To clarify, California did not ban R1 zoning. That's just what was reported by journalists who don't do research (which is pretty much all of them these days) What the state did was ban zoning that did not allow accessory dwelling units (ADUs). Now, cities have to have a policy and guidelines for ADUs in R1 zoning. Or any other zoning that is meant to allow only a single residence.
@@SpruceOaks journalism is over since news agencies became the model, people don't do research on and spread bad things about humanistic social science and communication theory including the news agents and wokes
Bro you coulda told me this was a suburb of Houston and I’d believe you. It’s wild how much they space homes out and do these weird street patterns. This video was well put together man, you earned a subscriber. I’m surprised you don’t have more. Keep cranking these out, I’ll be in tune
America needs High-Speed Rail and better public transit badly. Can't imagine the horrors of spending 6 + hours on a highway instead of taking a 2 hour train journey.
@@blackhole9961That makes no sense. A well placed train station will allow people to walk to their destinations, no car needed. A proper transit system would allow you to easily get from the train station to your destination. Walking and being able to relax on the train is better for your mental and physical health and reduces congestion in your city.
@@carstarsarstenstesenn I’m afraid you don’t understand how much American cities/suburbs lack density to make it happen. The vast majority of people would still have to drive to the train station just like the airport.
@@blackhole9961 I'm afraid you're ignorant of the various train stations in the United States that already make it happen. I see tons of people walking to train stations in Chicago everyday. You think every one of the hundreds of millions of riders that use Penn station ever year all drive there? Hell no they use public transit to get there. that's how cities work!
@@carstarsarstenstesenn Chicago is one of the few outliers of American cities. Most American cities are generally going to resemble DFW or Kansas City more. Cities like Chicago NYC and Boston are NOT going to be the same like the vast majority of other American cities that adhere closer to the typical American style urban planning and design.
I’m in Mississippi for the first time for a work trip (lived in Wisconsin all my life but have been to around 17 states) and the urban planning here is insane. So few sidewalks and there are like 30 strip malls per mile if you drive down any sort of main road. 80% of the cars are SUVs or trucks, with about half the trucks being lifted or having big tires. It’s not possible to live without a car here, walking around is dangerous with the lack of sidewalks and crosswalks
I have to get rid of one of those heavy, old CRT monitors today, so I'll strap it to a dolly / hand truck and get on the bus that stops in front of my house and will take me to the recycling center here in Berlin. I'll still have to walk about 700 meters in both directions, but that's just exercise and I can use some nice sidewalks that have trees on both sides.
It is one of if not the poorest state in the continental US so it isn't likely to change anytime soon, I use to live in Tallahassee florida and they're building sidewalks and bike paths like no tomorrow but with the exception of the downtown and FSU campus it's still not a very walkable because of all the strip malls but you do still see a lot of college kids and poorer folks walking and there is a bus service in the city but their buses aren't very nice and it's not big enough of a city for a public rail service and the Amtrak station is still shut down from hurricane Katrina
@@bnbcraft6666 Very similar story in Gainesville. Bunch of crappy overpriced apartments near campus too. Insanely oversized suburban power center on stroads just west of campus. But we do have sidewalks on most stroads here and a few bike paths to outer portions of town and near the airport.
As someone from MS I can confirm. The endless strip malls and fast food restaurants kill me. I’m thankful to be an American but I can’t stand American urban planning💀
Suburbs are mostly more popular because the media paints suburban life as ideal, ignoring the negative effects it has on children who are raised to be car dependent.
Public transit is managed (or mismanaged) by politicians who have no skin in the game - they themselves are motorists. So if public transit is dysfunctional, THEY DON’T CARE!
When I lived in NYC, Mike Bloomberg was mayor and he was famous for taking the train to work, even though he was a billionaire. He also was quite influential in getting more bike lanes and making several major areas such as Times Square only pedestrians. He ran as a Republican but was more Democrat in how he thought. Very forward and progressive thinking.....although he also let a lot of big box stores into the city and continued to let rents rise out of control, so he wasn't all great.
Suburbs also pay (comparatively) almost nothing in property taxes - a fact brought up by Not Just Bikes. The GI Bill was given to white US servicemen only. Also the 1956 highway act and general suburbanization was utilized as a weapon against poorer and non-white neighbourhoods, destroying denser urban areas, public transport and businesses - pay no mind to the tax revenues nosediving. The development of this "American" styled suburb also is followed by a history of violence in not just the US, but other parts of the world where such development has taken place. There is also a very good reason why there are many communities online with such names as "Suburban Hell".
@@gorden6294 Suburbs are subsidized and all over the US, governments think "yes let's allow just single-family zoning and the expensive upkeep of infrastructure isn't our problem"
@@19Borneo67 I'm talking about transport, LA of course has many qualities that Make IT attractive and people live there. But why would you bring Sofia on to this? Its a shit hole
@@19Borneo67Maybe because they happen to not speak Bulgarian, don’t want to go through the process of citizenship and don’t want to dump all of their family because their home city is a shithole?
@@19Borneo67Have you ever BEEN to Sofia, Bulgaria? It's actually a great, walkable city with lots of good mass transit. If it weren't for those little things called borders and money, I'd be more than happy moving to and living ANYWHERE in Europe!
I live in that neighborhood at 1:20. It’s actually pretty tightly packed, it’s only gotten denser. In the left side of the picture, that construction site is finished, and that park is surrounded off frame by more apartment buildings. The buildings on the hill in the top right are all small apartments, medium density, and again tightly packed together.
@@TheTramly Yes, many downtowns in America have highways cutting through them. Downtown LA actually has the 110 running north-south through downtown, and it makes it impossible to travel by foot safely from the eastern prt of downtown to the west. But at least this sections has mostly apartments. The pic before and after were true suburban horror shows, even if the houses are close together.
A lot of urban freeways are below grade. It shouldn't cost an arm and a leg to deck them over and build higher density housing on top, relative to the neighborhood.
The problem isn't with suburbs, it is with lack of walkability. Japan is almost as suburban as the US, but all of the suburbs and most of the small towns are walkable. Japan also provides less service to homes, usually no gas line or sewage unless you are in town or in a very close suburb. I used to live in a walkable small town in America, but during my youth a walmart moved in 10 miles away in a neighboring town and took all the business away. Now everyone must drive 10 miles instead of walking 1mi for general goods and groceries. I went back to my hometown and a dollar general moved in, which is nice as people can walk to it, but it is still less pedestrian friendly than the older stores.
@Linuxman777 Yes, I agree. I don't think all suburbs are necessarily bad, but I still stand by my opinion that American style suburbs are bad. When so much land is zoned for only single family housing, everything is far away from people's homes, forcing them to drive.
That's a long way to say zoning. You guys just need to let anyone set up businesses anywhere they want, even in suburbs. That way, everything is walkable. Mixed neighborhood is nice, you don't have to live in compressed apartments this way. But I guess you don't have enough freedom to do that.
@@bassyey You are missing some of the point, even if you have mixed zoning, that still doesn't stop a big box store from opening up 5mi away near the highway and taking away all of the business in town, and nobody is able to shop for their daily needs in town anymore. I think mixed use is a good thing, but if there aren't good economic incentives to prevent big box stores from killing the retail in all towns and cities, you can have all the mixed use in the world and it won't matter as the businesses just won't show up.
When I was a door-to-door salesman, walking this sprawl with all of it's dead ends was like always being in a cornmaze. Suburbs in Quebec are 3X more dense than in western Canada. This should not be so in mountainous BC, but it is. I hate how freeways Balkanize cities-like raging white water rapids with few place to portage-hostile to walkers and bikers.
Even USA f'd up the Philippines, from having long railroads, bus lanes, and tram tracks to being car centric roads. Private vehicle ownership has been the story of our public infrastructure projects.
I'd like to take just a moment to appreciate the absurdity of the UA-cam algorithm... There were four ads on this video (when I watched it), two were for SUVs. Google is not very good at reading their audience.
google really lined their pockets there since I still don't have monetization lmao yeah UA-cam targeted ads are sometimes for a lack of a better word.. interesting
Yes, yes... Great video, agree on every word you said. You could try and make a video on a similar situation in Czech Republic. (As a fellow Czech) I would love it. Anyways keep it up :)
Good summary. Kinda seems like you copied Not Just Bikes' homework, but not as shamelessly as OBF. It's good to have a ten-minute summary that can do justice to such a complicated problem.
Thank you. Yes, Not Just Bikes is definitely a massive inspiration to me, in fact, I got interested in urban planning and stuff becuase of him In the future I'll definitely try to cover different topics than NJB to bring something new to the table (like my upcoming video about the history of Berlin's public transport coming out tomorrow or on Thursday), so stay tuned!
In terms of the suv id have to disagree, what u said was true back in the days when suvs were meant for work. Nowadays most of the midsize crossover suvs on the street get better gas and than new sedans released today. Sedans changed, theyre more of a sporty fast kind of thing now while the suv is the mass
The problem in the United States is that these transit projects are just temporary job creation projects. Politicians tax the public and contract politically friendly unions to build the system, who in return contribute union dues to the pro transit politicians to continue the cycle. Offer over paid transit jobs to friends, family and politically connected groups. That's how we have janitors who make over $100,000 a year and refuse to clean the public bathrooms.
Ok something very confusing about those stats you threw out at 6:56 ... according to that spending 17 hours in a car means you are guaranteed to be obese?? you need to explain where these numbers come from and what they actually mean. otherwise good video
the numbers come from a study i linked in the source list in the description ill grab the link for you so you don't have to search for it: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8396707/ and a 100% increase in the risk of obesity doesn't mean that you are guaranteed to be obese, but that you are twice as likely to be obese. Definitely should've clarified that in the video, thanks for the feedback!
Going from 100 cases per 10 000 to 106 per 10 000 is a 6% increase. It doesn't mean that 6% of all people are obese. It would be silly for a small town to be scared of a 100% increase in murders per year, if it goes from 1 to 2.
i dont want high speed rail, i dont want to live in a major city and i have no interest in riding public trasnportation. this the truth about every american that doesn't live in a major major city like NYC feels.
@@4tbf616 I live in what 90% of America lives in. Bham Alabama I live 20, miles west in Bessemer. We got millions of peeps and stuff. Just not worth it.
What you want is entirely irrelevant. The entire lower class half of America and the planet itself is being butchered to accomodate the petty needs of people like you who think civilization should be physically structured in the stupidest possible way bc they're afraid of other people.
That's possible, but I don't think it detracts from the point. There are absolutely roads like this in the US, like the Katy freeway: Katy Fwy maps.app.goo.gl/ZTp828ydUHpG5E4e6
China at least has alternatives to driving and they're insanely large population makes this a bit more excusable compared to the sprawled out madness that is LA. I'm not saying China is perfect but at least they do public transit right.
@@carstarsarstenstesenn yeah but they're becoming dangerously car centric too. Lots of traffic jams because of the induced demand in 10 lane highways. Many cities are outright banning electric scooters which is just making people go to cars
I agree that we should have better infrastructure but what we have now it pretty good. You can still walk anywhere. 2 miles isn't a far walk. I do it all the time or ride my bike or take the bus. I haven't had a car in years and am just fine and content without one here in the suburb of Youngstown Ohio. I grew up out in the country so living in the suburbs is way easier than what I'm used to. It could certainly be improved but to say you "can't exist without a car" is completely untrue. You'll be fine.
That's awesome not to require a vehicle in Youngstown. I wouldn't have thought that. And you're not Amish, I trust. Back in the '90's I cycled some of the back roads of the Western Reserve and gained the impression therefore that a car was essential. Times have changed for sure.
@@Piaseczno1 The buses are free here now so you really can't beat that and I ride my ebike all over the area with no problem. We even got like a half mile of divided bike lane on Mahoning ave. now.
You should really dig a little deeper into your statistics. "Oooh, ten thousand people were killed by automobiles in 1918." Um, yeah, and over 27,000 were killed by horses and/or horse-drawn vehicles that same year.
Exactly. Now, why is that? Why shouldn't people have a choice as to how to get around? And what about the people who can't drive, or can't afford to drive? What about children and teens who haven't gotten a driver's license and rely on their parents to drive them whenever they need to go somewhere? In my country kids get around on foot, on bikes, and by public transportation from a young age, in the USA they're pretty much trapped.
@@19Borneo67 Tell the people who criticize American urban planning to come see Indian planning. They will appreciate American planning more. As an Indian, I wish Indian cities had at least 1/5th of the planning in America. Right now, most Indian cities look like overgrown villages.
It's a deep mystery to me that you Europeans invented the automobile and the freeway, and you still make some of the world's best of both, but you still don't understand how great they are! You want everybody to go back to streetcars. Not us! We value the individual freedom and choice that only automobiles provide. The only point on which I agree with you is that zoning is awful. It's pure socialism to tell private property owners what they can and can't build on their own property. Guess where socialism came from.
This is not freedom. It is not freedom when the only viable option of transportation is driving. It is not freedom if people’s only choice is to own and drive a car and be stuck with the financial burden it comes with.
@@tjnugget4066 By free choice, I live in a rural area, but you would take that away from me and force me to live in a city. Owning a car and driving it is not a burden, it's a blessing. I'm not saying that people who want to live in nasty, crowded cities can't, but it's not for me.
@@MikeV8652 And I’m not saying you shouldn’t live in a rural area. Not once did I say that at all. I’m saying people should be able to have other viable options of transportation, instead of driving. Because believe or not, owning a car is a burden to many Americans and not everyone likes driving. Also transitioning from low density car centric infrastructure to higher density transit-oriented development will help rural areas and farms because low density suburbs continuously spreads into rural areas and is a cause for small farms to go out of business.
@@tjnugget4066 Okay, Troy. Peace. This European bastard telling us that Americans who don't want to live in crowded inner cities and ride streetcars are "insane" (his word) caused me to lose it. He and the other Europeans need to take responsibility for their side of the Atlantic Ocean instead of waiting for us Americans to come save them from the next Stalin, Hitler, or Putin.
@@tjnugget4066 actually this is a half truth, small farms near suburbs are way more valuable that rural farms not near a suburb, this is just the law of demand v supply. Thus sell and be bought out, the solution would be distributed urbanization aka rural suburbs. That way price differences wouldn't be so god awful and would cap housing inflation. The only thing I would kinda support would be underground metro lines covering all farm to market roads/state highways idk about interstate highways due to both heavy rail and air ports make more sense, the real bitchy thing is that you Europeans don't do crap about preventative maintenance on your infrastructure. And if you did well the u.k. rail wouldn't be so trash! At the end of the day its like this: man public transportation is *insert government controlled system*... But why can't the government provide the ppl with a car? I mean even the Nazis had a "folks wagen" I mean Volkswagen.
What’s free about cars? Sitting in traffic , paying massive amounts in car Insurance ,loan payments , depreciation losses, maintenance and paying taxes for expensive car infrastructure
@@TheAmericanCatholic national socialist Germany made cars for their folks, they called it Volkswagen! Also in the usa they have programs where you get tax credits and benefits for buying a car not as generous as Norway. But its a thing, and cars = freedom! There is no traffic in my area due to the fact that our roads were designed with future growth in mind, and built to last, just like the Roman empire. Thanks to low density planning or better yet no central planning authority, we don't have traffic, no traffic means no accidents, no high crime rates, and no need for high insurance rates, I just got a 10,000.00 usd offer for my 85 dodge d-150... idk about depreciation. As for maintaining a car... well what doesn't need maintenance? Paying taxes and death are the only thing that are guaranteed in life. Lol expensive car infrastructure? Why is it that every super power always builds roads? From the Roman empire to the U.S.A???
@@raymondcasso7966 The only places in the US with no traffic are rural areas in the middle of nowhere. BTW, when most Americans must own a car just to work or buy food, that's not freedom.
@@raymondcasso7966 He's referring to the cost of infrastructure per resident, so if you have a sprawling low density suburb with many people, the return on investment with property tax for all those homes with urban-like utility services and wide roads to accommodate the eventual traffic from people wanting to do something productive than just be at home isolated will not be able to pay itself off in the future. This means the government heavily subsidizes suburban development through denser developments (like the inner city/downtown) that are the actual economic generators that have high ROI with property tax. Before the 1920s we had these things called "streetcar suburbs" that were just dense enough to economically sustain themselves and they had community owned shops within walking distance, I'm sure you've heard of them. Homes in those neighborhoods are becoming the most expensive in this housing crisis due to the fact that the demand is high to live in places like that. Most people I guess aren't lucky enough live in a place that has no traffic, since the majority of US cities are mostly suburban and believe it or not some people don't wish to own a car, either cuz to them it's a financial burden, they have a disability, or other modes of transportation are more viable in traditional style development. Also it's much better for the environment, as 44% of emissions are from private transport and suburban development induces car traffic the most, a long with abundant free (municipally subsidized) parking. However roads are important, but even the Romans probably had walkable, livable cities since it's what humans have naturally done for a millennia, and including America before the 1940s.
Exactly. Now, why is that? Why shouldn't people have a choice as to how to get around? And what about the people who can't drive, or can't afford to drive? What about children and teens who haven't gotten a driver's license and rely on their parents to drive them whenever they need to go somewhere? In my country kids get around on foot, on bikes, and by public transportation from a young age, in the USA they're pretty much trapped.
Have you been to Europe or Asia? With their inconvenient, ugly, curvy streets overloaded with road signs making driving very difficult. With not enough parking spaces and cars parked on a roadside . With no trees , no grass in cities .
@@rapermini3467 who tf buys 30kg of groceries? what's the deal with buying a bit every day? that's what i do all the time. i walk by like 5 grocery stores on my way home also winter is better because of better heat management
The bit about Los Angeles is out of date. California recently got rid of single family or R1 zoning. A small step in the right direction.
Oh, thanks for informing me.
I'll pin this comment.
rare sensible urban planning policy
To clarify, California did not ban R1 zoning. That's just what was reported by journalists who don't do research (which is pretty much all of them these days) What the state did was ban zoning that did not allow accessory dwelling units (ADUs). Now, cities have to have a policy and guidelines for ADUs in R1 zoning. Or any other zoning that is meant to allow only a single residence.
@@SpruceOaks journalism is over since news agencies became the model, people don't do research on and spread bad things about humanistic social science and communication theory including the news agents and wokes
@@TheTramlySoviet microdistrict vs USA suburb
@@TheTramlyjust one more Line can fix traffic
Bro you coulda told me this was a suburb of Houston and I’d believe you. It’s wild how much they space homes out and do these weird street patterns. This video was well put together man, you earned a subscriber. I’m surprised you don’t have more. Keep cranking these out, I’ll be in tune
Glad you liked the video! next one is coming in roughly a week, stay tuned!
America needs High-Speed Rail and better public transit badly. Can't imagine the horrors of spending 6 + hours on a highway instead of taking a 2 hour train journey.
You’d just end up stuck at the other city without a car, that’s basically no different than taking the plane.
@@blackhole9961That makes no sense. A well placed train station will allow people to walk to their destinations, no car needed. A proper transit system would allow you to easily get from the train station to your destination. Walking and being able to relax on the train is better for your mental and physical health and reduces congestion in your city.
@@carstarsarstenstesenn I’m afraid you don’t understand how much American cities/suburbs lack density to make it happen.
The vast majority of people would still have to drive to the train station just like the airport.
@@blackhole9961 I'm afraid you're ignorant of the various train stations in the United States that already make it happen. I see tons of people walking to train stations in Chicago everyday. You think every one of the hundreds of millions of riders that use Penn station ever year all drive there? Hell no they use public transit to get there. that's how cities work!
@@carstarsarstenstesenn Chicago is one of the few outliers of American cities.
Most American cities are generally going to resemble DFW or Kansas City more.
Cities like Chicago NYC and Boston are NOT going to be the same like the vast majority of other American cities that adhere closer to the typical American style urban planning and design.
Puerto Rico used to have a train but the car industry lobbied to have it dismantled in favor of big roads.
It's a story as old as time.
I’m in Mississippi for the first time for a work trip (lived in Wisconsin all my life but have been to around 17 states) and the urban planning here is insane. So few sidewalks and there are like 30 strip malls per mile if you drive down any sort of main road. 80% of the cars are SUVs or trucks, with about half the trucks being lifted or having big tires. It’s not possible to live without a car here, walking around is dangerous with the lack of sidewalks and crosswalks
I have to get rid of one of those heavy, old CRT monitors today, so I'll strap it to a dolly / hand truck and get on the bus that stops in front of my house and will take me to the recycling center here in Berlin.
I'll still have to walk about 700 meters in both directions, but that's just exercise and I can use some nice sidewalks that have trees on both sides.
It is one of if not the poorest state in the continental US so it isn't likely to change anytime soon, I use to live in Tallahassee florida and they're building sidewalks and bike paths like no tomorrow but with the exception of the downtown and FSU campus it's still not a very walkable because of all the strip malls but you do still see a lot of college kids and poorer folks walking and there is a bus service in the city but their buses aren't very nice and it's not big enough of a city for a public rail service and the Amtrak station is still shut down from hurricane Katrina
@@bnbcraft6666 Very similar story in Gainesville. Bunch of crappy overpriced apartments near campus too. Insanely oversized suburban power center on stroads just west of campus. But we do have sidewalks on most stroads here and a few bike paths to outer portions of town and near the airport.
As someone from MS I can confirm. The endless strip malls and fast food restaurants kill me. I’m thankful to be an American but I can’t stand American urban planning💀
Suburbs are mostly more popular because the media paints suburban life as ideal, ignoring the negative effects it has on children who are raised to be car dependent.
Yeah. The suburbs are portrayed as this idyllic place to have a family, while ignoring the isolation, atomization, carbon emissions, and others
Public transit is managed (or mismanaged) by politicians who have no skin in the game - they themselves are motorists. So if public transit is dysfunctional, THEY DON’T CARE!
Bring out the Guillontines!
true, they NEVER use public transport, EVER.
When I lived in NYC, Mike Bloomberg was mayor and he was famous for taking the train to work, even though he was a billionaire. He also was quite influential in getting more bike lanes and making several major areas such as Times Square only pedestrians. He ran as a Republican but was more Democrat in how he thought. Very forward and progressive thinking.....although he also let a lot of big box stores into the city and continued to let rents rise out of control, so he wasn't all great.
Suburbs also pay (comparatively) almost nothing in property taxes - a fact brought up by Not Just Bikes.
The GI Bill was given to white US servicemen only.
Also the 1956 highway act and general suburbanization was utilized as a weapon against poorer and non-white neighbourhoods, destroying denser urban areas, public transport and businesses - pay no mind to the tax revenues nosediving.
The development of this "American" styled suburb also is followed by a history of violence in not just the US, but other parts of the world where such development has taken place.
There is also a very good reason why there are many communities online with such names as "Suburban Hell".
How is that if people with more wealth stay in suburbs .how do suburbs pay less property tax than people who live in the inner city
@@gorden6294 Suburbs are subsidized and all over the US, governments think "yes let's allow just single-family zoning and the expensive upkeep of infrastructure isn't our problem"
american cities were the best, especially LA had the largest tram network until GM bought and destroyed it.
@@19Borneo67 I'm talking about transport, LA of course has many qualities that Make IT attractive and people live there. But why would you bring Sofia on to this? Its a shit hole
@@19Borneo67 nice non-sequitur.
btw, people are flocking into Europe to live, too. Funny, that.
@@19Borneo67Maybe because they happen to not speak Bulgarian, don’t want to go through the process of citizenship and don’t want to dump all of their family because their home city is a shithole?
@@19Borneo67Have you ever BEEN to Sofia, Bulgaria? It's actually a great, walkable city with lots of good mass transit. If it weren't for those little things called borders and money, I'd be more than happy moving to and living ANYWHERE in Europe!
In "the land of the free" it's illegal to build an apartment building in most parts of the fastest growing cities.
I live in that neighborhood at 1:20. It’s actually pretty tightly packed, it’s only gotten denser. In the left side of the picture, that construction site is finished, and that park is surrounded off frame by more apartment buildings. The buildings on the hill in the top right are all small apartments, medium density, and again tightly packed together.
That's good, I'm glad to hear that.
Although I still think that the highway blasted right through the residential area is still a massive eyesore
@@TheTramly Yes, many downtowns in America have highways cutting through them. Downtown LA actually has the 110 running north-south through downtown, and it makes it impossible to travel by foot safely from the eastern prt of downtown to the west. But at least this sections has mostly apartments. The pic before and after were true suburban horror shows, even if the houses are close together.
Imagine winning a war only to destroy yourself
A lot of urban freeways are below grade. It shouldn't cost an arm and a leg to deck them over and build higher density housing on top, relative to the neighborhood.
The problem isn't with suburbs, it is with lack of walkability. Japan is almost as suburban as the US, but all of the suburbs and most of the small towns are walkable. Japan also provides less service to homes, usually no gas line or sewage unless you are in town or in a very close suburb.
I used to live in a walkable small town in America, but during my youth a walmart moved in 10 miles away in a neighboring town and took all the business away. Now everyone must drive 10 miles instead of walking 1mi for general goods and groceries. I went back to my hometown and a dollar general moved in, which is nice as people can walk to it, but it is still less pedestrian friendly than the older stores.
You won't take away our freedom
@Linuxman777 Yes, I agree.
I don't think all suburbs are necessarily bad, but I still stand by my opinion that American style suburbs are bad.
When so much land is zoned for only single family housing, everything is far away from people's homes, forcing them to drive.
That's a long way to say zoning. You guys just need to let anyone set up businesses anywhere they want, even in suburbs. That way, everything is walkable. Mixed neighborhood is nice, you don't have to live in compressed apartments this way.
But I guess you don't have enough freedom to do that.
@@bassyey You are missing some of the point, even if you have mixed zoning, that still doesn't stop a big box store from opening up 5mi away near the highway and taking away all of the business in town, and nobody is able to shop for their daily needs in town anymore.
I think mixed use is a good thing, but if there aren't good economic incentives to prevent big box stores from killing the retail in all towns and cities, you can have all the mixed use in the world and it won't matter as the businesses just won't show up.
@@Ambrose05 YOU LIKE SITTING IN TRAFFIC FOR 2 HOURS ?? THATS YOUR PATHETIC FREEDOM
Zoning laws are evil, especially bans on mixed-use development and parking minimums.
When I was a door-to-door salesman, walking this sprawl with all of it's dead ends was like always being in a cornmaze. Suburbs in Quebec are 3X more dense than in western Canada. This should not be so in mountainous BC, but it is. I hate how freeways Balkanize cities-like raging white water rapids with few place to portage-hostile to walkers and bikers.
Even USA f'd up the Philippines, from having long railroads, bus lanes, and tram tracks to being car centric roads. Private vehicle ownership has been the story of our public infrastructure projects.
Great video and keep it up! More people understanding the problem the better
@@19Borneo67 pretty crappy feature.
I'd like to take just a moment to appreciate the absurdity of the UA-cam algorithm... There were four ads on this video (when I watched it), two were for SUVs. Google is not very good at reading their audience.
google really lined their pockets there since I still don't have monetization lmao
yeah UA-cam targeted ads are sometimes for a lack of a better word.. interesting
Congrats on your new channel
Great video, keep it up! 🇨🇿 :)
Yes, yes... Great video, agree on every word you said.
You could try and make a video on a similar situation in Czech Republic. (As a fellow Czech) I would love it. Anyways keep it up :)
Another great urbanist youtuber. Suscribed :)
Good summary. Kinda seems like you copied Not Just Bikes' homework, but not as shamelessly as OBF. It's good to have a ten-minute summary that can do justice to such a complicated problem.
Thank you.
Yes, Not Just Bikes is definitely a massive inspiration to me, in fact, I got interested in urban planning and stuff becuase of him
In the future I'll definitely try to cover different topics than NJB to bring something new to the table (like my upcoming video about the history of Berlin's public transport coming out tomorrow or on Thursday), so stay tuned!
Im from Philadelphia and my city is easy to get around without a car, but i have a car and explore so many other places with my car
great vid but your microphone is supeeer quiet!
The problem is that alternatives such as Smart Growth/New Urbanism suck and the transit systems are second hand.
We need a real alternative
5:35 That red vehicle is a minivan, not an SUV.
This is great channel! It deserves much more subscribers!
New subscriber. Very well spoken.
In terms of the suv id have to disagree, what u said was true back in the days when suvs were meant for work. Nowadays most of the midsize crossover suvs on the street get better gas and than new sedans released today. Sedans changed, theyre more of a sporty fast kind of thing now while the suv is the mass
The problem in the United States is that these transit projects are just temporary job creation projects. Politicians tax the public and contract politically friendly unions to build the system, who in return contribute union dues to the pro transit politicians to continue the cycle. Offer over paid transit jobs to friends, family and politically connected groups. That's how we have janitors who make over $100,000 a year and refuse to clean the public bathrooms.
It’s planned this way because at the time that’s what people wanted
Audio is way too low.
Bro got 265 subscribers
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Indeed.
435.
Americans: we need more transit!
Other Americans: Transit sucks, let us have cars!
Mitsubishi who makes parts for both: *Stonks*
Ok something very confusing about those stats you threw out at 6:56 ... according to that spending 17 hours in a car means you are guaranteed to be obese?? you need to explain where these numbers come from and what they actually mean. otherwise good video
the numbers come from a study i linked in the source list in the description
ill grab the link for you so you don't have to search for it: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8396707/
and a 100% increase in the risk of obesity doesn't mean that you are guaranteed to be obese, but that you are twice as likely to be obese.
Definitely should've clarified that in the video, thanks for the feedback!
Going from 100 cases per 10 000 to 106 per 10 000 is a 6% increase. It doesn't mean that 6% of all people are obese. It would be silly for a small town to be scared of a 100% increase in murders per year, if it goes from 1 to 2.
A risk factor is just that -- a RISK FACTOR. They are not deterministic. Risk goes up, or it goes down, and nothing is guaranteed. Nothing. Get it?
Love how this movement is gaining speed. Go new urbanism.
i dont want high speed rail, i dont want to live in a major city and i have no interest in riding public trasnportation. this the truth about every american that doesn't live in a major major city like NYC feels.
Do you live in a suburb or rural area
@@4tbf616 I live in what 90% of America lives in. Bham Alabama I live 20, miles west in Bessemer. We got millions of peeps and stuff. Just not worth it.
What you want is entirely irrelevant. The entire lower class half of America and the planet itself is being butchered to accomodate the petty needs of people like you who think civilization should be physically structured in the stupidest possible way bc they're afraid of other people.
its going to get worse unfortunately my friend.
Your right, they just keep expanding and expanding and ruining inner cities
THe image at 0:18 is in china
That's possible, but I don't think it detracts from the point.
There are absolutely roads like this in the US, like the Katy freeway: Katy Fwy
maps.app.goo.gl/ZTp828ydUHpG5E4e6
@@TheTramly the Katy freeway is ridiculous
looks just like LA freeways
China at least has alternatives to driving and they're insanely large population makes this a bit more excusable compared to the sprawled out madness that is LA. I'm not saying China is perfect but at least they do public transit right.
@@carstarsarstenstesenn yeah but they're becoming dangerously car centric too. Lots of traffic jams because of the induced demand in 10 lane highways. Many cities are outright banning electric scooters which is just making people go to cars
I agree that we should have better infrastructure but what we have now it pretty good. You can still walk anywhere. 2 miles isn't a far walk. I do it all the time or ride my bike or take the bus. I haven't had a car in years and am just fine and content without one here in the suburb of Youngstown Ohio. I grew up out in the country so living in the suburbs is way easier than what I'm used to. It could certainly be improved but to say you "can't exist without a car" is completely untrue. You'll be fine.
That's awesome not to require a vehicle in Youngstown. I wouldn't have thought that. And you're not Amish, I trust. Back in the '90's I cycled some of the back roads of the Western Reserve and gained the impression therefore that a car was essential. Times have changed for sure.
@@Piaseczno1 The buses are free here now so you really can't beat that and I ride my ebike all over the area with no problem. We even got like a half mile of divided bike lane on Mahoning ave. now.
caltops are praxis
You should really dig a little deeper into your statistics. "Oooh, ten thousand people were killed by automobiles in 1918." Um, yeah, and over 27,000 were killed by horses and/or horse-drawn vehicles that same year.
Im chillen in my Phoenix suburb
stating the obvious ,nothing we don;t know already, it would be nice to come up with some solutions
Wonderful video!
6:25 bold of you to assume a homeowner doesn't have a car.
Facepalm
The solution is simple: buy a car.
@@Ponyalaa buy one like a normal adult. It’s not a difficult thing to do if you have your shit together.
@@Ponyalaa also... I don't think the word "than" means what you think it means.
thats so stupid
"you will buy a car and you will like it" how dystopian. better solution: build places meant for humans to live in
Exactly. Now, why is that? Why shouldn't people have a choice as to how to get around? And what about the people who can't drive, or can't afford to drive? What about children and teens who haven't gotten a driver's license and rely on their parents to drive them whenever they need to go somewhere? In my country kids get around on foot, on bikes, and by public transportation from a young age, in the USA they're pretty much trapped.
Nah. Not so insane. Not “so insane.” Not so insane? Not “so insane?” /
American urban planning look like heaven compared to Indian planning.
There's just no planning
@@19Borneo67 Tell the people who criticize American urban planning to come see Indian planning. They will appreciate American planning more. As an Indian, I wish Indian cities had at least 1/5th of the planning in America. Right now, most Indian cities look like overgrown villages.
@@19Borneo67 Did you not watch the video or what?
@@19Borneo67 no, It is not.
@@19Borneo67 *provided you don’t live in the city center or in a -black neighborhood- freeway
It's a deep mystery to me that you Europeans invented the automobile and the freeway, and you still make some of the world's best of both, but you still don't understand how great they are! You want everybody to go back to streetcars. Not us! We value the individual freedom and choice that only automobiles provide. The only point on which I agree with you is that zoning is awful. It's pure socialism to tell private property owners what they can and can't build on their own property. Guess where socialism came from.
This is not freedom. It is not freedom when the only viable option of transportation is driving. It is not freedom if people’s only choice is to own and drive a car and be stuck with the financial burden it comes with.
@@tjnugget4066 By free choice, I live in a rural area, but you would take that away from me and force me to live in a city. Owning a car and driving it is not a burden, it's a blessing. I'm not saying that people who want to live in nasty, crowded cities can't, but it's not for me.
@@MikeV8652 And I’m not saying you shouldn’t live in a rural area. Not once did I say that at all. I’m saying people should be able to have other viable options of transportation, instead of driving. Because believe or not, owning a car is a burden to many Americans and not everyone likes driving. Also transitioning from low density car centric infrastructure to higher density transit-oriented development will help rural areas and farms because low density suburbs continuously spreads into rural areas and is a cause for small farms to go out of business.
@@tjnugget4066 Okay, Troy. Peace. This European bastard telling us that Americans who don't want to live in crowded inner cities and ride streetcars are "insane" (his word) caused me to lose it. He and the other Europeans need to take responsibility for their side of the Atlantic Ocean instead of waiting for us Americans to come save them from the next Stalin, Hitler, or Putin.
@@tjnugget4066 actually this is a half truth, small farms near suburbs are way more valuable that rural farms not near a suburb, this is just the law of demand v supply. Thus sell and be bought out, the solution would be distributed urbanization aka rural suburbs. That way price differences wouldn't be so god awful and would cap housing inflation. The only thing I would kinda support would be underground metro lines covering all farm to market roads/state highways idk about interstate highways due to both heavy rail and air ports make more sense, the real bitchy thing is that you Europeans don't do crap about preventative maintenance on your infrastructure. And if you did well the u.k. rail wouldn't be so trash! At the end of the day its like this: man public transportation is *insert government controlled system*...
But why can't the government provide the ppl with a car? I mean even the Nazis had a "folks wagen" I mean Volkswagen.
You won't take my freedom!
What’s free about cars? Sitting in traffic , paying massive amounts in car
Insurance ,loan payments , depreciation losses, maintenance and paying taxes for expensive car infrastructure
@@TheAmericanCatholic national socialist Germany made cars for their folks, they called it Volkswagen! Also in the usa they have programs where you get tax credits and benefits for buying a car not as generous as Norway. But its a thing, and cars = freedom! There is no traffic in my area due to the fact that our roads were designed with future growth in mind, and built to last, just like the Roman empire. Thanks to low density planning or better yet no central planning authority, we don't have traffic, no traffic means no accidents, no high crime rates, and no need for high insurance rates, I just got a 10,000.00 usd offer for my 85 dodge d-150... idk about depreciation. As for maintaining a car... well what doesn't need maintenance? Paying taxes and death are the only thing that are guaranteed in life. Lol expensive car infrastructure? Why is it that every super power always builds roads? From the Roman empire to the U.S.A???
@@raymondcasso7966 The only places in the US with no traffic are rural areas in the middle of nowhere. BTW, when most Americans must own a car just to work or buy food, that's not freedom.
@@raymondcasso7966 He's referring to the cost of infrastructure per resident, so if you have a sprawling low density suburb with many people, the return on investment with property tax for all those homes with urban-like utility services and wide roads to accommodate the eventual traffic from people wanting to do something productive than just be at home isolated will not be able to pay itself off in the future. This means the government heavily subsidizes suburban development through denser developments (like the inner city/downtown) that are the actual economic generators that have high ROI with property tax. Before the 1920s we had these things called "streetcar suburbs" that were just dense enough to economically sustain themselves and they had community owned shops within walking distance, I'm sure you've heard of them. Homes in those neighborhoods are becoming the most expensive in this housing crisis due to the fact that the demand is high to live in places like that. Most people I guess aren't lucky enough live in a place that has no traffic, since the majority of US cities are mostly suburban and believe it or not some people don't wish to own a car, either cuz to them it's a financial burden, they have a disability, or other modes of transportation are more viable in traditional style development. Also it's much better for the environment, as 44% of emissions are from private transport and suburban development induces car traffic the most, a long with abundant free (municipally subsidized) parking. However roads are important, but even the Romans probably had walkable, livable cities since it's what humans have naturally done for a millennia, and including America before the 1940s.
@@TheAmericanCatholicit's pointless to argue with these braindead people. Just let them live in their world of delusion.
Dude needs to learn to drive
he probably does. the problem is needing to drive to get anywhere in the US.
Exactly. Now, why is that? Why shouldn't people have a choice as to how to get around? And what about the people who can't drive, or can't afford to drive? What about children and teens who haven't gotten a driver's license and rely on their parents to drive them whenever they need to go somewhere? In my country kids get around on foot, on bikes, and by public transportation from a young age, in the USA they're pretty much trapped.
You need to learn that not everyone can drive and not everyone wants to drive either.
Have you been to Europe or Asia? With their inconvenient, ugly, curvy streets overloaded with road signs making driving very difficult. With not enough parking spaces and cars parked on a roadside . With no trees , no grass in cities .
Have you been to europe?
@@Lunavii_Cellest I live there
how about you just don't drive?
shrinking roads removing parked cars and adding back trees and grass?
@@noobartz0890 how many kms you can walk carrying 30 kg grocery bags in winter night?
@@rapermini3467 who tf buys 30kg of groceries? what's the deal with buying a bit every day? that's what i do all the time. i walk by like 5 grocery stores on my way home
also winter is better because of better heat management
you were doing good till you said climate change
"you were good until my corporate agenda disagreed"
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Another one channel saying the same thing