City design shapes our lives, but we have the power to shape our cities. I make urban planning accessible to everyone, because you don't need a degree to build great places.
2:35 This person would have been a good, insightful interview for this channel. At least, a sidewalk exists ..
@lodiumify262658 минут бұрын
bad video with a LOT of personal assumptions ect.
@crazy-_-BeardСағат бұрын
I agree, the cities in America are lame. However the states that have mountains have excellent views, Trails, skiing, snowboarding and a peaceful scenery. It does require an upper middle class or rich lifestyle. You couldn’t pay me to live in any city. Even outside the USA
@skytrip5273Сағат бұрын
It's just another step in extreme human domestication.
@dingusgoober2 сағат бұрын
I genuinely can't wrap my head around how people live having to drive to get to literally anywhere
@rootdoc19973 сағат бұрын
I live in suburbs and where I live look nothing like what you are showing
@JeffWiersma3 сағат бұрын
It’s also inherently classist and ableist
@KhAnime4 сағат бұрын
Here in Dallas and as a Uber Driver, this is all I see for miles on end. I used to live in a suburban area for a few years and now im in the process of moving to rural texas side. It may take me 2 hours to get to Dallas but its worth it as rural side gives that sense of wonder i had as a child.
@dklang4 сағат бұрын
Parts of Japan and many other places are just as creepy, if not more so
@happierabroad5 сағат бұрын
I thought liminal spaces were something paranormal, like spaces you accidentally enter in another dimension? Not just an empty building?
@happierabroad5 сағат бұрын
The US ruling elite obviously want to isolate people. I've been to 14 countries and America has the least freedom of all countries I've been to! No social connection either. Better to move abroad to other countries.
@NinjaZXRR6 сағат бұрын
Consumerism, my home town has a decent approach but the town is preserved it looks like its the seventeenth century walking down the cobblestone roads. With super narrow stairs. The old buildings at least at ground level a lot were converted to small shops. I live in the old quarter of Quebec city, outside of the old quarter it is a regular city.
@happierabroad6 сағат бұрын
If you go to Russia or Europe, you can never return to America and be happy again because it's so soulless and empty and meaningless. Nothing to do but work and shop. No fun or freedom or human connection.
@happierabroad6 сағат бұрын
You're just a slave in America. Nothing more. To have freedom you have to go ABROAD!
@johnready6306 сағат бұрын
I get a panic attack every time I have to drive thru Toronto , the traffic on the 401 is insane crazy and downright dangerous !!
@ARiotsmiley7 сағат бұрын
Is it me or do liminal spaces not scare me
@jackdools47448 сағат бұрын
“Oh no! Clean streets and orderly homes!? Where’s all the crime? The hustle? The bustle? Why don’t I constantly smell sewage!? What about the brown people!!!” Go back to your hive mr.Chinatown
@jaredgreenhouse66037 сағат бұрын
Yeah that wasn't racist at all...
@jackdools47447 сағат бұрын
@@jaredgreenhouse6603 😁
@ThePugPrince9 сағат бұрын
The ones without trees and cookie cutter homes are spooky. You need trees and personality to the homes to make it feel right.
@davidwright87310 сағат бұрын
That one photo was down near Bakersfield CA.....i believe....
@bruceehitpar586710 сағат бұрын
I grew up in the Toronto suburbs and it looks similar.
@dyykkarifin245410 сағат бұрын
When I watch these videos it just makes me so glad I grew up somewhere else than U.S. (Even though I'm sure there are good places to live in the U.S too) After I turned seven I could walk or cycle to school, to parks, my friends houses, the store etc. My parents only gave me a ride if I had to go somewhere far or if I was in a hurry or if it was REALLY cold outside.
@SirFairPhi11 сағат бұрын
You dont like higher density housing. But in post ussr we dreamt about those houses. That's weird. I always thought it's cool live independently rather than in apartment
@thrawn884011 сағат бұрын
Interesting
@Alsayid11 сағат бұрын
Wait a minute, you didn't actually explain why suburbs, in your estimation, are unsustainable and decline. Unless your whole argument is that they aren't densely populated enough... and I saw nothing to back up that conclusion. What I do see is that government pushed "diversity" can cause a suburb or city to go into decline, and that's a completely different reason.
@jaredgreenhouse66037 сағат бұрын
The cost of maintaining car-dependent suburban sprawl ultimately becomes way more than the tax revenue the government gets from that land (more space = more asphalt, more piping, more wiring, etc.). Low density means you're not getting enough tax revenue per acre to keep up with the long-term costs of that acre. So you build Development B and use the tax revenue to support the costs of Development A. Then Development B starts going into the red, so you build Development C and so on. More dense neighborhoods generate far more tax revenue per acre, allowing them to not only financially sustain themselves, but to actually *subsidize* the costs of Developments A, B, and C. This is why low-density suburbs are unsustainable.
@docdiver11 сағат бұрын
Nice for who? Have you ever thought that what's nice for you might not be cool for others?
@KevinKimmich4402413 сағат бұрын
There's not enough shanty towns and broken down and burnt out RVs... also not enough human excrement and needles on the ground and the chance you'll be robbed is really small. It's very creepy.
@Pablodiovisuel17 сағат бұрын
"ow I don't like soviet union, building sameless soulless buildings" then America doing the exact same. Without providing the basic amenities that Soviet Union provided.
@qjtvaddict18 сағат бұрын
Umm I wonder I heard the soviets had similar car dependency attacking it as a Spector of communism may be more effective at getting Americans to accept change. North America was not alone it turns out Eastern Europe and Central Asia was just as bad in the urban design area. Fear of communism may be able to be reworked to attack car dependency
@mmx90A19 сағат бұрын
A very narrow view of thinking. Where do you get all that you need, to survive day by day. It surely didn't get made there in your little area. I will agree with the fact that highways divide us, also they built it in areas blacks lived. That's wrong. But highways are needed. Why? If they built transit right on the first place, many of us would walk and catch transit. Only thing Politicians care about, his your hard earn cash! Power Company, water, gas, and heat companies, cable companies, should all take more from you. If people were voting for the right things, the cost would be cheaper. Plus Government would care. As a result conservative government whom sold 407 ETR. Is trying to correct a mistake, by trying to build 413. They got Earth boring machines just unused, then gotten rid of. Instead of boring under the earth. For a temperate Country like Canada, they lack innovative thinking and Good Government. As a result, people will pay the price!
@guydreamr19 сағат бұрын
The irony here is that many suburban shopping malls are reported to be actually haunted. 👻
@boonskis21 сағат бұрын
Incredibly important observations here. Thank you,
@blackfrieza696921 сағат бұрын
5:08 Lavender Town.
@nandy7077222 сағат бұрын
My man, you didnt mention Rathnelly!
@pragashgnana59722 сағат бұрын
401 east is destroying me everyday
@AaronBailey-uw7lg22 сағат бұрын
Even small towns look like that now.
@user-to1yw8vv2k23 сағат бұрын
Toronto the socialist! Done ! The left has controlled Toronto for over 50 years now we have the Marxist left destroying Toronto
@christinepontecorvo544923 сағат бұрын
EXCELLENT VIDEO.. FINALLY SOMEONE IS ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT IT .THE TRUTH . GOD BLESS YOU ..
@JayFowКүн бұрын
bruh these comments are just so much haters
@Rest65432Күн бұрын
Too many commercialized areas. The goal is too push conformity by religion, language, sexuality, race, labor, dress, personality. Thats what corporations do. Corporations decided everything as though they are the government. Individuality truly will be next to be destroyed. Critical thinking will become a crime. No independent thinking allowed.
@silence19999Күн бұрын
My kids aren't going out alone. There are 7 pedos within a 5 mile radius of my house. Several of them are multiple time offenders. This is a very ignorant video.
@Nikkel144Күн бұрын
All i have is war, dogs with rabies and newgens... Mmm Ukraine..
@texasred2702Күн бұрын
Like he says, when I was growing up in the 70s, our parents' big fear was us getting hit by a car. It was drilled into us as soon as we could walk, 'look both ways.' Even so, it seems like every high school yearbook had a page devoted to that one kid who died before graduation, and it was almost always in an auto wreck. My senior year, there were 4 kids, 1 who lost control of his motorcycle on wet pavement and 3 who died when the Jeep they were speeding in spun out and flipped (the only survivor came to graduation in a wheechair). Our parents always had those cases as ammo: you're not getting a bike, look what happened to Rudy's brother. Nowadays they think every knock on the door is the Manson Family, but theyll step into a busy street with their faces in their phones, confident that traffic will stop for them, never assuming the drivers are on their phones too.
@lostcat9lives322Күн бұрын
America: A strip mall infinity loop.
@mattalley4330Күн бұрын
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think American cities look just fine
@MrRhombusКүн бұрын
9:02 Hey I know that tram
@hasafa9580Күн бұрын
The „best“ country in the world 👎
@doscaminos204Күн бұрын
As usual a rich depressed kid who hated and takes for granted where they live. Tough luck buddy, it’s so creepy living in a nice home in a relatively safe neighborhood surrounded by nearby recreational areas. Yea, living in a big city in bad neighborhoods isn’t ideal either. And let me guess, your ideal living space is a European town where they basically just live in homes that they have inherited for hundreds of years because they can’t really afford to live elsewhere lol. But it looks pleasing as tourist. So ugly and creepy and yet so many people that wished they had this lifestyle. It’s not perfect, nor it will it ever be, but growing up in a bad neighborhood in the inner city I am thankful for my suburban lifestyle.
@user-ok1kw4rr3hКүн бұрын
Plenty of ugly cities in uk too. Ever checked a mass new housing site here?
@joeperry9619Күн бұрын
That thru stage is a trap! Many will not make it to destination. Stepping off your normal path is dangerous to your health👍
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2:35 This person would have been a good, insightful interview for this channel. At least, a sidewalk exists ..
bad video with a LOT of personal assumptions ect.
I agree, the cities in America are lame. However the states that have mountains have excellent views, Trails, skiing, snowboarding and a peaceful scenery. It does require an upper middle class or rich lifestyle. You couldn’t pay me to live in any city. Even outside the USA
It's just another step in extreme human domestication.
I genuinely can't wrap my head around how people live having to drive to get to literally anywhere
I live in suburbs and where I live look nothing like what you are showing
It’s also inherently classist and ableist
Here in Dallas and as a Uber Driver, this is all I see for miles on end. I used to live in a suburban area for a few years and now im in the process of moving to rural texas side. It may take me 2 hours to get to Dallas but its worth it as rural side gives that sense of wonder i had as a child.
Parts of Japan and many other places are just as creepy, if not more so
I thought liminal spaces were something paranormal, like spaces you accidentally enter in another dimension? Not just an empty building?
The US ruling elite obviously want to isolate people. I've been to 14 countries and America has the least freedom of all countries I've been to! No social connection either. Better to move abroad to other countries.
Consumerism, my home town has a decent approach but the town is preserved it looks like its the seventeenth century walking down the cobblestone roads. With super narrow stairs. The old buildings at least at ground level a lot were converted to small shops. I live in the old quarter of Quebec city, outside of the old quarter it is a regular city.
If you go to Russia or Europe, you can never return to America and be happy again because it's so soulless and empty and meaningless. Nothing to do but work and shop. No fun or freedom or human connection.
You're just a slave in America. Nothing more. To have freedom you have to go ABROAD!
I get a panic attack every time I have to drive thru Toronto , the traffic on the 401 is insane crazy and downright dangerous !!
Is it me or do liminal spaces not scare me
“Oh no! Clean streets and orderly homes!? Where’s all the crime? The hustle? The bustle? Why don’t I constantly smell sewage!? What about the brown people!!!” Go back to your hive mr.Chinatown
Yeah that wasn't racist at all...
@@jaredgreenhouse6603 😁
The ones without trees and cookie cutter homes are spooky. You need trees and personality to the homes to make it feel right.
That one photo was down near Bakersfield CA.....i believe....
I grew up in the Toronto suburbs and it looks similar.
When I watch these videos it just makes me so glad I grew up somewhere else than U.S. (Even though I'm sure there are good places to live in the U.S too) After I turned seven I could walk or cycle to school, to parks, my friends houses, the store etc. My parents only gave me a ride if I had to go somewhere far or if I was in a hurry or if it was REALLY cold outside.
You dont like higher density housing. But in post ussr we dreamt about those houses. That's weird. I always thought it's cool live independently rather than in apartment
Interesting
Wait a minute, you didn't actually explain why suburbs, in your estimation, are unsustainable and decline. Unless your whole argument is that they aren't densely populated enough... and I saw nothing to back up that conclusion. What I do see is that government pushed "diversity" can cause a suburb or city to go into decline, and that's a completely different reason.
The cost of maintaining car-dependent suburban sprawl ultimately becomes way more than the tax revenue the government gets from that land (more space = more asphalt, more piping, more wiring, etc.). Low density means you're not getting enough tax revenue per acre to keep up with the long-term costs of that acre. So you build Development B and use the tax revenue to support the costs of Development A. Then Development B starts going into the red, so you build Development C and so on. More dense neighborhoods generate far more tax revenue per acre, allowing them to not only financially sustain themselves, but to actually *subsidize* the costs of Developments A, B, and C. This is why low-density suburbs are unsustainable.
Nice for who? Have you ever thought that what's nice for you might not be cool for others?
There's not enough shanty towns and broken down and burnt out RVs... also not enough human excrement and needles on the ground and the chance you'll be robbed is really small. It's very creepy.
"ow I don't like soviet union, building sameless soulless buildings" then America doing the exact same. Without providing the basic amenities that Soviet Union provided.
Umm I wonder I heard the soviets had similar car dependency attacking it as a Spector of communism may be more effective at getting Americans to accept change. North America was not alone it turns out Eastern Europe and Central Asia was just as bad in the urban design area. Fear of communism may be able to be reworked to attack car dependency
A very narrow view of thinking. Where do you get all that you need, to survive day by day. It surely didn't get made there in your little area. I will agree with the fact that highways divide us, also they built it in areas blacks lived. That's wrong. But highways are needed. Why? If they built transit right on the first place, many of us would walk and catch transit. Only thing Politicians care about, his your hard earn cash! Power Company, water, gas, and heat companies, cable companies, should all take more from you. If people were voting for the right things, the cost would be cheaper. Plus Government would care. As a result conservative government whom sold 407 ETR. Is trying to correct a mistake, by trying to build 413. They got Earth boring machines just unused, then gotten rid of. Instead of boring under the earth. For a temperate Country like Canada, they lack innovative thinking and Good Government. As a result, people will pay the price!
The irony here is that many suburban shopping malls are reported to be actually haunted. 👻
Incredibly important observations here. Thank you,
5:08 Lavender Town.
My man, you didnt mention Rathnelly!
401 east is destroying me everyday
Even small towns look like that now.
Toronto the socialist! Done ! The left has controlled Toronto for over 50 years now we have the Marxist left destroying Toronto
EXCELLENT VIDEO.. FINALLY SOMEONE IS ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT IT .THE TRUTH . GOD BLESS YOU ..
bruh these comments are just so much haters
Too many commercialized areas. The goal is too push conformity by religion, language, sexuality, race, labor, dress, personality. Thats what corporations do. Corporations decided everything as though they are the government. Individuality truly will be next to be destroyed. Critical thinking will become a crime. No independent thinking allowed.
My kids aren't going out alone. There are 7 pedos within a 5 mile radius of my house. Several of them are multiple time offenders. This is a very ignorant video.
All i have is war, dogs with rabies and newgens... Mmm Ukraine..
Like he says, when I was growing up in the 70s, our parents' big fear was us getting hit by a car. It was drilled into us as soon as we could walk, 'look both ways.' Even so, it seems like every high school yearbook had a page devoted to that one kid who died before graduation, and it was almost always in an auto wreck. My senior year, there were 4 kids, 1 who lost control of his motorcycle on wet pavement and 3 who died when the Jeep they were speeding in spun out and flipped (the only survivor came to graduation in a wheechair). Our parents always had those cases as ammo: you're not getting a bike, look what happened to Rudy's brother. Nowadays they think every knock on the door is the Manson Family, but theyll step into a busy street with their faces in their phones, confident that traffic will stop for them, never assuming the drivers are on their phones too.
America: A strip mall infinity loop.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think American cities look just fine
9:02 Hey I know that tram
The „best“ country in the world 👎
As usual a rich depressed kid who hated and takes for granted where they live. Tough luck buddy, it’s so creepy living in a nice home in a relatively safe neighborhood surrounded by nearby recreational areas. Yea, living in a big city in bad neighborhoods isn’t ideal either. And let me guess, your ideal living space is a European town where they basically just live in homes that they have inherited for hundreds of years because they can’t really afford to live elsewhere lol. But it looks pleasing as tourist. So ugly and creepy and yet so many people that wished they had this lifestyle. It’s not perfect, nor it will it ever be, but growing up in a bad neighborhood in the inner city I am thankful for my suburban lifestyle.
Plenty of ugly cities in uk too. Ever checked a mass new housing site here?
That thru stage is a trap! Many will not make it to destination. Stepping off your normal path is dangerous to your health👍
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