Cities exist to concentrate large amounts of people into once space in order to justify the construction of major airports, which in turn, attract airplanes for the purpose of Wendover Productions to make videos on. This comment has been brought to you by Squarespace :)

@azzaid8068

6 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@oali2478

6 жыл бұрын

XD

@blizzardl

6 жыл бұрын

Canadian Plane Spotter Genius

@AdAndPlanes

6 жыл бұрын

Canadian Plane Spotter Haha!

@Marchant2

6 жыл бұрын

Cute.

Wendover 2017 - "Why Cities Are Where They Are" Wendover 2018 - "Why Cities Exist" Wendover 2019 - "Why"

@aaryanramourti3081

6 жыл бұрын

Nooo... 2019 - why cities 2020 - why why 2021 - why 2022 - wh 2023 - w 2024 - error404 'ideas not found'

@pawion

6 жыл бұрын

Wendover 2020 - "yhW"

@CrackedTubeGamer

6 жыл бұрын

Planes

@Saint_nobody

6 жыл бұрын

Simon Miller - here's why!

@DavidHdezES

6 жыл бұрын

Planes everywhere!

If you ever feel like you don’t matter, just remember: Somewhere in the world exists 1 acre of farmland for you.

@jerrylin9798

3 жыл бұрын

actually 5 acres but okay

@muhammaduqbahahmadtermizi1252

2 жыл бұрын

I want that farmland, where I can get it

@keithbox1684

2 жыл бұрын

You are on to something. Good thinking! Don't Stop!

@keithbox1684

2 жыл бұрын

@@jerrylin9798I will agree, let's all have a share!

@insertnamehere1273

2 жыл бұрын

@@muhammaduqbahahmadtermizi1252 “where can I get it”

City: exists Wendover Productions: *but WHY*

@smarthandsomekid6548

4 жыл бұрын

how has no one replied before me?

@grizzlyguy9416

4 жыл бұрын

idk

@rufodeer5421

3 жыл бұрын

Because you fat boi

@leavemealoneforawhile9494

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@leavemealoneforawhile9494

3 жыл бұрын

😂

Cologne was shown twice and replaced Frankfurt, circa. 5:21

@Crevulus

6 жыл бұрын

Labeeb Ahmad-Sanni also he just said that Paris was Europe's second biggest city with 2.2m and then said Berlin has 3.5m.

@misosong

6 жыл бұрын

lol good catch

@beagletv6054

6 жыл бұрын

Crevulus Furthermore, London isn't Europe's biggest city, it comes in at third place behind Istanbul and Moscow. Paris is merely the 9th biggest city in Europe.

@traceycherryman9768

6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@jesusgonzalez6715

6 жыл бұрын

That depends on both your definition of "city" and "Europe"

Why do we live in cities? Because of Squarespace

@DOTTORE_FOX

5 жыл бұрын

Jeff Man this time the transition was even normal 😂😂😂

@electric7487

4 жыл бұрын

r/hailcorporate

@GamingRailfanner

3 жыл бұрын

“Hello there”

@faisalofficialchannel6480

2 жыл бұрын

@@GamingRailfanner General Kenobi!

“Why do cities exist?” “Oh, that’s because of dolphins”

@xenxander

4 жыл бұрын

Farewell, and thanks for all the fish.

@confusedsoviet5937

2 жыл бұрын

Dolphins - finally my day has come

5:21 Cologne is smaller than Cologne, makes perfect sense

5:20 Today I learnt that 'Frankfurt' is spelt as 'Cologne'. xD

@Arrow5002

6 жыл бұрын

Thammarith Likittheerameth XD

@benjaminfraeyman

6 жыл бұрын

or cologne is pronounced as frankfurt

@abhiinair

6 жыл бұрын

It's just a mistake. Leave it man!!

@Thammarith

6 жыл бұрын

It's just a joke. Leave it man!!

@WJames-nq2df

6 жыл бұрын

It's just a comment. Leave it man!!

I'm surprised you didn't include Choice as a reason why people live in cities. Cites offer a variety of things to choose from: what kind of job to have, where to live, what to do for recreation -- and this gives people the feeling that they are choosing their life circumstances. There is perhaps nothing as defeating to the human spirit as having no choice. That's the reason cities are expensive: for each thing you choose to do, all the things you didn't choose to do need to be paid for too. But we're willing to pay a premium in order to have a range of options available to us. Mind you...having things to choose among means that you are one of the things other people may choose or not choose, hence cites can be lonely places.

@iLoveBoysandBerries

2 жыл бұрын

And in n out.. Only found in cities

@cabron247

2 жыл бұрын

That's pretty much the path of least resistance, you CHOOSE the easier life thus its a choice to move to a city.

@elimorozov4769

2 жыл бұрын

@@cabron247 this is overly simplistic. Specialized workers (outside of agriculture and forestry) live in cities because that is where their jobs generally are. It isn’t “least resistance,” or for an “easy life,” it is just the only thing that would make logical sense. Why drive hours a day when you can live near where your high paying, specialized job is located?

@ausis6214

Жыл бұрын

@@elimorozov4769 that kinda is "least resistance" in a way since you mentioned commute time.

I'm from Metro Manila and I did not realize how densely populated this place is until I came to visit Brisbane. Jfc it's not even a joke. The astonishing difference in population has a huge impact in the psychology of a person. Suddenly, I can breathe well, able to sleep early, wake up early, eat just enough and did not crave for more intake, and many more.

@kurotheflop

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr! I live close to Manila but I mainly stay at home here cuz of the pollution. My hometown is small, but living conditions here is a little bit better.

5:22 You put cologne where it should say Frankfurt EDIT: well this got a lot of likes lol

@DOTTORE_FOX

5 жыл бұрын

RepR | CS:GO And More! came here to say that!!!

@LawsCrown

5 жыл бұрын

*you know what happens now animator*

@derKevinio

5 жыл бұрын

plus 2nd largest city cant be paris if berlin itself has around 3million inhabitants 0.o

@havesexwyomomtonight

4 жыл бұрын

oh heck we've been bamboozled

@sicknickeroni

4 жыл бұрын

Can confirm I was about to comment that.

Cologne also known as Frankfurt with 700k

@Miquelalalaa

6 жыл бұрын

Henrique Carneiro Also known as a no go zone

@badibedix

6 жыл бұрын

I'd say thats an omage to the ungodfull A-Team movie, that made a pretty similar mistake by showing "frankfurt,germany" under a picture of the dome of cologne

@romanbaranovichi5375

6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan B. Pull your head out of your ass, I was in Koln 6 months ago, it’s the same as it was 18 years ago when I first visited, ie: safe and beautiful Don’t believe everything you see on Fox

@gourabkundu6324

6 жыл бұрын

Roman Baranovichi I mean a thousand sexual assaults happened on New Years soooooo

@SkaveRat

6 жыл бұрын

that's bullshit as well

Just got off a 12 hour night shift, all I want to do is sleep. Sees that wendover posted a new video...sleep is for the weak.

@Btt8

6 жыл бұрын

TheCanadiaKiwi what job do you do?

@Elliott2001

4 жыл бұрын

“I've always loathed the necessity of sleep. Like death, it puts even the most powerful men on their backs.” - Frank Underwood

The thumbnail is actually from Doha’s skyline. Doha is the capital of Qatar. Quite beautiful skyline.

@m3735

3 жыл бұрын

Nice 😃

@tankerkiller125

3 жыл бұрын

Other than the fact that is was probably built using slave labor.

@thegruffalo5383

3 жыл бұрын

@@tankerkiller125 what do you plan to do about that? Regardless of the fact it exists, talking about it online does nothing for the issue

@thomasmills3934

3 жыл бұрын

@@thegruffalo5383 raising awareness about the horrible human rights violations in Muslim countries does help. How else do you make change happen? By not talking about it?

@thomasmills3934

3 жыл бұрын

@@thegruffalo5383 unless your one of those who think it's ok to violate peoples rights if you dont have white skin...

Something else that I, a random American high schooler, want to mention; European cities, specifically those with mixed commercial and residential zones, are even more efficient than cities with split residential and commercial districts because then cities can expand upwards instead of outward. I think there’s a Vsauce or CGP Grey video on why some cities expand up instead of out. I’ll try to find the vid and link it here

How the hell where planes not involved in this... I was waiting for it... :(

@manhoosnick

6 жыл бұрын

Those aerial pictures...

@dumbcow7722GD

6 жыл бұрын

santinieve 1 GD!!

@ahmxtb

6 жыл бұрын

please bring the planes back1!!

@odinakazeus

6 жыл бұрын

santinieve 1 You can fly yo different cities, there

@debodatta7398

6 жыл бұрын

Another underwhelming video, come on man most of that was surface level observation and the rest were fallacies...

Cities have to exist to keep the Godzilla population thriving.

0:26 tfw when your city is the country

@arandominternetuser5203

4 жыл бұрын

I know its a late response but yes. The city is literally the country as Singapore is a city state.

@SirJeff

4 жыл бұрын

A Random Internet User ya lah :)

You said London was largest, and Paris was second largest in Europe with a population of 2.2 million, while about a minute later you showed the population of Berlin at 3.5 million so...

@Ecikardgaming

5 жыл бұрын

Actually Paris's urban area is about 12-13 millions inhabitants While berlin's is about 4,5 millions The same for London, about 13 millions inhabitants in the urban area

@francoisvillon1300

4 жыл бұрын

Moscow is 12,5+ mln not counting suburbs/ i.e. the largest city in Europe.

@douglasmcintosh464

4 жыл бұрын

Nathan Branch yeah what the fuck is wrong with this guy

@ToBeIsWasWere

4 жыл бұрын

@@francoisvillon1300 istanbul has 15 million inhabitants and yes istanbul is commonly regaded as part of europe

@taka2721

4 жыл бұрын

From what I've understood, WP was talking about cities commonly associated with Europe, without their urban areas (they gave only numbers of cities population)

*ZIPF MYSTERY INTENSIFIES*

@pfunk_1535

6 жыл бұрын

Hey, Vsauce, Michael here

@ScottMaday

6 жыл бұрын

My exact thought

@craftie7721

6 жыл бұрын

Idk man I'm feeling a little Zipffy about this one

@LovSven2011

6 жыл бұрын

ZIPF has conquered the world! What conspiracy is this?? :-D ;-P

@juanpedro1896

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Gonzalez Pareto's Law...

Now make a video about why airports exsit.

@carlislethecumbrians9135

6 жыл бұрын

Kdw Edselstein that profile picture is very intimidating I must say.

@gianfrancoiaia4677

6 жыл бұрын

Don't give him the idea......

@aaryanramourti3081

6 жыл бұрын

lol....who dosent like planes??

@risannd

6 жыл бұрын

Where Airports Located

@harrisonshepherd1538

6 жыл бұрын

OMG YES!

That motorcycle recklessly weaving through traffic at 10:32 gave me anxiety.

Let’s goooo! My teacher assigned this video for us to watch and I’ve already watched it cause hey, wendover fanboy here! Score!

@doogmann

4 жыл бұрын

education gets worst by the second

@ACE7O2

3 жыл бұрын

@@doogmann worst?

@reinatr4848

3 жыл бұрын

@@doogmann as evidenced by this comment

@hotfunbread

2 жыл бұрын

Geog 101? Doberstein? UW?

Like, why does anything exist, man?

@javiermoro9553

6 жыл бұрын

You're on to something here...

@Mr6Sinner

6 жыл бұрын

Ferguson101 It doesn’t sound familiar, but I’m intrigued...

@zolika1351

6 жыл бұрын

*VSauce existence crisis music*

@Mr6Sinner

6 жыл бұрын

Ferguson101 never watched that specific video, but I do watch AvE

@dukethotness

6 жыл бұрын

Bad day?

Shout out to Josh, the animator, by the way, the video looks great. No need for everyone to point out the one mistake in a 13 minute video that was likely just a copy & paste error that happens to everyone.

@emperorpenguin5902

6 жыл бұрын

FutureNow there was two

In Russia, the rules break you 4:55 Moscow: 12,5m residents (1) St. Petersburg: 5,3m residents (0,42), not close enough to half Novosibirsk: 1,8m residents (0,144 or 1/6), not even a half of third. Ekaterinburg: 1,5m residents (about 1/8) 11 other cities with 1m to 1,25m population (0,08 to 0,1).

@abdenacerfodil2546

5 жыл бұрын

Russia is not real .

@yuricherkasov

5 жыл бұрын

Russia is not a country, it's a prison of nations

@GolerGkA

4 жыл бұрын

Moscow's 12.5 mil is only according to official statistics. There's a lot of illegal immigrants from other countries as well as immigrants from other regions who don't change their registration, so the real figure is closer to 20m.

@KeithMetoyer

4 жыл бұрын

Yurii Cherkasov like many many other countries....

@jasonhaven7170

4 жыл бұрын

0.42 is not far from 0.5

As someone who’s moved from a rural area to a city and is struggling to understand them this video was gold

@adamerickson7605

Жыл бұрын

Stay rural dude, it's way better

@tibbers3755

Жыл бұрын

@@adamerickson7605 thats subjective

@adamerickson7605

Жыл бұрын

@tibbers3755 Yeah so is every opinion that has ever been uttered

@oakblaze433

8 ай бұрын

​@@adamerickson7605Both are fantastic! Good medium/high-density small towns are the best in my opinion, but both bigger cities and rural areas are great too!

this was very informative! glad to see youtube bringing up some quality trends

You said Paris is the second largest city in Europe, but then showed Berlin with a higher population a few minutes later. What gives?

@lpereira300

6 жыл бұрын

he showed only the population living inside Paris municipality, not the full city (that has a population around 10 million)

@snowypantha

6 жыл бұрын

Luís Pereira More like 12.4 millions.

@PaulieFetz

6 жыл бұрын

I also figured that was the case, but that's still an issue, since he's changing up parameters from metro to conurbation to municipal boundaries...I really enjoy his videos, but this one feels sloppy and contradictory at times.

Moscow and wondering why it wasn't shown on Europes most populous city: Wendover Productions: *You simply have less value*

This is inspiring, never thought of this before, thank you for making such a great video! Support from Hong Kong.

Is not moscow the biggest city in europe (if you not count Istanbul's asia side)? Correct me if Iam wrong, but between London and Moscow are few milion people.

@charliemasson4287

6 жыл бұрын

I think he is just speaking about western europe :v

@pawion

6 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_cities_by_population_within_city_limits And Paris isn't the second most populated city :/

@COYM_1908

6 жыл бұрын

MrReclaimer343 Yea wtf? I thought this guy knew geography and stuff. Moscow is definitely the biggest city in Europe.

@COYM_1908

6 жыл бұрын

And yes, if you count Istanbul as a European city, it's the biggest one. 3 biggest ones in order would be Istanbul, Moscow and London.

@Wout12345

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I've noted mistakes in his past videos, but this one is quite big ... :/

49% - Complaining about the Cologne Frankfurt mistake 49% - Complaining about the European cities list not being accurate to their qualifications 1% - Complaining about both these simultaneously 1% - Me, because I replied to comments in this video for an hour

@jicewoods5413

6 жыл бұрын

PFunk _ jice

10:40 Narrator: There are people better at making cars than you. Elon musk: *doubt*

@jacobvestergaard9097

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO he can design cars but he fucking sucks at actually living up to his promises, one being delivering the cars

@JewTube001

4 жыл бұрын

tesla aren't the best cars. neither are they produced the most efficiently.

@Matyanson

4 жыл бұрын

he doesnt physicaly build them lmao he just pays others to make a car

@zach7482

4 жыл бұрын

Is that why they died before literally any other electric car?

@kurokiiri9836

4 жыл бұрын

Zachary Reed how? I’ve seen tons of Tesla

This was great studying for my midterm, thanks for the economics review!

Istanbul and Moscow are bigger than London, and Saint Petersburg, Berlin, Madrid, Kiev and Rome are bigger than Paris. Maybe in the video you wanted to say "the bigger metropolitan/urban areas in the EU/Western Europe", that would be correct, with London and Paris closely in 1st and 2nd, with some sources indicating Paris as the first, and others London.

@lynnixvarjo9150

6 жыл бұрын

rodrigopaim82 even then Paris would be Beaten by Both Berlin and Madrid

@erickpalacios8904

6 жыл бұрын

That's probably exactly what he meant, as Madrid is: "...the third-largest city in the European Union(EU) after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU after those of London and Paris."

Editing mess up at 5:22. Cologne happens twice.

@tanhungpham3986

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@Markonim

6 жыл бұрын

Nobody expects the Cologne twice!

@GANTZ90

6 жыл бұрын

My dude... It's such a simple conclusion but the way you explain it is blowing my mind. Love your vids, so mesmerizing.

@Typersx1

6 жыл бұрын

Labeeb Ahmad-Sanni good for you? 🤷🏼‍♀️

@andrasfogarasi5014

6 жыл бұрын

Frankfurt is a hoax.

I'm born and raised in Düsseldorf and I also currently live there. I never knew it was a telco hub, I am 99% sure AT&T has absolutely no business here as they don't operate a network in Germany, Deutsche Telekom has their headquarters in Bonn, not Düsseldorf, and I have never seen any significant buildings owned by LG, Nokia or Google here.

@twinturbo9113

Жыл бұрын

A literal 3 second google search will prove you know nothing about what you’re speaking off. All I face checked was att and their European headquarters are literally in Germany. I’m not even going to waste looking up your other dumb statements.

One of the best and most conceptual videos you've made!

Not planes? What a decent surprise!

@thepack6952

6 жыл бұрын

Pigeonhead MORE PLANES but this was interesting

@Norkeys

6 жыл бұрын

KeCS1 Dank.

@DancingDeity

5 жыл бұрын

@KeCS1 no, airports exist because they're near cities.

This comment is sponsered by Squarespace

@oyonggofomocci2078

6 жыл бұрын

Squarespace wouldn't sponsor someone who doesn't know how to spell "sponsored"

@jessejamesbond6073

6 жыл бұрын

Man's gotta eat.

@RayderFun

6 жыл бұрын

One of many great catches. So much that he can recommend lube tubes and look good in the picture. U always see lovely images throughout the duration of the videos... Dont combine the last two statments

@flaggerify

6 жыл бұрын

DG2 FiFa They fucked up the spelling.

I love your videos. Your explanations are fascinating. Keep up the good work!

3:56 Detroit: Hold my beer!!

@lukazupie7220

4 жыл бұрын

There is a small city (population 18.000) in my country that was once (about 1800 years ago) bigger than London:) population was similar to today.

I was unaware that you could use the appearance of zipf's law to draw a conclusion.

What kinds of bricks are cities most commonly made of?

@pavelsarkisyan

6 жыл бұрын

im waiting for a brick video as well. ;}

5:21 _"And then the 5th is Frankfurt at roughly 700k inhabitants"_ *Wendover shows Colgne as Frankfurt* Me, as a German, screams internally

@Marco-bf4uu

5 жыл бұрын

Same lets invade these fuckers

@Brocambro1

4 жыл бұрын

@@Marco-bf4uu Forgive him in America world's geography and history are elective subjects, children are only taught American history and the history of their own state; his attempt at this subject is just an embarrassment like most people in America his geography knowledge is very flowed may be because in America there is a strong belief that the country is so good than the rest of the world and so exceptional, therefore; there is no need to know what's going on everywhere else. Most American people I know, still believe that Africa is a country. I think he went on Wikipedia and superficially gathered whatever facts people posted there to make this video. What an intellectual embarrassment for himself.

@Marco-bf4uu

4 жыл бұрын

@@Brocambro1 I didn't have even once german history in school lol we dont have that here after ww2 we just do information history and geography

@TheAyomikun

4 жыл бұрын

Brocambro1 I’m pretty sure he’s from the UK, not America

@henrythomasoswald

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheAyomikun this guy is absolutely American, have you ever heard a british accent?

Vsauce has a great video on why a ton of things are ranked in distribution by 1 over their place in a distribution graph- It's called Zipf's Law. It's actually quite fascinating!

Holy shit people we know about the Frankfurt/Cologne mistake, we don't need 80% of the comments mentioning it

@X.N.X.X.

6 жыл бұрын

Mr_NarwhaL most of the comments are people saying Istanbul is European city

@dugroz

6 жыл бұрын

HE MADE A MISTAKE!!!! OH MAN!!! MIND BLOWN!

@soeren555

6 жыл бұрын

dugroz Mate yes. He named the ninth biggest city in (the continent) Europe as the second. That's a tough thing to get wrong, especially if you partly base an argument on it. In addition to the Frankfurt/Cologne thing.

@thelongboarddude95

6 жыл бұрын

Mr_NarwhaL your argument just proves that we do. We NEED to raise awareness of this problem!!

@KaityKat117

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but did you notice he put Cologne twice?

It's weird, you speak of things I intuitively know and yet each time I see your video I am filled with wonder. When I get a better understanding of how our world works I feel so idealistic, like it is easy to transcend borders of all kinds. Keep up the good work!

I live in a city because if I lived any more suburban than I do now, I would probably go completely insane. Edit: Also, I love big international airports.

@Wendever Production:- I have become fan of your channel. All the videos are with knowledge content , new areas/subjects of research. I also like 'Curious Droid' production but would keep you some level high. Keep up the good work. There is a saying, if you spend money it decreases, however spending on knowledge and sharing it increases many fold.

Something related to cities you could do a great video on: Gentrification!

@Marchant2

6 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see a Wendover video on that subject.

@Pfhorrest

6 жыл бұрын

Gentrification is only a problem because rent is a thing. In an ownership society, your neighbors improving their property would be good for you, not bad.

@TXnine7nine

6 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily. Even in an ownership society it can be a problem. Yes your house's value goes up but so do the property taxes on that house.

@MK-ex4pb

6 жыл бұрын

santinieve 1 white people move out: white flight White people move in: gentrification

@MK-ex4pb

6 жыл бұрын

Pfhorrest if my neighbor improves his house, it means i have less shitty surroundings

Moscow is largest city in europe (~13m people), london is second with ~8,5m

What you didnt include, is that up there, Ireland is there, which has quite a low urbanization rate in comparison to other nations, and yet, I believe currently, is the second richest nation by GDP per capita

@twinturbo9113

Жыл бұрын

6th

Your voice is so clear, love it!

Cologne is Frankfurt and Paris is the second largest city in Europe with 2.2 mill, even though Berlin has 3.5 mill as mentoined later.

@nicholas2376

6 жыл бұрын

ikr WENDOVER GET YOUR INFO RIGHT

@ghost-yp8tc

6 жыл бұрын

WTomas lol ur picture

This is one of the greatest channels on KZread! Your videos are always informative and very interesting, on topics that I have previously given little thoughts to but now appreciate. Thanks for making all these videos.

This boy is genius..!!! ...I had to write a comment because i saw more than 10 of his videos. Genius..!!! Thanks for being in youtube ..you make this site much more valuable.!!

Boy, this was so good! Humans need more of this kind of videos for sure! New sub for you!

Mistake at 5:21. The graphic shows Cologne while he said Frankfurt.

@NikhilYadav-mj6wj

6 жыл бұрын

Alan Stanley Yup i noticed that too

@benjaminfraeyman

6 жыл бұрын

what if it isnt a mistake tho :3

@TheWarrior1256

6 жыл бұрын

DEMONETIZE HIM AT ONCE!

@thomasqu3663

6 жыл бұрын

Just about to say the same

@AymanTravelTransport

6 жыл бұрын

also, at 7:30 he was talking about Dusseldorf, and then showed a footage of Frankfurt!

LOVING these human geography videos. Especially those of cities. Please more! Amazing job.

Fascinating stuff, especially the parts about the ratios.

Video: Puts Cologne instead of Frankfurt Me: Immediately goes to see the comments

We’re doing this in A level geography and I cannot express how good this video is at giving further information in such a fun way! I’ve been subbed for over a year now and I’ll never let down by a video here or on hai!

You're talking about the Zipf Mystery which Vsauce has made a video about.

@tropfen

6 жыл бұрын

really great video! that mystery comes closest to what i would call god.

@user-ob3nn3th7y

6 жыл бұрын

"i cant explain it so it must be god"

@johnathonfilamonte6625

6 жыл бұрын

X7r gaming ;_; pretty much yeah, I hope people at least take one closer look before defaulting to religion in the future. It's just lazy in my opinion.

@ToriKo_

6 жыл бұрын

Lasse Samstrøm ur a... Ur a fuckin idiot

@lynniesaade4710

6 жыл бұрын

It's called a power law distribution.

best video i ve ever watched in youtube. Thank you it is a masterpiece from south Korea, Busan

@mseiksby4541

5 жыл бұрын

and dont think much about statistics nazis. istanbul? moscow? is it that important?

Just a quick realization Wendover, as I checked back to your old video, the speech was much better than recently videos, easier to hear, information is less packed, therefore it's easy getting what you're trying to convey.

I hate to be that moaner on the internet, but I don't like that you said the population of Paris was 2.2 million. Paris (officially) is the tiny, extremely densely populated core of a massive urban conurbation home to almost 11 million people. Admittedly, this is slightly higher than the population of London's urban area (closer to 10 million) so it wouldn't exactly prove your point; however, London's metro area is still roughly 2 million inhabitants higher than Paris's, which also gives a much better visualisation of their actual size. I also have to point out (sorry) that Moscow (by official size, it's technically part of Europe as is east of the Ural mountains) is home to around 3 million more people than London (also by official size). When we compare their urban areas Moscow has almost 6 million more people than London, and by metro area Moscow is still roughly 6 million larger. Edit: oh yeah, the other city populations annoy me too; official city boundaries are just too arbitrary to use whilst trying to prove a point. Once again I'm sorry and thanks for reading the whole comment.

@Pfhorrest

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm pretty sure if you include surrounding metropolitan areas LA is bigger than New York City too. There's WAY more people packed into the entire LA conurbation and all of its sprawl than in tiny little NYC.

@emardis8982

6 жыл бұрын

I was just about to make these same points! Thank you for writing this comment.

@magmagon5572

6 жыл бұрын

Pfhorrest no New York metro area is 18M, LA is 12M, they are still 1 and 2, but Phoenix only has 4M, and gets bumped down a lot

@dom7098

6 жыл бұрын

if you follow those rules, Los Angeles' population is about 19 million, and new yorks 24 million

@jicewoods5413

6 жыл бұрын

Neil Moulang for jice

Interesting video. I just finished a book about the construction and management of Ancient Rome and you hit on a lot of the same points. I find cities and their infrastructure fascinating. Having lived in Philadelphia, Hong Kong and Paris its amazing how similar things are irregardless of their country. Thnx for the video👍🏻

@Cheaze56789

5 жыл бұрын

what book?

The ratio phenomenon is known as the pareto distribution, and can be applied to anything with numerical representation. It is not exact/precise, it is a rough correlation, one that to this day, has no confirmed explanation. It's very interesting!

3:52 Moscow: "I'm a joke to you?!" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_cities_by_population_within_city_limits

@amabustyocheeks5459

3 жыл бұрын

It's really unfair to only look at the city limits, they are arbitrarily set while people still live outside them. If you include greater Paris it has a population of about 8 million

@alexhaynes7983

3 жыл бұрын

Vickran it is the entire state of ile de France just like greater New York in New England and grater Los Angeles is Southern California

@aetu35

3 жыл бұрын

Istanbul. The core of the city's population is within Europe.

@marklandriau

3 жыл бұрын

Istanbul!!

@bluerisk

3 жыл бұрын

@@marklandriau Not Europe.

*Spelling Bee* Spell Frankfurt: C-O-L-O-G-N-E

@aaryanramourti3081

6 жыл бұрын

Its ok everyone makes mistakes

@ON-YT

6 жыл бұрын

Yeh

He should have made a poll at the end of the video how many viewers live in cities... I am curious if it would still be 54% with this audience/ anyway great video Wendover!

@Lee0723sVideos

6 жыл бұрын

Brandon Kirk It would be more because people in urbanized countries are more likely to have Internet access.

Cities are good when it come to preserving pockets of land for wild life. A majority of Canadian citizens live with in cities. This leaves 82% of the land to wildlife

A story from the Southern Song dynasty. Tells about how a god knows about trade law, governmental law, and about trade networks that are 600km longs. And what shortages of products does for the daily price of a commodity. It is a good story from 1200s. :-) Southern song is one of my favourite time periods, in the world history. And is my nr 1 pick for Chinese history.

Some small little mistakes but otherwise a good educational video. Like saying Paris is the second biggest city in Europe with 2,2 million and than a little bit later saying that Berlin has 3,5 million.

3:53 Berlin has a population of 3.5 Million :) Edit: continued watching and you even said so yourself lol

@jaydonwilson9094

6 жыл бұрын

Kappa Kalle I think he was talking about the population of the city, the the whole area

@klopferator

6 жыл бұрын

If he meant the larger metropolitan area of Paris (which is what I think you are talking about), why did he show the population size of the city itself with 2.2 million?

@Ny4d

6 жыл бұрын

Madrid has 3.1, Kiev 2.9, Rome 2.8 and Saint Petersburg 5.2. And if you count them as european Istanbul has 14.8 and Moscow 13.1

4:58 and as always, thanks for watching.

5:21 Mistake! For Frankfurt, you typed up Cologne. :) Happy to help

Love ya man, great content. Learned a lot!

Just so you know when it says 'Frankfurt' the map says Cologne. Great video 😀

Very Good explanation. Great work.

I really enjoy these videos!

At 3:53 you said that Paris is the second largest city with a population of 2.2m but at 5:09 you pointed out that Berlin has a population of over 3m? Wikipedia lists Paris on rank 9 of the largest cities of the european continent :s

@michaelschipper3312

6 жыл бұрын

Flo F paris metro is like 10 million

@lynnixvarjo9150

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Schipper Moscow Metro is Like 12 Million , Istanbul (European Side) is 8.5 Million without Metro (wich would Include the Asian Part , Bringing it to 14 Million)

@ON-YT

6 жыл бұрын

The metro Paris area

@MrPaukann

6 жыл бұрын

Lynnix Varjo, Moscow is 11.2 without metro. With metro it is about 17 million.

@rokosoldat9912

6 жыл бұрын

His whole content about city population numbers is full of errors and half-truths.

Aren’t Moscow and Istanbul more populated than London and Paris?

@kayo5011

6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Wright technically but most people don't consider them in Europe tho.

@asneakychicken322

6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Wright only half of Istanbul is in Europe and Moscow isn’t exactly

@walarootus

6 жыл бұрын

Aaron Brougham I agree about Istanbul but Moscow is 100% in Europe... I guess they mean European Union.

@LouisKing995

6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Wright I don’t know if most Moscow residents would consider themselves as in Europe. It’s a stick situation. A poll would be interesting

@christopherwilson88

6 жыл бұрын

Taking Russia and Turkey out, London and Paris ARE 1-2...but only if you count the whole metropolitan area, not just the actual cities proper. As shown in the video, Berlin proper has more people than Paris proper, as do Madrid, Kiev and Rome. However, the Paris metro area (around 12 million people) is roughly that of Berlin's and Madrid's combined.

Damn I was thinking about it so badly the other day that I wanted to solve it myself but you did it and so brilliantly that you saved me a lotta time. Thanks.

Wendover: Why Cities Exist Vsauce: Do Cities Exist

Hello makers of wendover productions! I am a huge fan on your videos, you do such an amazing job producing these top quality videos. I was wondering in the near future if you could produce a video on "Why the family dairy farms are disappearing" I feel that you would explain and go deeper in depth than any other KZread channel I know. If you did this I would be forever grateful! Thanks for considering my idea🙂

8:08, "LAND costs about 38 USD per square foot in New York" APARTMENT costs 800 USD per square foot in Mumbai suburb.

@Kaedynlimon

6 жыл бұрын

dang thats pretty high! most houses in the US cost around 250-300$ per sq ft in suburban areas. Its all about the furniture and location though.

@NathanClingan

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that $38 is completely wrong

@hey7328

6 жыл бұрын

APARTMENT is not LAND

@AakashKalaria

6 жыл бұрын

@Wolves bandwagon fan since 1998, only rich afford it. Rest of us somehow get through rent, sharing, etc. @hey7328 I know, the land is MOST expensive.

@hey7328

6 жыл бұрын

being MOST expensive has no relation to the $800/ft^2 figure given

THIS!!! I've been looking for this for years now and the research is too much and I'm too lazy to looking for the answer to the exact question.

With each video of this channel I watch I understand the world more and more

I am from the Detroit area, lived her my whole life. It’s sad to see how much the city has declined because of the big 3 moving production elsewhere. Even today with foreign car companies starting to dominate the market, Auto workers here are hurting for over time. However, the city is starting to ‘find’ itself again. Dan Gilbert has focused on buying buildings and has grown his Quicken Loans company so big in the Metro Detroit area. I believe cities can come back, it’s about finding that niche.

@wlr9591

Жыл бұрын

Has it improved since you commented?

Humble opinion: one of your best videos yet, thank you!

On the whole was a reaaly nice video but I think the thing about cities being natural due to Zipf's law is a bit of a stretch

@user-zb8tq5pr4x

4 жыл бұрын

@@Shevock not true. Zipf's law is very real.

@rodneyplewright7685

4 жыл бұрын

Beehives and Ants Nests are natural habitations for bees and ants, and follow a pattern, so why not habitations for humans?

@pandarosamusic5751

4 жыл бұрын

How could cities not be natural? This is the way things are going, it's part of nature. It may be damaging, feel wrong, it may deprive us of green spaces and clean air, but it is still part of the natural cycle of what humans as a species are doing, all over the world. This is nature. As is destruction and war, sadly.

@kielbarry1789

4 жыл бұрын

that was a very polite way to describe miseducation for clickbait

@maxresdefault_

3 жыл бұрын

I think Ziphs law here is less of an explanation, and more of an expected outcome

10:28, "hold my $1,500 sandwich" - *Andy from HTME*

Singapore is the largest remaining city state, which I find to be pretty cool

@nitrocreed

6 жыл бұрын

Yep it sounds pretty cool until you live there

5:18 Looks like Frankfurt got some Cologne.

3:44 but london is 3rd. First is moskow and second is istanbul

Awesome video. I think you also basically just explained why economy is a natural occurring phenomena