Walkability Theory
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- This video was inspired by Prof. Michael Southworth's paper on walkable environments. Southworth posits that in order to develop more walkable urban environments, 6 design criteria need to be present.
The second half of the video focuses on Path Context - the sixth and least understood of the design considerations. The theory draws on work by Kevin Lynch, Raymond Isaacs, Gordon Cullen, Jan Gehl and others.
Resources
1. How can Planners prioritise active travel? RTPI online
2. Southworth, M (2005) Designing the Walkable City. Journal of Urban Planning and Development 131 (4) 246-257.
3.What is a 20 minute neighbourhood?, Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning Victoria
4. www.sustrans.org.uk
5. Lynch, K. (1960) The Image of the City (Cambridge: The MIT Press)
6. semanurcan.wordpress.com
7. Cullen G. (1961) Townscape (New York, Reinhold)
8. Bentley, I, Alcock, A, Murrain, P, McGlynn, S, Smith, G (1985) Responsive Environments: A Manual for Designers (London: Architectural Press Elsevier)
9. Isaacs, R. (2001) The subjective duration of time in the experience of urban places. J. Urban Design, 62, 109-127.
10. Gehl J. (1987) Life between Buildings (New York, Van Nostrand)
This is a great summary, thanks!
Thanks NJBs. I love your channel and themes. Keep it coming.
It's YOU! You're the reason I'm watching all of these kinds of videos. I'm originally from Spain, but I spent 10+ years living in the US and I was miserable. After moving back to Europe I set out to figure out why I was so much happier and have realized just how much living in a walkable area means to me. I work online and the thought of having to get in a car and drive to a place just to get a cup of tea is ridiculous to me now. Instead, I live within a 10-minute walk of everything I need and my quality of life has increased substantially. Now, I'm trying to learn as much as I can so I can compound resources to present to our city planner.
What a beautiful coincidence, the guy who introduces me into urbanism in a video of urbanism
@@ItsJustLib This guy converted me too. He explain problem people don't know they had.
Interesting video.
On a totally anecdotal, personal level, I've found my own experience the opposite of the studies about time perception. I used to do a 60 minute walk home every night from work. The first half was on a straight, boring path and it felt like it took absolutely forever. The second half was through town, with several corners, varied buildings, people, more traffic, etc., and it went by MUCH faster.
Now that I live in an actual city I find walking to be a dream. Every block or two is a different neighborhood, a different visual style, a different set of people. It keeps me engaged and enjoying myself, and never feels like a slog.
Thanks for your comment Matthew. I think the fact that you found the straight path boring, says it all. I'm in the 'time flies when you're having fun' school of thought. So I agree.
I'm having flashbacks from a couple years back when I used to come home from basketball practice on foot. 1st half of the journey was on one of the town's main roads, just a pretty boring straight road. 2nd half was at least a little more interesting since it had some turns and wiggles. Both took about the same time but 1st half felt mentally exhausting while 2nd one didn't. Great point.
If we compare walking and driving, it's not surprising to see that highway engineers intentionally add curved segments even where there is no need, to break the monotony and keep the driver alert. I think the same thing applies to walking. Unless your mind has to make a conscious navigational decision, it will zone out. Many people lose track of time when they zone out so it feels like time goes faster when you walk on a long straight path. That's what the research referred to in the video would have established.
We often perceive our speed by using reference points in our peripheral vision. If you walk with lots of objects to your side, you'll probably feel like you're going faster. This technique is used to control traffic, if they want drivers to slow down instinctually then they will put lots of things with vertical shapes on the side of the road like trees to make you feel like you're going too fast.
I was just thinking the same thing! Interesting, but routine walks take very little time subjectively. I think that the perception of time passing slowly only occurs for me personally when I'm in an area for the first few times. I hypothesize it's because my brain is taking on a greater cognitive load. That's why, for example, the outbound journey when I'm hiking feels like it takes much less time than the return leg.
I walk to work and that makes me pretty happy. What annoys me is that about a year ago they built a wall that cuts off my previous route. So instead of walking through a nice park I have to go the long way around along a busy road. This ads 15 minutes to my commute and the walk is far less pleasant.
If it's low enough i would have just scale it lol. No way i'm wasting my time on bullshit.
In my country we often take the fence cutter route..
In my country closed off gated community development is becoming popular which means walkability just goes down as you need to circle around their stupid fenced area instead of just walking between the buildings like on a regular street.
@@TheEggman888 Buy a sledge hammer and smash it. I would
Due to my own personal neuroses, I choose walking routes based on the fewest number of road crossings. I'd probably take a ten minute detour over crossing a busy road. It'd be nice if there were more over-road bridges to make it simpler.
Continuous sidewalks are used in some places. Cars give way/yield to pedestrians.
I do the same thing, especially if it's dark. I'd say adequate lighting is a basic walkability need that isn't being met in my community.
I relate to that. Japan is a great place for that attitude; so many pedestrian bridges spanning roads. They’re mostly built to help students along school commute routes, but anyone can use them and it’s so nice to have uninterrupted walks.
This is something I've thought about for the past 10 years, mostly because I was born and raised in Texas. Everything is so far apart, it's basically a necessity to own a car, especially in the summer when no one wants to stand outside waiting in the heat for a damp slow bus. I don't understand why they make things so far apart in the first place as if the state didn't feel big enough already, it's just such an inconvenience driving to a store when realistically it could be a 5-10 minute walk if it wasn't for all the dead space and empty lots. It's almost like walking is discouraged when there's a lack of pavement/sidewalks in some areas that can obviously be traveled by foot. For example, walking to a corner store/gas station by a neighborhood/apartment complex.
I grew up in Oklahoma, much the same experience. I've concluded that post WW2 US "freedom" is defined as the freedom to do whatever you want, as long as it requires more energy (oil consumption) than whatever anyone did before. Any innovation that doesn't require more oil consumption? "Must be socialism!"
There are two Metro stations nearish my house, they're almost exactly the same distance as the crow flies. However, one is a fifteen minute walk away along a long, straight, busy, dirty, noisy road, and one is a twenty minute walk away through a winding path through the woods and then a quieter residential street. When I have to walk home from the Metro I will always choose those extra five minutes walking to have a more pleasant journey. So there is definitely more to walkability than just object journey times.
After walking through Florence in Italy and Quito in Ecuador, there is something to be said for the plaza. Your have your personal bubble and your public bubble. Designing public spaces around this concept of the public bubble you possess I think is part of what defines the plazas in these two cities I've visited. Florence, Italy in particular felt incredible to walk around. For the fact it explicitly feels as though the city is not designed for cars on any level, but for walking. You would enver be able to achieve this level of walkability feeling in any American city of similar size. That level of retrofitting doesn't seem possible to me. And for Americans who lack the experience of wlaking through cities like this may nor have a full appreciation of the scope of what it means to live somewhere walkable.
I live in Montreal, Canada. Walkability is pretty bad in my neighborhood. I have to deal with stroads and walk more than 25 minutes if I want to reach a descent grocery store.
When I first went to Japan in 2008, I saw how much better things could be! Almost everywhere except the country side and mountains, you can pretty much go everywhere and do everything by walking, cycling or riding public transit.
Living in North America feels like our urban spaces have been designed for cars instead of humans. Any attempt at bike paths or transit feel like a distant afterthought. Connectivity is poor. So much space is wasted for road and cars that point of interest are too far away to walk between them.
Your video put words and showed examples for a lot of things I saw and felt. Great work!
Hi Samuel. It's a huge problem everywhere. Glasgow is trying to build on its Victorian legacy by following a compact city model. Densification is the byword. If we can make our downtown attractive enough, people might vote with their feet.
Bro, it's Montreal, QUEBEC, Canada, I really hate it when people forget the provinces (I'm from Mississauga, Ontario btw). Also, I love driving. It get's me where I want to go, when I want to go, and by whatever path I want to take, plus I can listen to music through a sound system and control my own temperature. Designing for cars means we can have things be more spread out, give people breathing room since many people don't like being close to everyone, plus it gives people actual property to call their own. I can't have a dog in an apartment or Condo. I don't want to share a wall with a neighbour, my next door neighbour in the next house over is loud enough. I do like Cycling and I do love walkable downtowns but I'm fine where I am in a subdivision.
@@coastaku1954 > Also, I love driving. It get's me where I want to go
When you translate that into German, it feels weird because the German cognate to "go" ("gehen") also means "walk".
"Ich liebe das Autofahren. Es bringt mich dahin, wo ich hin gehen will."
@@val4414 My opinion is changing. I have been going to Downtown Toronto a lot recently and using our very very very very convenient Bike Share Toronto bikes along with our own Subway and Streetcar network. It's stupidly easy to get around with all of that. One time, I got stuck in rush hour traffic coming home to Mississauga and I fucking hated it.... I'm starting to hate driving when alternatives exist... Though I disagree with you on the Car Culture thing. That's going against car enthusiasts who found community and joy through automobiles. What we need to do is bring more alternatives to Suburbs and densify so the people that don't necessarily need to drive don't have to drive, giving more room to the people that do enjoy driving with their pride and joys. I hate paying for parking, I hate being restricted from roads, and I especially hate it after a day of zipping through the areas drivers are restricted from and taking advantage of the "Bicycles Excepted" signs that let me turn when cars can't. I love cars, but when I'm downtown, fuck driving entirely. In fact I'm hating it in my Suburbs too
@@coastaku1954 Well then, It took... what, a week for your opinion to start changing when you started getting access to a more dense urban area? It seems it was simple and easy to understand once you had that experience of a more dense place designed for pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit. I think more people across North America will change their opinions just as quickly if they would simply experience an urban environment like this.
As an architect I welcome with open arms this video. Excellently presented and very informative. Well done sir!!
Where I live Houston,USA fails all of this.I wish it is Walkable but it’s not from my house to my school on car is 20 minutes(3 hours walking) And the nearest park with trees is a 30 min drive(4 hour walk) that’s why people get depressed because they are stuck in a box, driving through neighborhoods for 30 mins that looks exactly the same just for an open green space. 😔
Having lived in the US for 5 years, I couldn’t agree more. Euclidean zoning / design is highly hazardous to human psychology. The cities resemble excel spreadsheet. I feel like I’m nothing but a tiny numeric value on somebody’s matrix. I constantly fantasise about relocating to a gothic quarter in an Italian /Spanish/Portuguese city.
@@MyCamilla1989 it's also a highly inefficient way of connecting blocks, compare to more natural node and link type of road design
Oh gosh, a fellow Houstonian!!! Even at the minimum I wish there were at least more sidewalks. But no... The city seems to have a hate of pedestrians for no reason at all. It's just miles of ugly asphalt as far as the eyes can see
I agree. This obsession with roads and cars is depressing. i live in s Florida and on my days off i don't drive unless necessary. I miss NYC for that reason- i could walk everywhere or use public transportation. I'm looking to relocate to an area where i can get a balance of driving, walking, and public transportation
I’m surprised this doesn’t have more views, it is a very informative video. Thank you!
Living in Hong Kong, I would say that the distance and the density of buildings and people make it walkable, but not the environment.
its cool how almost 3 years ago, people were talking about 20 minute cities/neighborhoods and now we have people advocating for 5 minute cities/neighborhoods. a year ago we were living in an almost 10 minute neighborhood and while its doable, a 5 minute neighborhood would be perfect. there was almost no reason to drive. and we were lucky in that if we wanted to go somewhere a little further away, we had some public transportation options. under 10 should definitely be the standard goal
I used to walk to work partly through residential streets, by a high school and through a park, the park was the best part, did my best thinking of the day 11:47
Something I'd like to encounter more of is simple public maps. As an example, I'll offer my experience in London in 2011. I went on a business trip with my husband, and our hotel was right across the bridge from Big Ben. Okay, that's a landmark, and one I'm not going to easily lose track of. I, being a grim little murder fan, wanted to go to Whitechapel and see some of the places I'd read about in all those books about Jack the Ripper, so I checked a map and set off on foot. If you've been to London a lot, or you live there, you're laughing at me right now. I got to Chelsea, saw too much cool stuff in Chelsea, got lost in Chelsea, and decided it was best to go back to the hotel and figure out public transit so I could visit Whitechapel another day. The only problem was, I'd been wandering around for a while and wasn't really certain of where I was. That was a pretty frightening situation to be in, but then I noticed the bike rentals that were all around. They're the kind that you plug a coin into and it unlocks and you can ride the bike where to another rental station where you lock it up, and all of these stations have this big, clearly labelled, round map. The map has arrows pointing travelers toward major landmarks. One of those arrows pointed to Buckingham Palace, and I knew where the hotel was from there, so I just followed those maps and those arrows back. All in all, it was about a six hour walk, I enjoyed myself immensely, and I didn't ever feel truly lost, even though I'd only been in the city for 18 hours. I eventually figured out how to use the underground, but I took a lot of excursions on foot that trip, because I felt confident that I could always find my way back.
Have google maps now on your phone. Makes life easier.
I realized how beneficial it is to avoid being stuack on traffic since 2 months ago when I moved to an apartment only 4 blocks away from my job. Being able to leave your workplace on lunch time everyday to go have lunch and a quick nap in your own home before going back to work is just so nice.
My apartment is a 5 minute drive from work and I got a grocery store + a number of restaurants within walking distance. It's not perfect but it's good.
I enjoy walking if there is shade and places are closer.
Thye m ain point to this whole concept is create NEIGHBORHOODS that people feel attached to, so that they will prefer to access the goods and services in that neighborhood, support those vendors and service providers, and reward them with their income. The biggest problem in the US is suburbia, where you need a vehicle to ac cess everything. What few people realize is that by moving to and living in a walkable neighborhood, they can use that income saved from needing a vehicle for everything for their lifestyle, to be spent on entertainment and the like, it yields them greater disposable income. When you consider the cost of a yearly car payment, the insurance a newer vehicle requires, and all the maintenance associated with using that vehicle extensively + fuel costs, it adds up a large part of the average workers family income. When you consider that most families require multiple vehicles for things like a daily commute, accessing childcare, and the like, it becomes a huge sum of $$$ that can be repurposed as disposable income, to be used as savings or to invest in things like housing upgrades without taking out loans. In fact, one can live much more frugally without all of those vehicle costs and it can even allow workers and families to step back from needing to work as much to pay for those costs. Which is exactly why CAPITAL will never embrace this model, the suburban model emphasizes consumption and excess which put more $$$ into their pockets. I have lived in places that had both measures designed by planners v. developers, and while taxes are necessary to support a walkable city plan v. a suburban developer plan, it is more than offset by the savings accrued from foregoing extensive vehicle costs & more importantly, the quality of life and time saved avoiding a daily commute in gridlocked traffic and parking woes.
Capitalism ≠ Anti-Walkability
Capitalism in fact is better in walkable places. Walkability is how free market Capitalism is designed to work within.
It was Government regulations st the behest of large corporations that designed our cities in this way.
EXCELLENT comment. I believe exactly as you stated--- walking creates connections for inhabitants of a community.
One of my favorite parts of living in the Twin Cities was biking around the cities for my main transportation. I also used the train with my bike for long trips sometimes. And I would use bus and train during snow storms or if I decided not to haul my bike around for a day. The biking and walking was lovely because of a few factors. One, well-designed bike lanes, roads and sidewalks in a lot of places so the transition between biking and walking was easy. Curbs stay out of the way with slopes to get onto a sidewalk; there's plenty of places to lock up a bike and space for everyone to move around each other.
One of the best factors though was how scenic and nature-surrounded many places are in the cities. When I've visited places like Chicago, New York and Boston I found it was a miserable, concrete, noisy hell with no space, nature or regular neighborhoods. There was of course, variation between these three places, and I found New York was by far the worst to an extreme - constant loud noise everywhere, bright blinding lights late into the night among other things. By comparison, we have at least two dozen neighborhoods in the Twin Cities that are scenic, nature-surrounded by trees, parks, and the river in some cases, with a mix of houses and diverse amenities. Biking year round and use of major transit is extremely common here. I'd say only about 20% of the people I interacted with often owned a car at all, and at least half of those people came from the suburbs (which are as miserable and shit designed as you see in most infrastructure design videos).
This was a really nice comment for someone who has been considering moving to the Twin Cities! It's nice to hear that public transportation and biking are convenient and pleasant.
@@meli382 Well, I moved away because the social/cultural problems were getting unbearable. There are always trade offs sadly. If you aren't VERY pro-social justice and leftwing, you would have a hard time. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you can afford it, visiting for at least a few days is better than moving blindly. Good luck :)
@@anewagoraThank you! That is good advice, I hope to be able to soon. I have most recently come from Seattle so I'm very comfortable in that environment haha.
@@meli382 Good, then you would probably really like it there. The open mic and music scene was a great place of refuge for me, that's a really good place to start meeting people. Also meditation and permaculture/urban farming events and groups can be good for meeting cool people. If you do visit or move, go to Common Ground Meditation Center at least once, even if you don't meditate :D
As a landscape architecture student this really help me a lot. Thank you for this great video.
use your skills to help solve this problem. We went to walk
Regarding the "passing of time" perception. I think there has been a confusion between "having fun" and "being in a stimulating environment"; common saying goes "time flies when you are having fun", which may translate in believing to have walked less than one actually did. I believe this is correct as it is coherent with my experience. "Being in a stimulating environment" (a rich and varied path), doesn't translate immediately with having fun though. Especially the first time one walks a new road, it seems longer than what it actually is because more cognitive power is invested in learning about it. So, I think this explains the apparent contradiction. Crossing a varied, even beautiful environment, doesn't directly translates with having fun… it may translate with being amazed, amused, disoriented, overwhelmed, … depends on the person (and its history).
I went to Edinburgh, Scotland, for the summer festival season in 2017 and besides being able to see six or more performances a day a highlight was just strolling through the city going from venue to venue. The Old Town was endlessly fascinating with several narrow pathways which were only intended for pedestrians and when I had to venture further through parks and residential neighborhoods my senses were perpetually entertained.
Of course, having a satellite navigation system on my smart phone gave me a clear route and tangible sense of time to confirm that I was on schedule to arrive before the next show started. If I was just wandering around an unfamiliar city with a paper map I may have been much more stressed about getting lost.
That experience definitely checked off the listed items of a positive walkable environment.
Another factor to consider (probably falls under ‘path context’) is the noise level.
Thanks Donald. Or Path Quality. There's a degree of overlap with the criteria.
One of best summaries I've seen on this topic. Well done 👏🏼 Thank you
This is brilliant. I feel like I've just discovered the next major urbanism channel in its infancy.
I really appreciate this video, extremely well put together, I hope you'll get the recognition you deserve!
Brilliant video with some familiar surroundings
Great video. I like that you included the citations in the description. Subscribed. Look forward seeing more. Cheers!
Wow! What an unexpected amazing find on UA-cam!!
Thankx alot for this video, I surly did subscribeed.
I'm an architect and I'm planning on pursuing my higher education in the field of urban planning so I'm always glad to find this type of content on UA-cam.
Waiting for more vidz like this! Keep the good work up!!
sending positive vibes your way hoping to see more of this channel
This really sums up Southworth's paper! Thank you!
Glad to be of help.😉
Just found the channel, i see that is kind of new, pretty good video. Thanks
Awesome and interesting video. I appreciate walkable areas especially in Europe. Thanks
Thank you for this video. Such a fundamental content.
I think that the perception of the pedestrians are pretty subjetive. The feel of an inviting space to walk is difficult to generalize. I think that walking is affected by a lot of aspects, including individual, cultural, social and context aspects. For example, the feeling of safety differs from men and women. In addition, for some cultures walking and cycling is seen as a low-income activity, specially in the face of the excessive valuation of the car.
It's such a complex subject. I love to study this
Very true about the differences in culture. I lived abroad in Guadalajara, Mexico and I loved how walkable that city is compared to my home town Phoenix. I bought a car there because I didnt know the city well but I ended up preferring to walk and use the metro to get from point a to b. It’s not as walkable as European cities or NY but it’s such a nice feeling to not rely on an automobile. However in Mexico not many middle class and wealthy people walk and use the metro. It is seen as lower class and some would rather be caught dead than riding on public transportation. That’s a shame. Guadalajara is a beautiful city and it’s safer than most make it out to be.
Thank you for sharing! Nice that you said about the use of public transport beeing a lower class thing in México. Here in Brazil is difficult to see People of higher income groups using public transport in small/ medium sized cities.
Very interesting, great job further explaining walkability!
Glad you liked it!
the similarity of your voice to roman mars is uncanny and great video btw!
I love walking. and i want to live in a community that is safe, scenic, with many parks and trees and shops.
enjoyed this and learned a lot, thank you for this helpful content!
Love this video, thanks !
i agree with all what you said and I experience bad walk as I live in Istanbul where it is a walkable city due to its beautiful weather but non walkable due to its lack of pedestrian paths
I guess it depends on where you live in Istanbul. I live in Kadikoy, which is extremely walkable. I live in a pedestrian mall.
Great to see an urbanism video based on Glasgow!
Amazing stuff! Thanks.
Fantastic video, very informative :)
Glad you enjoyed it
I havent even watched the video and im already subscribed cuz of the channel name
Great video, thanks!
4:08 i'm not so sure if this rgb led light installation is really that aesthetic...maybe to a pc gamer
It looks like the future~
i love it and i deactivated anything RGB on my setup, it makes you wanna walk thru it
As le epic PC gamer, I don't think it looks bad per se, perhaps a bit gawdy though. It seems like a neat feature for a bustling touristy city centre, something fun to go through now and again and that blends in with all the stuff happening around it, but it's not something I'd go and sit next to and admire or pay much attention to if I saw it literally every day. It's interesting enough and it has it's place but it also has the potential to be an eyesore if put in the wrong place.
path context is fun
especially the liminal space side of things
I swear Brisbane - Australia is becoming one of the most walkable cities..
I live on the Gold coast and only certain areas are walkable, most not. I have shops less then a 10 minute walk away, but drive due lack of sufficient and safe pathing.
@@dumdum8880 definitely… there’s no way i could walk everywhere and rely on public transport down there on the gold coast.. I completely understand
Excellent video
Loved this
Walk down a long straight road with the same scenery all the way and experience an hour long walk in 20 real minutes
interesting video!
Great Video !
Thanks Adam.
Where I live, walking is hazardous as there is no walkway, streets are narrow and vehicles may hit pedestrians.
Oh I wish Phx got the walkability memo. The RTA and conservative interests for sprawl have been dominant
“This city shouldn’t exist. It’s a monument to man’s arrogance” -Peggy Hill
Why don’t you move? Phoenix was never destined to be walkable. It’s in a desert, it’s hot, relies on AC, build to accommodate the automobile, grew rapidly leading to sprawl, and is just a place that shouldn’t be a big city. I love Phoenix cause it’s my home but it has many flaws. I don’t think those flaws will be fixed anytime so my new destination is San Diego ( if CA doesn’t collapse).
This is basically just the Soviet principle of urban design
Well true but they aren’t the best example. They often weren’t following their own urban plans.
wait did i just found a gem
8:30 Something to consider from urban planning publications I've read in my years: I think in this case you also have to take into account the purpose of the walk.
If your goal is to get as quickly from a to b, then this adds up. More distraction and complexity leads to a perceived longer walk and thus is considered less desirable.
But if you're walking to pass free time, or to engage in ''entertainment'' activities (like shopping, drinking a beer, people watching, going out for a bite, and so on, then the reverse is true. You actually want complexity and distraction, since this is exactly what you seek, and complex walk routes become desirable. You want people to linger! Which is why traditional historical (and complex) city centers are so popular to walk, shop,... and pass the time. There this complexity and distraction is a benefit and very desired! Otherwise you end up with boring transitory walk paths where no one lingers.
Thanks Johan. Great observations - you get it!
good video
Can this be applied for places in the tropics wholesale or does there need to be modified to suit the climate?
In hot climates, tall buildings and narrow streets optimise shaded streets which often makes them too narrow for cars as a bonus.
Crime/Safety is the foremost concern for a lot of people. More areas than you'd think are dangerous. Fractured communities and many conflicting groups result in places where being of an outsider or "enemy" group will go very, VERY poorly for you, even if you're a local.
Being on foot in such areas is best avoided.
The Car needs to be Put back in its place it's the servant not the king
4.40
IS there literature informing this 20 minute concept and 3km ph walking speed?
Lots! It's really just a new name for an old concept. There's a reference in the video resources for Melbourne who started the term off. A search will provide lots of results.
@@Urbaburble Going to do an accessibility analysis using the 2step floating catchment area method, need to inform time budgets and movement speed.
Sri Lanka has some very un walkable places. But, Galle, NÉliya and Places in Colombo are good.
20 minutes per walk for some things and 20 minutes per drive for other things. Though, which things is the question...
The best walking paths are those where I will encounter no other people.
Noicee
0:37 where is it
Glasgow Scotland
The only real solution is Futurama style suction tubes they are everywhere but never seemed to be used...
Could you please use metric for future videos?
Hi. Most viewers are UK or US based so metric wouldn't make sense.
I think walkability concept is pretty Hard to apply in several tropical cou try, Such as Indonesia. I mean, you know the Rain and the temperature that makes people lazy to take a walk. #cmiiw
How did people get around before cars?
@@Urbaburble traditional vehicle, i mean there is no urban life yet, and also the concentration of greenhouse gasses from vehicle increase the temperature too
@@kahfisyuhada5828 the heat and humidity problem can be solved by more medium sized trees on the sidewalk pathway and if possible flowing water in the form of canals adjacent or near as possible, but if Indonesia is anything like Malaysia it's sidewalks are a crapshoot if we get ones where they make sense. Our motorcyclists don't seem to mind getting wet as long as they have a good raincoat on, so maybe, make rain ponchos Available at convenience stores and sundry shops.
I've lived in Sydney, London and Auckland, London and Auckland rain a lot with Auckland in particular being as rainy as back home Malaysia. They got around this-ish by having most 90% of buildings in the CBD have pedestrian level roofing or awning that extend all the way out to the street.
@@kahfisyuhada5828 also i don't know about no urban life a couple of cities in Sumatra are stupid old like Palembag.
@@kahfisyuhada5828 on the subject of shelter from the rain in south east Asia, five foot way Shophouses which would have the upper floors overhang over the pathway. They would unfurl those bamboo curtain thingies if the the rain got horizontal to protect the pedestrians.
Yes, you are safe in public, because others can see you. This is called social control. Someone can please tell that to Elon Musk, who is afraid of serial killers in public transport (he really said that). I have seen enough horror films, to know: Serial killers don't attack you in public.
He just doesn't like poor people and the working class.
What would explain a lot of his bullshit public transport inventions
The greatest asset in security is not some device, but the people around you. This goes for all scenarios.
I have to walk through rubbish, crowd and traffic jams. I want to use a car but it would save at most 10 minutes each way.
Only people whom have not lived in the countryside, want this.
And yes, you are able to walk in the countryside, too.
the real american dream
Urbaburble 👁👄👁
Don't forget about dealing with the homeless. No matter how beautifully designed, few people will voluntarily walk in a city where they have to dodge pan handlers, junkies, the crazy, used needles, and piles of human shit.
These concerns would fall under the 'path safety' heading. High quality environments tend to attract and sustain more interaction. Why people are homeless in the first place is a more complex issue. Maybe a future video...
The majority of homeless people have mental issues, substance abuse issues or both. Many are demoralized and are homeless by "choice". The rest are simply down on their luck and need a helping hand. The reason so little can be done about it is because the ACLU went all the way to the Supreme Court to establish that no one can be forced to receive treatment. @@Urbaburble
Disappointed to see skateboarding designed out
We live in the uk it rains 9 out of 10 days and its cold I’m sorry unless its covered there no real reason to walk. It’s fine to walk in a country with a better climate but sorry not the uk its not realistic.
This is a Glasgow, Scotland based channel. Please, tell me more about the rain:)
Drama queen .
No such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
Many of us live in the uk and walk and use public transport. If you live in london it's a lot easier than driving. They also have these inventions called umbrellas if you are worried you might get wet.
Pink background needs to go.
I like pink!