15 things you didn't know about city planning (probably)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
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Better Buses, Better Cities by Steven Higashide
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Human Transit by Jarrett Walker
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The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup
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Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth Jackson
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Walkable City by Jeff Speck
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Suburban Nation by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
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The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
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The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
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Evicted by Matthew Desmond
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Cathedral by David Macaulay
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Great Streets by Allan Jacobs
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Right of Way by Angie Schmitt
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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.
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
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.
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.
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 UA-cam? because I can't find it in the searcher
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?
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!
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. :)
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.
im thankful for City Beautiful
yes
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.
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.
did i ever wonder about city planning? probably not. do i regret watching this video? absolutely not ✌
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
"...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.
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
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 loaned it out."
Well that's gone forever, but you already knew that.
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.
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.
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...
Your content is completely on another level, the workflow, the depth, I don't know.... a joy to the eye.
Every time you say ¨But that´s for a future video¨ I yearn for the day that you make said videos
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
Between you and Cities: Skylines, I have nerded endlessly seeing my own city lol
dang, my apartment is in this video! wild.
that happened to me last vid - so surreal!
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.
I'm not Communist, but Soviet cities planning was quite good for public transport. Also trolleybuses was a good idea.
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.
"Sad benches in no man's land"
...An apt description of the bus stops in my city! There are benches or shelters close to the curb, around which the pedestrians awkwardly navigate, while the people waiting for the bus stand close to the buildings in the "regular" sidewalk. I'm honestly a little shocked that we've kept the same bus stop design for decades and never seemed to consider how foot traffic actually works around them.
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.)
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?
He asks “did you know” fully knowing that I don’t know
This channel is so great! Thank you man :) I'm 19 and keen on urban planning as a career choice 😁🤟
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
Jeff Speck has given a few really good TED talks about walkability.
"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 book list is just perfect for me ahead of christmas. Thank you! And I love that you recommend buying from local bookshops over amazon 👍👍🤙
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.
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
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.
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.
9:08 I go out of my way to find sad benches in no man's land.
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.
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!
9:12 Ayee San Gimignano! A fantastic Italian town!!
Wow did you just cover my entire Intro to Cities and Planning course in ten minutes?
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?
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.”
Your videos are amazing! You're a very inspiring teacher!
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.
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
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!
Love your videos... Planning to study Urban planning at UNT Denton
Did you know that I know when you're gonna say did you know? o.O
😂😂😂😂
You mean, every 20 seconds in this video? :-/
Ooh a book review compendium! I'm sold.
Have you read Charles Montgomery's Happy City?
Please do an episode on 'Green Cities'. Love your videos by the way!
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.
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.
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.
Evicted is a great book. I look forward to checking out some of the other books you recommended.
Man, I loved the cathedral book. Its illustrations are beautiful, described meticulously, what a great book.
I work in public transit, so I really enjoyed this one.
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!
Suggestion for a funny drinking game: Take a sip everytime he says "Did you know that...?" ;-)
Love how you start talking about American bus system then use measurements in km.
Can’t wait to become a urban developer ! I know there’s been a lot of problems with developers but hopefully I can go into the field and make a great change for everyone !
I want to become an urban planner as well but I'm worried about the salary
1) use the publisher detail webpage (not amazon's)
2) show all of the detail from the book, not just title and author
3) forget amazon
Psyber War trilogy features parodies of types of cities. From the "getting exhausted just trying to cross the street" american-width roads to the cosy Japanese alley streets, to the separate pedestrian streets and vehicular roads. Forget the author, but its a good read.
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!
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..
I wasn't a fan of walkable citys but am definitely getting that bus book
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
Loving the old bus sign!!
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.
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.
you
just inspire me
to become a good supreme leader one day and make my own version of real life the simp city
So don't forget his video about Pyongyang.
holy cow, I was obsessed with "Cathedral" around 10 years old. What a great memory.
4:03 those are the best looking suburbs I've seen, you actually have routes in between the rows of houses
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).
Cool video, I’ll definitely have to checkout some of these books 📚
Really cool ideas. I'm glad that Queens Boulevard was redesigned and prevented deaths.
In addition to pedestrians and the occasional cyclists, Main Street, U.S.A., accommodates horse-drawn streetcars and surreys, as well as omnibuses, fire trucks, and horse-less carriages
I’m currently doing my degree in urban planning , some of these vides have been really helpful for me , keep it up great videos 👍🏻
Another one id recommend is Straphanger!
Weirdly personal and slightly non related question: I want to be a lead urban planner. Should I pursue my studies past undergraduate level and get a masters degree?
@@stephaniehernandez7209 at least? What else might one have under their belt?
If you can get a job with a bachelor's, work first unless you can get your graduate degree paid for. Only get a grad degree if that's the only way you can get a foot in the door. Most planners have grad degrees.
I would argue that the reason most urban planners have a master's degree is because most colleges don't offer planning as a bachelor's degree. I am currently working towards a bachelor's in City and Regional Planning and most of my older peers who have already graduated have been able to find jobs in the planning field. So, I wouldn't stress a whole lot about getting a graduate degree right away unless you really can't find a job. I don't know the job market specifically for lead urban planners, however, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
My favorite was the MUTCD.
The Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
The two largest purchaser groups of this incredibly dry time are Public Works Departments and...wait for it..
American Lawyers.
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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 :)
A cluttered suburban thoroughfare in the southwestern suburbs of Louisville, Ky. which also connects to Ft. Knox is called Dixie Highway. It is so plagued with traffic fatalities, it is often called Dixie _Dieway._
The problem is a combination of bad or absent design by a planning board some of whose members often took bribes from developers in the 1950s, drivers with a hooo-weee attitude that holds that brakes are for wimps, and a certain number of Ft. Knox soldiers trying to get back to base before they are AWOL. It's a hellacious route.
Keep the good content coming, always happy when you post a video!
Great video! Pssst, give yourself some visual head room!
Thanks for all of the book recommendations! I've always been curious to know what you've been reading.
Communitas by Paul Goodman.
The fact this book is not in the list baffles me - absolutely worth reading.
Main Street, U.S.A., isn't "fake" or "thin."
Disneyland is an enormous, larger-than-life theatre, and the turn-of-the-19th-Century Main Street, U.S.A., consists mainly of stage sets, actors, and costumes for that theatre.
This video shows Walt Disney's original Magic Kingdom of Disneyland first, Walt Disney World second, and Disneyland Paris third.
In terms of transit:
1) Frequency is king or queen. Any bus or rail service not running every 15 minutes minimum from 5am until 1am the next day is not a service at all.
2) Bus lanes: are they running and how long for? Peak hour bus lanes wont do much if you have congestion over the weekend when every one is shopping. 7am-7pm - 7 days a week is a bare minimum
3) Bus priority for non bus rapid transit lines. Is the bus first to go through an intersection when the signals change
4) Have we got integrated fares and tickets
5) Those Transit Oriented Developments like Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore
Parking
6) Free Parking is never free. Parking will add NZ$65-100k per space to a residential dwelling or retail store in an urban area
7) Lets talk about the 85th percentile and Levels of Services rules - both discredited
8) This is not Cities Skylines no matter how much we want to bulldoze the NIMBYs and put new apartments on that single house lot!
I could go on but yep - there is a lot to planning and urban development
And yes I am a Spatial Planner and Urban Geographer IRL.
Funny, before watching this video I had been thinking that a good spacing for bus/trolley stops would be about a 15 minute walk apart. So if even if you missed your stop, it would be a 15 minute walk max. Guessing at an average walking speed of 2.5 miles/hour, I calculated that that would be about 0.65 miles...almost exactly 1 km.
Handy Cities: Skylines tips xD
No, serious, super interesting video
That's my city at @2:30! Wow...thanks for the nice quiet shout out.