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4:00 this stupidity only Americans can say. Increasing the tax base WTF You Americans are to put it midly simply different

Thank you for this superbly crafted, informative, enlightening, and inspiring video! Watching from the Netherlands, I am utterly impressed and excited. Clearly, the mayor and his fellow citizens had the courage, tenacity, and vision to create a vibrant, flourishing, and inviting city where people enjoy congregating. The message is simple and direct: To create memorable places, build attractive, walkable communities that tantalise the senses. Cars, wide roads, car parks, malls, and strip development can never transport one to... nirvana.

Carmel has a large Highschool with 5,000+ Student's it decent but not bigger than my Highschool in NY!

Gentrification involves a heck of alot more than investing. It's radical takeover, extensive upgrading and mass eviction. Yes, the area becomes more desirable only to a certain demographic which is the beneficiary of gentrification.

my biggest complaint is that they're usually not washable easily or safely. they force people to dip into the parking lots off of safer sidewalks.

So, just to be clear, we're not supposed to raise up struggling communities, we're supposed to let them stay poor and shitty forever? Isn't this just investment? Why can't the poor person get another job? Aren't low skill jobs extremely abundant?

Grew up in Carmel, haven't lived there since 2013 since the military. Don't even recognize it any more.

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The problem with suburbs in US cities is that markets, shops, cafes etc are located very far from homes, so people are forced to use cars just to go buy bread. To solve this, you have to put the shops, markets, cafes etc close to homes, close to houses, this way people will only need to walk to buy their food, because the shop, market, cafe etc will be close to their house, and in this way the use of cars will be very low and the streets will automatically be designed and focused on people, with large sidewalks, town sqaures, parks etc etc, where people meet and spend pleasant moments and meet new people. etc BRING THE MARKETS, STORES, CAFES ETC VERY CLOSE TO HOMES, AND NO ONE WILL NEED TO USE CARS ANYMORE.

More and more people move away from Paris, as rents are incredibly high. So many apartments are being converted to Airbnb accommodations. While this in general is a quite negative development, the positive side is less car traffic.

What an amazing mayor the people of Carmel have.

I live in Hamilton County ,Indiana. Carmel ,Fishers ,Westfield, and Noblesville are a woke. If you're middle class, good luck feeling welcome. Those towns are high class, and you're not allowed in it. The mayors are criminals and complete idiots. 💯

Grew up in noblesville live in Westfield now ( right near Carmel) cool to see this on TH-cam

So glad I'm like 30 min away from Carmel. Maybe I'll make a day out of it to visit with the girl

We chose to move to West Virginia for our retirement. The stunning beauty of this state is its most valuable resource. In the six years we've lived in Mercer County, we've seen growth and improvement. Because the economy has been strong we've seen an uptick in tourism. A new National Park is also drawing tourists to the point where surrounding towns are experiencing growing pains. The problem of poverty in West Virginia will change as the coal industry dies out. A focus on quality public school education is crucial to future generations.

Even more than the walkability of the downtown area, I think all the roundabouts across the city have made the biggest difference. I remember when the very first big double-loop roundabout was made, just down the street from my childhood home.

Meanwhile here in DFW, Texas, the newspapers regularly run explanatory pages about roundabouts to teach Texans how to use them.

Good video but the background music was too loud

What warmer climatic region luke africa and india,,how to plan cities there

A challenge with condos is governance. After living in a condo for 16 years, financial mis management, transparency, etc have been major issues. Saying that, I have visited Carmel and this fine video still does not do how well it. Looks justice

A lot of suburbs around Indianapolis are starting to adopt the building practices Carmel has pioneered. Westfield, Fishers, Noblesville, Plainfield, Brownsburg, and Broad Ripple have all built “city centers” but none yet on the same scale as Carmel. Avon has a population of 50k, and literally never even had a downtown, just started moving dirt for their city center development. Carmel has set a model that can work in any suburb in America!

14:35 lol they walked into the cycling lane

This is NOT a suburb, this is just a small city, and probably the very type of environment that suburb dwellers want to get away from. I live rural and never want to live in any type of city again...

Good video, missed opportunity to talk about the successful roundabout experiment though.

It’s great if you’re white

You could not pay me to live there. So many uppity douchcanoes

This is incredibly impressive. Huge kudo's to the mayor, he is aptly 🧠named! I would think that underground parking would be the way to go. Yes, maybe expensive on the front end, but it hides cars from sight, it puts people where they want to be: in the shopping center. You don't have to heat/cool the place because it's below ground (same temp year round), AND you can even charge both residents and shoppers to use the parking garage. Put auto-scan parking tags on cars, like tolltags, that can be 'refilled' automatically when the parking funds get low. Charge residents $50-$60/month for parking as part of their rent, and shoppers, maybe a scalable price: $10, $20, $30, with funds taken out as they're used. Turn off the parking charge for special events like at Christmas. And if folks move out of the area, they can get any monies left on their 'tolltag' refunded to them. BTW, does the mayor 'school' other mayors in other cities on how to do things right like Carmel has done???

What if the Redevelopment were to include more Churches and less Liquor Stores?

This is also what West Coast Rap Pioneer Too $hort was talking about in one of his Rap Songs, titled "Surviving the Game", and I quote where he said "Computers taking over, Money's obsolete, now they buying all the houses in the Ghetto Streets". This is exactly what $hort Dawg was talking about.

How were those Communities and Neighborhoods more Culturally Diverse if the Cultural Typography was mostly Latin American? That is what I call Unequally Balanced Cultural Diversity. Think about it, ... if the Population of So-called "White Americans" does not match the Population of So-called "Non-White Americans"? That is a lie.

This is exactly what RFK Jr. was talking about when he said that the big name Corporate Real-Estate Banks are Strip-Mining the Middle-class of their Equity.

Not true. Only a small portion actually looks like this. NJ and NY have far more towns like this with public transport and all. Leave the city center of Carmel and it’s your typical boring suburb.

Fuck all those double roundabouts

Northside native here. What's really unfortunate is that there's a saying said a lot around the area. "Nobody in Indiana likes Carmel except those who live in Carmel." The idea of sprawl is so integrated in the culture here so Carmel kind of makes a lot of people upset. They have an affluent community, a fantastic public school system, and a lovely city. People like to hate on success, especially when they are not a part of it. Personally, I do not and have never lived in Carmel, but the short drive to Carmel is always worth it for me. I love that city and the walkability is fantastic. As an enjoyer of the arts, it's a wonderful reason to be there as well. I was fortunate enough to go to sound tests when the Palladium was being built and have been there multiple times since. The art around the city is amazing and you can often find performances throughout. They have invested in their city and it is paying off in huge dividends, and on top of that, they use that to continue investing in their city. Carmel's design has been so successful that nearby cities such as Noblesville, Westfield, and Fishers have all started adopting parts of what they do into their cities raising the quality of the cities around.It is certainly unlike any other part of Indiana I have been to, let alone the rest of the country.

Underground parking is always creepy and claustrophobic, so no for me.

Yeah, but it's Indiana. No thanks.

This is the most expensive place to live in Indiana. And before you say it’s still Indiana prices, remember if you live in Indiana you’re making Indiana wages

Good news people are rehumanizing us after the long era of just being tools for the capitalist

I grew up here and it was completely different just 20 years ago. It is everchanging and honestly the safest, most beautiful suburb in the U.S.

Shoutout Carmel band

Don't let Carmel folks hear you calling it a suburb of Indianapolis. They definitely think of themselves as a separate city.

I'd choose traffic analysis cameras and sensors than this. why? because AI can only make assumptions based on given data and is not as dynamic as Traffic Analysis System ( plus traffic analysis systems already have AI now so why bother on this?)

Carmel has become a victim of its own successes. Almost every patch of green that was left in Carmel has been taken over by apartment buildings. Not homes, mind you, but apartments. They are cropping up everywhere, changing the demographics of the city, and ruining the feel that people used to love.

Yeah, but you gotta live in the shithole that is Indianapolis, and the worst state in America that gave us people like Pence.

We should consider Passive Solar and Permaculture techniques into future urban designs

We need more cool walkable towns around the US

$1.5 BILLION in debt. That's the cost of building these walkable communities. I live just NE of the dividing line between Carmel and Westfield and Noblesville. Carmel is just as close as the other two. I can use all of the ammenities in this video without the taxes...

There has to be more than just a shared driveway to get people to talk to each other. I live in a nice city in a condominium and we have one single driveway and almost no one talks to anyone. In fact, people just walk past you without even acknowledging you exist. Denmark has something else if those people talk to each other.

Carmel use to be a place to want to live and if you'r retired and don't ride a bicycle athletically it still might be, but for anybody else you likely don't want to live there anymore. I live in Indianapolis and most people hate having to go through Carmel Indiana ether in a car or on a bicycle on what they've done to the Monon Rail-Trail bicycle parkway. 0:38 This was the Monon railroad corridor. It should have a Rail-Trail bicycle parkway, but Carmel turned it into something less. Having a pedestrian way, which is on right, if done correctly should pull pedestrian traffic away from the bicycle path, but all the pedestrian traffic is walking two abreast on the bicycle path. Carmel also demeans bicycle use with a 15 mph speed limit in the Monon corridor where arterial bicycle paths should have a minimum design speed of 30 mph and Rail-Trials are far superior to that. It is likely better to use the parallel street for bicycling without the loopy treatment Carmel has done to the Monon bicycle parkway and its legal to go at normal road bicycle speeds. This is why bicycle parkways have to be protected by their own administrations. Parks departments and municipalities destroy them and seek to discourage various forms of normal bicycle use. Carmel has used traffic circles prolifically as traffic calming devices everywhere which deter through traffic. Note: Many of these are dangerous multi lane traffic circles 0:48 not a modern US roundabout which is a very specific type of traffic circle of a single lane with operating speed between 10 mph - 15 mph using yield merge traffic metering. Roundabouts should process traffic better than all-way stop sign controlled intersection, but are always detrimental to traffic flow of the primary road compared to a traffic light controlled intersection. True roundabouts themselves have good traffic records, but they are disorienting if having to go through more than one in a few minutes. Busy roundabouts encourage jumping into them above their preferred operating speed maximum of 15 mph depending on vigilant attention of other entering traffic. This behavior causes people to run stop sign intersections in the same manor, but without the primary road traffic being vigilant causing broad side T-boning. I saw that behavior where the stop sign running vehicle behaved like they were entering one of the many true roundabouts in Greenfield Indiana causing the car in front of me to crash into it. When looking at traffic crashes the effect roundabouts have on treating stop sign controlled intersection in the same manor has to be considered. Both intersecting roads need to be at about the same traffic volume; in other words they are both primary roads, with a lot of left turning vehicles for a roundabout to out perform a traffic light. Roundabouts for intersecting roads with speed limits above 40 mph no longer save time over an all-way stop because even though not having to come to a complete stop to go through a lightly used roundabout the time spent at slow speeds to go around the roundabout compared to accelerating away from the stop takes longer. Putting roundabouts on high speed roads with speed limits above 40 mph encourages performance skid control of trying to take a 15 mph roundabout as chicane at 50 mph. High speed roads with speed limits over 40 mph should not have roundabouts. There may be situations where a traffic circle in busy semi-truck areas facilitates easy semi-truck turning around. Multi-lane traffic circles are dangerous compared to other intersection designs using traffic lights. It's understandable in Carmel why an individual neighborhood would want a roundabout entry to the primary road because it puts their traffic at typically low wait times to enter the primary road and makes a left turn into the neighborhood easy. That comes at a significant inconvenience and disorientating looping around to through traffic on the primary road over the use of a traffic light. If that happens more and more it becomes hell to try to drive anyplace.

I hope more places adopt this mentality. It’s so depressing seeing Florida just endlessly sprawl further and further away from any city center with the same poorly built homes anchored by the same generic box stores.