Heartwarming to hear urbanism, architecture and history powerfully and clearly expressed via a feminist lens and with a priority on paying attention to social issues that are so neglected and under estimated in our society and by professions shaping the way we live and work and care for each other. Bravo to Hayden and The National Building Museum for this program on You tube for many to observe.
Urban planning has brought us cities that are ugly, hard to get around in, cost huge sums to live in, and forcibly segregate people by economic status. Every problem that urban planners are supposed to solve are made worse.
Urban planners are taught about the ideal cities planned by Ebenzer Howard, frank L. Wright and Le Corbusier but when these urban planners come out to the field then they realize that they have no power and authority at all, all those things they learnt at school were merely theories and nothing else because most of the "planning" is decided by the elites sitting in government and private sector. So in order to plan a faultless city, a planner need to have the utmost authority over all the stakeholders, then and only then a planner can be faithful to his education and practice.
@@deanbrickland I made a statement that follows this logic: Modern cities are crap, modern cities were shaped by urban planners, therefore, urban planners are responsible for the crap cities. You claim that a mysterious group of people are actually responsible, not urban planners. I'm asking you to show who that group of people is. Reveal their motivation. And explain how they influence city leaders to ignore the supposed experts, urban planners, and follow their dictates instead. A related thing to think about is this: A group of trained professionals who claim to be responsible for city design, but really don't design cities, are paid to do what exactly?
@@deanbrickland All you did was agree with me that modern cities are crap. Then you went on to defend urban planners, essentially saying that the poor babies are ignored so they can't be held responsible. You have won your case, I can agree with you on that. To put that into an actionable plan, since urban planners are ignored, we should fire them. Are we good now?
@@deanbrickland You only think that my view is simplistic because I have not spelled out my entire philosophy of urban design. I work in the architectural field, I see what city laws do to plans. Some actually produce beneficial effects, but others cause enormous harm. Parking space minimums, and road design requirements, are two of the biggest city killers.
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Heartwarming to hear urbanism, architecture and history powerfully and clearly expressed via a feminist lens and with a priority on paying attention to social issues that are so neglected and under estimated in our society and by professions shaping the way we live and work and care for each other. Bravo to Hayden and The National Building Museum for this program on You tube for many to observe.
Urban planning has brought us cities that are ugly, hard to get around in, cost huge sums to live in, and forcibly segregate people by economic status. Every problem that urban planners are supposed to solve are made worse.
Urban planners are taught about the ideal cities planned by Ebenzer Howard, frank L. Wright and Le Corbusier but when these urban planners come out to the field then they realize that they have no power and authority at all, all those things they learnt at school were merely theories and nothing else because most of the "planning" is decided by the elites sitting in government and private sector. So in order to plan a faultless city, a planner need to have the utmost authority over all the stakeholders, then and only then a planner can be faithful to his education and practice.
@@deanbrickland I'm willing to believe you if you provide proof.
@@deanbrickland I made a statement that follows this logic: Modern cities are crap, modern cities were shaped by urban planners, therefore, urban planners are responsible for the crap cities.
You claim that a mysterious group of people are actually responsible, not urban planners.
I'm asking you to show who that group of people is. Reveal their motivation. And explain how they influence city leaders to ignore the supposed experts, urban planners, and follow their dictates instead.
A related thing to think about is this: A group of trained professionals who claim to be responsible for city design, but really don't design cities, are paid to do what exactly?
@@deanbrickland
All you did was agree with me that modern cities are crap. Then you went on to defend urban planners, essentially saying that the poor babies are ignored so they can't be held responsible.
You have won your case, I can agree with you on that. To put that into an actionable plan, since urban planners are ignored, we should fire them. Are we good now?
@@deanbrickland You only think that my view is simplistic because I have not spelled out my entire philosophy of urban design. I work in the architectural field, I see what city laws do to plans. Some actually produce beneficial effects, but others cause enormous harm.
Parking space minimums, and road design requirements, are two of the biggest city killers.