Ppl won't take the bus.I live in Pontevedra and we are all use to just walking around,it's not that hard. It takes me 20-30 min by foot to croos the owl city to get a bus.Seems like a waste of money to take a bus to get from one side to another,and most of the time you don't really need to walk that much to find what u want. For emergency,you could just call a taxi,they are everywhere here.
I believe that it is not only impossible to have every street lined with stores but it is also unnecessary, quiet old town corners are also appreciated. You should always have in a near vicinity a place to relax and retreat from fast city life.
Exactly. It's the way every medieval European city looks. I think him being American is why he doesn't get this. Also the city center isn't just supported by its inhabitants living in the buildings above the shops, but for the entire city. So also the suburbs where they do have cars but probably take the bus or bike to town. And of course tourists.
Cars are NOT the future of transportation, I’m very much in favor of this city’s design. It’s absolutely beautiful. The fact that you HAVE to walk from place to place makes one’s experience there much more intimate, I’d imagine. The people you’d meet, taking in the architecture of the city, finding a cool restaurant or store. It’s beautiful exploration. The future of transportation is designing walkable cities that are also bike friendly. And also train transit. I agree with setting up trams. Not bus services, but trams. Trams are much better than buses. And if it’s not already possible, providing bike lanes could also help a lot. Honestly, I’ve never heard of this city before this video. I plan to travel the world and settle down in a country other than my birthplace, the United States. I’ll have to check out Pontevedra in the future, possibly even live there for a period of time to see what is truly like there. I love cities that are centered around the pedestrian, and not the automobile.
US made a car centric country, and people now are asking for the other extreme. There are ways of managing cities with automobiles. If not cars, bus, if the road isn't suited for large vehicles, than vans. Not everybody can walk easily, there are toddlers, elders, disable people, etc.
Thank´s for show my city on TH-cam. I was born in Pontevedra in 70`s and we are proud of this kind of city. If you want to comme to se in person, you are invited for me and you was welcome. Best regards and sorry for my english.
They are about to implement the same regulations in the city center area of Oslo, but under somewhat different conditions than in Pontevedra. In Oslo they already have good public transportation to the city center, with metro lines, trams and buses, making it easy to reach without a car. Also, only a tiny proportion of the population actually lives within these boarders, so no residential neighborhoods are affected. In essence, they now have a city center where people wonder freely without any real traffic to worry about. There's a starch difference between this and an American city, where a significant proportion of your time is spent on waiting by the traffic lights, and where motorised vehicles dictate how things go about in the city
The best city in Galicia nowadays. Awarded by the UN for its urbanism and quality of life in 2014 and defined by The Guardian in 2018 as a paradise city to live in.
Loved it, great city. I know quite a few people who live in Pontevedra city and are delighted. Those who criticize the city and say things against it are from the opposition party.
@@lws7394 Well it's smaller than it looks, and some of the people here aren't all nice. I wasn't born here, I am black, and something I get stared at as if I was something out of a circus. I am not saying they are racist, just there aren't a lot of people from different cultures around, so when they see one they stare, it's uncomfortable. I remember I went out with my 5 year old brother and a whole family on the other side of the rode just started at us, mother, father, kids and all, looking at one direction quietly.
The best city in Galicia indeed! I've visited it last year and loved it. Congratulations for your video Mike. You have perfectly reflected the reality of the city!
This makes sense since you can go from one side to the totally opposite in the city walking just 30min, also actually cars can drive in most of the roads, they're just made for pedestrians so it's easier to just walk rather than drive. Pontevedra it's a really quiet city and most of the time it's not really croud, specially in the mornings. It is nice but its made for families what makes it quite boring if you're young, and most of the people live in small towns around the city.
Congratulations on your amazing work Mike! Great video and very well documented! We've just visited Galicia from Madrid and Pontevedra city too of course and it's a great model city. Loved it. Beautiful and lovely indeed, our favourite city in Galicia indeed and with a real Galician flavour!
I really love this series. I want to travel one day, and this has expanded not only my awareness of great cities but an appreciation for the omnipresent struggle to be. Also, cars are very annoying. Why not trolleys? An effective trolley system would keep there from being any cars on the road still, while providing easy access to all regions of the city including places city-goers might have not planned on visiting until they pass it. Trolleys are so beautiful too. Of course they're kinda slow but I can't imagine that being too bad of a trade-off in such a relatively small city. The street car system in New Orleans has always been such a great form of access that often when I visit the city, it's easier just to leave my car in an outskirts parking garage, then walk or use street cars the whole day.
There are peacfull places here,tho he did say anything about them.There's a place called "La isla de escultura" which is very green and with a small river.
Nice video but I think you analyze this from an american perspective, I think in Spain we don´t really care about how close we are to a store or if we can´t take the car. We care about people more than stores so basically it will be more important if we can have a walk with friends or a beer or have a calm life going to the local market and that sort of thing rather than if we can go shopping easily.
Love dis place,n love the people of Pontevedra,carfree city💝 I appreciate respected Mayor Lores, want a leader like Mr Lores in our state,lots of love from NE India
Wow. I just found out about this city and already love it, as far as urban planning goes. Edinburgh, the nearest city to me, has a medieval Old Town and compact city centre too, but cars, taxis, and buses are crammed everywhere and sidewalks are narrow with uneven slabs and cobbles. There's only one pedestrianised shopping street and there's almost no public space to just sit down and watch the world go by, unless you feel like buying a coffee any time you wanna sit. The city streets don't have benches, there are few trees. The potential is there but sadly car ideology runs deep.
Manila, a former Spanish colony, might interest you. It's pre war shopping street called Escolta has lost to shopping mall and highways cut through its historic center. While our other cities like Cebu can show be a nice challenge for you - with a mountain, a resort island, a Spanish fort and a sprawling urban center.
I definitively have to travel to Pontevedra! To my knowledge, it is the largest example of a "car free town" in Europe, except for such tourist drenched locations like Venice or Amsterdam. But I disagree with Michael that it is the negative effect of the "car free" concept that there are parts of the old town where not many shops are located. Actually, in most cities, you will find such areas, cars or no cars. Old towns of cities have the problem that people who want to live in large modern houses or flats tend do move out. And shops cluster together wherever possible because they profit from the presence of other shops. Basically, for such quarters in car free old towns, the approach would be to create children friendly green spaces, even if that means taking down some houses. The quarters must become family friendly, with schools and kindergardens. The strict rules of monument protection, often blocking modern usage of these quarters, must be opened up. Then, together with the car free approach, those quarters will explode with life!
Service vehicles (such as cleaning, firefighters, police, ambulances, etc.) are authorized in the pedestrian zone, and it is intended that loading and unloading in vehicles for commercial purposes is carried out between 9 and 10 in the morning, establishing a maximum time of 30 minutes to be parked. Residents in the pedestrian zone also have passes to access that zone with their vehicles if they need it. The city is covered from end to end on foot in 20 minutes, so it is not a problem to arrive and stop in the outskirts or look for a paid parking. Pontevedra's pedestrian city model is not exportable to large cities, but it is exportable to residential areas on the outskirts of large cities or small cities with less than 100,000 inhabitants. The pedestrianization has been progressive, it began with the old part of the city (part built in stone centuries old), and later it was extended to the new areas that border the old part. And today it continues to expand even to areas far from the old part due to success and acceptance. When I was a kid you still saw trucks and car jams in those little alleys. Today you can occasionally see a police car passing at very low speed among pedestrians, or a resident of that area who takes his vehicle to his private garage located in that area. At night trucks pass by collecting garbage or cleaning the streets with water. But it is very punctual to see a vehicle in those areas.
Spain does an excellent job maintaining walkable towns and cities with tons of public plazas. Granted it's usually in the historic city centers, but they've made a concerted effort to make these people zones, and not car zones. It's always refreshing to go for a walk in any Spanish city and just see others out to enjoy it. Not because they have to, but because they want to.
spain has always seemed so spooky and mysterious to me. it might be medieval claustrophobia, or maybe its that my earliest perception of spain came from resident evil lol
Pontevedra es GALICIA. No tópicos españoles, pues Galicia posee cultura propia, idioma propio, y antropología social distinta. Saludos desde Santiago de Compostela, capital de Galicia y patrimonio de la humanidad.
@@JonahDominguez, dentro da estructura política do Estado español, sí. Pero, Galicia tamén é un país con cultura propia, lingua propia e antropoloxía social distinta. Eu sempre que pido queixo do país con marmelo para a sobremesa, non digo: "Por favor, póngame queso de la Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia con membrillo".
@@RDJ2 Spanish cities are very very dense, much denser than most other cities in Europe. They look like the urban equivalent of thick rainforests in the Amazon. You can't fit cars in most of the streets. Its insane actually. Look up the old towns of Zaragoza, Bilbao, Barcelona and Valencia. You will have your mind blown.
The streets should be shared with comercial cars at low speed limits. They should have dedicated bus routes running through the wider streets where busses can fit
dxelson I’m from Pontevedra and there are cars/vans which deliver goods. There’s no need to have bus routes because the city is rather small. There are buses to get to nearby villages but it makes no sense to have buses in the city.
Nice if the weather holds up. Tough to do in freezing winters or as a senior citizen with limited ability to walk. Here in Troy NY each May - October several city blocks are closed for a farmer’s market. It is good.
I've traveled all over the EU and east Asia and people in both places get around in all kinds of weather without building for cars the way we do in the US. Many people making your argument just don't want to give their cars up. See it all the time in CA politics.
I do prefer walking over driving. I do not own a personal vehicle. I dress for our local weather. However I am fully retired and live in an independent living community. I see everyday how extensive use of personal vehicles has substituted for physical therapy, “drive there it is easier than the bus or walking”. This forms lessons for me and upsets me at the same time.
the weather in Galicia is actually not so good. It rains quite often, year round. When you take this into account, and how strong the European periphery has suffered from the economic crisis since 2008, it is pretty surprising how well Pontevedra is doing -- how many restaurants can operate, how many shops, how many people are underway.
zah fares we have buses, but not for the center. it's 2'5 km from outskirt to the opposite outskirt, it's really really really small, you can't get tired (except when you go to the beach) 😁😁 Also the elderly people is fine with that so (The sick thing yes, because the emergency hospital is a bit far away😅)
It makes me sad seeing this development. Not the removal of cars, but the complete lack of imagination in what the freed area can be used for since the answer is always and only shopping. If replacing a car trip to a good friend for a cup of coffee to a walk to a café and a new pair of jeans - what have really been gained?
this is a nice video. however I have some feedback. you shouldve perhaps shown a map if there exists of how much of downtown was actually converted to pedestrian. in regards to reduction in emissions is that total reductions in the city or just from cars? you mostly just lack some details, some of your script appears to be a little repetitive and dragged out without much purpose. your voice also sounds a little unsure (see 3:15 for example, not sure if youre talking about this like its a bad or good thing), and makes it difficult to convey your point. other than that great video.
Try to watch Albacete, you never see a more compact city in your own life, 200.000 people in a small size city But and that's when the things go crazy, it's in a complete flat area, some parts of the city outside the main city road aree growing without any order, lots of industrial zone are poping everywhere. It's you ever wonder how a 20 floors building match around a 3 floors tiny houses and small roads, with an urban sprawl without order, suburban zones without paved roads. Try to spend some time, Albacete it's a match, and that's in a first world country. The old center was completely demolish to build new residential and offices, even destroying a completely district. Hope you see it, Saludos desde Albacete :)
Hey, I stayed in Albacete once. It amazed me that you could pretty much walk across it in half an hour. I believe it got flattened in the civil war so not much old town unfortunately.
@@colinmacdonald5732 Yeah, it was flatenned in some areas. Luftwafe likes to drop bombs in the city center :/ But the city developed lots of shelters and the population didn't sufferd to much casualties. Back to the urbanism question, nope the main destruction of historic buildings began in the 50's and 60's until the 80's. Albacete was one of the fastest growing cities in Spain, from 70.000 people in the 60's to 140.000 in the 90's, and 170.000 nowadays in the urban core. Corruption and economic interest do the rest. And yeah the city is beyond dense, some district have one of the higher's population density in all Europe, compiting with monsters like Madrid or Barcelona.
Hmmm. One observation. You so often mention ways how to spend money that it seems restaurants and shops are the most important places in the city. It just seems strange from my perspective because me or my friends rarely go to such places more often than once a week.
@@ligametis pues sí, y además, es una de las primeras cosas que aprenden los niños. En castellano (en España,por lo menos) nunca se dice YO Y MIS AMIGOS, sino MIS AMIGOS Y YO. Definitivamente, no sé a cual idioma grosero te refieres.
Mass transit can do that. You actually pointed it out so the car-centric mindset is a little ironic. You are also forgetting a huge element: bicycles. This commentary just screams North American. Edit: Not to mention, all these were based on Google Streetview. As if it's always daylight in there and people should always be outside at any point of the day.
Class video, I have only one complaint however. You showed the UK flag, yet referred to the country of England, which has a different flag. Cheers P.S. just finished watching, please try not to speak in such high tones, as is very annoying
You should look at Ljubljana as well. Established pedestrian zone since 2006, now cramed with people, residents and tourists alike. www.google.com/maps/@46.0445583,14.5056675,104a,35y,355.02h,76.62t/data=!3m1!1e3 You can even see some differences between streetview and 3D lidar, since they've been implemented in the last 5 years.
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You gota a few things wrong at the beginning, like the part where you say Pontevedra was the cultural centre of Galicia
I heard a term mentioned this week, "Newsy", you know that voice that narrators used in the old news reels? Talking real fast and accentuating words in odd places, to create a sense of panic and urgency to the news item, that is ironic and bothersome. I guess that is what this video series reminds me of. Starting off with Carly Simon, or is it Carole King? You are immediately reverted back to at least 1970 in your mindset when watching these videos. Then you get Michael's fast but, rythmic, "newsy" voice taking you back a bit further in history, showing you map shots which serve as sort of a crude news reel of something that is happening over a long period of time over vast geography, almost like a world war documentary.
Pero como terminé viendo esta frikada? Economia circular, devolver espacios a la gente, movilidad e integracion de espacios verdes. Creo q "funciona" x q es una ciudad pequeña en tamaño, como ejemplo: aunq las estaciones de bus y tren esten en las afueras, para una persona sin problemas de movilidad, llegar al centro de la ciudad le lleva media hora. The bigger problem of this city , in my own opinion, are his citizens and the lack of jobs . The urbanistical city model also has some problems, is not ideal. It presents some doubts like x example what to do with the cars, you dont need it to live in Pontevedra, but u need it to go out of Pontevedra , cause is just a Town, so you need parkings, but if u live in the center u havent them...
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Pontevedra is the model for a city for me, beautiful design, well executed
the same two tones at the end of each sentence are driving me kind of crazy 😂
He would be way more successful without that
I came to say the exact same thing!!
OMG , i can't unhear it now xD, GOD DAMN IT
Every sentence is a sales pitch. I find it hilarious.
Talks too fast, too high, too excited.
I live in Pontevedra, and is a great city, beautiful and quiet, perfect for walking and practice sports. I encourage everybody to visit it.
Eeeeehhhh Pontevedra toooma
I can't wait to visit, maybe later this year.
Estuve la semana pasada, es una ciudad preciosa, volveré pronto!
Ppl won't take the bus.I live in Pontevedra and we are all use to just walking around,it's not that hard. It takes me 20-30 min by foot to croos the owl city to get a bus.Seems like a waste of money to take a bus to get from one side to another,and most of the time you don't really need to walk that much to find what u want. For emergency,you could just call a taxi,they are everywhere here.
What about bikes?
That's a city for scooters but if they allow it, it would be everywhere lol
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I believe that it is not only impossible to have every street lined with stores but it is also unnecessary, quiet old town corners are also appreciated. You should always have in a near vicinity a place to relax and retreat from fast city life.
Exactly. It's the way every medieval European city looks. I think him being American is why he doesn't get this. Also the city center isn't just supported by its inhabitants living in the buildings above the shops, but for the entire city. So also the suburbs where they do have cars but probably take the bus or bike to town. And of course tourists.
Cars are NOT the future of transportation, I’m very much in favor of this city’s design. It’s absolutely beautiful. The fact that you HAVE to walk from place to place makes one’s experience there much more intimate, I’d imagine. The people you’d meet, taking in the architecture of the city, finding a cool restaurant or store. It’s beautiful exploration.
The future of transportation is designing walkable cities that are also bike friendly. And also train transit. I agree with setting up trams. Not bus services, but trams. Trams are much better than buses. And if it’s not already possible, providing bike lanes could also help a lot.
Honestly, I’ve never heard of this city before this video. I plan to travel the world and settle down in a country other than my birthplace, the United States. I’ll have to check out Pontevedra in the future, possibly even live there for a period of time to see what is truly like there. I love cities that are centered around the pedestrian, and not the automobile.
US made a car centric country, and people now are asking for the other extreme. There are ways of managing cities with automobiles. If not cars, bus, if the road isn't suited for large vehicles, than vans. Not everybody can walk easily, there are toddlers, elders, disable people, etc.
Thank´s for show my city on TH-cam. I was born in Pontevedra in 70`s and we are proud of this kind of city. If you want to comme to se in person, you are invited for me and you was welcome. Best regards and sorry for my english.
Ayyyy... el inglés ,que no lo perfeccionamos aun
@@sergiob.5888 Si, no todos tenemos la titulación Cambridge en inglés como tu. Lo importante es no ir por la vida como un imbécil supino.
Your English very good Juan Matrella.
La práctica hace el maestro
They are about to implement the same regulations in the city center area of Oslo, but under somewhat different conditions than in Pontevedra.
In Oslo they already have good public transportation to the city center, with metro lines, trams and buses, making it easy to reach without a car. Also, only a tiny proportion of the population actually lives within these boarders, so no residential neighborhoods are affected. In essence, they now have a city center where people wonder freely without any real traffic to worry about.
There's a starch difference between this and an American city, where a significant proportion of your time is spent on waiting by the traffic lights, and where motorised vehicles dictate how things go about in the city
licencetostay007 I agree and I live in a USA small city.
The best city in Galicia nowadays. Awarded by the UN for its urbanism and quality of life in 2014 and defined by The Guardian in 2018 as a paradise city to live in.
I live there,not as good as It sounds
I live here, and all for you...
Loved it, great city. I know quite a few people who live in Pontevedra city and are delighted. Those who criticize the city and say things against it are from the opposition party.
@@jrcervincervin2782 what is it that you don't like ? ( Apart from the rainfall and it being a small provincial city .)
@@lws7394 Well it's smaller than it looks, and some of the people here aren't all nice. I wasn't born here, I am black, and something I get stared at as if I was something out of a circus. I am not saying they are racist, just there aren't a lot of people from different cultures around, so when they see one they stare, it's uncomfortable. I remember I went out with my 5 year old brother and a whole family on the other side of the rode just started at us, mother, father, kids and all, looking at one direction quietly.
The best city in Galicia indeed! I've visited it last year and loved it. Congratulations for your video Mike. You have perfectly reflected the reality of the city!
This makes sense since you can go from one side to the totally opposite in the city walking just 30min, also actually cars can drive in most of the roads, they're just made for pedestrians so it's easier to just walk rather than drive. Pontevedra it's a really quiet city and most of the time it's not really croud, specially in the mornings. It is nice but its made for families what makes it quite boring if you're young, and most of the people live in small towns around the city.
Ahí está coño! Esa Moni! 😤😤 Arrrrrrrrrriba pontevedraaa HAHAHA
@@miguelb.7364 en qué momento tu también llegas a ver este vídeo
Congratulations on your amazing work Mike! Great video and very well documented! We've just visited Galicia from Madrid and Pontevedra city too of course and it's a great model city. Loved it. Beautiful and lovely indeed, our favourite city in Galicia indeed and with a real Galician flavour!
I really love this series. I want to travel one day, and this has expanded not only my awareness of great cities but an appreciation for the omnipresent struggle to be. Also, cars are very annoying. Why not trolleys? An effective trolley system would keep there from being any cars on the road still, while providing easy access to all regions of the city including places city-goers might have not planned on visiting until they pass it. Trolleys are so beautiful too. Of course they're kinda slow but I can't imagine that being too bad of a trade-off in such a relatively small city. The street car system in New Orleans has always been such a great form of access that often when I visit the city, it's easier just to leave my car in an outskirts parking garage, then walk or use street cars the whole day.
There are peacfull places here,tho he did say anything about them.There's a place called "La isla de escultura" which is very green and with a small river.
Like para las personas que viven en pontevedra como yo
Cómo es la vida en sociedad en ina ciudad como Pontevedra? parece una verdadera maravilla según el video
@@martinloren6119 ¿Todo lo que dice el video es cierto?
MOOOOM WE ARE ON TH-cam
Do you realize that some people... enjoy walking? And that cars destroy cities and the planet?
The city is as bizzarre as you might think "Shows a normal pedestrian street"
Shows a still picture taken in high noon probably (from Google Streetview) and he wonders why there are no people lmao as if there's no siesta.
Nice video but I think you analyze this from an american perspective, I think in Spain we don´t really care about how close we are to a store or if we can´t take the car. We care about people more than stores so basically it will be more important if we can have a walk with friends or a beer or have a calm life going to the local market and that sort of thing rather than if we can go shopping easily.
Esta ciudad, Pontevedra, es de GALICIA.
Love dis place,n love the people of Pontevedra,carfree city💝 I appreciate respected Mayor Lores, want a leader like Mr Lores in our state,lots of love from NE India
Perfectly balanced (almost), as all thing should be
Oh i see, you're a man of culture as well
Wow. I just found out about this city and already love it, as far as urban planning goes. Edinburgh, the nearest city to me, has a medieval Old Town and compact city centre too, but cars, taxis, and buses are crammed everywhere and sidewalks are narrow with uneven slabs and cobbles. There's only one pedestrianised shopping street and there's almost no public space to just sit down and watch the world go by, unless you feel like buying a coffee any time you wanna sit. The city streets don't have benches, there are few trees. The potential is there but sadly car ideology runs deep.
Manila, a former Spanish colony, might interest you. It's pre war shopping street called Escolta has lost to shopping mall and highways cut through its historic center. While our other cities like Cebu can show be a nice challenge for you - with a mountain, a resort island, a Spanish fort and a sprawling urban center.
I definitively have to travel to Pontevedra! To my knowledge, it is the largest example of a "car free town" in Europe, except for such tourist drenched locations like Venice or Amsterdam. But I disagree with Michael that it is the negative effect of the "car free" concept that there are parts of the old town where not many shops are located. Actually, in most cities, you will find such areas, cars or no cars. Old towns of cities have the problem that people who want to live in large modern houses or flats tend do move out. And shops cluster together wherever possible because they profit from the presence of other shops.
Basically, for such quarters in car free old towns, the approach would be to create children friendly green spaces, even if that means taking down some houses. The quarters must become family friendly, with schools and kindergardens. The strict rules of monument protection, often blocking modern usage of these quarters, must be opened up. Then, together with the car free approach, those quarters will explode with life!
I will move to Pontevedra at the end of this month.Hope everything will be fine😄
Looks like the perfect area for a Segway
What about service vehicles for commercial and residential how do they operate in the alleyways?
Service vehicles (such as cleaning, firefighters, police, ambulances, etc.) are authorized in the pedestrian zone, and it is intended that loading and unloading in vehicles for commercial purposes is carried out between 9 and 10 in the morning, establishing a maximum time of 30 minutes to be parked.
Residents in the pedestrian zone also have passes to access that zone with their vehicles if they need it.
The city is covered from end to end on foot in 20 minutes, so it is not a problem to arrive and stop in the outskirts or look for a paid parking.
Pontevedra's pedestrian city model is not exportable to large cities, but it is exportable to residential areas on the outskirts of large cities or small cities with less than 100,000 inhabitants.
The pedestrianization has been progressive, it began with the old part of the city (part built in stone centuries old), and later it was extended to the new areas that border the old part. And today it continues to expand even to areas far from the old part due to success and acceptance.
When I was a kid you still saw trucks and car jams in those little alleys. Today you can occasionally see a police car passing at very low speed among pedestrians, or a resident of that area who takes his vehicle to his private garage located in that area. At night trucks pass by collecting garbage or cleaning the streets with water. But it is very punctual to see a vehicle in those areas.
Spain does an excellent job maintaining walkable towns and cities with tons of public plazas. Granted it's usually in the historic city centers, but they've made a concerted effort to make these people zones, and not car zones. It's always refreshing to go for a walk in any Spanish city and just see others out to enjoy it. Not because they have to, but because they want to.
Esta ciudad, Pontevedra, es de GALICIA.
Hey Im from Pontevedra and just saying this is so cool!!
Be careful with Parrulo or Canario, the local drunks of the place.
Jajajajaja
spain has always seemed so spooky and mysterious to me. it might be medieval claustrophobia, or maybe its that my earliest perception of spain came from resident evil lol
Pontevedra es GALICIA. No tópicos españoles, pues Galicia posee cultura propia, idioma propio, y antropología social distinta. Saludos desde Santiago de Compostela, capital de Galicia y patrimonio de la humanidad.
@@placidobaamonde6374 lo siento, pero galicia esta en el pais de españa correcto?
@@JonahDominguez, dentro da estructura política do Estado español, sí. Pero, Galicia tamén é un país con cultura propia, lingua propia e antropoloxía social distinta. Eu sempre que pido queixo do país con marmelo para a sobremesa, non digo: "Por favor, póngame queso de la Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia con membrillo".
Banning cars outright is a great idea as long as we get subways, busses, trams & trains to replace them
This guys was born with urban design in his blood!!
In fact, that is a very commun phenomen around spanish city centres. Not only Pontevedra, even it being the peoneer.
Medieval cities all across Europe actually.
@@RDJ2 not on this scale
@@RDJ2 Spanish cities are very very dense, much denser than most other cities in Europe. They look like the urban equivalent of thick rainforests in the Amazon. You can't fit cars in most of the streets. Its insane actually. Look up the old towns of Zaragoza, Bilbao, Barcelona and Valencia. You will have your mind blown.
Now imagine if the low rise homes we're populated apartment blocks
One big omission: bicycles
Love these videos! Can you Bristol in englahd please
I'm hearing an English speaker talking about my Galician city. This surely is something else.
Why should that be odd? Your comment is absurd.
This is what I'm saying, liks I'm just throwing ideas here but imagine like New York, but no cars. Or Tokyo, but no cars. Bro, just imagine.
That would be great
More and more people are moving to the city centre, so the streets get less and less emptier with time.
idk if i had watched this before
top of the list of places i never want to be :D why is this being recommended to a car guy?
The streets should be shared with comercial cars at low speed limits. They should have dedicated bus routes running through the wider streets where busses can fit
dxelson I’m from Pontevedra and there are cars/vans which deliver goods. There’s no need to have bus routes because the city is rather small. There are buses to get to nearby villages but it makes no sense to have buses in the city.
Spain is the nicest country ever
portugal caralho
MrMiniTako pontevedra is in spain
Unemployment + immigration
@@Manu_08999 which is necessary. also diversity is lovely and makes the country stronger and more interesting
Nice if the weather holds up. Tough to do in freezing winters or as a senior citizen with limited ability to walk. Here in Troy NY each May - October several city blocks are closed for a farmer’s market. It is good.
There are taxis everywhere...
I've traveled all over the EU and east Asia and people in both places get around in all kinds of weather without building for cars the way we do in the US. Many people making your argument just don't want to give their cars up. See it all the time in CA politics.
I do prefer walking over driving. I do not own a personal vehicle. I dress for our local weather. However I am fully retired and live in an independent living community. I see everyday how extensive use of personal vehicles has substituted for physical therapy, “drive there it is easier than the bus or walking”. This forms lessons for me and upsets me at the same time.
jrcervin cervin taxies are expensive and slow here.
the weather in Galicia is actually not so good. It rains quite often, year round. When you take this into account, and how strong the European periphery has suffered from the economic crisis since 2008, it is pretty surprising how well Pontevedra is doing -- how many restaurants can operate, how many shops, how many people are underway.
Dude, your channel is awesome but your microphone is way too silent compared to the music
Andreas or the music is too loud.
Do one on Delft! It has similar walkability + bikeability!
I generally like your videos, but on this one it looks like you where born in a car or a car city, USA by all means; you wont like Venice then...
I think your videos are consistently well made and it's a shame you don't have more views
Don't you think that micro-transit like scooters can be a good solution between cars and tiring yourself out by walking?
Bikes
why? you only have to walk 20 minutes as much ( and I live in the outskirt)
@@teresamaqui1200 but having to option is always a plus, think of the elderly or a sick or tired person walking all day :)
zah fares we have buses, but not for the center. it's 2'5 km from outskirt to the opposite outskirt, it's really really really small, you can't get tired (except when you go to the beach) 😁😁 Also the elderly people is fine with that so
(The sick thing yes, because the emergency hospital is a bit far away😅)
Or taxis
It makes me sad seeing this development. Not the removal of cars, but the complete lack of imagination in what the freed area can be used for since the answer is always and only shopping. If replacing a car trip to a good friend for a cup of coffee to a walk to a café and a new pair of jeans - what have really been gained?
this is a nice video. however I have some feedback. you shouldve perhaps shown a map if there exists of how much of downtown was actually converted to pedestrian. in regards to reduction in emissions is that total reductions in the city or just from cars? you mostly just lack some details, some of your script appears to be a little repetitive and dragged out without much purpose. your voice also sounds a little unsure (see 3:15 for example, not sure if youre talking about this like its a bad or good thing), and makes it difficult to convey your point. other than that great video.
Whenever i watch a Michael Beach video, i can't seem to find out if he likes the city he's talking about or not.
What's the song at the end ?
I think it's he singing.
Try to watch Albacete, you never see a more compact city in your own life, 200.000 people in a small size city
But and that's when the things go crazy, it's in a complete flat area, some parts of the city outside the main city road aree growing without any order, lots of industrial zone are poping everywhere. It's you ever wonder how a 20 floors building match around a 3 floors tiny houses and small roads, with an urban sprawl without order, suburban zones without paved roads. Try to spend some time, Albacete it's a match, and that's in a first world country. The old center was completely demolish to build new residential and offices, even destroying a completely district. Hope you see it, Saludos desde Albacete :)
Hey, I stayed in Albacete once. It amazed me that you could pretty much walk across it in half an hour. I believe it got flattened in the civil war so not much old town unfortunately.
@@colinmacdonald5732 Yeah, it was flatenned in some areas. Luftwafe likes to drop bombs in the city center :/ But the city developed lots of shelters and the population didn't sufferd to much casualties. Back to the urbanism question, nope the main destruction of historic buildings began in the 50's and 60's until the 80's. Albacete was one of the fastest growing cities in Spain, from 70.000 people in the 60's to 140.000 in the 90's, and 170.000 nowadays in the urban core. Corruption and economic interest do the rest. And yeah the city is beyond dense, some district have one of the higher's population density in all Europe, compiting with monsters like Madrid or Barcelona.
Hmmm. One observation. You so often mention ways how to spend money that it seems restaurants and shops are the most important places in the city. It just seems strange from my perspective because me or my friends rarely go to such places more often than once a week.
Well...I live here and u have no other choice.There are different types.There's a cinema and it's right next to a gaming center
He's often says restaurants, as a short-hand for the services economy, which is how most people work.
MY FRIENDS AND I, never EVER "me and my friends", which is a disgusting way to speak.
@@marcnissanwoodworth7748 seriously? In my language it would be incorrect to say as you suggest. Sorry for not being fluent in third language...
@@ligametis pues sí, y además, es una de las primeras cosas que aprenden los niños. En castellano (en España,por lo menos) nunca se dice YO Y MIS AMIGOS, sino MIS AMIGOS Y YO. Definitivamente, no sé a cual idioma grosero te refieres.
Are those original songs
Hey, i live there
I wonder about work/study commute, what of the people that live there and work outside, how is the daily commute?
They need to do this in Lahore.
Car, car, car, what about bicyles
I'm if Pontevedra soy de Pontevedra
seems ambivalent commentary...i would vote to keep it no cars period....so burnt out on cars!
Had to bail after 9 minutes, couldn't handle the overly emphatic narration.
20 year to wet that petonality in my city
Mass transit can do that. You actually pointed it out so the car-centric mindset is a little ironic. You are also forgetting a huge element: bicycles.
This commentary just screams North American.
Edit: Not to mention, all these were based on Google Streetview. As if it's always daylight in there and people should always be outside at any point of the day.
This is the city of oxygen maybe....can upgrade to have more tree maybe..
Kinda reminds me of a COD map.
Class video, I have only one complaint however. You showed the UK flag, yet referred to the country of England, which has a different flag. Cheers
P.S. just finished watching, please try not to speak in such high tones, as is very annoying
i am from pontevedra
Excuse me Sir, pero se dice "soy de Pontevedra de toda la vida".
So its like most old towns in Europe?
Blanco tea
Not really, Pontevedra has a lot of old buildings but it's not more older than Santiago's
marta sanchez fuentes I mean old towns with old buildings of course
Most European cities I've been to are overrun by traffic, and have only very small pedestrian zones. This seems very different.
except a hundred times bigger
You should look at Ljubljana as well. Established pedestrian zone since 2006, now cramed with people, residents and tourists alike.
www.google.com/maps/@46.0445583,14.5056675,104a,35y,355.02h,76.62t/data=!3m1!1e3
You can even see some differences between streetview and 3D lidar, since they've been implemented in the last 5 years.
You gota a few things wrong at the beginning, like the part where you say Pontevedra was the cultural centre of Galicia
Michael is right. Pontevedra was the cultural centre of Galicia at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century.
Do a video about Santiago de Compostela 🙏🏻
I heard a term mentioned this week, "Newsy", you know that voice that narrators used in the old news reels? Talking real fast and accentuating words in odd places, to create a sense of panic and urgency to the news item, that is ironic and bothersome. I guess that is what this video series reminds me of. Starting off with Carly Simon, or is it Carole King? You are immediately reverted back to at least 1970 in your mindset when watching these videos. Then you get Michael's fast but, rythmic, "newsy" voice taking you back a bit further in history, showing you map shots which serve as sort of a crude news reel of something that is happening over a long period of time over vast geography, almost like a world war documentary.
Do you always talk with an ironic tone?
Too much grey on the floor
What a crappy commentary
Pero como terminé viendo esta frikada? Economia circular, devolver espacios a la gente, movilidad e integracion de espacios verdes. Creo q "funciona" x q es una ciudad pequeña en tamaño, como ejemplo: aunq las estaciones de bus y tren esten en las afueras, para una persona sin problemas de movilidad, llegar al centro de la ciudad le lleva media hora. The bigger problem of this city , in my own opinion, are his citizens and the lack of jobs . The urbanistical city model also has some problems, is not ideal. It presents some doubts like x example what to do with the cars, you dont need it to live in Pontevedra, but u need it to go out of Pontevedra , cause is just a Town, so you need parkings, but if u live in the center u havent them...
Pontevedra se recorre de extremo a extremo en 20 minutos. Lo de la falta de trabajo, y que los parkings son un negociete del ayuntamiento es cierto.
Mike, from what I saw you never visited Pontevedra and just used Google to make this analysis or review. That is unbalanced !!
That's literally what he says he does. "I'm Mike, and I just look at a map!"