I’ve always disliked cities but during my GEOG undergrad I kind of fell in love with sustainable city geography because it was about trying to address everything that made me hate cities. It made me realize that they don’t have to be this way
Beyond solarpunk, just building more mass transit, high density housing, and encouraging non-car transportation makes cities waaaaaaay more sustainable than any future tech dream. Suburbs produce FAR more carbon per person than cities.
This felt like a whirlwind overview of the many, many considerations that go into sustainable living. A deeper dive into these facets would warrent many more episodes. There’s a series I’ve been watching on Curiosity Stream called “Dream the Future” which also goes into some of these topics in more detail; I think one of them covers some of the utopianlike cities you mentioned in the beginning of this video.
This was so well done. I love the shout-out to cooperative housing and the benefits of non-profit driven businesses. When we use money as the only unit of account, we end up obscuring other considerations that people would like to have.
I agree with most of the points discussed, but at 5:10, saying that urban areas create more pollution is outright duplicitous. It had been found, repeatedly, that Americans living in urban cores pollute far less per capita than Americans living in suburbs/exurbs.
this video makes me so happy because it says everything im already thinking about, and gives me hope about being able to do this as a career in the future. i’ve always thought about reusing old places and just updating them, but i never knew the term “retrofitting”
I loved this video, and I want to do this as a career, solving these problems and building more sustainable cities. What would you recommend as a major that could lead me on this kind of career path?
This was a really good episode, relates a lot to what I’m studying. Is there any way to gain more information about what the conclusions of your PHD were?
Excellent work, wow!! I’m sure y’all have sent these videos out to professors/teachers/other educators or have someone responsible for doing that. Have y’all thought about a supplemental video to some of these video topics that would explain what kinds of jobs there are in the field and what you might do to prepare for, enter, and succeed in that field? Students in secondary and higher ed would benefit so much from your research and presentation!! :)
my land lords keep cutting down my insulating foliage and not replacing it! give people control over their own homes! No more evictions from primary residences!!
Very interesting from my public health background to describe cities as having lack of access to healthcare when even the worst off neighborhood has greater access than most of the rest of the country, in particular the rural areas.
The initiative is great but im worried people will be treated like machines rather than human beings. Most of the goals are just vague enough that they can be exploited by people who seeks to profit out of it. If the nr one goal was something like "no one left behind" i would perhaps be less worried
I want to become an environmental planner, my major is environmental design. Do you recommend I minor in geography or rather than a minor get a GIS certificate?
"As a society we often just accept that there will be some people who have to live with the economic or environmental consequences of the types of development decisions we make, and that can be heavily placed on vulnerable groups." Very true, and there's no reason to believe that won't continue. This reality has been somewhat masked by the extreme economic growth we have experienced over the last half century or so, but that level of growth simply cannot be sustained indefinitely. Between 1990 and 2020, global GDP increased 273%. Between 2020 and 2050 global GDP is projected to increase by 130%. Economic growth is slowing down, but the global population continues to increase. By 2050, the global population is projected to be just under 10 billion people. Inequality will increase as everyone tries to acquire a larger and larger slice of a more slowly growing pie.
Where's architecture and engineering in your list of fields related to sustainable planning since they are the people who actually are designing and constructing these new sustainable developments and infrastructure?
Here's the problem - this series is utterly Utopian and Fantasy. Architects work for thos who can pay the most - ALWAYS. Those who can afford architects can also purchase planners and other officials. For those of us who do not have that kind of Wealth, we are at the Mercy of Plannerr and Officials who not only are completely unresponsive to local communities, they ONLY answer to communities of the Wealthy and the communities where they live. In most urban areas in Europe, the planners DO NOT LIVE in the Cities they are responsible for planning and thus, they literally, have no skin in the game. Their kids won't get the asthma or live in the toxic miasma the Planners create. Living as they do in their Ivory Towers and Gated Communities, Planners and Architects create Hells and call it "Paradise"!
"These are ... utopian urban designs." Utopia: an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. They're imagined because there's no such thing as a utopia. The foremost reason why is because one person's perfect is not right at all for others. Don't call these utopias or people will get the wrong idea. All designs are flawed, and all designs would have unintended consequences.
So, just an obvious you make it seem like living in a. Cooperative is free. It definitely is not free you have to be able to work. If you don’t work you don’t get to live there. It’s obvious. However I’d say all in all it’s a very useful tool for people to be aware about. You would be able to make some larger purchases by managing the money as a whole than on your own to help the larger group. Basically it forces a small group to manage their money together and therefore make controlled steps as a group. It’s basically like a small government holding tax money for community improvement. Wow small government kindof works!
A small government works for a small community. A large government is necessary when dealing with the needs of a country. Millions of people. Those cooperatives don't have to think about water availability (state provides infrastructure, be by itself or private contractors), energy availability (electricity, gas, idem as above), transportation, security (police and army, city, state, country level), and, in civilized countries, public healthcare and education. Plus all manner of goods' production and distribution. Large scale economy. The phrase "small government" is often used as a mantra by corporation-funded political groups whose dream is having everything private and no taxes at all, as if having a government were something intrinsically evil instead of the last ditch defense of the public against greedy corporations willing to pollute everything and charge whatever they want. Regulations aren't the enemy, they are the defense. Or you would still have radioactive wristwatches and carcinogenic food coloring. Also, a cooperative of people unable to work can exist in a place where living pensions exist. Retirees cooperatives are possible. And, if people are freed from the burden of expensive rent/slave wages, they can afford to take care of their elderly and infirm by themselves. And of homemakers, who don't "work." And the children, who shouldn't work. Do you realize cooperative living is also small-scale socialism?
I’ve always disliked cities but during my GEOG undergrad I kind of fell in love with sustainable city geography because it was about trying to address everything that made me hate cities. It made me realize that they don’t have to be this way
Beyond solarpunk, just building more mass transit, high density housing, and encouraging non-car transportation makes cities waaaaaaay more sustainable than any future tech dream. Suburbs produce FAR more carbon per person than cities.
This felt like a whirlwind overview of the many, many considerations that go into sustainable living. A deeper dive into these facets would warrent many more episodes. There’s a series I’ve been watching on Curiosity Stream called “Dream the Future” which also goes into some of these topics in more detail; I think one of them covers some of the utopianlike cities you mentioned in the beginning of this video.
I never want this series to end.
This was so well done. I love the shout-out to cooperative housing and the benefits of non-profit driven businesses. When we use money as the only unit of account, we end up obscuring other considerations that people would like to have.
I agree with most of the points discussed, but at 5:10, saying that urban areas create more pollution is outright duplicitous. It had been found, repeatedly, that Americans living in urban cores pollute far less per capita than Americans living in suburbs/exurbs.
this video makes me so happy because it says everything im already thinking about, and gives me hope about being able to do this as a career in the future. i’ve always thought about reusing old places and just updating them, but i never knew the term “retrofitting”
Interesting to see a Rowlet and Timburr popping up. Neat use of Pokémon
I loved this video, and I want to do this as a career, solving these problems and building more sustainable cities. What would you recommend as a major that could lead me on this kind of career path?
Sad to hear next time will be the last episode. Really enjoyed this series
Thank you for the awesome work Crash course!
Could be great if these more sustainable spaces could exist outside Solarpunk. Great video!
This was a really good episode, relates a lot to what I’m studying. Is there any way to gain more information about what the conclusions of your PHD were?
I love this! Please do more videos related to sustainability, this was amazing!
My favorite channel ❤️
Good stuff!
I love this series so much. The host is also the best.
Helped me alot
Excellent work, wow!! I’m sure y’all have sent these videos out to professors/teachers/other educators or have someone responsible for doing that. Have y’all thought about a supplemental video to some of these video topics that would explain what kinds of jobs there are in the field and what you might do to prepare for, enter, and succeed in that field? Students in secondary and higher ed would benefit so much from your research and presentation!! :)
Sustainable building materials, energy, public transit and policy all need to be implemented.
my land lords keep cutting down my insulating foliage and not replacing it!
give people control over their own homes!
No more evictions from primary residences!!
Thanks for the review.
Very interesting from my public health background to describe cities as having lack of access to healthcare when even the worst off neighborhood has greater access than most of the rest of the country, in particular the rural areas.
This episode is awesome! and exactly what I want to do with my future career :)
Good luck with the PhD thesis Alizé!
The initiative is great but im worried people will be treated like machines rather than human beings. Most of the goals are just vague enough that they can be exploited by people who seeks to profit out of it. If the nr one goal was something like "no one left behind" i would perhaps be less worried
i know this is far from the point, but nice shirt
My question is how can we improve the quality of life in low income area without pricing them out?
i cant believe there is only one last episode
We really need to put our heads together man!
I want to become an environmental planner, my major is environmental design. Do you recommend I minor in geography or rather than a minor get a GIS certificate?
"As a society we often just accept that there will be some people who have to live with the economic or environmental consequences of the types of development decisions we make, and that can be heavily placed on vulnerable groups."
Very true, and there's no reason to believe that won't continue. This reality has been somewhat masked by the extreme economic growth we have experienced over the last half century or so, but that level of growth simply cannot be sustained indefinitely.
Between 1990 and 2020, global GDP increased 273%. Between 2020 and 2050 global GDP is projected to increase by 130%. Economic growth is slowing down, but the global population continues to increase. By 2050, the global population is projected to be just under 10 billion people. Inequality will increase as everyone tries to acquire a larger and larger slice of a more slowly growing pie.
Love the video! but can someone tell me the name of the song in the intro?
Thanks
Cool topic. Wonder if the creators can recommend some reading material on it? That’s be cool.
Why do we have to make everything in rectangles
Where is this farming and housing co-ops. I want to do that. Does Chicago have any sustainable farms, housing co-ops and or green cities?
Thank u so much , your presentation is helping...
Can we extend two more episodes (to make it exactly 1 year long)
One more episode to go???!! This is so sad, this has been my favorite CC series 🙁
personally i want to live in an earth ship community, but would love to visit some sustainable cities
I love how Alize’s voice changes while pronuncing French names :) Salut!
this is exactly what i want to do with my career :)
Awesome.
I feel like leaders procrastinated to the point of our destruction. We need people to act
never heard of coop housing
ROWLET 😍
I am a Broom 🧹... but in a casual way!
Hi how's it going watching from Broomfield Colorado
Where's architecture and engineering in your list of fields related to sustainable planning since they are the people who actually are designing and constructing these new sustainable developments and infrastructure?
Did your teacher send you this video to do in class.
epicwepic😁
Here's the problem - this series is utterly Utopian and Fantasy.
Architects work for thos who can pay the most - ALWAYS.
Those who can afford architects can also purchase planners and other officials.
For those of us who do not have that kind of Wealth, we are at the Mercy of Plannerr and Officials who not only are completely unresponsive to local communities, they ONLY answer to communities of the Wealthy and the communities where they live.
In most urban areas in Europe, the planners DO NOT LIVE in the Cities they are responsible for planning and thus, they literally, have no skin in the game. Their kids won't get the asthma or live in the toxic miasma the Planners create.
Living as they do in their Ivory Towers and Gated Communities, Planners and Architects create Hells and call it "Paradise"!
Singapore, Singapore 😄
I realize that I despise urban areas because of traffic and noise caused by car dependency, not by population density.
TL;DW: Don't build for cars, and promote dense mixed-use areas.
Final? 😭😭😭😭😭
"These are ... utopian urban designs."
Utopia: an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. They're imagined because there's no such thing as a utopia. The foremost reason why is because one person's perfect is not right at all for others. Don't call these utopias or people will get the wrong idea. All designs are flawed, and all designs would have unintended consequences.
let people and the planet rest without fear
no more evictions from primary residences!
So, just an obvious you make it seem like living in a. Cooperative is free. It definitely is not free you have to be able to work. If you don’t work you don’t get to live there. It’s obvious. However I’d say all in all it’s a very useful tool for people to be aware about. You would be able to make some larger purchases by managing the money as a whole than on your own to help the larger group. Basically it forces a small group to manage their money together and therefore make controlled steps as a group. It’s basically like a small government holding tax money for community improvement. Wow small government kindof works!
It's better than some silver-spooned child profiteering off of you just because they inherited wealth to buy properties to invest.
A small government works for a small community. A large government is necessary when dealing with the needs of a country. Millions of people.
Those cooperatives don't have to think about water availability (state provides infrastructure, be by itself or private contractors), energy availability (electricity, gas, idem as above), transportation, security (police and army, city, state, country level), and, in civilized countries, public healthcare and education. Plus all manner of goods' production and distribution. Large scale economy.
The phrase "small government" is often used as a mantra by corporation-funded political groups whose dream is having everything private and no taxes at all, as if having a government were something intrinsically evil instead of the last ditch defense of the public against greedy corporations willing to pollute everything and charge whatever they want. Regulations aren't the enemy, they are the defense. Or you would still have radioactive wristwatches and carcinogenic food coloring.
Also, a cooperative of people unable to work can exist in a place where living pensions exist. Retirees cooperatives are possible. And, if people are freed from the burden of expensive rent/slave wages, they can afford to take care of their elderly and infirm by themselves. And of homemakers, who don't "work." And the children, who shouldn't work.
Do you realize cooperative living is also small-scale socialism?
for the algorithm
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