Wesley Joyce0:00 So I remember the first time I had seen um a park that was an old rail um corridor converted into a new park and it was in Valencia, Spain.0:11 I was there with my family, and we walked the park for probably two miles and it spilled out into the um aquarium and museum area, and it was a really beautiful park.0:20 And um, you know, then I moved to Atlanta and I see the belt line, and the same thing's happening, and I go visit my girlfriend in Dallas, um, and the Katy Trail is also an old rail corridor that's being repurposed towards the park.0:32 Um, also the high line in New York.0:35 Um, so these old rail corridors, which obviously were the the crux of why these cities were built in the first place, um, they're getting repurposed as parks.0:44 And it's really interesting to see it happening all across the world as well.0:48 Um, and that seems to be the trend in urban development and where things are going.0:53 So something I'm kind of I've been thinking about recently is what's the next um step?0:59 You know, like what's the new repurposement?1:02 Is it old?1:03 Um, like quarries.1:05 Um, you know, what they could be I you know, I have no idea, but this rail corridor and turning them into parks is obviously called like wildfire, and it's something that cities are really um proud of, and it's but it's brought a lot of attention to a lot of cities.1:22 So um, yeah, I wonder if other cities are, you know, looking at these ideas and seeing them work so well and wanting to copy them, but I'm really thinking of what the next um urban mass repurposement would be.1:36 Um, yeah, what do you guys think?1:38 Is there any like I don't know, old factories or something, or maybe an old industry that we no longer pursue that you know this buildings could get reused for because our city's landscapes are changing drastically.1:50 Um yeah, what do y'all think?
Vansh Patel0:00 Wesley, your topic's very interesting.0:02 It's something that I've actually never uh looked into or seen for myself, but I think yeah, that'd be absolutely great if we were able to repurpose old architecture and old real estate into uh beneficial things for our communities.0:18 I mean, when you look at it, real estate always has its lifespan.0:22 Uh if you look at Atlanta, for example, the old downtowns, there's so many buildings that I'm sure used to be prosperous and booming, but have died, and the real estate has a lifespan.0:34 It always tends to die.0:36 So I think if we were able to repurpose that uh into things that can benefit the community, I think by all means that would like exponentially boost uh quality of life in most places.0:52 And I think uh repurpose meant it would be cheaper than demolition and new construction.1:00 Uh construction prices are on the rise, as I'm sure you know, is a construction uh major.1:06 Uh I think repurposement would be far more of a viable option uh for old real estate and just converting it uh to make it lively again.1:18 I think we as humans have a bad habit of just leaving our tools uh where we used to work.1:25 Uh in a sense that we like to go into places and create what we like and then just leave it there.1:33 So and move on to the next thing.1:35 So I think if we were able to go back to some of the old things that we've built and repurpose them uh into new things, uh I think that would do nothing but benefit all of our communities.1:48 So great point, yeah.1:50 Another thing actually, as populations increase, uh we're running out of space.1:55 You know, uh everybody wants to live in the big town, everybody wants to live in the booming part of town.2:01 Uh some of these older parts are getting forgotten and just having that option of repurpose would would really bring that life back to those outer parts of towns.2:15 So yeah, great option.