Cities of the future

Vast mega-cities are emerging in the developing world as people migrate in search of work.

Vast mega-cities are emerging in the developing world

congested = overcrowded

You have to drive slower in the sprawl.

Musisz jechać wolniej w zabudowie miejskiej.

urban sprawl the way a city spreads into undeveloped land around it, often without planning permission

shanty towns = poor communities where the houses are built out of cheap materials like corrugated iron and plastic sheeting

without facilities such as an electricity or water supply

The ventilation shaft was sealed with a grid.

Szyb wentylacyjny był zabezpieczony kratą.

How to seal a bath

a suburb consisting of mean, roughly-constructed dwellings inhabited by poor people.

slum dwelling

rudera

infrastructure the basic facilities a town or city needs, for example: communication, transport, water, and electricity

ubiquitous = everywhere

Computers are becoming ubiquitous in our society.

glittering high-rises

And these communities are becoming in some places the majority not the minority and they're off the grid so they're not often serviced by either the social services

These shanty towns – poor communities where the houses are built out of cheap materials like corrugated iron and plastic sheeting – are often off the grid

cloud computing, ubiquitous internet, robust 5G networks etc, will transform our cities

a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.

A robust product can be one that doesn't break easily.