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Dan Barasch: A park underneath the hustle and bustle of New York City
Dan Barasch: Park ispod gužve i vreve New Yorka
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Dan Barasch i James Ramsey imaju ludi plan - izgraditi park ispunjen zelenilom, ispod New Yorka. Njih dvojica grade Lowline, podzemni zeleni prostor, veličine nogometnog terena. Grade ga na tramvajskom okretištu, zatvorenom 1948., koristeći tehnologiju koja sakuplja sunčeve zrake s površine i usmjerava ih ispod zemlje. To je park koji može bujati čak i zimi.
Dan Barasch - Strategist
Dan Barasch’s grandmother grew up in New York’s Lower East Side. Now, he’s building an underground park in her old neighborhood, where greenspace is limited. Full bio
Dan Barasch’s grandmother grew up in New York’s Lower East Side. Now, he’s building an underground park in her old neighborhood, where greenspace is limited. Full bio
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My dream is to build the world's first
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Moj san je izgraditi prvi svjetski
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underground park in New York City.
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podzemni park u New Yorku.
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Now, why would someone want
to build an underground park,
to build an underground park,
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Zašto bi netko želio
izgraditi podzemni park
izgraditi podzemni park
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and why in New York City?
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i zašto u New Yorku?
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These three tough little buggers
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Ova tri žilava klinca su,
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are, on the left, my grandmother, age five,
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slijeva, moja baka
kad joj je bilo pet godina
kad joj je bilo pet godina
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and then her sister and brother,
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te njezina sestra i brat,
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ages 11 and nine.
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u dobi od 11 i 9 godina.
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This photo was taken just before they left
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Ova fotografija je snimljena
neposredno prije
neposredno prije
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from Italy to immigrate to the United States,
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nego što su emigrirali iz Italije u SAD,
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just about a century ago.
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prije jednog stoljeća.
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And like many immigrants at the time,
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I kao mnogo imigranata tada,
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they arrived on the Lower East Side
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stigli su na Lower East Side
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in New York City
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u New York City
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and they encountered a crazy melting pot.
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i zatekli mahnito stapanje kultura.
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What was amazing about their generation
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Kod te generacije je predivno
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was that they were not only building new lives
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to što oni nisu samo
iznova gradili svoje živote
iznova gradili svoje živote
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in this new, unfamiliar area,
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u ovoj novoj, nepoznatoj sredini,
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but they were also literally building the city.
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već su i doslovno izgrađivali grad.
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I've always been fascinated by those decades
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Oduvijek su me fascinirala ta desetljeća
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and by that history,
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i ta povijest,
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and I would often beg my grandmother
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te bih često molio baku
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to tell me as many stories as possible
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da mi ispriča što više priča
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about the old New York.
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o starom New Yorku.
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But she would often just shrug it off,
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Ali ona bi samo slegnula ramenima,
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tell me to eat more meatballs, more pasta,
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rekla mi da pojedem
još ćufta, još tjestenine
još ćufta, još tjestenine
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and so I very rarely got
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i tako sam rijetko slušao
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any of the history that I wanted to hear about.
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bilo što o povijesti
o kojoj sam želio slušati.
o kojoj sam želio slušati.
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The New York City that I encountered
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New York koji sam zatekao
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felt pretty built up.
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izgledao je prilično izgrađeno.
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I always knew as a kid that I wanted
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Znao sam još od malena da želim
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to make a difference, and to somehow
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ostaviti trag i nekako
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make the world more beautiful, more interesting
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učiniti svijet ljepšim, zanimljivijim
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and more just.
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i pravednijim.
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I just didn't really know how.
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Samo što zaista nisam znao kako.
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At first, I thought I wanted to go work abroad,
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Prvo sam želio raditi u inozemstvu
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so I took a job with UNICEF in Kenya.
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pa sam prihvatio posao
pri UNICEF-u u Keniji.
pri UNICEF-u u Keniji.
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But it felt weird to me that I knew more about
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Ali, bilo mi je čudno bolje poznavati
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local Kenyan politics than the
politics of my own hometown.
politics of my own hometown.
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lokalnu politiku Kenije,
nego politiku svog rodnog grada.
nego politiku svog rodnog grada.
01:35
I took a job with the City of New York,
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Zaposlio sam se
u uredu grada New Yorka,
u uredu grada New Yorka,
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but very quickly felt frustrated
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ali vrlo brzo me isfrustrirala
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with the slowness of government bureaucracy.
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sporost državne birokracije.
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I even took a job at Google,
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Čak sam radio i u Googleu,
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where very fast I drank the Kool-Aid
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gdje sam se brzo uklopio u sredinu
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and believed almost wholeheartedly
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i gotovo svesrdno vjerovao,
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that technology could solve all social problems.
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da tehnologija može riješiti
sve društvene probleme.
sve društvene probleme.
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But I still didn't feel like I was
making the world a better place.
making the world a better place.
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Ali i dalje nisam imao osjećaj
da mijenjam svijet na bolje.
da mijenjam svijet na bolje.
01:55
It was in 2009 that my friend
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2009. godine, moj prijatelj,
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and now business partner James Ramsey
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sada i poslovni partner, James Ramsey
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alerted me to the location of a pretty spectacular site,
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skrenuo mi je pažnju na lokaciju
jednog spektakularnog mjesta,
jednog spektakularnog mjesta,
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which is this.
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to je ovo mjesto.
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This is the former trolley terminal
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Ovo je nekadašnje tramvajsko okretište
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that was the depot for passengers
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i bilo je mjesto za putnike
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traveling over the Williamsburg Bridge
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koji su prelazili most Williamsburg
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from Brooklyn to Manhattan,
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iz Brooklyna prema Manhattanu,
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and it was open between 1908 and 1948,
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te je bio otvoren između 1908. i 1948,
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just around the time when my grandparents were
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baš u vrijeme kada su moji baka i djed
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living right in the area.
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živjeli u toj sredini.
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And we learned also that the site
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Saznali smo i da je mjesto
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was entirely abandoned in 1948.
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u potpunosti napušteno 1948.
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Fascinated by this discovery,
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Fascinirani ovim otkrićem,
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we begged the authorities to draw us into the space,
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zamolili smo vlasti da nas puste
unutar tog prostora,
unutar tog prostora,
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and we finally got a tour,
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otišli smo u obilazak
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and this is what we saw.
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i evo što smo vidjeli.
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Now, this photo doesn't really do it justice.
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Ova fotografija nije vjeran prikaz.
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It's kind of hard to imagine the unbelievably magical
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Teško je zamisliti
taj nevjerojatno magičan osjećaj
taj nevjerojatno magičan osjećaj
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feeling that you have when you get in this space.
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koje imate dok ste unutra.
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It's a football field of unused land
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To je neiskorišteno zemljište
veličine nogometnog terena,
veličine nogometnog terena,
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immediately below a very crowded area of the city,
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odmah ispod vrlo naseljenog dijela grada,
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and it almost feels like you're Indiana Jones
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imate osjećaj kao da ste Indiana Jones
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on an archaeological dig,
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na arheološkoj iskopini,
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and all the details are all still there.
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a svi detalji su još tu.
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It's really pretty remarkable.
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Zaista je vrlo upečatljivo.
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Now, the site itself is located at the very heart
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Sam prostor smješten je u samom srcu
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of the Lower East Side,
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Lower East Sidea
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and today it still remains one of the most
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i danas je i dalje jedan
od najgušće naseljenih dijelova grada.
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crowded neighborhoods in the city.
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New York ima dvije trećine
zelene površine
zelene površine
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New York City has two thirds the green space
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per resident as other big cities,
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po stanovniku, u odnosu na
druge velike gradove,
druge velike gradove,
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and this neighborhood as one tenth the green space.
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a ova četvrt ima
jednu desetinu zelenog prostora.
jednu desetinu zelenog prostora.
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So we immediately started thinking about how we
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Zato smo odmah počeli razmišljati
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could take this site and turn it into something
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kako ovaj prostor pretvoriti u nešto
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that could be used for the public,
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korisno za javnost,
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but also could potentially even be green.
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ali da, po mogućnosti, ima i zelenila.
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Our plan, in a nutshell,
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Naš je plan, ukratko,
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is to draw natural sunlight underground
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dovesti sunčevu svjetlost pod zemlju,
koristeći jednostavan sustav
koji bi sakupljao svjetlost na površini,
koji bi sakupljao svjetlost na površini,
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using a simple system that
harvests sunlight above the street,
harvests sunlight above the street,
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directs it below the city sidewalks,
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preusmjeravao je ispod gradskih pločnika
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and would allow plants and trees to grow
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i tako omogućio rast biljkama i drveću
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with the light that's directed underneath.
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pomoću svjetlosti
preusmjerene u podzemlje.
preusmjerene u podzemlje.
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With this approach, you could take a site
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Ovim pristupom, možete uzeti prostor
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that looks like this today
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koji danas izgleda ovako
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and transform it into something
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i pretvoriti ga u nešto
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that looks like this.
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što izgleda ovako.
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In 2011, we first released some of these images,
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2011. godine objavili smo
neke od ovih slika
neke od ovih slika
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and what was funny was,
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i bilo je zanimljivo
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a lot of people said to us, "Oh, it kind of looks
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koliko ljudi nam je reklo:
"Oh, izgleda
"Oh, izgleda
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like the High Line underground."
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kao podzemni High Line."
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And so what our nickname ended up becoming,
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Tako smo dobili nadimak,
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and what ended up sticking,
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koji smo na kraju i zadržali,
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was the Lowline, so the Lowline was born.
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Lowline, tako je rođen Lowline.
Bilo je jasno i da ljudi zaista žele
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What was also clear was that people really wanted
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to know a lot more about how the technology
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znati mnogo više o tehnologiji,
04:01
would look and feel,
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njenom izgledu i dojmu,
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and that there was really much more interest in this
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i interes za ovo je bio veći,
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than we had ever thought possible.
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nego što bismo i pomislili da je moguće.
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So, like a crazy person, I decided to quit my job
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Stoga sam, poput luđaka,
odlučio napustiti posao
odlučio napustiti posao
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and focus entirely on this project.
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i u potpunosti se posvetiti ovom projektu.
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Here is us with our team
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Ovdje smo mi s našim timom,
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putting together a technology demonstration
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pripremajući prezentaciju tehnologije
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in a warehouse.
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u skladištu.
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Here's the underbelly of this solar canopy
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Ovo je unutrašnjost ove solarne kupole,
koju smo sagradili
kako bismo pokazali tehnologiju.
kako bismo pokazali tehnologiju.
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which we built to show the technology.
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You can see the six solar collectors at the center there.
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U središtu možete vidjeti
šest solarnih kolektora.
šest solarnih kolektora.
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And here's the full exhibit all put together
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A ovdje je cjelokupni izložak,
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in this warehouse.
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sastavljen u tom skladištu.
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You can see the solar canopy overhead,
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Možete vidjeti solarnu kupolu iznad,
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the light streaming in,
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svjetlost kako ulazi
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and this entirely live green space below.
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i ovaj, u potpunosti
zeleni prostor ispod.
zeleni prostor ispod.
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So in the course of just a few weeks,
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Za samo nekoliko tjedana,
04:37
tens of thousands of people came to see our exhibit,
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deseci tisuća ljudi
došli su vidjeti naš izložak
došli su vidjeti naš izložak
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and since that time, we've grown
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i od tada je došlo do porasta
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our numbers of supporters both locally
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među našim sljedbenicima, kako lokalno,
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and among design enthusiasts all over the world.
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tako i među dizajnerskim
entuzijastima diljem svijeta.
entuzijastima diljem svijeta.
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Here's a rendering of the neighborhood
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Ovo je prikaz četvrti
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just immediately above the Line's site,
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odmah iznad lokacije Line,
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and a rendering of how it will look
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prikaz toga kako će izgledati
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after major redevelopment that is coming
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nakon velikog renoviranja koje se sprema
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over the course of the next 10 years.
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u narednih deset godina.
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Notice how crowded the neighborhood still feels
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Vidite da četvrt i dalje izgleda natrpano
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and how there's really a lack of green space.
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i kako zaista nedostaju zelene površine.
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So what we're proposing is really something that will
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Mi predlažemo nešto što će zaista
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add one football field of green space
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dodati zelenu površinu
veličine nogometnog terena
veličine nogometnog terena
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underneath this neighborhood, but more importantly
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ispod ove četvrti, no, još važnije je
05:12
will introduce a really community-driven focus
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što će skrenuti pažnju na zajednicu
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in a rapidly gentrifying area.
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u području koje se ubrzano poboljšava.
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And right now, we're focusing very closely
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Trenutno smo usredotočeni na to
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on how we engage with the City of New York
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kako potaknuti grad New York
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on really transforming the overall ecosystem
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da zaista dođe do promjene
cjelokupnog ekosustava
cjelokupnog ekosustava
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in an integrated way.
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na integrirani način.
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Here's our rendering of how we would actually
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Ovo je naš prikaz toga kako ćemo,
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invite people into the space itself.
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zapravo, privući ljude u sami prostor.
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So here you see this iconic entrance
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Ovdje vidite ulaz,
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in which we would literally peel up the street
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gde ćemo doslovno otkriti ulicu
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and reveal the historical layers of the city,
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i pokazati povijesne slojeve grada
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and invite people into this warm underground space.
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i pozvati ljude u ovaj topli,
podzemni prostor.
podzemni prostor.
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In the middle of winter, when it's
absolutely freezing outside,
absolutely freezing outside,
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Usred zime, kada je ledeno hladno,
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the last place you'd want to go would be
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zadnje mjesto gdje biste otišli
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an outdoor space or outdoor park.
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bio bi vanjski prostor ili park.
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The Lowline would really be a four-season space
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Lowline bi zaista bio mjesto
za sva godišnja doba
za sva godišnja doba
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and a respite for the city.
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i gradska zona za predah.
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So I like to think that the Lowline actually brings
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Stoga volim misliti kako Lowline, zapravo,
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my own family's story full circle.
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zaokružuje priču moje obitelji.
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If my grandparents and my parents were really
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Ako su moji baka i djed i moji roditelji
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focused on building the city up and out,
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zaista bili usredotočeni
na građenje i proširenje grada,
na građenje i proširenje grada,
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I think my generation is focused on reclaiming
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mislim da je moja generacija usmjerena
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the spaces that we already have,
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na vraćanje prostora kojeg već imamo,
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rediscovering our shared history,
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na ponovno otkrivanje zajedničke povijesti
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and reimagining how we can make our communities
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i na ponovno osmišljavanje
kako našu zajednicu učiniti
kako našu zajednicu učiniti
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more interesting, more beautiful and more just.
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zanimljivijom, ljepšom i pravednijom.
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Thanks.
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Hvala.
06:14
(Applause)
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(Pljesak)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dan Barasch - StrategistDan Barasch’s grandmother grew up in New York’s Lower East Side. Now, he’s building an underground park in her old neighborhood, where greenspace is limited.
Why you should listen
Dan Barasch is the co-founder and executive director of the Lowline, an underground park that is being developed underneath the streets of New York City—in the Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal. In use from 1908 to 1948, this terminal is now abandoned. The Lowline will be a one-acre park in a neighborhood where greenspace is hard to come by. The project uses innovative solar technology to capture light above ground and distribute it below, making it a space that can be used in all four seasons. Once a wild idea, the project got a big boost on Kickstarter, raising more than $155,000 for its development in 2012. The project promises to be the inverse of New York's High Line.
Barasch has long known that he wanted to make a difference, but for years, wasn't quite sure how to go about doing that. Before he left his job to work fultime on the Lowline, he led strategic partnerships at PopTech; held multiple roles at Google; and worked in small business development in New York City government. He also consulted for UNICEF in Nairobi and with the 9/11 Survivors’ Fund in Washington DC. He began his career at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco, co-producing the weekly NPR show “It’s Your World.”
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