The Life-Sized City is the first global #documentary series about urbanism, hosted by urban designer and author, Mikael Colville-Andersen. It is broadcast in over 25 countries. All three seasons are available here:
www.tvo.org/programs/the-life-sized-city
Use your #vpn and place yourself in Canada to watch them. Season 4 is out in 2023.
Mikael Colville-Andersen is an urban designer, author and TV host. He has worked in over 100 cities around the world - designing bicycle-infrastructure and working in many other aspects of urban design. He gives keynotes at conferences about #urbanism , #design , #designthinking , #architecture , #lifesizedcity , #sustainability - you name it.
The YT channel is a fun addendum to the actual series where Mikael uploads a plethora of urbanism-related content.
He freestyles the content about #cities , urbanism, #cityplanning - all in order to inspire urban change.
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47:03 *non-full ep :_)
As a Torontonian I really enjoyed this Man U really captured the true essences . I grew up in Kensington lol. Thai video was real Toronto energy for sure. A lot more to see but great video man!
I really wonder when you're gonna talk about Bogotá in Colombia. the bycicle infrastructure in the city is the biggest one in Latin America and has increased along the past 4 years. also the cuty is building its integrated transport system after 70 years of plans for the 1st metro line. Hope you can some day come. Nice vid!
Please do an update we really need the optimism. 😢
The intros are just getting longer sick to death of this American crap
This is solid. Clearly influenced by Bourdain... but in the best way. Love to see it.
"Toronto has no real identity" officially stated in this video...I guess it's not urban legend :/
nah Toronto is none of this, a bit of a trap, nowhere to go, nothing to see. been here since 1996. all the terms line "diversity", etc, are nothing but a coping mechanism to make a second class city into something special. "Turning underused construction zones into works of art" if you consider graffiti a work of art, then ok. but not much real art here or real culture.
The only amalgamation shoulda been Old City/York/East York
why does that even matter? Toronto only did it so they could claim to be a bigger city than Chicago.
The problem isn't the idea of 15 minute convenience. The problem is the monitoring and what might come next.
720p? what is this 2010?
newsflash... videos like this are about content, not about video quality. the only content where you need higher than 720p is sports and porn.
Then go watch 144p movies if you're so content with low quality productions like its a decade ago. @@RedroomStudios
The lack of benches etc. are due to the larger homeless population in the city.
If you can find a place outside a city to live, then you will live a happy life!!!!!! Cities are cesspools of stress, disease, and diversion. GARBAGE ALL OF THEM. YAK
Hi, great video, but please indicate somewhere (in the description at least?) that it was shot almost a decade ago, the city has changed a lot since then
is that gordon ramsay?
007 never shows up it's not world-class. Best in Canada, Vancouver or Q.C. It wants to be post modern. Post history, post imagination.
Today also known as little Mumbai. yes Toronto could really resemble many other cities... in India. Thank you Trudeau. Toronto used to be a great city...
This documentary is infuriating. So much of what is praised in this video has made the city unlivable. Congestion has only gotten worse to appease the cyclist minority. Now they want to tear down the Gardiner which will be the final death blow to downtown commerce. Talk to actual business owners not just leftist hipsters and you'll get a much different story. Toronto isn't New York or London or Tokyo... It's subway system is abysmal in comparison. Invest in that, then install your stupid bike lanes.
Great documentary and story. This video deserves millions of views.
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WoW super vidéo ! Ça fait vraiment plaisir de voir ma ville comme cela. Merci
“Public art” = Trash graffiti. Don’t do public art unless your last name happens to be Medici...
Toronto (2024) is a dump.
This is what KZread is for! Getting those ideas out there, we the people can proactively make positive change, not by violent riots, but by carefully thought out strategic works. (See 23:00 ) #guerillaurbanism
The city has come a long way from the 1980s and 1990s. It has become a progressive, innovative, and enterpreneual city. In my opinion the best city in Colombia is the best people, the best weather, overall the best in Colombia
it's amazing seeing how many hidden gems you conistently find in cities across the world-loved this episode, as usual!
It's actually the district in Copenhagen with the least cars per person which surprised me. Also the density can be somewhat confusing to gauge because it's not finished (even less so when the video was shot). It might not quite be Amagerbro Vest (on paper the "kvarter" with the highest density in Copenhagen) but it's also definitely not Gentofte-Hellerup. Right now Ørestad City kvarter has a density a little over 15k per km² which considering it's mixed use and partially unfinished is not that bad. Amagerbro Vest has 34k but is more or less exclusively residential. Ørestad City has 15k with maybe almost a third of the area being the Bella Center (I'm not kidding, that thing is humongous). They built some kinda pedestrianized streets there in an attempt to replicate other parts of Copenhagen or Barcelona or whatever. In My opinion it's still not very nice but on the numbers it's not that bad. I have mad respect for less cars than the people in the Brokvarter. They should get real and sell their cars right now. There's only 120 cars per 1.000 people. For Europe that's a ridiculously good number. Østerbro Nord has around 3 times as many cars per person. The fuck do they need that for? And I double checked, a higher percentage of Østerbro Nord are below 20 than in Ørestad City (and they almost obviously don't own a car) which makes it look even worse for Østerbro.
Posted 8 days ago but copyright 2017. Before proceeding to watch it I have my doubts that it is current. Let`s see, shall we....
Maybe some clarity at the beginning of the description of `originally aired .......` would have been helpful.
you are right. but there is a ton of old content that is constantly being added to youtube.
Super interesting. Greetings from Poland.
This video is from pre Rona... A lot has changed here and no one has time for recreational activities with worrying about costs of rent and home prices out of control. People are leaving this shit hole that was once a beautiful world leading metropolis
exactly. I moved to Mexico 3 years ago. best decision of my life.
Bonjour! Urban designer Mikael continues to amaze us with his videos. We are retired educators back in Portland, Oregon after a long stay in Europe: 5 months helping a new school open in Lvivv, six weeks in Krakow learning about WWII, and one month in Tallinn. Each city had its unique approach to supporting human interaction and to maintane traffic. America has much to learn from Europe. PDX is implementing several bike and pedestrian friendly walkways and bridges. Long Beach, California is changing, too. We plan to move to France with the Long Stay Visa. Toulon looks perfect for us; beaches, walkways, calm traffic, and access to trains. And we love the healthcare! Merci! Dean & Cindy
Haha this video is 7 years old and is misinformation. Literally everything about it is out of date and plain wrong. Paris cycling has been transformed since Covid.
Mikael and team, you really need to flag the fact that this video is from 2017. Paris doesn't look like this anymore. I think you're doing both the city and your channel a disservice.
You Danes naked in the middle of the place ahah
That pigeon rotoscopy at 38:08 😲
Srange Klapish claims Paris is 10 km east west and then talks about 4 milion Parisians lol This is because Greater Paris is 50 km east west ! Let's say the administrative Paris is the city center / core which makes it one of the largest city centre in the world.
I just love Scarborough. You know Mike Meyers was from there. Me, I'm a '90s neighbour to Scarborough from North York. Fairview Mall zindabad! Peanut Plaza was the most fun place to drive to! I will never forget those times.
Couldn't beat a Jerk Pork sandwich at Mr. Jerk in the Peanut Plaza.
Enjoy your halal kebobs now.
Which year this video ? it seems old..Paris changed more than that now...
Originally aired 2017 according to google
The host of this doc looks like he would be a Blue Rodeo fan.
Toronto has become a city where the rich can easily afford to live in, much like London or NYC. The rest of us have to live in nearby cities and commute to work.
OR... you could sell everything and retire to Latin America. I dont know why so many people continue to run on the hamster wheel while complaining about it.
How old is this video ? velib bikes haven't look like that in (at least) 4 years. Also, many things have been going on in Paris on bike infrastructure since covid
Original air date: September 30, 2017
I was thinking the same thing. I was in Paris this Easter, and it looks totally different.
Pretty old, I think - the Freegan Pony squat/restaurant featured is marked as permanently closed on Google Maps.
@@jonathanirons231 what do you mean?
@@aur.c I was very impressed at how many people were cycling and the general critical mass of people in traffic. Fewer motorbikes and I found it much less stressful crossing the road. Just a subjective feeling, but very different to the pictures in this outdated video.
Hi Mikael, I am a current member of the Paris en Selle association. I am so happy to see that what is shown in this documentary is now outdated as Paris is really starting to have a proper bike network ! It is definitely not perfect, but bicycle use keeps going up with crazy numbers : indeed, the last studies that came out from the Institut Paris Région are showing that bicycles are now used in 12% of all trips made in Paris, which is 3x more than cars!! You can count on us (Paris en Selle) to keep pushing for Paris to become a world leading city regarding mobilities and urban planning ! Hope you'll come back soon to make an update about the cycling revolution in Paris ! I'd be very happy to show you around the new infrastructure in danish ! 🇩🇰 Hilsen fra en fransk / dansk pariser ! 🇨🇵 🇩🇰
Bicycle infrastructure has improved a lot in Paris since this documentary was made in 2017.
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really inspiring stuff
As someone who has been in Torontos for some years now , it interesting seeing the way Toronto has change in the last couples of years. This city use to compete with Montreal but now its so far behind in urbanism its not even trying. This city still incredible but self interest and individualism continues to lead this city and now thats catching up to everyone to a point even the wealthiest residents cant avoid.
Google Maps says Les Grands Voisins and Freegan Pony are gone! (May, 2024) Because it's Olympics year?
No because this documentary is several years old. I think it dates back to 2017. Things have changed a lot since and there are far more recent episodes in Paris from the channel.
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Toronto is really-dull, drab, and boring. I travel a lot, and compared to cities like NYC, Miami, LA, Montreal, and San Diego, Toronto seems to lack its own identity and culture and is waaaay behind in many regards. Like the guy said " Toronto waits for other major cities to do new and cool things then copy them 10 years down the road and do it half ass" Instead, it feels like a watered-down mix of every culture represented here. The architecture is terrible, and city events like Taste of the Danforth or the Asian Night Market are really lame. I've lived here since 1989, and I'm really disappointed with what Toronto offers compared to other global-class cities in it's class. Especially when I come back from An Asian city like Seoul, Shanghai, or Toyko I can't help but feel like I've gone backwards in time. Considering moving to Montreal.
"Epicenter of the Canadian melting pot" is absolutely the opposite. Canadian culture has always been described as a mosaic - distinct, different, forming a tapestry. In school, we contrasted the Canadian mosaic against the American melting pot.
ya, and thats why Canada is going down the toilet so fast. multiculturalism has been proven to be a failed experiment. but instead of slowing it down they speed it up. Canada is on its last legs.
Ahh...that's a bit of the Toronto I remember. These days keep that fence up or you will get broken into or worse. I wish we could go back to the days when this city was cleaner, friendlier, realistic and life was affordable...