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This is comparing apples to aranges. If you can afford living in that area of Amsterdam (probably the most expensive of the whole country) you would be able to live in central toronto as well where you also don';t need to commute by car and can walk to countless restaurants. Even if you had to commute you'd be driving a better car. Compare it to someone who live in a small town, for example Spijkenisse and has to commute to Maasvlakte to work.

Great video!

Nederland is een klein en dichtbevolkt landje. Vrijwel iedereen heeft een fiets. Omdat de meeste voorzieningen dichtbij huis zijn is het prima te fietsen. Ook is ons land plat. Als je in een land zou wonen waarbij je elke keer 20 km moet afleggen voor boodschappen, heuvels/bergen op en af moet of door bosgebieden heen moet, dan zou ik ook de auto pakken. Ik denk dat het vrijwel onmogelijk is een land als Amerika zo in te richten als Nederland. Tegenwoordig hebben veel Nederlanders een elektrische fiets. Dat maakt ons nog mobieler, maar op bepaalde gebieden is het wel gevaarlijker. Misschien wordt daar in de toekomst een aparte fietsstrook voor gecreëerd. 😂

Passive Solar design techniques can also be used to calculate the sun angles, so there's less demand for heating/AC

The flatness of Netherlands helps make it bike friendly. E-bikes help in hilly places like Seattle where I live, but as I age I wish they had more power. I’d love life in Netherlands!

Born and raised in Vancouver BC Canada. Lived in The Netherlands for 15 years, speak the lingo and got the Passport. Back in Canada, now. We have sooooo far to go.....

I think the music was too loud and drowned out your narration a bit. At least, for your personal style of narration. I hope that helps.

@04:00 that's a danish road sign I think..

Amazing video! Do you know any book/website I can read to understand the whole Dutch street design? Thanks beforehand!

If your country is as small as the Netherlands and as densely populated you have to stretch the available space to its limits. Willing to change and creativity is important. It took our country over 50 years and alot of money to achieve this

Amsterdam is trying to get us all out of the car, speed now is limited to 30 km per hour! And outrageous fines are given by overspeeding just 1 km. Fuckkkk Amsterdam!

North America is designed great! Just not for human beings.

The trouble with AI is that it only draws in what crap we have been putting out for decades. We are no nearer to solutions than when this film was produced. th-cam.com/video/D0maqlkITUg/w-d-xo.html

you wont find many places to drink on a terras at 08.00 in the morning maybe only in some big cities

Why don’t u live in east coast cities or seattle? What city in US and what city Netherlands?

Eggs aren't cooled in the Netherlands.

Great video. I feel the exact same in the UK as you would in NA. I love travelling into mainland europe, seeing how efficient daily living is and how connected people are.

"The Amsterdam network" All of the Netherlands. But that's part of the beauty of it. It's all connected, and that's a large part of why it works so well.

AI is a stereotype machine!

And then at 95% autonomous adoption, traffice will grind to a halt in cities, because pedestrians will know cars will brake for them. Oh, and if you listen to the morning radio news, you will learn that congestion hasn't been fixed at all in the Nethelrands, and the old "let's make more tarmac" is alive and well in that country as well

I refuse to share the streets with drivers, even at low speeds, they are far too dangerous to be trusted. Also NJB recently went on a tirade freak out and said the US was doomed all the while he historically ran away to a country where all his problems were already solved.

"Why the Netherlands is INSANELY well designed" - because a significant majority is prepared to pay taxes that are used to the benefit of us all. And we have to, because we live in the flood-planes of the North Sea (branch of Atlantic) and a couple large rivers. We built this country in the past 2,000 years or so, "out of that flood plane". Now imagine the pumps stop, that keep our feet dry and livestock alive. So we have a parallel government, even, to manage the pumps and the flood plane with their own taxes, separate from "politics". Imagine that the water level on our side of the dykes and pumps would be managed by ideologists. It's plain pragmatism. The first documented proof of attempts at water management by a rudimentary sort of water government may be some 1,000 years old. Compare this to e.g. the USA where nobody wants to pay taxes, the member states in the federation have very little debt, and "the people" think that the president is Santa Claus, who basically can only run up the federal debt as a way to realise work that everybody wants, but nobody wants to pay. Incidentally, the Chinese model, that causes inflation, makes exports more competing abroad and imports more expensive, and the inflation reduces the value of the debt for future generations. But the model is not sustainable. "In god we trust", read with emphasis on the word god, easily is understood as, we trust nobody. This country lives by debit score, rather than a credit score reflecting how much in debt we are. That, and collaboration based in basic trust. Our problem is that we don't sufficiently educate our children in and with our values that built this country.

Considering the age of the city, it was not designed for all that, but the city adapted its infrastructure to the reality in a very wise way. The story of and about this city applies to my entire country, by the way.

No chance in US. In NL most high taxes are going to improve life standard and education, in US most taxes are going to army and corpos which do support politics. Education is the key, but if you have educated people it is difficult for politicians to govern people. If people are well educated, they would force changes, as they would know how it could be done...

I wanna c AI create a map of NYC designed all with natural roads, like the road map before the street grids.

No, AI cannot replace humans and I dont think it could ever be fully relied upon for this field. The only reason it had any of those ideas or uses were because they were already human generated. Some human, through years of research and development and experimentation figured out that these methods work best to make good cities. the AI showed no capability of doing that process on its own, or generating its own ideas. it just pooled together a bunch of separate human generated ideas that were already created. in the future at some point the AI would have to be able to generate a new idea/concept for a new problem that arises. but everything so far shows that it would just use the same answer to the problem that was used in the past, likely not solving anything. it would still be totally reliant upon a human mind to creatively generate new solutions and better ideas. everyhting the AI did here today is something that a trained or knowledgeable human in the field could also do or say, and likely with more nuance. the only thing the chat GPT excelled at is writing it all down in document, it would take much longer for a human to write all that out.

Amazing what you can do when the politicians use data, science, and they actually give a damn.

This is something I often think about. I'm taking the Coursera specialization "Self-driving Cars" from University of Toronto. But I often think this is not a solution to our car-centric infrastructure, and in fact, seems like it may make it worse. So, I was very interested in your comments about how to make autonomous vehicles much more beneficial. Great video! Please make more!

Very good and informative video! Please make more. This could change into a huge channel. Two other channels I started watching when they were still only a few thousands of subscribers, but I had a feeling they could easily hit 100k subscribers, are Geography King and CityNerd. I have same feeling here - make more videos with more regularity and this channel will hit 100k subscribers in little time.

3:30 Wait the Neherlands Switched to Dollars?

Fuck self driving cars. I don't want 1-2 companies in charge of the entire transportation system and making billions off common citizens. We want public transit and transit oriented cities (or just normal cities if you live in Europe)

The difference is mind boggling

@4:43 the bicyclist had three yields the first one for crossing bike traffic the second and third for cars. The triangles that are pointing towards you means you have to yield. The triangles are referred to a shark teeth.

5:05 not only do people in car centric places spend more time in their car, but they also spend significantly more time working to pay for their car, gas, insurance, and maintenance.

Unfortunately, cyclist dont obey the traffic rules, dont stop for red light, ride on the wrong side of the road, going the wrong way on traffic circles, on their phone, no running lights at night, dont yield to pedestrians and so on and so on... I am a bus driver in Amsterdam and see a lot of people risking their lives for a few seconds

I noticed that in Amsterdam the store register clerks were using stools. in north America you'd never see that.

I appreciate AI's ability to draw attention to general planning concepts as a scaffold for actual design. That said, Frankie's presentation is very general and obviously actual design is more granular with much more detail. The devil, they say, is in those details. I wonder if AI can continue to be used for the actions involved in the heavy lift of specificity.

Great video, Amsterdam is not representative for the rest of the Netherlands but because its the biggest and most known city of our country its fair enough to use this as an example. our fatality rate is about 650 a year last few years it is slightly raising but our traffic is getting more crowded as well. we have peak traffic at 7 till 9 am and 16 til 19 pm on the highways. Especially when its bad weather congestion can rise till a 1000 km. lots of campaigns to let people carpooling or promoting public transportation where effortless because the congestion didn't decrease. so not everything is great about our traffic. But for a country as big as the state of Maryland with a population of almost 18 million we at least try to advance our movements.

Shared streets are really easy to mess up. If you just put them all together you'll end up with a big mess. It only works if you have first diverted almost all car traffic to elsewhere and made sure that driver prefer to drive in the other place. The few people who then still need to be in the shared space will have to use it as an end destination, not for shortcuts or through traffic. Shared space can only be installed correctly in very specific situations or they will just be very dangerous places for the more vulnerable road users.

You should go to the Dutch city Zwolle. It prefers the bicycle above cars..

The Netherlands is one big traffic jam. So don't lie to me. 👎

Great video! We just want convenient mass public transit, not more of these anti-social metal boxes 🥲

Living in the dead center of Amsterdam, I'd say this video is pretty accurate and representative of general Dutch urban design. And so the internet is floating with videos like this. Here's the kicker though to all this Dutch design hype. There's no guarantee whatsoever that this would ever work in your average North American city. As designing streets like this would not only require a massive cultural and political change, there is a basic but huge geographical difference to overcome as well: North America is huge, the Netherlands is tiny. Good luck designing everything for public transport when that same public transport is horrible at getting you anywhere outside the city.

You are correct that the government is trying to “nudge” car users into public transportation by lowering allowed speeds and increase parking prices in large cities. Couple of things, there is a lot of difference between the major cities and smaller cities. Public transportation in Amsterdam is great, but less dense cities not so much. Specifically trains are unreliable and *very* expensive in the Netherlands as compared to other European countries. Still a great country to live in though!

3.36 That is NOT Amsterdam.

Why do these types of channels only ever visit Amsterdam? It is like only visiting New York as a representation of the whole USA.

I see the core problem the USA and other British derived political systems have is their outdated election systems. First-past-the-post is an old feudal British invention to keep power in the hands of a few elites, it is not very democratic. The Netherlands replaced it with proportional representation in 1917 and this has allowed the aims of our politicians to be much closer aligned to the needs of the voters. First-past-the-post has so many problems that I can't name them all. Safe seats, gerrymandering, swing voters, etc. should not exist in a democracy.

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We even have roads that litterally say: Cycling road , Cars are guests, so basicly Bikes etc have full priority and are litterally king of the road in those streets.

Most of the US problems are at political level. The political system is flawed because it can be manipulated by money. Both local and country wide politics are influenced by corporations who have nothing to gain from these changes. They are actively lobbying to keep cars as the main transport. Without a change in politics you will never see a change in transport.