone mad, Venezuela's capital has drawn in millions of migrants. Now more than four out of its six million inhabitants live in self build constructions in the informal conditions of the barrios where only the laws of the strong rule.

Caracas: The Informal City is a portrait of a city that is rapidly becoming the prototype for the exploding urbanization witnessed on especially the African and South-American continents. Here a completely new socio-political and architectonic reality has been developing.

Shot in the Spring of 2007 on location in the barrios of Caracas, the slums where Comandante Chavez has his powerbase, the film provides a unique perspective on the practice of the informal city. Caracas based architects Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, founders of the Urban Think Tank.
When the concept of the city is disintegrating, as Rem Koolhaas warns us, it is up to the architect to come up with an answer. That is exactly what Brillembourg and Klumpner are after; for them the practice of the barrios directs us to the architecture's only possible future: a renewed commitment with the potential of a city build by its inhabitants.

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[SuperNuela]

@PhilippeIII este pana esta hablando de lo que empezo hace ya un tiempo a joder a caracas, pero eso no es lo que pasa en la actualidad, Colombia y Peru actualmente estan mil veces mejores que Venezuela, creeme que no necesitan venirse para aca, cambia esa mentalidad xenofobica que tienes brother, Venezuela es un pais q nace de inmigracion, antes de que digas estupideces como q seguro soy colombiano, etc, no papa! soy Venezolano, lo mas facil q hay es culpar a los demas de los errores de uno.

[estimulatorloco]

Yeah, sure, blame the immigrants, the US had more immigration and we dont have that problems. I call that lack of planning, corruption and mediocrity.

[Cotspor]

Hay si como si Estados Unidos fuera una utopia gringos pendejos ESTE ES NUESTRO PAIS Y SI NO TE GUSTA VETE

[cumanagoto]

@TheComyslayer I am not a support of Hugo Chavez; however, I can tell you this problem was there long before the arrival of Chavez’s Socialism. This is the result of apathy and ignorance on the part of those running the country and its citizens.

[turokcalde]

Qué vergüenza de ciudad. Soy Caraqueño, pero esta urbe es un desastre.

[TheComyslayer]

Behold the result of Socialism. Poverty!

[SalvazFilm]

Si Venezolanos no le compráramos cosas a los buhoneros ...

[gutnoel]

Da vergüenza ver "venezolanos" escriben aquí tan horrible de su propia tierra (el que no quiere su patria no quiere su madre) En Brasil y Mexico existen ciudades mucho más peligrosas, no lo digo yo lo dicen investigadoras serias q no estan manchadas con tildas políticas pero nunca veremos un mexicano o un brasileño hablando asi de su propio país. La pobreza se la debemos a las lacras q aquí durante décadas y nunca hicieron nada para atacar el problema y ahora sufrimos sus consecuencias.

[YakaryBestVideos]

ahh pero que rabia me da ver este video :(

[iamalittlespy]

@elito83 Muchos gracias. Soy gusto la cancion ! (Sorry for my terrible Spanish)