Did Traffic RUIN your Childhood?
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Jacobs, J. (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. pp. 85-88.
This channel is criminally underrated. i'd love an excuse to share your videos with everyone in my planning classes
Thanks! You should totally just start playing them next time there's an awkward silence or something
I found that 2x2 chart at the end so helpful to understand why "just walk more" doesn't work to improve outcomes
So much sense. There is so much more to safety and walkability than density alone. I grew up in a relatively low density post war suburb - but there were pathways for walking, regular (but not over-frequent) public transport, and corner shops and we always felt safe to walk and cycle wherever we wanted to go.
Definitely! The corner store is especially important I think - Jane Jacobs talks about people who run corner shops as being "public characters" who serve as a cornerstone for the community
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And here I was thinking parents actually dropped their kids to school in helicopters…
how embarrassing
I also wonder if the move to private schools has also contributed to it. A combination of not having strict priority enrolment areas, and an expectation of private school kids to do extracurricular activities within the school rather than the local community surely doesn't help.
It certainly could be - I went to public schools growing up so I'm not super familiar with private school culture, but it definitely seems like private schools are more insular and from what I've seen some kids in Sydney commute insane distances to get to prestigious private schools.
It's all part of detachment from community. That fabulous café/deli/gym/school/cinema/church that just opened... I read about on line and it's only an hour's drive away. Isn't the traffic terrible.
@@jack2453 Definitely. I recently moved from Epping to closer to the city and it's crazy how often I randomly run into people I know now while biking to places since there's so much more going on here
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Thanks Terrence! It was great chatting with you on the train
@@ChrisTopher_Urbanism Cheers Chris, I really enjoyed the conversation too!
I live 400 metres from my primary school and so I was able to walk to school each day. Initially either my Mum or Grandad would walk with me and then when I hit Year 4, I started walking by myself. In high school, I would usually catch the bus into the centre of Epping and then walk the last 400 metres or so although sometimes one of my grandparents would drive me into the centre of Epping. In Year 11 and 12 when I started getting free periods, I would sometimes walk all the way home due to the infrequency of buses in the middle of the day.
It definitely says good things about the safety of Epping that you could walk by yourself at year 4. It's a shame the busses are so infrequent, though - I definitely stuck to the train and metro while I was living in Epping
@@ChrisTopher_Urbanism Yeah, well I'm in a fairly quiet area of Epping which helps. The safety around my primary school has actually improved quite a bit since I was there. There's now a zebra crossing where there wasn't previously. I guess I was just so used to the route by the time I was 9 years old that I knew how to navigate it.
Yeah, I never catch the bus anymore. I prefer to walk to Cheltenham station, which is about a 15 minute walk away, or just drive.
Freedom: Low -> High
Supervision: Low
Result: Basement Dweller and Broken Hill (somehow without bullies)
uh oh... maybe YOU were the bully!
There is a good case study - possible future video? - about the location of skateboarding and similar 'young adult' facilities. Should they be located out of sight (and earshot) or as part of community within sight of adult activities like shops and cafes (supervised)?. I think there was a recent example in Sydney of of a function centre developer trying to stop a skatepark next door.
That would be super interesting to look at - I'll add it to my list of video ideas! The story behind the function centre who tried to stop that development is crazy. The owner hosts all these alt-right speakers there and in attempt to stop the skate park being built, he claimed he was given Native Title for the area in a "personal treaty" with a Maori woman. Insane stuff.
Well thank you for asking Chris, I actually grew up in Greece, where there was high freedom and high supervision. By 8, I was walking to primary school with my sister (11) and running errands for my mum (eg buying bread, milk etc). Suburban Sydney was a huge shock. My European parents wanted to retain my high freedom, but not many other parents thought the same, so only a couple of my friends would be able to hang out, which got quite lonely for all of us. Though I didn't get bullied, there were times I felt unsafe (getting hit on by people twice my age, or having drunk or homeless people monologue at me for an hour). Never had any major problems thankfully and it made me quite though. Many of my more protected friends were still quite naive and helpless in many common situations when we graduated high school. Despite them being super smart and capable otherwise. I'm a huge believer in high freedom high supervision!
Ps Jane Jacobs rulz.
Thanks for your comment! Really interested to hear about some of the differences between Australia and Greece!
Yeah any time 😊 my experience is Greece was specific to my town (Volos) and I think the experience varies a bit in the large cities like Athens. But generally, Greece is made up of small towns or localities. The norm is to walk or ride a scooter to get around. Everything is medium density and mixed use. When I lived there 20 years ago there were very few cyclists (I didn't learn to ride a bike until I was in my 20s, and it's not really a normal part of growing up). I think that's because everything is within walking distance, and most people you know are close by. Walking is in itself is a social act because you bump into friends, neighbours, acquaintances. Funnily enough, this is why my mum would send us on errands. If she went, it would take her 1 hour to buy a few things because she'd have to stop to talk to everyone on the way 😂. But it meant we, as kids, had a lot of independence because my mum could send us out to play, or to run an errand, and she'd be sure that the community would look after us because everyone knows everyone. People had cars but they were always secondary, only for longer trips or weekends. Mt town was set out in a grid, where every second intersection is a stop sign, so progress through the city in a car was slow. Streets are very narrow and the number of pedestrians means that cars tend to travel slowly in between stop signs. I rember cars just being loud and dirty, but I was very young (less than 8). Could be worth getting a more up to date testimonial 😅
Great video! Thank you
Thanks! Glad you liked it. Great username haha
My whole childhood i rode or walked to school. I used to live about 1km from my primary school and i would ride to school from about year 2 onwards. when we moved and the school was about 3.5km away i still rode to school. I think i went to about 5 schools all up through my childhood years and always enjoyed riding to and from school.
But imagining i had kids now it would be very concerning to let them ride to school due to the worries of traffic.
That's the way it should be! Yep, unfortunately traffic worries having been making it an option for less and less people
Really insightful. Well done 👍
Thanks!
Motorists using residential streets is a serious issue. Many speed and don’t care. Road design needs adjustments to slow motorists down and curb certain streets from being turned into mini-highways.
Definitely. There are some great examples of modal filters around Redfern where streets have little parklets in the middle essentially creating cul de sacs that pedestrians and cyclists can bypass - I reckon we need some more of those!
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heck yeah! welcome
I just read Wake in Fright. Get out of my head.
I am also on my second week of a 4 week prac. Levels.
haha it's such a good novel. Good luck with the rest of your prac!
I had a great childhood with lots of freedom.
Car orientated Sydney is horrible.
No enforcement of road rules has accumulated into a car hell.
People in cars jostling about with little regard for anything else other than the waiting Red light.
Yep lots of Sydney is very car oriented. Parts of it are improving a lot though, especially near the CBD. Whereabouts did you grow up?
@@ChrisTopher_Urbanism I grew up in Western Sydney, Parramatta areas 1980s
There is a heap of factors at play that contribute to the situation we have now , as you know.
Cars are also bigger. SUVs have become the humble " runabout" car.
Street vision has become so much more cluttered and drivers have blind faith that anything smaller will have to get out of the way.
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welcome!
4:13?......... Helmet Laws,
Helmet laws wouldn't help but they're definitely not the whole picture