Man made urban living sounding like a dystopian poem 😮‍💨

@Andrewism

Жыл бұрын

coming soon to a downtown near you

@othelliusmaximus

Жыл бұрын

Like it's Thanos or sum 😂

@lilbilliam

Жыл бұрын

​@@othelliusmaximusYou could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to the city

@thelordz33

Жыл бұрын

It isn't that hard to do. It kinda is

@AnIdiotsLantern

Жыл бұрын

OMG our favorite Caribbean society critic is here!!

I went to college for urban planning, a pretty esteemed one. We learned about all these brilliant and necessary contrarian anti-capitalist thinkers, legitimate ecological integration, participatory planning, entrenched power disparity and so on. Y’know what we never learned? How to hire lawyers to fight private land developers who want to build the 10,000th plastic and paper mache "luxury" condo block. We never learned how to successfully advocate for legislation demanding greenspace gurantees. No one teaches a class on how to block a highway until funds are appropriated for local passenger rail. Newly trained urban planners know that Phoenix is an affront to rational development and Philly if a better foundation to build upon, but which is flush with cash, growing and most importantly, hiring? I earned the degree but never worked as an urban planner. Because to be so knowledgeable about what needs fixing and to be so completely defanged and disempowered to do anything is too depressing for my soft heart.

@ryanleethomas

Жыл бұрын

This is because by-in-large the built environment vocations are fueled by capital projects and advocacy for them therein. To counter them becomes counter to the expectations of one’s work. Philosophically and ethically I agree with your concern, and the dissonance comes when outside viewers acknowledge this and say, if you are challenging this status quo, what are you planning? What are you designing? What are you building? If not, why not? The vocational practice of shaping the built environment has been forcibly co-opted by the need to produce and remain productive, as a means of maintaining relevance in a capitalist world. To confront that is antithetical.

@NQSolarpunker

Жыл бұрын

i'm an urban planning/community economic development student too. You might appreciate the Sustainable Economies Law Center!

@theinternetsavedmylife

Жыл бұрын

That's not what Urban Planning is about. Sounds like you're in the wrong major then. They learn all of that in law classes or sociology or social development or similar courses. Why would they teach urban planners how to stop development? Urban planning is not activism and neither should it be about activism. Urban Planning is about the conscious design of towns and cities. Yes there's a social component to it, especially how it affects social dynamics and interaction, but pushing your leftist narrative while ignoring design would be the dearth of urban design and planning.

@ryanleethomas

Жыл бұрын

@@theinternetsavedmylife I don’t know why you would somehow think the politics of land and the environment is somehow separate from the design of places upon it? If you’re suggesting it is about the conscious design of places (cities or otherwise) then to be conscious means to imbue an understanding of political machinations into the design itself, not design apart from them. In other words, if you want to affect change as a designer of the built environment, you have to be an activist for the politics that realizes that change, whatever those politics may be. I don’t see what makes that ethos intrinsically leftist, it’s just pragmatic to understand that your designs will only get you so far, just as your activism will only get you so far; where their coordination is greater than the sun of their parts for advancing prosperous places in the future.

@ItIsTheLordWhoKeepsme

Жыл бұрын

I prefer the type of cities we have today actually. Call me stupid/crazy but I like it okay! Makes me feel like I'm a survivor in a concrete jungle, navigating the paths plied by iron mechanical beasts who don't have the slightest iota of empathy for my existence because they can't, being perceived as 'just another one' that may or may not live to see the next day and yet, here I am, surviving again, plying those paths again, being among the city. Also, I am not against solar punk. I just won't live there in my youth. It's when I'm old, I'll move because I used to live in a place that integrated solar punk when I was a child and I hated it. Made me feel like a rural villager.(No offense if you love solarpunk. I respect your opinion and you have a point).

One thing I've never liked about city planning youtube is the assumption that at best we can "reform" cities. That visions of radical transformation of the city are impossible. And they are impossible . . . if we try to impose them from above. But your anarchist urban struggle sections proves that cities can be transformed from below with deep bonds of solidarity and direct action. We just have to make it a reality. Another great one from you, Drew. You never miss.

@Andrewism

Жыл бұрын

I've noticed that as well, hope this video can open up the imagination for other possibilities too! Thanks Alki

@hcxpl1

Жыл бұрын

I mean, I agree to some degree, I'm here after all, but I don't know which channels you watch but Not Just Bikes and similar, through their more "reformist" approach gave me more hope of change in the short term for places where I live, even though Andrew does provide some of that as well but in a more limited fashion.

@greysnake2903

Жыл бұрын

@hcxpl1 Good luck with that

@otherperson

Жыл бұрын

@@zna9297 actually it is. Because a fundamental part of a healthy, ecological city is self-management--the ability for the community to manage and iterate their own spaces. There's also an emphasis on diversity rather than uniformity. The theoretical basis of soviet cities was high modernism, which this video rejects as well. It seems you have fundamentally misunderstood the video and have done what Murray Bookchin accused Howard's garden cities of doing--confused the aesthetics of a liberated cityspace for actual liberation.

@otherperson

Жыл бұрын

@@zna9297 yeah that's a picture of a "15 minute city." It is one small aspect of an overall vision of autonomous self organization. Was your girlfriend a fundamental part of the city planning of Moscow? Did she have access to the democratic control of the city? I never denied that Moscow had 15 minute neighborhoods. Just that they are not the be all end all of what makes a city "solarpunk."

I love that “the sizzle of street foods” is a part of both visions! I guess it’s about context, and about how a broader society changes what goes into food.

@abigailbaxter5530

Жыл бұрын

I love that observation!!!

@ricochet4674

7 ай бұрын

The difference might just be them being stands rather than food trucks! I’d imagine increased walkability would make a stand more profitable. Easier to find too lol.

@Badgerlust

2 ай бұрын

Who wants to smell good food mix with diesel fumes

@eliplayz22

2 ай бұрын

One of the things I remember on my trip to DC last year was the pervasive street food. Not the best, but also not the worst either (certainly tasted good to mediocre, tho)

i, um, i clicked on this thinking it was a minecraft tutorial. incredible video, and i love the concept, definitely going to look more into solarpunk!

@passionate_possum_pal

Жыл бұрын

Honestly very valid

@SketchyHippopotamus

Жыл бұрын

😂 that’s literally the best news

@rrrrrrrrrr9354

Жыл бұрын

where are the solarpunk minecraft tutorials!!

@LexYeen

Жыл бұрын

Hey, good on you for giving it a chance and finding something you didn't know you'd like!

@krwawiusz2686

Жыл бұрын

you are not alone😂

Andrew, your videos are verbal art. Each one is a twenty to forty minute long poem. I love listening to them while on walks in parks or before sleep. Thank you for that

@Andrewism

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you for your kind words!

@DavidLindes

Жыл бұрын

Well said, Kinmo. The cadence is ever captivating.

@mookinbabysealfurmittens

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! Every single one! Absolutely wonderful pieces of prose, with such beautiful imagery on screen and in your words, and beacons of hope (in particular, something I really need help to see, and reminders for). Cheers, Andrewism. ❤︎

@thomgizziz

Жыл бұрын

@@Andrewism They are also low brow nonsense that isnt thought out at all. All you are doing is wishing for the past and pretending that you can just add in the future magically even though it makes zero sense. Having the very specific jobs that people have now would destroy any semblance of this working. You are just as bad as any other dreamer that understands little and promises everything all leading to hurting others through your hubris and lies.

@trtru

9 ай бұрын

Just don't forget talk is cheap. What I have seen is more whining and people not putting money were their mouth is. Let alone them not having the skills to build these cities. From occupy Wallstreet to the zeitgeist movement and the Venus project, most of the participants were broke and had no skill sets.

Last year a neighboring street has been closed for construction. Soon after there were children playing on the sidewalks, front yards that people actually lived in and overall a calm atmosphere undisturbed by the constant noise of passing cars. There’s so much potential in cities that is usually confined to the spaces in which it doesn’t work as intended. Thanks for the hopeful message, Andrew!

@joshuaortiz2031

6 ай бұрын

Idk I played on the streets as a kid even if there were cars passing through. Cars are easy to avoid you have to be a moron to get killed by one as a pedestrian. I remember riding my bike in between cars on the streets where I grew up in a Miami suburb. My parents gave me a lot of freedom. Kids can still go play outside. Suck it up and play football on the asphalt you don't need a grassy park. Yeah you'll scrape your knees if you fall but that won't kill you. It's not like we didn't have parks close by though, we did but many times I felt it was perfectly fine to just play sports on the streets right outside my home. I'm still here today.

@btarczy5067

6 ай бұрын

@@joshuaortiz2031 Really depends on the traffic a street gets but yeah, of course one can play on the streets if it’s not constant.

@joshuaortiz2031

6 ай бұрын

@@btarczy5067 you know a big part of the issue is controlling helicopter parents that don't ever let their kids go outside and experience the world. They live in safe suburbs in nice neighborhoods where the only traffic is created by the people who live there driving in and out of the neighborhood. I'm not talking about super busy intersections of major streets or highways I'm talking about suburban roads where the speed limit is like 20-30 mph. Those streets are perfectly safe yet many parents still won't let their kids go outside and play sports on those very streets they would rather lock their kid up indoors and force them to play videogames all day long. It's sad. As someone born in the mid 80s and who grew up in the 90s and early 2000s I basically lived outside during the summer and winter school breaks I lost count of how many windows I broke throwing a football or baseball around lol. Kids today will never know what that life is like and it's depressing.

I was thinking while looking at the various artworks you showed in the video that all of these depict warmer climates and that I never see depictions of solarpunk in cold climates. And was planning on commenting that hey have you considered this and then boom, the end of the video happens where you talk about this very thing. I would love to see art made of arctic solarpunk cities. I live in Finland, ~100km south of the arctic circle, and have a hard time imagining what solarpunk could look like in my city. Maybe some day I'll learn to draw it myself.

@drphosferrous

Жыл бұрын

Lots of passive solar buildings could make it work. Im thinking of mike reynolds buildings full of gardens.

@lorenkelley1568

Жыл бұрын

Hard rock geothermal. Check out Eavor, a new geothermal company in Alberta.

@Yomanchamcru

Жыл бұрын

youtube.com/@AloshaLynov This is a channel I found recently doing super interesting stuff in cold climate. Very influenced by earthships and geodesic shenanigans, but they seem to have cool ideas being put into practice.

@bc4198

Жыл бұрын

Neat idea!

@Gusfezio

Жыл бұрын

I guess nuclear energy where renewables are not available could fit in the solarpunk way of life too

I think a small but successful solarpunk city is the first step to a solarpunk planet ☀️👍🏿

@user-ip9fp8ug5y

Жыл бұрын

I think the first step is slaughtering the capitalist pigs which rule over us

@felipecasses347

Жыл бұрын

I think a small but succesful solarpunk neighborhood isthe first step to a solarpunk planet

@drphosferrous

Жыл бұрын

An experiment that shares all data publicly so others can copy what works✊️

@drphosferrous

Жыл бұрын

@@ageoldmary workin on it. Visiting rural communes is good fun,better still if you can volounteer labor. Getting to know neighbors is golden. Andrewism vids are also good.

@wandervoltz

Жыл бұрын

....will capitalism allow it? 😢

I think you should write a book. You clearly have an artistic talent for this topic and a fan base enough to make it worth your time. I also think a book will give you enough space to fully flesh out your ideas.

@garbledsand-which2321

Жыл бұрын

Word.

@dazey8706

Жыл бұрын

OH MY GOD PLEASE

@jaylenporter7423

Жыл бұрын

I'd definitely buy that

@caid733

Жыл бұрын

I want that book!!!!!

@arielkroon

Жыл бұрын

Seriously. I'd love to have a collection of your essays (even just scripts from your "biggest hit" videos, haha)

Incredibly accurate ad for the city planning university program there, in that everyone involved in planning my city MUST have attended.

@ericrae7531

Жыл бұрын

I just finished reading the majority of "The Murray Bookchin Reader" and I wished I had seen this first. Your explanation of first and second nature are much easier to understand than his.

@Andrewism

Жыл бұрын

Bookchin can be a bit difficult to get through at times!

@solarpunkalana

Жыл бұрын

@@Andrewism I've been slogging through 'The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism' as my first Bookchin book and the difficulty of it, especially as someone who doesn't have a background in philosophy, is insane. It almost makes me want to give up on Bookchin full stop, lol. Can anyone recommend me better Bookchin books that actually depict what a communalist society could be like?

@solarthecity

Жыл бұрын

As both a city planner by profession and a longtime fan of Murray Bookchin, degrowth, Lefebvre/Harvey, etc., I have to take slight issue with this comment. Although I am obviously biased, I actually thought that that skit was the only weak part of this video (which I loved, overall). Have you ever actually seen how urban planning programs market themselves? They usually attract people to the field by portraying planners as having the power to radically transform cities in many of the ways this video describes. In my experience both in school and in my current municipality, I have never met a fellow planner who does not recognize the serious problems with our current methods of developing cities. But in reality, municipal planners cannot legally override the city's elected officials, who are often made up of either developers or otherwise pro-growth actors. What this means is that meaningful change cannot come from a municipal planning department unless there is support from elected officials. But that doesn't mean that the vast majority of planners don't realize the limitations of the current system and don't long to see meaningful changes.

Suburbs are hell for disabled people like me who can’t drive. Cities have so much potential for disabled folks for accessibility as well as so many perils for those of us with sensory processing issues. I am blessed to live very near NYC and I love it there. However all the problems you highlight in this video are definitely present there. I think Solar Punk ideas would make New York a much more livable as well as accessible city.

@whatabouttheearth

3 ай бұрын

NYC is one of the few big cities, along with Chicago, San Francisco and a few others that don't have absolute shit for public transportation. Even cities like Dallas, STL, Buffalo and LA that have one meager subway line don't really have that good of public transportation. NYC, Chicago and SF are the best I've seen in the US but it can still be a lot better. Alot of US cities hardly have any public transportation AND they're not even reasonably walkable because the periphery areas may have highways with no sidewalks and poor geography for walking without sidewalks. I think ubiquitous public transportation and walkable cities and suburbs are a big practical part of the picture, a strong part of the reimagining of a more beautiful world.

Love the focus on social relations over aesthetics. From your calming delivery, to the vision you present, your videos continue to be a great source of hope and inspiration.

@LowestofheDead

Жыл бұрын

That quote starting from 13:00 goes so hard.

As a person who studied in London for 3 years and now works in a city this video hit me in a way. Many people want to emulate city planning of the global North and call that progress while I barely hear about plans to make the city more walkable and accessible. They want more accessible toilets but with a toll, they want less garbage and homelessness but their solutions to tackle this lack forsight and heart, they want a "modern city" but demand us to show up in the soulless soul crushing offices.

as an avid sci-fi/worldbuilding fan, i was recently thinking of a world that's centered around a decolonial solar-punk "revolution" taking place in kanata (the indigenous laurentian word where 'canada' is said to have come from which is where i live). glad to see this vid uploaded, thanks once again andrew!

@OsvaldoBayerista

Жыл бұрын

cool, imagination like that it's gonna save us

You've been such a huge inspiration and resource! I'm working on a Sci Fi/Fantasy project, and in the middle of trying to conceptualize what a true Solarpunk community would look like. There's so much to consider when you're literally theorizing a new kind of society from the ground up. Especially when it's such a new concept and under represented in Western media. Finding good resources to model a city after has been a real struggle, and then this video comes out right in the middle of a research session. :) I love what you do! Keep it up

@weloopal2547

Жыл бұрын

Wow how fun! I'm really interested in solarpunk in scifi/fantasy so I got excited reading your comment. Worldbuilding Magazine is a great resource for thinking about how to create new worlds, systems, and cultures. I also recommend looking into permaculture and veganic growing. Some of Andrewisms ideas echo values in permaculture, and veganic growing is just an interesting way to re frame the way we think about how we interact with our ecology.

@bricknolty5478

Жыл бұрын

@@weloopal2547 I've been following Andrewism for about a year now! He's what made me want to rework my project as a Solarpunk setting :) Oregon State has a free Permaculture Ecourse on KZread that's really well done! The guy who teaches the course has his own channel that is highlighting Permaculture projects around the world! It's great

@weloopal2547

Жыл бұрын

@@bricknolty5478 Very cool! I'll have to check that out then thanks for recommending it ^_^

@sampanchevre

Жыл бұрын

If you don’t mind sharing, through what medium will your sci-fi/fantasy project come to life? A drawing, a poem, a book, a movie? I’m really into the concept of solarpunk filmmaking (seems like a v small micro community so far) and just looking to connect w others who might be too.

@weloopal2547

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for pointing me towards those videos. I'd researched permaculture before, and the explanations I'd seen were mostly on practical applications of how it applies to the gardens, but this series you recommended helps me look at it from a new angle. Pretty fun to think about ^_^

All I’m saying is, as an architecture student who recently wrote an essay (on Solar punk cities as architectural utopias, and how to apply them and a friend who wrote on garden cities) you’re finding bloody good research sources that we got recommended but also more and at a wider scope. I salute you,sir.

As someone who grew up in the city, I find that even very modern cities can have a lot of charm. The key for me is interwoven greenery, safety, cleanliness and public transit. Growing up in Singapore I am spoiled by the convenience of buses and trains and underpasses to avoid the rain. Yes there are roads and cars but I don’t necessarily need them. The city is safe until late at night and there are few homeless people. It’s not perfect, but it is extremely well planned and well built. Things are connected and accessible, and while you are far from ‘true nature’ the city has a lot of trees. I think there are many ways to build a good city.

A fantastic example of a proto-SolarPunk area is Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld! It was once the biggest airport in the world smack-dab in the middle of Berlin but they decided to shut it down back in the 2000s I think... However, instead of letting the area be sold off to the capitalist developers, the Berliners voted to keep the airport and airfield as it was and turn it into a MASSIVE public park! Today it's one of the best green spaces to visit and just hangout with thousands of people! You can bike, Rollerblade, walk, jog, picnic, fly kites, kite surf, dog parks, outdoor concerts and on and on ALL FOR FREE!!! Literally one of the best things about Berlin!

@karigrandii

Жыл бұрын

Wish Finland had the brains/guts/hearts to do that with Malmi airport. It is now planned to be built as commodity houses for private companies to profit of urbanisation. The airport is also very important for migrating birds but no one cares.

The intro sounds like home to me...explains a lot

one of the most important things that any city planner should focus on is the disabled any city should put the disabled at the forefront of this discussion

@qjtvaddict

Жыл бұрын

The truth is new technologies would allow the disabled to walk like normal via exoskeletons

@karigrandii

Жыл бұрын

This is why electric scooter companies need to be banned from cities. Makes it annoying for many types of disabled people to walk when the scooters are on the streets

@bigjohn5142

7 ай бұрын

why should cities and society's cater to the undesirable, the unfit, this creates a weak society, given enough time we will all be disabled if we think like this.

I'm an architect and city planner and I love this video some evolution is happening, in some cities, but way to slow. Keep spreading the word !

This is really well written, you sound downright poetic at times. Also very well researched, organized, thought out video articulating a needed vision. I feel like you've been building up to this video for a while, it's absolutely phenomenal.

Okay I finished watching now and will stop commenting as I watch. It's like you knew exactly what I needed in making this! I just got a grant to do a play/social experiment where the audience redesigns society, and I was missing specifics on cities. Not only does this give me everything I need for that section (with the sources you've included), you've put the core of what I'll be trying to get people to understand so succinctly. If a decision affects someone, they deserve to have a say in it.

I see an Andrewism drop and my headphones go in. Thank you for your work.

As someone that's recently considered putting my efforts into city planning for the people, this video was not only a great guide at a great time, but a good place to start getting direction and resources to help me move forward with my goals. As always, great content!

Thank you for the shout out, Andrew! So happy I got to draw for your channel! And amazing video, as always.

I can't think of many places more hostile to life than modern cities. Aside from being an inadequate habitat for animals and plants, they're also not built for humans to live in, but rather to work and consume in, at least here in germany.

@karigrandii

Жыл бұрын

exactly. They are nothing but machines that make us consume. Its literally impossible to not consume in cities unlike outside of them.

i don't even have words for the pure joy this video brought me 😮🌞 thank you so muchh ! it's a well of hope, ideas, possibilities, and courage to organize and change our neighborhoods, cities and world 🥰🌱🌳

I've lived most of my life in Letchworth, the world's first garden city. Its definitely a better place to live than many thanks mostly to persistent walkable areas and the presence of natural elements. The original idea of the garden city was a compromise between genuine usability and common urban design but in order to be actually implemented, more compromise was pushed and its effectively just a usual south English town but with added green space and a wider range of housing density. That range goes both ways though and while there are high density housing options, I also walked past a golf course and up a private road with a handful of mid-sized mansions on my way to school every day. The greenbelt did help limit growth but didn't stop the town from overtaking and somewhat merging with a neighbouring town, Stevenage. The greenbelt is very thin and is mostly kept in place by the presence of farmland in every direction though you can walk the entire way round in a few hours. There is still however, a massive industrial complex located near the highest density housing which lacks the green space which makes the rest of the town nicer. It is still almost entirely dependant on cars though the implementation of a one-way system makes the usually struggling town centre quite safe and offers foot and bike access to the train station. The area is highly Conservative though and there definitely isn't going to be any additional bike infrastructure put in place for the foreseeable future. I definitely didn't get everything so if I get questions, I'll answer the common ones.

Your solar punk visions with your calming voice can easily be used as guided meditations where one visualizes a happy place

This video spoke to my soul. It really feels like medicine for the daily existential dread of living in modern neoliberal society. These ideas make me hope for a better future. It inspires me, not only to create art but also to start engaging more in my community, and to put the work to achieve a society like that in my lifetime, I'm still young so it might be possible. Great video. I know I will be rewatching it and checking up the books you talked about. Instant new subscriber.

@otherperson

Жыл бұрын

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I did NOT expect the presentation of the anarchy movement in Greece at the end. Thank you so much for this. LONG LIVE EXARCHEIA 🏴‍☠️ Η αλληλεγγύη το όπλο των λαών

Wow, I am falling in love with these videos. So so cool that you shout people out at the end of the video, really living your principles

As someone who studied prehistory a lot in school, you are one of the very few on youtube I've seen who gives a nuanced understanding of human life back then. I appreciate this SO MUCH because as you obviously know, accurate knowledge of human life pre-capitalism is *imperative* if we are ever to have a post-capitalism. Most of the time when someone brings up a prehistorical thing, it makes me cringe with how wrong they are. But that never happens on this channel. (P.s. I'm being generous when I say "the very few" because I assume there are others who cover prehistory well... I just can't remember any others 🙊)

@Andrewism

Жыл бұрын

I've made my share of mistakes but I'm always striving to improve in my representation of our history!

To be fair some of the cities that tend to be "nice to visit" are the cities that tend to be awesome to live in. Since they continue the original human tradition of walkable or pedestrian-focused urban design. Cities in Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland and few others (some parts of Japan, although the earlier mentioned areas take it to the next level), tend to be great to live in because they are green, the streets are made for people & local businesses. Architecture is traditonal, & not all identical or modern. Nature: rivers, ponds, the ocean, beaches, parks, mixed-used neighborhoods/towns, not racist/misogynistic r1-zoning apocalypses (that drain cities of money on top of being polluting impractical isolting hell scaps where nothing is reachable). Distances to far for walking or cycling, are reachable not via land wasting highways/expressways, but trams & comfy trains (I'm not wasting my life having to focus on the expressway for hours. I can draw, read, use my laptop, or just enjoy the sights of farms on my way to the next town or city etc). While I loved your video, & agree with many of the points you made about the future, & past of human urban design. There are specific irl current examples of amazing cities. Not Just Bikes (& others) literally have articulated for me, as to why I've loved (proper) cities & hated (right-wing) suburbia all my life. PS: I've always thought what if modern American cities took inspirtation from traditional Indiginous North American urban planing & (my) traditional African-American escaped-enslaved & settlement design (RIP all the 50+ AA cities/town WS destroyed) when constructing walkable urban designs. I've always loved the CTA system in Chicago, to bad the legacy of redlining f_cked-up what should been something that connects equal opportunity to everyone. Similiar situation to what was & is done to AfroBrazilian peoples & Indigenous Brazilians.

@fspight28

Жыл бұрын

What are the qualities of Afro-American design? Serious question; I'm thinking in context of reurbanization of the deep south

@afrinaut3094

Жыл бұрын

@@fspight28 Besides more "modern" examples such as Tulsa aka "Black Walstreet", AfricaTown, & the 50 plus other succusful African American towns/cities in the 19th to the 20th century. I was thinking of archeological sites of the Gullah Geechie, north american maroons, & other AfricanAmerican runaway-enslaved settlements, such as ones found in swamps, coasts etc.

@ItIsTheLordWhoKeepsme

Жыл бұрын

You are right about the afro-brazilian communities. They are very traditional and are called quilombos. They were used in the past for the african slave to escape their slavery and just hang out. Slavery is abolished now so many people find them useless to keep around and gentrification ensues. Don't worry, it's reported no-one's physically hurt and their physical houses aren't destroyed. What happens is that more people that aren't afro-brazilian move in, buy houses, make businesses and they aren't quilombos anymore.

@ItIsTheLordWhoKeepsme

Жыл бұрын

As I said, they are traditional and back then in Brazil, houses used to have a huge compound for play and leisure so people just build on that space. Many people deem it useless to keep around because that space could be used to make houses for more people and businesses.

@fspight28

Жыл бұрын

@@afrinaut3094 nice what comes to mind is a circular foundation

I love your video essays so fucking much. It always brightens my day to know that thousands of others are thinking and creating on the basis of genuinely fixing our problems. That we have a means of communicating our ideas, and that through this we will realize them. Here’s to the solar punk city!

Of all the creators I follow, you are one of the most enlightened and brilliant. Thank you for consistently bringing hope.

You're doing amazing work. I'm leaving the video feeling hopeful, and also with a few ideas about some things I can do. I'm excited!

andrewism's videos consistently restore my hope for the future. they are also beautiful to listen to.

for climates and regions where our usual crops need a lot of input and change in environment to produce, we should look to indigenous knowledge and native plants. for example on southern california we can grow many native plants that indigenous people used for food and medicine in that wouldn’t require any care or irrigation if planted during the rainy season. this would be great for guerrilla gardening. it also just overall helps with the ecosystem and wildlife.

My husband just shared this with me cause I'm obsessed with solar punk, and my biggest dream is to flee urban and suburban life. I'm 7 minutes in and already screaming "YES! EXACTLY!" at my phone!

I just wanna say that as someone who spends most of their time in one of the fastest growing cities in America, I see the ugliness of neoliberal urban planning everyday. I want you to know that your videos inspire me. I often feel like the world is impossible to change, but when I watch your content I feel incredibly empowered. Not just because you’re a visionary, but because you give tangible solutions. I’ve even run a workshop at my school because of your videos. Thank you

I like your anger. You give me catharsis. You encapsulate my reasons for trying to get into the field(s).

Andrew mentions them: watch NOT JUST BIKES for some hope, with lots of info how bikes make cities liveable, with the Netherlands as main example.

As a note to your inclusion of images of the Dutch cities as examples of a well-planned: The Netherlands is in many ways incredibly neoliberal, but much how we think of walkability and public transports (and bikes, lots of bikes) in city planning, is in part thanks to bottom up action. In the third quarter of the 20th century, after rebuilding from WWII, Dutch cities became more car-centric and had less green spaces and space for pedestrians. This sparked a wave of protests from people who saw their spaces stolen by cars, and wanted safer streets, and more space for recreation, public transport, and walking/bike-riding. A common slogan was "stop kindermoord"(stop child murder) because the country had seen an increase of fatal traffic accidents with kids. That said there is still a lot to improve on. Public transport is at times pretty costly still and was mostly privatized in the 90's, car ownership and use is like in other wealthy nations way too high, the covid pandemic has led to major cuts in public transport which especially hits small towns hard (which also adds to brain drain), and workers in the sector have low wages.

@NeonNion

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I'm definitely not a Dutch person, but from what I can observe from far away, old city centers in the Netherlands have been stolen by commercial interest. I mean, just look at Amsterdam's old city centre, it's littered with brand stores and the streets look dreadful, depriveved of all life. Though, not far from the centre itself, you start to see lots of lovely streets. Is the entire public transportation in private ownership, or just partially? Also, yeah, it's unfortunate that car ownership stays high in the Netherlands, despite having fantastically liveable cities. Perhaps that's got something to do with how cars are seen as status symbols? Or maybe many just have that extra income to keep a car around for the sake of it? Personally, as a Finn, I refused to get a driver's license. Some of my relatives don't understand why, but I think they would if they had the same knowledge / experience as I have. I propably should start a blog of which I could share to my relatives, so that they too, could understand.

@Andrewism

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Thanks for sharing this tidbit of history + current context!

@KarlSnarks

Жыл бұрын

@@NeonNion Oh yeah absolutely, especially the streets around de Dam in Amsterdam are either filled with either big brand stores or very tacky tourist shops. Same goes for my own city's downtown, although the city in general isn't as pretty or quaint as some older towns (though it does have some nice jugendstil neighborhoods not far from the center). The local government also planned to pave over a street near the center with the excuse of making it more pedestrian-friendly, but it was actually an attempt at gentrification because new luxury apartments were to be built next to it, and this particular street is a very important hub for busses. As I understand it, the government regulates the routes where public transport should be used and companies that are either privately owned or part-publically owned will offer their vehicles and services. Fares differ from region to region but is regulated. So yeah it's absolutely still a mixed system. I don't think the majority of people considers cars a status symbol, it's mostly because many families indeed still have the disposable income, and there are still many situations where cars have an advantage over public transport/bike. Commercial areas away from city centers, with offices and big-box retailers i.e. are usually more easily accessible by car (though I'm not saying public transport connection with those places is necessarily bad), and industrial areas too. Same for rural places, but that doesn't usually generate much traffic anyway. My family is quite unique in that only in the last decade my mother got her drivers license, and she's still the only one of us. We never really needed one to get around, and only once or twice a year had to rely on friends/neighbors driving us somewhere. My mother's choice to get one was mostly informed by my father's reduced mobility. Personally I don't feel the immediate need to get a license, but I might do so to help out my parents a bit, and car-sharing might also be useful in certain cases. I don't want to own a car either tho. I assume Finland also has a really well-designed public transport and infrastructure? Is your refusal to get a license and own a car also based on your ideals, or more practical/personal reasons?

@NeonNion

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@@KarlSnarks Thanks for replying, always appreciate that 😊 As for my journey into an anti-car person, I really can’t remember a single tipping point, it really has been just one gradual journey. As I have gained more experience and knowledge, I have become more hostile towards personal vehicles. Seeing how they destroy our cities, our health, our and cities finances and our environment. My views have been influenced heavily by many urban planning / transit KZreadrs, including every single one mentioned in the video. On top of KZread, reading has provided me with lots of information. Since most of the urban planning channels are quite well known, I’d like to bring forth “cities4people”, who’s not very well known. His Freiburg video is worth watching, I can highly recommend it! What about transit where I live then? Well, it is good, it really is, however, the place where I live, isn’t exactly a transit paradise, as one might say. I live in Tolsa, Kirkkonummi, about 30 kilometers West of Helsinki. Trains have 30-minute headway, though this will increase to 15-minute headway once extra tracks between Leppävaara and Kauklahti have been constructed. On top of trains, we have decent bus connections with 15-minute headway during rush hours and 30-minute headway at other times. For me, that’s good enough. In Helsinki, transit is really good! I just wish there was fewer cars… RM Transit made a decent video about transit in Helsinki called: “Your Small City Can Have More Transit”. On top of theoretical knowledge, I have also made the realization that there really isn’t much I would even need a car in the first place. I can do pretty much everything by walking, biking, and using transit. For those things that would be hard without a car, I could always either ask for help, or use a delivery service of some sort. Like if I needed to move massive furniture. Though, I haven’t seen many people try to move a refrigerator by a car. About those big brand store streets, now that I think about it, the way you have it there is much better. Those spaces could one day be converted into public spaces (mini libraries, public kitchens, places where youth could gather, public workshops, local art galleries…), housing units, local stores… Here in Finland, we don’t have many shopping streets, however, we many malls… A multitude of malls. I mean, we got the biggest mall in Scandinavia, The Mall of Tripla. Hooray, I guess…? Btw, it’s one ugly ass building. (Finland isn’t officially considered a Scandinavian country) On that transit arrangement, I think we have quite a similar one. Rolling stock is owned by a separate company and then operators rents that equipment from them. Though, they all seem to be fully owned by public entities like municipalities. Quite weird if you ask me. Oh and yeah, you’re likely right. Most people probably don’t consider cars as status symbols, but I’m pretty sure there’s that small minority that does. That just came to mind after watching Not Just Bike’s video about SUVs. I think one good way to get rid of extra cars would be to pay to live car free. Cities4people has a video on that. Also, don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating for absolute ban on cars, since when used responsibly, they can have good uses. Like what you brought up. In short, my refusal to get a driver’s license comes down to not wanting to contribute to this car dystopia in any way. If I had grown up in a “solar punk” type of city, where cars would simply be tools for specific cases, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t feel any hostility towards them nor to getting a license. In that case, I would likely be where you are. Sorry, quite a messy text, but I hope you understand.

The description of the urban dystopian is so beautiful and poetic, even though the actual thing in being described is do horrid. I love that.

This is an artform now, oficially. Yer videos, a hope and a shining light for us humans trapped in cities, dying inside & out.

A solarpunk garden city would certainly be neat!

8:31 he talk about Cities like they Cell from Dragon Ball Z fusing with the other Androids. "This ain't even they final form!" Scary thing is he not wrong tho.

@Andrewism

Жыл бұрын

The cities are doing the fusion dance all over the landscape😮‍💨

That skit man - chef's kiss! 😂 "sustainable cities, where you'll learn how to grow trees on concrete skyscrapers" 😂😂😂😂

Your videos are revolutionary and visionary pamphlets for the 21st century.

Don’t mind me, just saving this for my D&D worldbuilding

Your video essays are poignant and sorely needed. Many of my beliefs were affirmed, and I discovered so much more to dream of for my community. Thank you for all your efforts and for the suave delivery of these videos.

I LOVE the idea of a solarpunk city but everything I've seen so far generally involves either warm, sunny environments or giant glass bubbles. And as I look outside all I can picture is the giant glass bubbles that would be chaos in the first winter storm and then fry me to death in the summer. Which probably means I need to both shake myself out of the winter blues and look deeper into solarpunk cities. Awesome video! Thanks.

Your writing is gorgeous, and I really appreciate your attention to detail in the subtitles-it makes it so much easier for me to keep up!

Amazing video and very necessary for the future. One thing: At 33:51 thats not Alexandros Grigoropoulos, thats Nikos Romanos, his friend of about the same age and the boy that survived of the two. The channel Escupamos la Historia is an Anarchism history channel in spanish by a Mapuche anarchist that has a video on greek anarchism where it touches on that particular story, recomend.

@Andrewism

Жыл бұрын

My mistake! And thanks for the recommendation.

@gonzalo4722

Жыл бұрын

@@Andrewism Really do chem them out, they have amazing videos on indigenous mapuche resistance and anarchism arround the world, although they only have a few videos subtitled, i think you would like them. Anarquismo en Grecia - Escupamos la Historia kzread.info/dash/bejne/rIN6xNKMlaWWkqQ.html

Something that must be addressed asap is the recyclability of solar panels. The panels currently being retired don't recycle well and add up to a massive amount of waste in landfills.

@paradoxrogue

Жыл бұрын

There are more kinds of solar panels than the most commonly seen lithium-silicon solar cells, generally the other kinds are slightly less efficient (they've had less R&D) but easier to repair and recycle. My personal favorite is the Gratzel dye-sensitized solar cell, which is made of primarily glass and anthocyanins, which can be derived from fruit juice! (usually in commercial use it is not, but it's easy to make a model Gratzel cell in a classroom setting) It might be easier to switch to industrial use of different kinds of solar cell than to recycle silicon cells.

rlly lov the emphasis on the need for a radical transformation in the base economic structure. i feel like a lot of reformist thinking doesn’t go deep enough in that way but u rlly nail it !! would love to see u do some videos on theory ^~^

there's a lot of dope stuff we can still do especially in terms of reintroducing nature into a city its something im working to do

I could listen to this man rank every single color and go in depth on why Sherwin Williams Purple is ranked C

This is the first video of yours I’ve watched, but I gotta say that I love how informative and art filled this is! I’m studying both sustainable urban planning and art in school, and i love when I see the two of them together!

Good god, your videos just get better each time. Seriously, I used to casually dismiss you as overly idealistic but you've become so damn good at showing your homework and reenforcing your points that you've brought me around. Thank you.

I am completely blown away by this video and your channel, it points out the ways or city’s need to improve while offering solutions. In many videos and articles I read that help spread information about our current struggles, I almost always find a lack of a clear call to action, leaving readers paralyzed by fear that they do not make any changes. Your videos are obviously very thought out and the writing is incredible, it made me think about how I was helping my community and living sustainably. Thank you

I really appreciate your accurate captions, thank you.

Andrewism kills the doomer inside of me with every video he releases :)

Remembering history and being proud of it is something that shouldnt be gatekept by the fact that people sufferd or continous to suffer, we need to remember the good that people did but also the bad.

Great video as always! and now I'm absolutely hyped for the art collab, i remember being in so awe at the last one!

Wow, this is the first video of yours I have watched. I clicked on it as a fan of sci-fi and expected something fun and creative. Instead, I got an incredible breakdown of how capitalism and perverse and unfair incentives have destroyed city-life - and I couldnt be happier I clicked on this video. Your way with words is incredible and inspiring!! Instant subscriber!

Your videos give me so much hope, it's almost painful. I love urban planning, infrastructure, and mass transit so much. For a while I suppressed that love because I learned how harmful all of it could be, but the solarpunk movement has truly given me a way to not only love it again, but has motivated me to actually attempt to implement it into my communities.

Majoring in Landscape and Urban Planning. Love to see this. We've got some cool allies in this next generation of designers.

36:45 I hear the easy, gentle crinkle-whoosh of my walker wheels on smooth, even ground between resting spots, my dog contentedly padding along by my side. I see benches long, wide, and sturdy enough for children and adults to nap on in comfortable peace. I smell trees and earth and native wildflowers that make the honeybees and birds happy.

First video. IMMEDIATE subscribe. Been watching an embarrassing amount of urban/ city development KZread but this was the first video/ channel that has really struck me as different. The other channels do not link the inextricable nature of capitalism and the world we find ourselves and how difficult changing policy truly is because of our economic system and the ruthless individualistic culture it fosters. Solarpunk is a great word. I want it to be as popular as Cyberpunk. Thank you for the poetry, the resources, the history, and the authors. I have some homework to do.

East Kolkata in India is the closest thing to a solarpunk city it’s truly amazing! Please look into Kolkata and its wetlands. They are almost fully selfsustainable, transport goods by bikes and non motorized small boats, have their own fully biological waste water management, grow 50-60% of their food themselves and unemployment is almost non existent. This place is also being destroyed by neoliberal capitalism and its need to grow…

✨It is so cool to see your support list getting longer. That means your brilliance is being share and it will grow! Great information, amazing art, awesome narrator/ writer..damn!💯👍🏼🦋

I really recommend reading Becky Chambers' duology of novellas called Monk and Robot. Book one is called "Psalm for the Wild Built," and second is "A Prayer for the Crown-Shy." They're fundamentally hopeful -- "hopepunk" -- looks forward at a humanity that necessarily reinvented itself in the face of its hubris. A lot of solarpunk themes are strewn throughout. Can't recommend it enough.

What timing with this video. I'll just share it everywhere people talk about Cities Skyline 2

hey!! wow thank you so much for making this video! condensing and compiling and then retelling in a clear way is shows your talent and skill!

Solarpunk is so cool! The biggest reason that it is cool is that it is both optimistic (that's why you might see it under the name hopepunk) and completely possible to build irl.

Your voice is so calming and Energetic at the same time. I love how low frequency of this video despite the heavy topic it carries 💚 definitely following

I put your videos on every night when i have trouble sleeping because you paint such a beautiful future with your videos. I use the concepts you discuss in my storytelling. You're such an inspiration to me

I've been working on a universe (third of the way through the book 100k words in) and I think I'll take solar punk and add it in. I appreciate you inspiring me. Infact this is the first video of yours I've watched and you've earned yourself a subscriber. It does tackle different types of humans systems and such and present some new ideas in the form of alien civilizations.

Beautiful work. Your research and deep reading is evident. Your passion and optimism is infectious.

Wonderful! I personally think crowdfunding and gifting buildings/land for multipurpose Solarpunk community and creativity, walkable in the middle of major innovative cities, is probably the most effective first step we can take. To create fully working accessible elements of the new postcapitalist commons, and act as hubs and beacons for a new world. I am part of a project that is trying to do exactly that. We are doing it within the nonprofit and community land trust frameworks. With a makerspace with cutting-edge tools, community flex space, vertical gardens and seed library, free cafe/theater/gallery etc. Automated for 24-hour access. The first city and space hasn't been chosen yet, but we are thinking Eugene, Oregon. The growing crowdfunding network we're building could hopefully help establish a network of spaces in all interested communities, all over the world. Let me know if you're interested~ !

@SpinningSideKick9000

4 ай бұрын

I was thinking about exactly this same idea after watching this video. I’d love to know how to contribute

Your videos give me so many ideas for my art. These ideas will be more mainstream in 10-30 years.

I love the vision and appreciate the concise delivery. I’m amazed by your channel and your work!

Hey Andrew, glad to have wandered into your channel again, ive fallen back into my obsession with my solarpunk worldbuilding project and thanks to you all the ideas are goin brr rn

Watched it immediately while making and eating breakfast. Amazing piece this one! We definitely need more of this, in the word of Lorenzo Ervin, practopian thinking 🙏I'll make sure to share it with my comrades here in Denmark.

GREAT content. Thanks for creating and putting it out on youtube. Love and respect from Istanbul.

The idea that we evolved to deal with small societies isn't wrong. Even when you look at a massive city like London or New York, it's not one giant society. It's lots of much smaller ones, that happen to be connected to lots of others in a relatively small area. There are estates, neighbourhoods, districts, boroughs. Uptowns, Midtowns and Downtowns. Chinatowns and Little Italy's. Each one is a society in its own right, distinct and separate from the rest and yet intrinsiquely linked and connected to all those around them by virtue of being in a city. They allow the people to live both lives simultaneously - to keep to the smaller societies we naturally gravitate towards and really can only cope with on a constant basis, whilst still allowing one to move far easier to another small society in a relatively tiny amount of time. To feel connected to everyone else on a far grander scale than once was possible, whilst maintaining a certain level of separation, personal and local identiy and giving us a respite from the otherwise overwhelming nature of being part of a society far bigger than we are really designed to cope with.

33:48 this is not Grigoropoulos. He is his friend, Nikos Romanos. He saw his friend shot dead by the police in 2008, then joined an anarchist group and in 2013 he and his comrades got arrested after a failed bank heist attempt. This photo is right after his arrest and torture in captivity by the police.

I totally support the idea to make reality a city based on solarpunk. A proper engineered city always seek for functionality, but we failed on sustainability. I think that maybe there can be a re-interpretarion of industrialization. Technology have given us a lot of infrastructure, but the path we are choosing is clearly cyberpunk.

The best video essay I have watched in a long, long time. Your channel is just excellent!

I cant listen to this video because its high time for car traffic

that description sounded hilarious, i looked out the windows in Canada and saw so many trees in one of the largest cities in the great blanc north... so glad I live here, thanks for that.

Thank you so much for this. I've sometimes found it difficult to square my ecosocialist and urbanist tendencies with one another, since modern (American) cities are often just beacons of capitalist rot. But, this video gives me a great starting point for how to conceptualize a better future for our cities based on egalitarian and ecological principles.

Amazingly well researched video. Here are my thoughts,sorry if they are disorganized. I'm an urban planner, and I can't help but be saddened by the disconnect between my studies where I wrote about Bookchin and Lefebvre, and my practice where I am just the technical tool of the state and capital, trying and sometimes managing to make minuscule change while the systems stay very much the same. I try to provide housing but it's gonna end up as more capital for the landlords, urban nature used to gentrify and push the poor out. Nature is treated as something completely different from the city and is sanctuarized but never restored or improved to become 3rd nature. Participatory planning is weird, because the public is completely disconnected from these issues and has been for so long pushed to go against its own interests. They defend the cars that keep them enprisonned and the landlords because they dream to become them. Local democracy is deeply corrupted by particular interests and a lack of vision makes municipalities compete each other and by destroying the most nature possible to be economically superior. All that to say, the solarpunk city cannot come from us, it will come from everyone only if everyone is convinced. So your videos are so important. 💚

Thank you, Andrew; another beautiful and well thoughtful video.

This might be the best intro I've ever heard on KZread.

Yeeeesss!! I am so looking forward to seeing all of the beautiful artwork for the next Solarpunk Art Collab!! I hope there are a ton of submissions!! I would love to support as many artist as I possibly can as I know that seeing and envisioning a Solarpunk future is crucial to creating it in the first place. Thank you Andrew for all that you do!