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Walkability
car-centricity, human-scale, transit, cycling, streetcar, trains, independence
Why City Design is Important (and Why I Hate Houston)
I'm not an urban planner, so you might ask, why do I run a YouTube channel about urban planning and walkable cities? It all comes down to a life of travel, and a terrible walk in the suburbs of Houston.
Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]
Stroads are streets that are designed like roads and in doing so, fail at being good at either one. They are too sprawling and hostile to be good streets, and they are too busy and complicated to be good roads. Stroads are inefficient, unsafe, expensive, and ugly.
This video introduces the concept of Stroads, and talks about why you will (almost) never find these kind of places in the Netherlands: because here all roads need to have a single purpose as either a motorway, connector road, or end-destination street.
Would You Fall for It? [ST08]
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Would You Fall for It? [ST08]
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How To Bring Back Front Yard Businesses
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Aesthetics
human-scale, architecture, design, traditional, historical, psychological, geographical
This Town Did The Impossible
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What Makes Buildings Beautiful (And Why Beauty Does Matter)
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How Japan Keeps Clean #TeamsSeas.
I find that most people who visit Japan comment on how clean it is. How does Japan Keep Clean? Help clean up seas around the world by joining #Teamseas https://teamseas.org/