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Atlantic city is now an urban jungle. really sad to demolish such beautiful architecture to GAMBLING. Sic society

Wow, another impressive list. Has Greenville surpassed Columbia as the thriving SC city?

I think one of the first YT videos I ever saw that could be considered "urbanist" involved the removal of the Camperdown Bridge in Greenville. This was a typical 1960s plate-girder highway bridge, which was removed in 2002 and replaced with a pedestrian bridge in order to beautify the Reedy River Falls park and the downtown area. At the time, there was opposition in the form of "It's a perfectly functional bridge, why tear it down?!", but it seems things have worked out well enough. So it's not surprising to see Greenville continue on this trajectory.

Wow, this video alone has gotten me to think about moving to Greenville. I'll have to at least plan a visit

Another great video, things are definitely improving! But as you briefly touched on in the video, things could be done much better.... also, I want to give a BIG shout out to that new federal building! NEO ART DECO would be the easiest of the traditional styles to bring back and we should support it!!!

ngl as a european I'm kinda happy that this is happening, it gives some hope for the return of aesthetically pleasing and human friendly cities, the only thing here that I kinda dislike are the high rises, cities don't need highrises to be cities, especially when you're working with the available and very spread out space Greenville has, just build rowhousing instead.

Insanely good stuff! Had no idea this was happening, but I'd KILL to have this everywhere.

maybe it's time for Greenville to consider consolidating with the 7000 census-designated places that surround it

Wow, I am absolutely surprised at this and massive props to Greenville for making so much progress. Also please cover Boise, Idaho at some point. Their downtown has improved so much over the past 15 years.

Wow, that's incredible! While some of these designs are not so great, others absolutely fit in with the rest of the city. Curious to see what the future of this place looks like in the coming years!

Really excited to see Greenville taking good steps to densify it’s city and render it livable and walkable. I visited there for a work trip two years ago and was thoroughly impressed. I’ve lived and traveled in Europe and currently live in Louisiana. What saddens me the most about most of America is the lack of multi-purpose neighborhoods where one could walk to a coffee, get some groceries, and watch a movie all within a couple of blocks from where you live with good, safe sidewalks. This is what breathes life into a city, and as a younger person, this is what eventually makes a community and opportunities to connect with people in this social media age which so many American cities lack. This is what makes cities like Amsterdam, Charleston, NYC (disregarding the crime, high prices, etc.), Turin, etc so captivating and engaging. Single use property has been the death of these experiences, and I hope to see the bringing back of cozy, walkable, enjoyable, multi purpose neighborhoods.

Can u do Springfield, MA next? It would probably be a fallen city I think

I want to see this in every American town

Greenville is a racist, ass backwards town. Great if you're white though!

If you’re going to promote the classical, please learn to use the past perfect correctly when speaking.

Interesting, especially to me as that part of the world is where my ancestors are from. Please do a video on the continuing growth of Columbus--what is behind this & how is it handling its growing population?

You should do Scranton PA

this is awesome, love to see more of what other cities are doing

Perfect example how democrats ruin everything

Yeah shockingly nobody thinks about the past when the state has gone from 98% white in 1980 to 60% today and in Hartford 12%. The past and present of America have practically no continuity when we have replaced the populations of most of our cities.

There is a pedestrian pathway to the Canoga Orange Line station from the DeSoto / Victory / Canoga apartment block. It exists between the AMLI and Eton complexes on the west side.

Who are the Russian sounding guys that force you to pay them money if you walk around Hartford after hours?

Well done video sir. I lived in Hartford from 1yo to 3 yo, late 1950s. Pop was cop in West Htfd. then. We moved to West Htfd. Then to Farmington, Ct...

I’d like to see you do a video on Lancaster, PA, sometime in the future for your America’s Rising Cities series!

One of my favourite rising towns is a small town called Selfoss in Iceland. A couple of years ago it was just a boring place that you drove through to get to the Golden Circle/other natural wonders because it was so ugly and didn't really have anything worthwhile there. Now however it has a thriving "new old town" because they decided to create a downtown by using designs of old icelandic buildings that had burned down or gotten demolished. The project has turned out very incredibly well and people absolutely love it! It seems I can't put links here so I recommend checking out their website they have a whole section dedicated to the architecture and history behind the buildings, googling "Selfoss New Old Town" should do the trick! What makes this even better is that building "beautiful" is really rare here nowadays so it is amazing to see a project like this actually happen and be beloved by the people. So beloved in fact that they are currently in the process tripling the size of the already built "new old downtown"

Democrats destroy everything they touch.

My first experience with Hartfor was 1972 and down-town then was vibrant and colorful. I also got to visit some of the poorer sections and they were like any Big city- Not 'Nice' and essentially Minorities and Poor!! But today as I am a CT Yankee anyway as everyone else around here have seen not only Hartfor- but all our Big cities Dive-Deep Down and yess- CT is- "Suburbia USA" and expensive with a H-standard of living Fo Sure! And as the decades go bye- Hartford is 'dying' as is much of The USA!

I said in comment in evening, i am fighting 1 vs 4, i was going to comment anout it, but those videos became crazier

Can you please do Charlotte next?

Who runs Hartford? Connecticut? There's your answer...

Kudos to you for highlighting the problem. I wonder how we fix it?!

9:54 - Fascinating that you would consider some historic buildings worth preserving while all too quickly dismissing the value of others. You just inadvertently made a great point as to how, when selectively applied, architectural historic preservation can be an incredibly effective tool at fabricating and bolstering an incomplete historical narrative.

It's good that the city is densifying, but apart from the neo-art deco federal court house building the architecture is terribly generic looking.

can you do videos on a city like Boston and NYC, which has a lot of beautiful/historic architecture but also growing modernism? like what would you even classify it as? clearly not fallen, but rising?

Fun Fact in the Early 20th Century Los Angeles had the Longest Streetcar Line in the World . 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

This is awesome! You should do a video on charlotte or Raleigh. I believe both of them are expanding rapidly, with density similar to Greenville .

The absolute disgusting amount of money that we have sunk into that city is a waste and always will be. Blaming inanimate objects like roads I guess is a way out for foolish people to live in their dream worlds. We all know the problem with cities like Hartford and until we confront it nothing will change. The people that live in the city have to care more than the people dropping billions into. My father was born in Hartford and graduated from high school there and abandoned ship. Moving out to the more rural areas was a smart move as he use to say. He,prophetically,said that no matter how much money you pump into that place it will never get better. The majority,not ALL,of people who live within these urban areas don’t care what happens to anyone or anything. That apathy led to the downfall of these areas more than anything else. Wake up

Anyone else noticed that all these rising cities are in red states? Lol. Not trying to take sides, but I don’t wanna hear anymore that “backwards conservatives” don’t ever aim for density.

Nice video! I totally agree with you on not building towers and spreading it out with gentle density housing to create lively streets, one day we will get there lol

do one on MOT delaware

do one on MOT Area delaware

do one on middletown delaware and MOT area

Just curious are u an architect or like an urband developer

I don’t know if it’s “rising”, but moving to Phoenix, AZ for the short term, I’m sort of impressed by the development/densification of the downtown core. Very refreshing to see especially after living in California.

Never been to down town Greenville despite having to drive through it to get to college. From my view on the interstate it’s all urban sprawl with exits filled with the typical planning.

Essentially all skyscrapers shown in this video are ugly modernist buildings.

Okay, Greenville! I see you!

The west has risen, billions must live in nice houses

American Capitalism is probably the most wasteful economic force on the planet. We put Capitalism in the dominant place in our system and then watch as they rape an area and then when the profits are to be made elsewhere they move in and leave the local people holding the bill. All si fat cats can get richer.

That yellow Victorian house you showed a picture of (2:11) is not in Hartford. It's in the center of my small but beautiful hometown. New Hartford, CT...which is like 30 mins NW of Hartford. But I gasped when I saw that house and was like, "I pass that everyday on my way to work!" (Rumor has it, it's haunted!)