15 things you didn't know about city planning (probably)
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Better Buses, Better Cities by Steven Higashide
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Human Transit by Jarrett Walker
www.amazon.com/Human-Transit-...
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup
www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free...
Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth Jackson
www.amazon.com/Crabgrass-Fron...
Walkable City by Jeff Speck
www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-...
Suburban Nation by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
www.amazon.com/Suburban-Natio...
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forg...
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
www.amazon.com/Warmth-Other-S...
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
www.amazon.com/Evicted-Povert...
Cathedral by David Macaulay
www.amazon.com/Cathedral-Stor...
Great Streets by Allan Jacobs
www.amazon.com/Great-Streets-...
Right of Way by Angie Schmitt
www.amazon.com/Right-Way-Epid...
Life Between Buildings by Jan Gehl
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Produced by Dave Amos in sunny San Luis Obispo, California.
Edited by Ryan Alva in Los Angeles, California.
Audio by Eric Schneider in cloudy Cleveland, Ohio.
Black Lives Matter.
If you made a podcast all about city planning and urban development, I'd listen to it!
Upvote so he sees, guys
Omg, I’d LOVE a podcast
Yes!!!!
Like on all accounts
Would love this... or plz Rec city planning podcasts
I'm often asked by viewers for book recommendations about urban planning. You just saved me a lot of time, because now I can share this video. :)
No recommendation about Vinex neighborhoods/cities though 😉
@@lightdark00 it hardly can be considered cheating when he links to this video. also, why inventing the wheel over again when there always is a good solution around. efficiently is a virtue that only in art can be frowned upon, IMHO.
Why don't you start a series where you pick up a real city on popular vote and then review it and fix it theoretically. I nominated Mumbai, India.
There a couple problems with this. First it is generally not a simple fix for any city. Second, part of the problem is top down planning without listening to the local population, that series would further that issue. Not trying to say he should not due it, but it is important to be careful with something like it.
There's already a channel like that called "Matt looks at the map". It's p good, go watch it.
@@whothei0 a fun series nothing serious.
@@Sirmenonottwo thanks for that would definitely checkout
@@Sirmenonottwo is it on TH-cam? because I can't find it in the searcher
I remember going to a public meeting about transit when I was in high school. It started at 5PM, and I got out of school at 2:30PM. I took the bus. I arrived at 6PM, just in time for public comments. Guess what I talked about.
You're a goddamn hero. Thank you.
The weather????
@@tomrogue13 Weather doesnt have any impact on good public transport
@@stachuvonokrutny7071 OMFG, thank you so much for enlightening us with your wisdom 🙏
shall your apprehension radiate upon us mere mortal!
@@stachuvonokrutny7071 but good transport has an impact on the weather
1:10 The inaccessibility of these meetings seems to be by design. The people in charge appear to not want people at the bottom to be able to advocate for better services.
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Two anecdotes. In Maryland near DC. Montgomery County had a forum on bike lanes last month. The meeting was at a school but super early on a weeknight, when most people would be getting out of work even if they drove. Most of the voices would have been retirees with time (who would nix bike lanes). Two, PG County is a large diverse county but the capital is still this tiny town on the edge of the county from colonial days. Getting there by public transit takes an hour plus. But their courthouses and services are still mostly there.
This makes me feel strongly that public health experts and city planning experts should regularly meet.
I am currently in school for City and Regional Planning and this is very true! City planners and public health officials should meet more regularly. A lot of people don't realize how much these two sectors overlap. Quite a few people who graduate with a planning degree actually get jobs working for public health agencies and such. Its such a big part of planning that there are even classes dedicated just to learning about how urban design can impact people's wellbeing. Most people don't realize just how much their surroundings can impact their health. One example is that there was a study done in hospitals seeing how long patients of similar illnesses recovered based on how much sunlight was present in the hospital. What they found is that patients who had access to this basic thing that no one associated with medicine, sunlight, recovered MUCH quicker than people who were stuck in areas of the hospitals without windows or sunlight. I could go into a lot more depth talking about how public health is impacted by urban planning, but I have already talked your ear off enough lol
I’m currently doing a masters in public health. I agree too!
@@L1ght_7 medieval Islamic hospitals were designed so that all patients in wards had plentiful sunlight, fresh air and music:) A lot of the best ideas from those hospitals were adopted into our current model, but some other equally important ones slipped through the gaps.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Bus Planning
02:00 Parking Planning
03:15 Book Ad
03:50 Suburban Planning
04:05 Racial Discrimination
06:50 Book Ad
7:10 Urban design
09:25 Outro & Other Books
bless
Thank you!
aren't all of them book ads?
Bus meetings happen at night when there are no busses. Touche, that's kinda genius.
European here. Why would there be no busses at night?
@@jbjaguar2717 No idea either, and I'm South American. But I want to know to.
Around here key routes often run all night, and several run later. But they usually go from every half hour to every hour. So if you have to walk half a mile to reach your next stop, you might miss it and end up waiting that whole hour.
And the public doesn't usually ratify the labor deals involved.
@@jbjaguar2717 "Why would there be no busses at night?"
Because the bus meetings happen at night when there are no busses. :)
"...if the buses are running frequently, at least every 15 minutes or so..." *laughs in European*
Se ríe en "latinoamericano"
I mean in my town we have 3 "city lines" so to speak that serve the town only. 2 that run every 20 minutes each and share a section through the downtown, and 1 that goes off towards the several Education centres and industrial facilities south of town which departs every 15 minutes (down to every 2 minutes in Rush hour and yet still overcrowded)
Especially as the buses only fill in the cabs of the back bone transit like S-trains Subways and trams.
At the same time
HKers:
30 mins are too long to wait for
once living in HK, I'm grateful of how stable and reliable HK bus services are.
This should be called “city skylines the ultimate guide to the game”
Haha you too? you should check out City Planner plays Cities Skylines, and donoteat's channels, highly informative!
Spoiler: he doesn't do a great job at it.
I’m reading Walkable City right now, and I love it! I actually bought it on your recommendation when you did a livestream on your channel to answer people’s questions. I also bought Crabgrass Frontier and tried it earlier this year, but I’ll be honest, I found it kind of dry. I might have to give it another try sometime though!
You really trying to get me over to Nebula with Death & Life...
I can strongly recommend you to try Nebula. A lot of the bigger Education You Tubers are active there. With often Originals they only show there. Plus like in City Beautiful's case they add extra materiel in there regular content instate of the sponsor deal.
I’m checking out the series on Ancient Rome on Nebula, but I cannot find the other series about rebuilding Ancient Rome to go with it.
all through tis video I was thinking why aren't you talking about death & life of great cities it is by far the best town planning book of course he is keeping it for nebula viewers.
I really recommend going for it. It's not that expensive, and you get loads of content, ad free, and extra stuff like the four extra great book recommendations on this video.
One more for the list: The Geography of Nowhere, by James Kunstler. It has some overlap with several of the books mentioned.
I was definitely wondering if James Howard Kunstler was going to be on the list.
Yes! This is the other excellent city planning book that I have read and was trying to think of--the other being Crabgrass Frontier (which, somehow, I found time to read in college). Thank you.
did i ever wonder about city planning? probably not. do i regret watching this video? absolutely not ✌
im thankful for City Beautiful
yes
I’m graduating next month with a degree in Urban Studies with a focus in city planning and public policy. Good video 💪🏾
I'd love to learn about what actual Urban planning work looks like. How you research, study, ideate, propose a solution, and get the chance built.
Join the program .
that’s what I’m doing
It really is fascinating. I wish the city planners in my city learned something about city planning before they began working.
A lot of Central American architects still believe the US designs are the best, despite the difference in population density, geography and economy. It's sad when there are better urban plans available
"I loaned it out."
Well that's gone forever, but you already knew that.
To be honest, comparing our European city planning (especially central Europe) with US city planning, I’d much rather read a dutch city planning book. I don’t want to discredit the authors that you mentioned, but you’ll really have to convince me to think that I as a European citizen, who’s interested in city planning, can learn from an american city planner. Even a city like Vancouver (which apparently many Americans think has great city planning) just shocked me in the amount of wasted space and it’s unfriendlyness towards any other form of transport, other than the car (not to say it’s an ugly city, I loved it there).
In the US land was relatively cheap, so sprawling was an option. Also, most Americans speculate on real estate prices, which is not a common practice in Europe. So, people here don't like condos because they fear that they'll miss out on rising land prices for single family homes.
I always had an interest in urban planning while doing my History master. Reading Walkable Cities by Speck pushed me over the edge a couple years ago and I'm now an happy urban planner. I also really love Jan Ghel's Cities for People. Thanks for the great content, cheers from Canada.
I was never extremely interested in city planning and infrastructure, I always appreciated the importance and how the systems of a city or area are interconnected and the cause and effects of changes, but I never considered pursuing such a career in any way. But this channel is so interesting and presented so well, and the host so likable it's hard not to get sucked in. Great content, keep up the good work brother
Your content is completely on another level, the workflow, the depth, I don't know.... a joy to the eye.
He asks “did you know” fully knowing that I don’t know
damn, If I knew city planning was a thing years ago, my life would truly be different ahahaha
You should plan your life in a grid pattern with everything no more than 500m from a bus stop?
This book list is just perfect for me ahead of christmas. Thank you! And I love that you recommend buying from local bookshops over amazon 👍👍🤙
My recommendations in order of priority: crabgrass frontier, the color of law, high cost of free parking. I'll also add Home: A Short History of an Idea, and The Big Oyster, which tells the story of oysters in the New York metro. I picked up Home randomly off a library shelf in 2002, and it set me on the path to becoming an urban planner.
dang, my apartment is in this video! wild.
that happened to me last vid - so surreal!
Loved seeing Fresno as the example for the 1km grid for a bus network! Now only if our city actually had a decent bus network...
This is a 10-minute video that distilled a dozen years of your studies to assemble this incredible diversIt’s of urban planning topics. On the downside, it will take me at least a year to read all the books recommended.
9:08 I go out of my way to find sad benches in no man's land.
Between you and Cities: Skylines, I have nerded endlessly seeing my own city lol
Every time you say ¨But that´s for a future video¨ I yearn for the day that you make said videos
As a pedestrian in a non pedestrian friendly city (Atlanta) I want to share some tips for not getting hurt out there. 1) Aways wear a reflective vest at night. 2) Never assume the driver sees you. 3) Put yourself in places where drivers expect pedestrians, like crosswalks. 4) Obey the walk signals.
If there is a left turn arrow the cars still have right of way.
I love watching your videos! I do have a video idea for you though; you should do a video on transportation ballot measures like what made it successful in Seattle and Los Angeles or why it failed in Nashville and Portland. Also, maybe a separate video on bus network redesigns that are design for today's and tomorrow's mobility.
Thank You so much for your recommendations! I have been interested in reading urban design books for awhile.
I have checked out Suburban Nation, Walkable Cities, and Better Buses, Better Cities from the Los Angeles Public Library.
I am looking forward to what I learn!
I'm glad I watched this on Nebula, because I got the four additional book recommendations that you didn't mention here, and are probably the ones I'm most interested in! Thanks!
Nice clip from Hallstatt. Was just there a little over a month ago. Also nice video too. It's nice to see city planning and urban design taking more and more of a prominent, rightfully so, role in our cities. We have a long way to go in places like Kansas City, but it's nice to see people working on it.
Thanks for all of the book recommendations! I've always been curious to know what you've been reading.
Keep the good content coming, always happy when you post a video!
Cool video, I’ll definitely have to checkout some of these books 📚
Thanks for the recommendations! I've read a few of them already, but the ones I haven't sound really interesting. They're on my list now!
"30 minutes by car is two hours on multiple buses"
Did you look up my commute or something because that's my exact situation! Thank goodness the scheduling is flexible because COVID made the trip even longer with less frequent busses and one of the routes I used to use not even running!
I guess I could learn to drive and get a junker but my problem with driving isn't me, it's trusting everyone else... and I like in a state famous for "good" drivers.
This channel is so great! Thank you man :) I'm 19 and keen on urban planning as a career choice 😁🤟
Your videos are amazing! You're a very inspiring teacher!
1:19 woow, that is Prague, my city 8-)
How do you know? Honest question. I live there and couldnt say its Prague
@@Alkuf100 I'm not certain it's Prague, but I first noticed the smoking banned sign which implicates it is in the Czech republic. And then there is that trash bin which can be seen in Prague, and I don't think that they are in other cities. And then also the surroundings (recycle bins, tram tracks, house architecture). That being said I did not really see that much of other Czech cities so it might be an another one.
@@Alkuf100 Type of the recycling bins, bus stop, street lighting. And Škoda car in the background! :-)
@que We've got many things to improve, but thanks! :-) See you soon in Prague.
Is your City related to Denis Prager of Prager U?
I really appreciate that you marking down all the books you mentioned in the notes. It helps a lot.
I meant description section and not notes
I’m currently doing my degree in urban planning , some of these vides have been really helpful for me , keep it up great videos 👍🏻
Please do a follow-up on reading recommendations with broader international perspectives. Also would love a video essay on Jane Jacobs works and Edward Glaser's Triumph of the City. Awesome videos one of my favorite channels no doubt. Congrats
I write to thank you for sparking my memory of a book I’ve been trying to find and remember since 6th grade (2005). David Macaulay’s “Motel of the Mysteries.”
I love the bus system in San Francisco. Yea they are late often and could have some improvements but compared to anywhere else in the west coast it’s by far the best. They tried to cut them during covid but enough people complained so they are keeping all of them.
9:12 Ayee San Gimignano! A fantastic Italian town!!
This has already been mentioned indirectly a couple times, but I would love to see you go more in depth on individual cities and what they do well vs. what needs to be improved.
Man, I loved the cathedral book. Its illustrations are beautiful, described meticulously, what a great book.
Jeff Speck has given a few really good TED talks about walkability.
Wow did you just cover my entire Intro to Cities and Planning course in ten minutes?
Did you know that I know when you're gonna say did you know? o.O
😂😂😂😂
You mean, every 20 seconds in this video? :-/
I love your channel so much I am going to try and get a job in urban planning this year!
Id love to see a video like this on some of the classics youve mentioned in previous videos, or create a booklist on amazon or something! Its very much winter and pandemic, lots of time for reading and playing it out in Cities Skylines!
Evicted is a great book. I look forward to checking out some of the other books you recommended.
Urban Planning didn't even exist in my vocabulary, but I am amazed by how significantly it impacts everyday life. I wish this would be covered more in dept in the news media. I mean if democracy is to work people need to be informed about the issues that really impact their lives. Anyway, thank you for doing such a great job of sharing this information. (This comment is a response to the catalog of your videos not just specifically this one.)
The information presented on this channel is great.
So many Americans are opposed to more housing... it's disheartening.
This channel isn't really against more housing, just against unchecked urban sprawl.
I support densification of cities to make better use of public transport and the removal of urban highways where practical.
I think we need to start with nuking ourselves.
Love your videos... Planning to study Urban planning at UNT Denton
If the only traffic in disneyland are parades, then what are those rails for?
I assume that some of the parade vehicles use them.
The tracks are for the Main Street trolley. You can actually travel down Main Street in Disneyland on an old time horse drawn trolley.
Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World actually have multiple vehicles that travel up and down Main Street USA, a turn off the century car, turn of the century fire engine, and double-decker bus (all to scale) As was mentioned, the rails are for a horse-drawn trolley.
I work in public transit, so I really enjoyed this one.
Great video as always
I have "Right of Way" on my bookshelf, need to dig into it.
Thanks for making some great book suggestions.
Fantastic video!
Please do an episode on 'Green Cities'. Love your videos by the way!
You’re such a nerd. Absolutely love it. Glad i found the channel.
Loving the old bus sign!!
I'm not Communist, but Soviet cities planning was quite good for public transport. Also trolleybuses was a good idea.
Fabulous! Thank you so much !
In regards to fast food parking, I was told by a fast food chain owner that they were expanding their already usually empty parking lot because it has psychological effects which will push more mobile and drive through orders.
Nice video. Definitely learned a few things ;)
Interesting video, thank you!
Thank you, i was looking on a reading list on city planning, im currently studying civil engineering but here at Tijuana there's no easy way to know about books on this, as everyone seems to focus on either engineering text books or purely architecture appreciation
Great info thank you!
Please do a series of videos on city planners
Or videos on fantasy cities that people had and would they have worked if done like king Gillette’s plan for a city called metropolis that would be powered by damming Niagara falls
That's my city at @2:30! Wow...thanks for the nice quiet shout out.
Love this selection! Hopefully you do a non-US centric one next time. 😊
Yeah, sorry! I try to mix up US-centric and non-US videos. Next one won’t be about the US.
No worries, I read the one by Jeff Speck because of your recommendation in one of your earlier videos and absolutely loved it. So can't wait to dive into these.
holy cow, I was obsessed with "Cathedral" around 10 years old. What a great memory.
Jane Jacobs covered these topics in detail back in the 60-s in her book "The Death and life of Great American Cities" which I personally highly recommend to everyone.
Very informative!
Ooh a book review compendium! I'm sold.
Have you read Charles Montgomery's Happy City?
Really cool ideas. I'm glad that Queens Boulevard was redesigned and prevented deaths.
Another one id recommend is Straphanger!
I wasn't a fan of walkable citys but am definitely getting that bus book
Yaya a new video ♥️
Some Canadian cities are far from walkable. Take Mississauga and Brampton for example. All of sudden you are at the entrance of a 400 Series Highway. Or you are walking almost 500 m over a parking lot.And busses take up to an hour to travel just a few kilometers there as well.
Domplatte in Cologne is an example of that needs to be sunny when it's cold and shady when it is hot. The Domplatte is near the Hauptbahnhof. This space in front has no bench at all. But on the left, there are stairs to the Dom, where people choose to sit around and gather.
That video starting from 4:15 looks like a dystopia... No way for people without cars to get around. And no trees with the sun heating up all of the asphalt road..
Must be hell to live there..
Love how you start talking about American bus system then use measurements in km.
Great reading list.
Also highly recommend In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis by David Madden and Peter Marcuse. Desmond’s Evicted does a great job showing the scope of our housing problem, but Defense gets to the root of how we got here and how to make lasting change (hint: its public housing).
I wonder what course qualifies someone to be a city planner? Anyway, love your vidoes! I'd love to hear you talk more about walkable cities :)
Saving this for later
0:06 I just realized the background blue map on the background before the bell is the city of Detroit. You can see the loop and where Michigan, Grand River, Woodward, Gratiot and Jefferson spoke out from the center (from left to right). Those used to be the major street car lines.
Random thought: That bus sign looks like it's from watt/180. Only place I can think of that all those buses stop at.
Great video! Pssst, give yourself some visual head room!