Alison Killing: What happens when a city runs out of room for its dead
艾莉森 基林: 当一座城市耗尽墓地时会怎样
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but potentially lucrative
但又有可能赚大钱
has outperformed the UK property market
with plots for sale to investors,
销售给投资者
about 40 percent growth.
is a market with continuous demand.
这是一个有着持久需求的市场
that really are offering this investment,
to death and dying
and the buildings within them.
以及那些身在其中的建筑
I did my first exhibition
uncomfortable to talk about,
to be quite playful,
literally engage with it.
was an interactive map of London
of the real estate in the city
the building or the cemetery --
death and burial are things
虽然死亡和埋葬
important parts of our cities.
并且是我们城市的重要部分
die in the UK each year,
will want to be buried.
大概有四分之一的想要入土为安
Western European countries,
has been aware of this for a while,
cemeteries are almost full.
are considered to be occupied forever,
people want to use that same land
人们想要利用同样的土地
reuse those graves after 50 years.
重新利用这些墓地
like, four deep,
in the same plot,
of the land that way,
will still have space to bury people
那么伦敦有希望在未来短期内
haven't been taken care of
there's no legal obligation
to provide burial space.
by private and religious organizations,
been a for-profit group
the small size of a burial plot
serious money to be made.
and start your own cemetery,
and a load of fields next to it,
a caravan park,
of making a cemetery
the value of their land
to over one million pounds.
of making profit from cemeteries,
of those burial plots
you need to maintain the burial plot --
for the next 50 years.
to make money from cemeteries.
they're run by the council
these people permission,
这些人获得了地方议会的批准
to build their cemetery.
kind of how this works:
for planning permission first.
office building for a client
and I want to convert it into an office,
to the council for permission.
how it fits in the surroundings.
like what impact is it going to have
that I've built?
like shops to the neighborhood
and the disadvantages
to build a large cemetery.
这就是如何操作的
a few people, like five or six?
比如就五六个人,又会怎样?
permission from anyone!
in the UK around burial,
is about not polluting water courses,
and make your own mini-cemetery,
who does this? Right?
and you have a large estate,
have a mausoleum on it,
a piece of land of a certain size
to start burying people on it.
of your house in the suburbs.
to try this yourself at home?
该怎样做呢?
that have guidance on their website
of burial before you can go ahead --
and put them under the patio.
a record of where the grave is.
for formal requirements.
your neighbors might not like this,
也许你的邻居不会喜欢你这样做
nothing that they can do about it.
他们几乎无法阻止你
still had that profit idea in your mind
仍然还有要赚钱的念头
you might be able to make,
the value of your house
your house at all after that.
many of our attitudes towards death.
across Europe are probably similar,
整个欧洲的情况都大概相似
have ever talked to anyone
have ever talked about this.
people give ... you know,
to make people uncomfortable
who are taking care of things for us.
and bureaucracy around things
working lives to this issue.
奉献在这些事情上的人
death fits in our cities,
and design and thought
are thinking about it --
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alison Killing - ArchitectAn architect and urban designer, Alison Killing uses journalism, filmmaking and exhibitions to help people better understand the built environment.
Why you should listen
Alison Killing is an architect and urban designer working to engage people with their built environment, via design of buildings and urban strategies, film making, exhibitions and events. She explores the relationship between death and modern architecture, looking at how cities are rebuilt after disaster.
Recent projects include Death in the City (and its first iteration, Death in Venice, which was shown as an independent event during the opening week of the Venice Architecture Biennale), a touring exhibition about death and modern architecture; work with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on better rebuilding after disaster and how to integrate relevant urban design tools into humanitarian response; and a study of financial models for arts and community projects temporarily using vacant buildings to help these projects become self-sustaining.
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