Responding to Urbanists, Chapter 2: The best Urbanism Videos
Responding to Urbanists, Chapter 2: The best Urbanism Videos
Responding to Urbanists, Chapter 3: Bad Arguments Urbanists Use
Responding to Urbanists, Part 4: Comments Playing Devil's Advocate
Playlists:
The best Urban planning videos condensed playlist
The Best Urban Planning Videos playlist
Responding To Urbanists playlist
YouTube channels:
Urban design firms:
Urban Innovators - Placemaking Alternative Intersections
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Why Transit Cities are Better for Everyone
The Best Country in the World for Drivers
Do Your Buses Get Stuck in Traffic? Traffic solutions & the Downs-Thomson Paradox
Boost volume The Problem with Faster Highways (Downs-Thompson Paradox) | Game Theory Puzzles
You can either use road space efficiently, or you can have cars.
The Real Reason You're Sitting in Traffic
Los Angeles is a Parody of How You Move People in a City
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Living in the Suburbs will NOT make you Happy
The Suburbs are Ruining Your Mental and Physical Health
The Suburbs are Lonely and Depressing (but they don't have to be)
More videos:
Agoraphobic Nation: Sprawl and Cutlure
Why Japan Looks the Way it Does: Zoning
Ideas to fix suburbs and stroads:
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We Might Be Able to Fix the Suburbs
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These Designs Can Help Us Fix Suburbs
4 ways to make a city more walkable | Jeff Speck
Why Design Car-Optional Neighborhoods? • TOWN PLANNING STUFF • Ep. 16
How to Design Car-Optional Neighborhoods? • TOWN PLANNING STUFF • Ep. 17
Five Features Every Neighborhood Needs - TOWN PLANNING STUFF, Ep. 5
Walkable Streets: The Five Must-Haves · TOWN PLANNING STUFF · Ep 9
Set Up Your Neighborhood for Convenience in Daily Life · TOWN PLANNING STUFF · Ep. 7
Montreal's Medium-Density Multiplex Neighborhoods
Five Dense "Missing Middle" Neighborhoods in Montreal
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I also want to ad Eduardo Marqués Collado's answer to Why do young people hate living in the suburbs?
“As a young person from Spain, I always found bewildering why would anyone live in the suburbs willingly, and I look at the gradual adoption of suburbia by my fellow countrymen as some kind of Zerg creep toxic mucus infecting our (previously) beautiful cities.
I mean, I understand that there are many people with many different interests from my own. Some people like the hustle and bustle of the city, some prefer to live near nature and the countryside, some have children, some are single, some people like personal space, other people likes to socialize, and so on.
But the suburbs strikes me like the very worst of the two worlds, rolled into one mess of distopian urbanism:
The car dependence of the countryside
The lack of nature and asphalt domination of the city
The lack of cultural activities and amenities of the countryside / small towns
The social isolation of the countryside
The high prices of the city
The homogenity of small towns
The lack of community of the cities
The lack of services of the countryside
Seriously, what is there to love? The only two positive aspects that I can think of suburbia is the lack of noise pollution, and the, huh “safety”.
But there are also many cities that are safe (child-friendly, even) and small towns / countryside ranks even higher on these two positives, so what gives?
Suburbia only offers the illusion of control that isolation brings, in exchange of many other important things for the mental and physical well-being. I can’t even fathom the whole “good place for rising kids” argument.
Kids and teens would have their freedom of movement severily crippled, and most middle class youngsters start doing drugs out of sheer boredom. A childhood in a heavily controlled, homogenized, isolated, sanitized and regulated enviroment such as suburbia is not a childhood that is conductive for preparing you for the wider, much more chaotic world. Many of my friends seems to think in the same way, and are rising their kids in cities and the countryside. They are all fine and safe, rest assured.
The only distinct advantage of suburbia for me is that -some- of them offer a shorter commute. Which is a good thing, but since I have other interests outside my job, is not good enough for the trade-offs.”
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Note: neither this article, nor any of my other content, is endorsed by Eduardo Marqués Collado.
Bonus:
The lack of Third places for children and teens sounds a bit like the plot of the movie Over The Edge, where a new planned community was built without places for children and teens.
