Jakarta is the world's secondlargest city and the capital of Indonesia, but it is sinking into the sea. This is the race to save it.
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Jakarta, Indonesia's MEGACITY: The World's Second Largest City
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:11 Welcome to Jakarta
2:55 'Urban planning gone horribly wrong'
3:09 History of Jakarta
3:56 Suharto comes to power
4:30 Land subsidence explained
4:56 Sinking 3x faster
5:29 Historic flooding
6:32 Raising their homes
7:15 The problems with channelization
8:34 Floodplain development
9:15 Kampungs resettlement
10:55 The rising sea
11:47 Great Garuda Sea Wall Megaproject
12:48 A New Capital: Nusantara
14:11 Questions surrounding Nusantara
15:19 A City worth saving
16:21 Piped water for all
16:58 Creating more greenspace
17:30 Building an aquatic metropolis
18:07 Floodproof homes
19:12 Tiny homes on stilts
19:44 How Kampung Tongkal was saved
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