This is the final episode of Small Footprint, but let us know in the comments if you'd like to see more series like it in future. We’ve been so thrilled to explore small living more deeply and are incredibly grateful for all of your support that has brought us here. If you’re an architect or designer with a project we could feature, please share it with us at www.nevertoosmall.com/submissions Featured Architects/Designers: Claire Martin - @clairemartin.info Jefa Greenaway - www.greenawayarchitects.com.au/ Rob Adams Paty Rios - @riospaty Nicholas Gurney @xs_sml Check out our merch - www.nts.store Workspace by Never Too Small - www.nts.space Website www.nevertoosmall.com Instagram instagram.com/nvtsmall/ Facebook facebook.com/nvtsmall
Talking about building cites where sustainability and inclusivity are at the center of the community without addressing the lack of policies that'd ensure young adults and low income earners to be apart of those communities. Talking about how making the access easier to those green spaces for all public will enable cultural exchange and creating opportunities without mentioning that is ideal but not assured due to the class gap that can be felt at the cafés(talking about the expensive cup of coffee) within the surrounding of those green spaces . Only couples(multiple income streams) and single rich people can afford those apartments and that's okay...but don't make it something it is not.
Can't get enough of this! Sad to see this is the final episode, but feeling like it's the beginning for understanding in how to better building our cities and start thinking small. Would definitely love to see more in the future. Grateful for your incredible work with this miniseries.
As a future urban planner in Montreal, Canada, i'm not gonna lie, my eyes teared up at the end of this episode. Amazing series, and I can't wait to see future projects/series from you guys. Thank you :)
Inspiring series. It made me think about my own city/country with it's limitations and problems, but also it's potential. I feel so frustrated with our leaders and the snail's pace of positive change. However, introducing people to new ways of living and sustainable solutions can create upward pressure from us (the voters) and this gives me hope. I hope this series is just the beginning for your channel, I really enjoyed it!
G’day never too small I would love to see some tiny house living developed where are people who have wheelchairs in mind. In this particular video you talk of needing to include a diverse range of social economic groups within your pockets of neighbourhood. I would like to see some diversity that includes people who have some major mobility considerations. As a disability support worker I always found group homes to be incredibly problematic. It is helpful to be able to provide a centralised locational care for a group of individuals. However the individuals lose too much autonomy and social connection in the process. I felt that it would be amazing to see an apartment block built where level one is built as a group home and levels 2, 3, 4 are built for the family of the residents requiring the group home. This would mean that an individual can receive physical care from a team of professionals in a custom built workplace but also then go home to their love ones and receive social care.
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I felt so inspired as I watch this wonderful episode, that a few ideas pop up into my mind. Now I have a few projects to present to my local government. I'm looking forward to see more content like this
As someone who moved to Melbourne to study architecture I'm seriously inspired by N2S and its amazing to see the growth of this channel + seeing how what I'm taught is interconnected to some of the topics mentioned in this video. I always thought that Melbourne was a completed city but I think I've finally begun to see it in a new angle as there's still things that can be done to make it better, and its really amazing that the streets that I walk in are the same ones captured in the video. I really hope I get to meet N2S in the future and possibly work alongside them to learn more from them. Thank you for re-inspiring me about what an architect can do
Such a great series. I enjoyed the series a lot and I hope there's more series to come from NTS! I really love what Rob says "If we design cities with the people involved and understood what they wanted, I think you'll find much happier cities".
All these wonderful ideas need to be spread worldwide .built small apartments and community reconnect to nature find new ways working from home with flexible hours to be with your family and friends, more affordable apartments, save energy territories and balance the lives of the people that contribute for social contact, better and happier lives, hopefully, one of the things that will reduce air pollution and disaster of climate change.
It seems as though you focus more on renovating existing buildings, which I agree is very important. What I would like to see is a successful example of small neighborhood infill projects of very small homes.
Singapore's affordable housing model and policies have proven to be very sustainable, reasonable and pragmatic. And this week they just rolled out even more sensible improvements. There's never any one-size fits all solutions and every city/country needs to find what works for them, but I think lots of places should look closely at Singapore.
I'd Love to buy the book, since I've been subscribed to the channel for a long time now. But the price is too high for Brazil currency (60 aud equals almost 250 brl). Someday perhaps! Please keep doing the videos
Series like this really just make me sad. It makes so much sense. It serves to answer many modern problems. And where is the political will to hold developers to such standards? There isn't any.
Hey @NeverTooSmall team (or anyone who comes across this), what is that 3D art piece referenced at the 11:44 mark? Thanks! Lovely channel and this series is certainly thought-provoking.
This was an interesting Series, however I was not as upbeat as your apartments videos. I think that the format was too short, a documentary of 20/30 minutes or more would have been better so we can have deeper explanations and demonstrations. I also find the editing too “perfect” or “professional”. The problem is that you have incredible shots of cities, superb quality of image with nice cameras : and yet, I feel like content could be deepened. Maybe because I am French, it is more difficult to understand issues that Australian/northern American cities are encountering, since we don’t have highways crossing cities centers or hundred of kilometers of car depending suburbs. But do not get me wrong, the general idea behind the serie is great. I just am balanced on the final result, I feel like it has so much more potential. If I could rate this mini series, I would give it a 5 or 6 out of 10. I don’t want to hurt anyone that participated in this huge project, you did a great job of course! Last thing : I can’t wait to read your book, I will buy it for Christmas! I hope to see more diversified content on this channel, as well as expanding your small living serie into more countries. NTS is by far one of the best channels I follow 🖤🤍
At 8:20 we are discovering what was well known hundred years ago to Walter Burley-Griffin when he was designing the city of Canberra. He denied the big developers the opportunity to make profits out of the centre of the city, distributed the employment opportunities to town centres and that allowed a significant reduction of car traffic. We are not "drawn" to the city centre, I rarely go to the Melbourne CBD, actually I am avoiding it... We are not attracted to the crowds there, we are forced to it by the concentration of employment. With technology and better logistics there is no need for it. The price of land in the CBD is now perhaps half of what it was before the pandemic, but who is prepared to admit that? 🙂
You mean it took COVID for Aussie architects to figure this out, how people would like to live while in cities? That's only about a hundred years too late.
Steve Bracks proposed an urban growth boundary way back when... If only. Another key ingredient is the design of roads and transport networks to be safer for more modes of transport, in almost exactly the same way as we need mixed models for housing. I don't think we can truly live small-footprint while we allow ever-larger single-occupant SUVs to crowd our suburban streets. Worth checking out Not Just Bikes for some interesting content around transport infrastructure.
Thank you for creating this series with such thoughtfulness and consideration. Loved seeing Melbourne being highlighted in this one ❤️. Would also love to see more of these in depth episodes exploring other cities as well. Thank you so much for you channel! ✨👏
@@nevertoosmall just ordered the book (on Amazon, thanks for that international alternative). Can't wait to have a reminder of these places in my own home. Thanks
Glad to see projects from my city, Buenos Aires included in your book. The concepts of never too small are excellent and something I am gravitating latterly in my own project. Thank you for inspiring us.
I have really loved this series, it's been amazing, engaging, thought provoking... and it's come along at a time when I am significantly downsizing . Your series has quietly helped create a shift in focus for me...rather than the focus just being my new home, increasingly I'm thinking about this move I'm making being within a community...and just maybe I will go ahead and perhaps put a plank seat to encourage others walking by to sit and chat and enjoy the beautiful tree in my tiny yard that is such a feature of our neighbourhood ...these things belong to us all. I'm looking forward to your book as my Christmas gift and I'm really hoping you'll find the funding to continue with more in this series.
The point of being able to walk from place to place (like grocery store, café, park) is so, so important. I live in Germany in a not that big city, by foot the next “city centre” (most stores are empty, prices to high, not much there anymore) is about 25 Minutes away. But except for a bakery there is nothing on the way there nor in any other direction, where I could buy something, especially not quickly. The bus only comes every 40 Minutes, at evenings and weekends every hour, and takes 15 Minutes. I have a park and field to walk near by though. Then I stayed in Korea, in a city of very similar size. There I didn’t even have to walk five minutes to get to the next convenience store, small mart, café or anything. The way to the city centre also took about 25 Minutes, but there were all sorts of stores along the way, it didn’t feel long at all. I walked everywhere, I didn’t feel any need for busses. Small green spaces with benches were also easy to find. Sadly, though, to get a longer walk away from streets, you had to walk 20 to 30 minutes again, the small resting spaces were very, very small. But cats mostly stayed on the very big roads, a lot of roads had so little traffic, they didn’t have walks for pedestrians. Coming back home, I realised how much I walked in Korea and how little I walk in Germany. In Korea I missed having a garden and being so close to a park. In Germany I truly miss to be so close to convenience stores and marts, as well as cafés. I believe, in countries like Germany where the weather is often cold and rainy, having short ways to get what you need, to small stores, would be very important. It would certainly reduce the tendency to take a car just to buy hygiene stuff or when you have too little eggs to buy a few more. At the same time, having green spaces, benches and parks in rather close proximity is also so, so important. Imagine being stuck inside for home office or studies and needing a break but the next place to go is 20 minutes walk along a road. Instead, there should be a small green space, maybe just across the road or two minutes away, where one can sit down and breathe in and out for a bit.
Germany is sooo far behind on those almost utopic city scapes that are coming up. Cities are full of construction zones, traffic and gray concrete. Kind of tired of this here, the suburbs are better but still too americanized
@@Iaremoosable depends. In my city most streets don’t have a lane assigned for riding bicycles. Also I personally prefer to walk when it rains or snows than riding the bike as you can take an umbrella with you and your legs stay dry. And it does rain a lot in Germany.
Thankyou SO much for this incredible piece of art and such important education. I’ve loved learning more in depth about small footprint living and have felt enchanted by our beautiful Melbourne in a whole new way. You’ve really captured some of the ambience that I’ve always felt Melbs to have but not quite been able to describe, especially in connected contrast to other incredible cities like Amsterdam. The standout part for me was acknowledging the importance of authentic and ongoing amplification of First Nations contributions in urban development and think it would be great to continue acknowledging the traditional lands of each home that is featured on the channel. I hope you’re all feeling so chuffed with this magnificent outcome! Thanks again team. I’m very excited to purchase the book 🌱🌿
Whilst this series has been incredibly enjoyable, hits all the right thoughts on the topic and drives home really powerful messages, there is one really important component missing from the conversation: planners. We are talking about shaping cities. Interfaces between public domain and private spaces. Mixed uses and mixed tenures. Architects, urban designers, landscape architects all play essential roles in this process, but so too do planners. The series is talking about city growth boundaries, green belts, prioritising equitable public open space, encouraging densification. How do these become reality without town planning? These are planning matters first; not architecture or landscape design. This series would have been 100% comprehensive if discussions with planners were had. What are the barriers planners face day-to-day when trying to implement all the ideals discussed in this series? As planners, we know densification and limiting sprawl does amazing things for environmental and social sustainability. We know how important creating senses of place and community is for social wellbeing. But what are the barriers that exist in Australia's (and other countries') various planning frameworks that make it so difficult for this to occur? Cultural opposition? The 'Australian dream' of detached homes on the quarter acre block in the suburbs? A dependency on, and preference for, cars to move us around? Removing minimum apartment sizes from planning regulations and allowing the private market to dictate what gets built where isn't the answer either. Prescriptive controls exist to protect the public interest, not stifle it. I just wish this discussion was rounded out fully by having planners at the table, could have had some seriously interesting insights!
I agree with this sentiment AND it feels like the planners are the go-betweens from councils to residents and often there are a lot of politics involved that ends up seemingly only serving developers and the county board of supervisors. Unfortunately in a lot of communities there is a disconnect between local and regional planning as if each community somehow lives a vacuum and what happens on one side of the fence doesn't impact the other...sprawl is exactly the result of this (one community saying 'we don't want your dense building plan' and another further out community saying 'we'll take your development dollars and the property tax revenue thank you very much'). It's hard to get everyone on the same page and change people's minds...for me this series only reinforces beliefs I've held since 'Tiny House Nation' came out here in the US and I lived in basically a shed on the property of a very large manse while I was in grad school. We have to do more to normalize building/living small by de-incentivizing big building, car culture, big box consumerism and the sort of permissive wastefulness from wrecking ball building culture that doesn't focus on repurposing existing structures. This series and other videos on this channel is a great start for Australia and other featured communities; we really need a global mandate.
Love this series. I see potential learnings for a diverse range of industries viewing this series. We all want to belong. Where we live, where we work, where we study. It's important for our individual wellbeing and the health of our communities. This series is such important work with the potential to positively influence and shape our communities going forward.
Спасибо вам из Санкт-Петербурга. Надеюсь, что в Прекрасной России Будущего вместо жутких человейников, криминальных дворцов и повсеместных заборов будут счастливые люди и города.
Great series! My only critique is that it’s very centered on first world cities especially Melb. I understand that it’s co-produced by Screen Australia. But I honestly think that the very concept of “thinking small” could have benefiited more if cities from developing countries were included. Where is Manila, Jakarta, Accra, Delhi etc? These cities are the juggernaut when it comes to density. Surely they would have great ideas to contribute.
Thank you so much for making this and for helping to spread awareness. I am a designer by education, not currently working in design, but this is why I became a designer. To help change the world like this.
Glad to have enjoyed your works so far. In the future, I hope to know further your perspective on the financial aspect of young people in the future to own a house in urban-rural areas. The trend in property prices is likely to increase, but how could young people still reach the existing prices with fair and secure payment scheme. In addition to that, the issue of young people from outside the country who work in adopted countries (f.e. Australia) and want to own a house there seems also interesting to discuss to just open a conversation about whether citizenship status is an indicator that also determines the sustainability of owning property/house in adopted country. Thanks again for your wonderful project!
I have enjoyed this series enormously! Please continue documenting how humans are evolving in their living spaces...If we don't change, we will perish! Thank you🙏
Thank you so much for making this series! Talking about these things is so important and I hope that in the future these hopes that we have will bear something.
I have loved this series, I'm not an expert in this field by any stretch of the imagination. A lot of the ideas and concepts are very new to me. I want to devote some time to watching the whole series again, but with a notebook and pen handy to jot down some of my own thoughts and ideas that this series has triggered. Yes yes yes... more like this please. Thank you to the whole team for producing such high quality content that is beautifully filmed and for all of your speakers that contributed to the series. Thank you.
Would love to get the book, but shipping to Germany is more expensive than the book itself. Would be fine with slower delivery times for some delivery cost savings.
I really hope Phil Goff, the Mayor of Auckland, New Zealand, also watches this. It feels like he has lost his working class political roots and turned into a NIMBY who stands against this necessary ethos.
Dear friends, I offer my gratitude to you all for thinking about it. I have one suggestion, last century people were having seven eight children, but this gengeneration facing divorce. As per as me, we must not build larger master bedroom, hongkong they have one hand room, mean width is one open hand , we put one and half hand. Mother and child can sleep and in older age couples can sleep. In the younger age we must give them separate room for privacy of each one. The same we must do for children. The main room should have, dinning and sofa , which can be used as guest room. Please think about it. Larger rooms need lots of cleaning. In the bathroom we don't need bathtub, we can use portable, we must fix wash basin below the tap. We must give place for washing machines and dryers. The most important is separate toilet. We must redesign our inner space as per as today need. No body wants to share the room. Children or husband keep lot of private relationships and destiny have put them together. Namh shivay.
This is the final episode of Small Footprint, but let us know in the comments if you'd like to see more series like it in future. We’ve been so thrilled to explore small living more deeply and are incredibly grateful for all of your support that has brought us here.
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Beautiful small series with an inspiring footprint 😁🙏
I would love to see more series from this channel! I feel like this series is only just the beginning! ❤️❤️❤️
👍🏼 Truly enjoyed this, and I hope my urban studies professor J. Kelley did too! Excellent ideas and production values! 😎✌🏼
Definitely would love to keep seeing more! Also can’t wait to get my hands on the book as this channel has inspired me a lot.
Book ordered and on its way to me from Amazon France
Yes please. More. See if the UK can be inspired. It's so uplifting to see these ideas and feel a little hope. Thank you.
I've absolutely loved watching this SMALL FOOTPRINT series.
Talking about building cites where sustainability and inclusivity are at the center of the community without addressing the lack of policies that'd ensure young adults and low income earners to be apart of those communities. Talking about how making the access easier to those green spaces for all public will enable cultural exchange and creating opportunities without mentioning that is ideal but not assured due to the class gap that can be felt at the cafés(talking about the expensive cup of coffee) within the surrounding of those green spaces . Only couples(multiple income streams) and single rich people can afford those apartments and that's okay...but don't make it something it is not.
For example Paris, Rom, Stuttgart, Munich, Hamburg,........... big money but only one room? Parents are living 30 km outside.
shut up about the B.S 'covid' story. enjoyed it after switching sound off
More episodes like this please; they are informative, hopeful and inspiring.
Can't get enough of this! Sad to see this is the final episode, but feeling like it's the beginning for understanding in how to better building our cities and start thinking small. Would definitely love to see more in the future. Grateful for your incredible work with this miniseries.
As a future urban planner in Montreal, Canada, i'm not gonna lie, my eyes teared up at the end of this episode. Amazing series, and I can't wait to see future projects/series from you guys. Thank you :)
Are you watching Oh the Urbanity!? Love those guys.
Inspiring series. It made me think about my own city/country with it's limitations and problems, but also it's potential. I feel so frustrated with our leaders and the snail's pace of positive change. However, introducing people to new ways of living and sustainable solutions can create upward pressure from us (the voters) and this gives me hope. I hope this series is just the beginning for your channel, I really enjoyed it!
Fantastic series and much needed dialogue here in Los Angeles.
Awesome series. Loved listening to these passionate people talk about the vision and hope they have for their communities.
I have watch every single one of your videos and this is the best one yet. Amazing! Thank you!
G’day never too small
I would love to see some tiny house living developed where are people who have wheelchairs in mind. In this particular video you talk of needing to include a diverse range of social economic groups within your pockets of neighbourhood. I would like to see some diversity that includes people who have some major mobility considerations.
As a disability support worker I always found group homes to be incredibly problematic. It is helpful to be able to provide a centralised locational care for a group of individuals. However the individuals lose too much autonomy and social connection in the process. I felt that it would be amazing to see an apartment block built where level one is built as a group home and levels 2, 3, 4 are built for the family of the residents requiring the group home. This would mean that an individual can receive physical care from a team of professionals in a custom built workplace but also then go home to their love ones and receive social care.
I felt so inspired as I watch this wonderful episode, that a few ideas pop up into my mind. Now I have a few projects to present to my local government. I'm looking forward to see more content like this
Yet again, a very inspirational video. Loved it.
Lovely series - please do more!
Loved this episode, full of hope 💚
As someone who moved to Melbourne to study architecture I'm seriously inspired by N2S and its amazing to see the growth of this channel + seeing how what I'm taught is interconnected to some of the topics mentioned in this video. I always thought that Melbourne was a completed city but I think I've finally begun to see it in a new angle as there's still things that can be done to make it better, and its really amazing that the streets that I walk in are the same ones captured in the video. I really hope I get to meet N2S in the future and possibly work alongside them to learn more from them. Thank you for re-inspiring me about what an architect can do
Yes! Lots more of these, please.
I love this series, it's thought-provoking and inspiring - thank you!
It's been a great series! I liked this wrap-up, particularly with the emphasis on socio-economic diversity and access to green space for all.
I thoroughly enjoyed this series. Thank you!
Thank you for watching ! ❤️
Such a great series. I enjoyed the series a lot and I hope there's more series to come from NTS! I really love what Rob says "If we design cities with the people involved and understood what they wanted, I think you'll find much happier cities".
All these wonderful ideas need to be spread worldwide .built small apartments and community reconnect to nature find new ways working from home with flexible hours to be with your family and friends, more affordable apartments, save energy territories and balance the lives of the people that contribute for social contact, better and happier lives, hopefully, one of the things that will reduce air pollution and disaster of climate change.
Yes, More, please… Thank you
This is wonderful for big cities who are further away from foliage
Oh yes I would love to see more of small footprint
Great work and beautiful ideas
So sad to know that it is the last episode! Thank you for all you did, it was an inspirational journey!
Brilliant piece and very thought provoking, well done to all invloved.
love the concept ❤
Great series 🙌🏻
I really enjoyed this series. I live in Atlanta in the US and we are facing many of the same problems.
It seems as though you focus more on renovating existing buildings, which I agree is very important. What I would like to see is a successful example of small neighborhood infill projects of very small homes.
Cheers! Love it, perhaps, you can do another sets of episodes on Retail Footprint and it’s connectivity
Great review.
Congratulations 👏👏👏
Singapore's affordable housing model and policies have proven to be very sustainable, reasonable and pragmatic. And this week they just rolled out even more sensible improvements. There's never any one-size fits all solutions and every city/country needs to find what works for them, but I think lots of places should look closely at Singapore.
Great that your book is shipping to the US now! But the shipping cost is $40 AUD - wow! I'll wait till the shipping price goes down...
You guys are amazing
I'd Love to buy the book, since I've been subscribed to the channel for a long time now. But the price is too high for Brazil currency (60 aud equals almost 250 brl). Someday perhaps! Please keep doing the videos
Best of luck in your practice...✌🏼
Series like this really just make me sad. It makes so much sense. It serves to answer many modern problems. And where is the political will to hold developers to such standards? There isn't any.
Amazing video
So proud you are representing Melbourne!
Hermoso ✨
That's a good looking bread.
We need to think small indeed 💯
I see the city where I grew up appears at the start of your video. So upset the fall of my city
Hey @NeverTooSmall team (or anyone who comes across this), what is that 3D art piece referenced at the 11:44 mark? Thanks! Lovely channel and this series is certainly thought-provoking.
The only thing I dont like about these videos is how sad it makes me that governments are so far from taking these actions. I'm getting impatient
They recover from disasters this is true and in many cases cities are able to recover faster and better. Still this is not always the time.
This was an interesting Series, however I was not as upbeat as your apartments videos.
I think that the format was too short, a documentary of 20/30 minutes or more would have been better so we can have deeper explanations and demonstrations. I also find the editing too “perfect” or “professional”. The problem is that you have incredible shots of cities, superb quality of image with nice cameras : and yet, I feel like content could be deepened.
Maybe because I am French, it is more difficult to understand issues that Australian/northern American cities are encountering, since we don’t have highways crossing cities centers or hundred of kilometers of car depending suburbs.
But do not get me wrong, the general idea behind the serie is great. I just am balanced on the final result, I feel like it has so much more potential.
If I could rate this mini series, I would give it a 5 or 6 out of 10.
I don’t want to hurt anyone that participated in this huge project, you did a great job of course!
Last thing : I can’t wait to read your book, I will buy it for Christmas!
I hope to see more diversified content on this channel, as well as expanding your small living serie into more countries.
NTS is by far one of the best channels I follow 🖤🤍
You own nothing but you will be happy
i live only 2km from the Melbourne CBD, i think ive visited the CBD maybe 5 times in the last 12 months...
damn. I really want the book... went to website saw $60 price tag... "not too bad ill order one."... saw shipping price ($43) "yeah guess not." :,(
"You'll own nothing, have no privacy and be happy" two thirds of that statement will probably be true.
At 8:20 we are discovering what was well known hundred years ago to Walter Burley-Griffin when he was designing the city of Canberra. He denied the big developers the opportunity to make profits out of the centre of the city, distributed the employment opportunities to town centres and that allowed a significant reduction of car traffic.
We are not "drawn" to the city centre, I rarely go to the Melbourne CBD, actually I am avoiding it... We are not attracted to the crowds there, we are forced to it by the concentration of employment. With technology and better logistics there is no need for it. The price of land in the CBD is now perhaps half of what it was before the pandemic, but who is prepared to admit that? 🙂
We need to understand that we are a family living together!!!
No, we are not. We are strangers that more often than not have conflicting interests.
This can't be the end💔💔
You mean it took COVID for Aussie architects to figure this out, how people would like to live while in cities? That's only about a hundred years too late.
You guys kinda say what you wanted to do without explaining how your gonna do it lol
I want the booooook here in Bangladesh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a great miniseries that I would want to some more, IF EVER you have more ideas.
By the way, I’m so excited for your book.
Steve Bracks proposed an urban growth boundary way back when... If only. Another key ingredient is the design of roads and transport networks to be safer for more modes of transport, in almost exactly the same way as we need mixed models for housing. I don't think we can truly live small-footprint while we allow ever-larger single-occupant SUVs to crowd our suburban streets. Worth checking out Not Just Bikes for some interesting content around transport infrastructure.
Thank you for creating this series with such thoughtfulness and consideration. Loved seeing Melbourne being highlighted in this one ❤️. Would also love to see more of these in depth episodes exploring other cities as well. Thank you so much for you channel! ✨👏
Brisbane!
@@reed133 I'd love to see a series on Brissie!
I am deeply grateful for this resource.
Cheers to a great series!
Thanks again for watching!
@@nevertoosmall just ordered the book (on Amazon, thanks for that international alternative). Can't wait to have a reminder of these places in my own home. Thanks
Glad to see projects from my city, Buenos Aires included in your book. The concepts of never too small are excellent and something I am gravitating latterly in my own project. Thank you for inspiring us.
Thanks Ada! We'll definitely have some more to come.
I have really loved this series, it's been amazing, engaging, thought provoking... and it's come along at a time when I am significantly downsizing . Your series has quietly helped create a shift in focus for me...rather than the focus just being my new home, increasingly I'm thinking about this move I'm making being within a community...and just maybe I will go ahead and perhaps put a plank seat to encourage others walking by to sit and chat and enjoy the beautiful tree in my tiny yard that is such a feature of our neighbourhood ...these things belong to us all.
I'm looking forward to your book as my Christmas gift and I'm really hoping you'll find the funding to continue with more in this series.
The point of being able to walk from place to place (like grocery store, café, park) is so, so important.
I live in Germany in a not that big city, by foot the next “city centre” (most stores are empty, prices to high, not much there anymore) is about 25 Minutes away. But except for a bakery there is nothing on the way there nor in any other direction, where I could buy something, especially not quickly. The bus only comes every 40 Minutes, at evenings and weekends every hour, and takes 15 Minutes. I have a park and field to walk near by though.
Then I stayed in Korea, in a city of very similar size. There I didn’t even have to walk five minutes to get to the next convenience store, small mart, café or anything. The way to the city centre also took about 25 Minutes, but there were all sorts of stores along the way, it didn’t feel long at all. I walked everywhere, I didn’t feel any need for busses. Small green spaces with benches were also easy to find. Sadly, though, to get a longer walk away from streets, you had to walk 20 to 30 minutes again, the small resting spaces were very, very small. But cats mostly stayed on the very big roads, a lot of roads had so little traffic, they didn’t have walks for pedestrians.
Coming back home, I realised how much I walked in Korea and how little I walk in Germany. In Korea I missed having a garden and being so close to a park. In Germany I truly miss to be so close to convenience stores and marts, as well as cafés.
I believe, in countries like Germany where the weather is often cold and rainy, having short ways to get what you need, to small stores, would be very important. It would certainly reduce the tendency to take a car just to buy hygiene stuff or when you have too little eggs to buy a few more. At the same time, having green spaces, benches and parks in rather close proximity is also so, so important. Imagine being stuck inside for home office or studies and needing a break but the next place to go is 20 minutes walk along a road. Instead, there should be a small green space, maybe just across the road or two minutes away, where one can sit down and breathe in and out for a bit.
Our days in Boston MA (USA) seem similar to your Korean experience. Was quite nice, but more difficult with each new addition to our family.....
A 25 min walk is a 10 min bike ride. I thought germany had pretty good bike infrastructure?
Germany is sooo far behind on those almost utopic city scapes that are coming up. Cities are full of construction zones, traffic and gray concrete. Kind of tired of this here, the suburbs are better but still too americanized
@@Iaremoosable depends. In my city most streets don’t have a lane assigned for riding bicycles. Also I personally prefer to walk when it rains or snows than riding the bike as you can take an umbrella with you and your legs stay dry. And it does rain a lot in Germany.
👏👏👏 Thank you NTS. I have loved this series. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
Thankyou SO much for this incredible piece of art and such important education. I’ve loved learning more in depth about small footprint living and have felt enchanted by our beautiful Melbourne in a whole new way. You’ve really captured some of the ambience that I’ve always felt Melbs to have but not quite been able to describe, especially in connected contrast to other incredible cities like Amsterdam. The standout part for me was acknowledging the importance of authentic and ongoing amplification of First Nations contributions in urban development and think it would be great to continue acknowledging the traditional lands of each home that is featured on the channel. I hope you’re all feeling so chuffed with this magnificent outcome! Thanks again team. I’m very excited to purchase the book 🌱🌿
It's good that it is over. Please stop normalizing that people can't afford decent living space.
“Social infrastructure is a public health asset” - what an interesting idea. It gave me much to think about.
Whilst this series has been incredibly enjoyable, hits all the right thoughts on the topic and drives home really powerful messages, there is one really important component missing from the conversation: planners.
We are talking about shaping cities. Interfaces between public domain and private spaces. Mixed uses and mixed tenures. Architects, urban designers, landscape architects all play essential roles in this process, but so too do planners.
The series is talking about city growth boundaries, green belts, prioritising equitable public open space, encouraging densification. How do these become reality without town planning? These are planning matters first; not architecture or landscape design.
This series would have been 100% comprehensive if discussions with planners were had. What are the barriers planners face day-to-day when trying to implement all the ideals discussed in this series?
As planners, we know densification and limiting sprawl does amazing things for environmental and social sustainability. We know how important creating senses of place and community is for social wellbeing. But what are the barriers that exist in Australia's (and other countries') various planning frameworks that make it so difficult for this to occur? Cultural opposition? The 'Australian dream' of detached homes on the quarter acre block in the suburbs? A dependency on, and preference for, cars to move us around?
Removing minimum apartment sizes from planning regulations and allowing the private market to dictate what gets built where isn't the answer either. Prescriptive controls exist to protect the public interest, not stifle it.
I just wish this discussion was rounded out fully by having planners at the table, could have had some seriously interesting insights!
I agree with this sentiment AND it feels like the planners are the go-betweens from councils to residents and often there are a lot of politics involved that ends up seemingly only serving developers and the county board of supervisors. Unfortunately in a lot of communities there is a disconnect between local and regional planning as if each community somehow lives a vacuum and what happens on one side of the fence doesn't impact the other...sprawl is exactly the result of this (one community saying 'we don't want your dense building plan' and another further out community saying 'we'll take your development dollars and the property tax revenue thank you very much'). It's hard to get everyone on the same page and change people's minds...for me this series only reinforces beliefs I've held since 'Tiny House Nation' came out here in the US and I lived in basically a shed on the property of a very large manse while I was in grad school. We have to do more to normalize building/living small by de-incentivizing big building, car culture, big box consumerism and the sort of permissive wastefulness from wrecking ball building culture that doesn't focus on repurposing existing structures. This series and other videos on this channel is a great start for Australia and other featured communities; we really need a global mandate.
Love this series. I see potential learnings for a diverse range of industries viewing this series. We all want to belong. Where we live, where we work, where we study. It's important for our individual wellbeing and the health of our communities. This series is such important work with the potential to positively influence and shape our communities going forward.
Спасибо вам из Санкт-Петербурга. Надеюсь, что в Прекрасной России Будущего вместо жутких человейников, криминальных дворцов и повсеместных заборов будут счастливые люди и города.
Great series! My only critique is that it’s very centered on first world cities especially Melb. I understand that it’s co-produced by Screen Australia. But I honestly think that the very concept of “thinking small” could have benefiited more if cities from developing countries were included. Where is Manila, Jakarta, Accra, Delhi etc? These cities are the juggernaut when it comes to density. Surely they would have great ideas to contribute.
Thank you so much for making this and for helping to spread awareness. I am a designer by education, not currently working in design, but this is why I became a designer. To help change the world like this.
Wonderful vision! Thank you for the work you do. :)
Glad to have enjoyed your works so far. In the future, I hope to know further your perspective on the financial aspect of young people in the future to own a house in urban-rural areas. The trend in property prices is likely to increase, but how could young people still reach the existing prices with fair and secure payment scheme. In addition to that, the issue of young people from outside the country who work in adopted countries (f.e. Australia) and want to own a house there seems also interesting to discuss to just open a conversation about whether citizenship status is an indicator that also determines the sustainability of owning property/house in adopted country. Thanks again for your wonderful project!
I have enjoyed this series enormously! Please continue documenting how humans are evolving in their living spaces...If we don't change, we will perish! Thank you🙏
watched this and sobbed. 10/10
This series was so informative, I loved it!
A perfect ending to a beautiful series. Over too soon! Hoping for a season two with longer episodes. Thank you NTS and I'm so excited for your book!
first guy seems pretty out of touch
This was a great series. Thank you.
We need to add artisan bread makers to list of community contributers that housing is prioritised for, along with the doctors, nurses and barista's.
Plus: plumbers, electricians, mechanics, machinists, welders, masons, butchers, etc. .... 😉😎✌🏼
And bee keepers that make organic moustache wax
That was a wonderful series and I would love to see more. Such fabulous ideas and the book looks awesome.
Hopefully there will be more to come!
It was a very inspiring series, thank you.
Thank you so much for making this series! Talking about these things is so important and I hope that in the future these hopes that we have will bear something.
Wonderful series! I learned a lot from these films. Opening up ideas and inspirations. Amazing work from the production crew!
I have loved this series, I'm not an expert in this field by any stretch of the imagination. A lot of the ideas and concepts are very new to me. I want to devote some time to watching the whole series again, but with a notebook and pen handy to jot down some of my own thoughts and ideas that this series has triggered.
Yes yes yes... more like this please. Thank you to the whole team for producing such high quality content that is beautifully filmed and for all of your speakers that contributed to the series. Thank you.
Would love to get the book, but shipping to Germany is more expensive than the book itself. Would be fine with slower delivery times for some delivery cost savings.
World be great if Australia could reduce their usage of coal energy. This would reduce the carbon footprint significantly.
I really hope Phil Goff, the Mayor of Auckland, New Zealand, also watches this. It feels like he has lost his working class political roots and turned into a NIMBY who stands against this necessary ethos.
Too many people for these public places to be nice. They disturb enjoying nature.
Dear friends,
I offer my gratitude to you all for thinking about it.
I have one suggestion, last century people were having seven eight children, but this gengeneration facing divorce. As per as me, we must not build larger master bedroom, hongkong they have one hand room, mean width is one open hand , we put one and half hand.
Mother and child can sleep and in older age couples can sleep. In the younger age we must give them separate room for privacy of each one. The same we must do for children. The main room should have, dinning and sofa , which can be used as guest room.
Please think about it. Larger rooms need lots of cleaning.
In the bathroom we don't need bathtub, we can use portable, we must fix wash basin below the tap.
We must give place for washing machines and dryers.
The most important is separate toilet. We must redesign our inner space as per as today need. No body wants to share the room.
Children or husband keep lot of private relationships and destiny have put them together.
Namh shivay.
This video is amazing, please keep uploading these sorts of eye opening information
We are a family of tree in 65 sq/m apartment and those videos are allways so inspiring to me ❤️
I was about to buy your book until I have to pay more shipping fees than the actual book. Too bad :(
Nevermind, You are available in Amazon as well :D
my favorite YT recommendation by far! thank you for producing this excellent mini-series!