Yeah, I really like how informative the videos are, but I still want to see him build things.. Its the second time in a row he didnt and we waited 2 weeks.
@@JachetTV. Plenty happened in the 90's as previous episodes demonstrated. This just feels like he's spinning his wheels, if I'm being honest. (Which would normally not be something to really point out...if the previous episode hadn't already been devoid of new builds, though that one AT LEAST changed up the map thanks to the flooding.) Couple that with the fact that there's 2 weeks between each episode without anything in between and all of a sudden there's been zero new builds for over a month; Do I have to explain why that's not exactly a good thing? Both of these videos were good, don't get me wrong, but this filler arc is kind of boring imo. Edit: Oh, right; I forgot; Before the flood episode, he did a Cities Skylines 2 video (the first one at that point in over 3 months) for a Road Builder tutorial, and Episode 96 was two weeks before then. (This means the last episode with new builds was almost 2 months ago for those counting with me.) I also checked the viewer count for this video right here and it's only at 8K so far; You could argue this is due to it being uploaded fairly recently, but I checked most of the others and, despite having more than a few months to increase their view count, some of them even struggle to get to 30k including the first 90's episode (Episode 91) and even the last Asturis video is currently stuck at 19,000 views. (Which, I'll add, is still more than this video.) Do with this information what you will.
@@dragonbornexpress5650 Holy moly Mr. video performance analyst, can I please hire you as a manager to tell me how to turn this channel around? You seem to be in the know. It's almost as if there is a sequel to CS1 that people now watch on UA-cam. But since this is not by far my main source of income, I don't really need to be a robot doing the trendy things, but rather things I like, which right now happens to be exploring history of architecture, urbanism and the like. I'm not going to apologize for that nor for uploading every other week since I don't sit at my PC 24/7 anymore, same with not switching to CS2. Sure, I could have switched the episodes to include a building one after the flood, but hey, I didn't. You make it sound like I committed some war crime with that though.
This is no let's play, this is the master course "A century of change - principles of city planning in Central Europe from 1920 until today" , underlined with some game footage, and I love it.
Je super vidět tenhle koncept přepracovanej do Cities Skylines, minulý semestr jsme na architektuře navrhovali bydlení co se konceptem zahradního města řídilo, takže o to zajímavější je pro mě tohle video. Super práce jako vždycky! Absolutně nejoriginálnější a nejzajímavější C:S projekt na UA-cam.
This channel is so valuable. Please just continue doing what feels most interesting to you. These nerdy videos that just analyse history make this channel special.
I love the attention to detail here, the part about Podkowa Leśna, Brwinów and Milanówek is very true, and close to my life, I actually live right next to them, and going over the fact that my area was actually mentioned in your video. These cities feel distinctly more green and very separate from the other cities like Piaseczno or Michałowice for example, the housing is of much lower density and there are a lot of forests and fields intertwined between those. (The part about "Forest Horseshoe", always found that translation weird, in Polish it just makes more sense somehow) The railways running to those cities are mainly the WKD (Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa; or Warsaw Commuter Railway, built specifically to allow easy access to the center of Warsaw from suburbia and further towns, up to Grodzisk Mazowiecki. Anyway, thank you for always providing quality information and entertainment!
bud, I lived in Brwinów most of my life, recently moved to Grodzisk very much near Milanówek's border. The greenery is the way of living for me :) Glad to see near-neighbour here
I unfortunately don’t have time to watch every episode but I absolutely love this series. Not only is the gameplay beautiful but as someone who grew up in the us after the Soviet Union collapsed, your videos teach me a ton about the contemporary history of Europe that would never have been taught in school
I dont know in the latest videos i miss the building part... 90% of the video now is history which is also good,but i miss building footage of the game...
Kinda same, but I can see that Akruas not always has a time or a will to do something bigger in the building topic. After all that, creative work is repetitive. Building episodes clearly will come, but it seems that today Akruas feel more likely to do a videoessays. Don't know a lot about his personal life, but looking at this he was looking for a flat to live in, he probably is kinda busy - doing content without building probably saves big amounts of time, especially when he already knows something like 50% of things he is saying on a video
I saw some push back on the no new building, but I really love the story telling & context you give. From Australia, we have had a completely different history to Central Europe and I love learning about the history of Central Europe. Altengrad is my favourite series because of the story, I’m not here because of the building, like from WW2 and on was the better half of this series, because of the history.
Fun fact: the building at 8:40 is very well known due to the soap opera "Barátok közt" (aired from 1998 to 2021 on weekdays, watched by over a million people at its peak) took place there!
Over the course of my semesters studying urban planning I've come to view garden cities as the first idea in a very long row of ideas of "fixing" cities by taking everything city-like away. Ebenezer Howard's Idea makes it impossible for true urban life characterised by diversity, a degree of anonymity and "density, density, density" to ever set in. There's simply not enough density allowed in his original plan. While he is just reacting to the issues of his time, he uses that "opportunity" to neatly package away people in small communities with low density low-rise buildings. In that he is quite similar to many later modernists, only that their plans abandon the low-rise buildings. Ultimately both wanted to, in their own way, end the concentration of people that makes the urban realm so rich and dense in expiriences. It's quite remarkable we put a group of people who hated urban characteristics in charge of planning our cities in the early 20th century. Thanks for another episode, I hugely enjoy seeing this series tackle these more abstract subjects and connect them to real world examples, it's a very different and interesting way to make a CSL series!
This is a surpassingly shallow take for someone with "semesters" studying urban planning. For one, it sounds suspiciously identical to Jane Jacobs' critique. A valid, but not very original take, and one that one learns to not take seriously after a while. While Garden Cities have their flaws, your wholesale dismissal of their positive contributions to urbanism, and your weird insinuation that there can only be one way to build cities, sounds kind of prejudicial. Has it ever occurred to you that Garden Cities were never meant to replace cities? It is self-evident that these kinds of ideas were intended to deal with the rise of suburbanization and sprawl: the problem that some people don't actually want to live in urban environments, yet they are forced to by economic trends. The garden city, in it's self sufficiency, and it's planned integration with the whole, explicitly stood against the emerging appendage-like growth of suburbs and their consumption of the countryside. In the process, at least on paper, saving the city from it's own sprawl. If you cannot see that, if not as an ideal urban model, at least as an idea worth considering, I don't know what to tell you. Planners always seem so determined to either destroy the urban characteristics you speak of, as you say, or are so wholeheartedly committed to them that they refuse to consider alternatives (to the point of repeating ad nauseum simplistic debates like "density good and density bad", even when it is obvious the issues of land use, conservation, public space, transportation planning, commerce and industry, access to nature, etc. are more important to the character and quality of a city). The result is too often the worst of both worlds. So, I'd ask you to open your mind a little and and not fall for the same trap of stubbornness that you see in the planners you're critiquing.
@@SBKWaffles What I typed out there as a UA-cam comment is of course not my entire opinion on garden cities. That'd require more pages. I'll try to shorten it now though. I recognise them as a product of their time and circumstances with both good and bad characteristics and a complicated legacy. You mentioned self sufficiency and what I'd call "orderly development" instead of random sprawl, and with that I agree. I also think such developments did genuinely improve living conditions for many of their residents. I however take issue with garden cities as, as I said, the first in a long idea of lines to suburbanise urban spaces with the aim of improving them. I think suburbanisation and spatial sprawl, because that is what suburbanisation and also modernist developments did, has been a net negative for nature, traffic and has drawn us further apart. Because these places are only self sustaining on a very basic level, for everything else they induce traffic. And garden cities have the added problem of being low density. I recognise that not every place needs to be urban, but I whole-heartedly think we need to embrace more density for structural reasons if we ever want to cope with the climate crisis. Its not sustainable to build acres worth of detached 1,5 story houses where even a bus line isn't really worth installing, for much more than transit reasons. Density is good, its resilient, shortens trip lengths and makes access to society and amenities easier, especially for people with reduced mobility, women and the elderly (I'll throw in that density alone doesn't do the job). It's the job of planners to solve some drawbacks, no European planner I personally know finds Hong-Kong style urbanism desirable. Or why do you think do we have green space strategies all over the place? Urban planning in Europe is a very very different bag depending on the country, so its very very hard to make general statements. Now, to the "not everyone wants to live in urban spaces". Firstly, what is urban? Are suburbs countryside or attachments to urban centres, are they then themselves urban or neither? I think we have a genuine problem with the opposite of what you describe: people want to live in cities, but at least in germany, ours are full. We watch a lot of demand drip over into the surrounding countryside, which is problematic. For one because building yet more detached houses destroys space for animals amidst the extinction event we call the climate crisis. And secondly, because these people aren't interested in living where they live. The contribute nothing to the community. I'd rather have people who are enthused about living in the countryside live there. But the countryside is shrinking in germany. We have a lot of people who want to have their cake and eat it too: the privacy of single family homes but the amenities and transit of urban living. That is not sustainable and costs lots of tax euros in subsidies to sustain. And when people grow old, they'll be immobile in the suburbs. I think we've built enough single family homes now, for those that want that living im happy if they use them. The problem is that people don't move out of them when they grow old, thus you have 2 or one person's living on the space of four or five. That's where a lot of our current renting crisis comes from. So the way I see it, you have to provide these people with compelling offers to move into better-elderly-equipped appartments or town houses with maybe small (communal) gardens, and you have to make compelling offers to the people who'd otherwise move into single family homes in more efficient forms of living, I.e. townhouses or good apartments. For environmental and economic reasons, the dream of "single detached houses for everyone" needs to be reconsidered. And I do think our cities have, for decades, been planned by anti-urbanists, the same people that wrote our planning laws that in germany are bent to absurdity to make them work for our use cases today. I mean the modernists dreamed that cities would one day dissappear and be replaced by evenly spaced tower in the green islands, in a way much like garden cities. Idk where either thought the wildlife should go, because we'd effectively destroy our entire ecosystems like that. I hope i could demonstrate to you that we do indeed as a profession consider the things you mentioned a lot. I just chose to not type out man essay when I wanted to just write my take on garden cities. And the view I present is one of policy perspective and as such doesn't always align with how a private person would think. Thanks for your comment, its always fun to engage in these discussions :)
Really interesting compendium of garden cities through the last two centuries in Middle Europe - I knew some of them, but many I was not familiar to - makes my bucket list of places to visit there even longer. Perfect education video, like always!
I grew up in Brwinów, still live very much nearby, so much I loved the wall of greenery I had right by the window. Glad to hear those names near Warsaw here :)
Thanks for the vid! It really lets me appreciate my rented 100-year-old flat in Frankfurt am Main a bit more, its an old district built in the 30s during its socialist "Neues Frankfurt" programm. Fascinating to see how well it still compares to newer flats, esp. other cheap (social) housing. And its the original of modern kitchens as well!
00:04 Garden cities were a influential urban planning principle in the 20th century. 02:24 Garden City urban planning focused on minimizing commute, preventing garden dormitory, and promoting self-sufficiency. 04:42 Garden cities had varying interpretations and implementations in different locations. 06:57 Garden Cities inspired unique low-density urban planning. 09:14 Evolution of urban planning from Garden City to modernist ideas 11:33 Garden cities evolved into uniform layout apartment blocks in Central Europe. 13:54 The Garden City concept faced challenges and transformations over time. 16:09 Suburbanization trends have not changed much since 1920s.
The plan at 2:18 looks like, if it was actually built, a demon would be summoned in the middle. Looks a whole lot like the sort of “magic circle” you see in occult writings (and fantasy RPGs).
I grew up very close to Letchworth. One of the reasons it hasn't grown much over 30k population is that it, like most towns in the area, is surrounded by "green belt" land. This is land that is supposed to remain rural, so towns don't just all merge together (and London doesn't consume all of South East England, as it did to the county of Middlesex).
@@SBKWaffles The problem with them is that the required development simply jumps past the belt and establishes the suburb even further away. Cities in the past were size restricted because you had to use your feet to get to work, with the spread of railways and trams suburbs were inevitable no matter what restrictions you try to put around them.
Pécs in Hungary also has a district that is called "Garden City" and it's a quite nice place actually, in spite of it being built in the mid 1960s, if I remember correctly. Mostly 4 floor commie blocks, a lot of green space, a nursery-to-high school complex in the middle, and a several commercial buildings around.
You mean Kertváros? I don't see commie blocks there, looks like it was already well established by 1959, but not complete with small houses www.fentrol.hu/en/
@@Akruas I guess it's a bit of local vocabulary... the city officially has about two dozen named subdivisions, the people living here tend to use maybe five of those to refer to larger parts of the city. To me, Kertváros is the southern part in general, what I meant specifically is called "Megyer" and it's the area south of the official Kertváros, between the two big roads.
Montreal also got a really good example of a garden city, its nearly the perfect example, idk about the history of it though and when it was build, but it looks old and even older than many in Europe
Zahradní Město was never expected to get a railway stop until the recent days, but there was a plan to extend the A metpo line there, from the very beginning of the project (of the metpo). So much that the current route after Strašnická was meant to be a side branch, you can notice, departing from that station in direction of Hostivař, that the train doesn't actually continue in the straight direction (which was instead taken as reversing tracks and this plan was axed) but there is a noticeable jolt as you go into a diverging branch.
Fun fact: In hungarian "garden city" is also directly translated to "kertváros". Since it was the earliest term for such areas, it is also - at least colloquially- used for every kind of low-density residential area that is not a village, even for those that do have separate terms in even hungarian; like "külváros" (lit. outer city) for suburbs/edge cities, "előváros" (lit. pre-city) for exurbs/commuter towns. I wonder if it is also the same in czech, slovak and polish?
Not really in Polish. I don't think any term for "garden city" is used much at all. Usually all suburbs are just called "przedmieście" (also lit. pre-city)
Please don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this series and everything you do, but the education part - even though I still think that's one of the biggest strenghts of this series and I praise you for it - is getting a bit long. Sure, I'm Eastern European, so I know these things, and I still enjoy them to some extent, but I basically started to watch this as this was a C:S project, and this episode had like two minutes of C:S in it. I prefered when it was more balanced. Otherwise, I loved it as usual, keep up the good stuff and thank you!
Thank you. This was an exception of course, I built some suburbs, recorded them, started writing a script and then realised I had 3 pages of important pre-90s context so decided to split it into this. But on the other hand, relax, it's almost a 100 episode series and only a couple had no building in them yet people act as if it's the end of the world.
@@Akruasits probably because its the second Episode in a row without much or any gameplay... i like the history stuff to, and thats the Part which makes your Videos unique, but i also miss some gameplay, after all its a game Series, probalby just Bad Timing for these Episode go go back to back, but Well there will be next Episode and we will be here waiting for it 😊
Very informative but id rather a little bit of vuilding. I understand you might be burnt out but a mini project with most of a video being historical info. That being said, great work and i have a re-watch of Aurelia to watch your builds 👍🏻
I found the garden city of Sadyba in Warsaw worthmentioning as an old fortess was included in the project, and it shows clearly how the urbanisation concept was changed drastically as it's not fitting very well to the nereby prefab district.
I know a lot of comments are complaining about the lack of building. I understand sure, personally I really like the history, i like the historical examples. I love when you try and marry the concepts with the game, but in this series the time lines moved too far forward. It would be strange to jump back. Maybe once Altengrad is over [Modern Day, Near future], you could make a sort of spin-off series picking up these older theories of urban planning.
I guess it important somewhat to mention that Japan as country with cities made mostly from homes, the only real difference between "garden city" like Denenchofu and just surrounding areas in so to say road focus on train station and just tiny bit more trees around houses, tho they are still very close together.
Great episode as always! The Gartenstadt Piesteritz in East Germany (Wittenberg) is also a really interesting example of a garden city/working estate, but it draws much more on the principles of historic towns as its development gives the streets more of a square character like in a medieval village. Here is a documentary about it (great one): ua-cam.com/video/OnV5db-3QN4/v-deo.html de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piesteritz
This is the most distinct Cities Skylines series I've seen... It's not only gameplay, but also a history lesson. Amazing work as always!
Oh, right. Totally forgot this is a Cities Skylines series and not just a documentary ...
Always makes my day when a new Altengrad episode drops, thank you for all your work!
COMRADE GET UP NEW ALTENGRAD EPISODE JUST DROPPED
I'M UP!!!!!
Nice video but I’m sad there’s no new constructions
Yeah, I really like how informative the videos are, but I still want to see him build things.. Its the second time in a row he didnt and we waited 2 weeks.
I don’t know why there’s no building, that’s why we came here in the first place.. might just unsubscribe I guess
Those seem to be filler episodes, becouse not that much happened in the 90s, so the turn of the millenium will be on 100th episode @@persona5strikers
@@JachetTV. Plenty happened in the 90's as previous episodes demonstrated. This just feels like he's spinning his wheels, if I'm being honest. (Which would normally not be something to really point out...if the previous episode hadn't already been devoid of new builds, though that one AT LEAST changed up the map thanks to the flooding.) Couple that with the fact that there's 2 weeks between each episode without anything in between and all of a sudden there's been zero new builds for over a month; Do I have to explain why that's not exactly a good thing? Both of these videos were good, don't get me wrong, but this filler arc is kind of boring imo.
Edit: Oh, right; I forgot; Before the flood episode, he did a Cities Skylines 2 video (the first one at that point in over 3 months) for a Road Builder tutorial, and Episode 96 was two weeks before then. (This means the last episode with new builds was almost 2 months ago for those counting with me.) I also checked the viewer count for this video right here and it's only at 8K so far; You could argue this is due to it being uploaded fairly recently, but I checked most of the others and, despite having more than a few months to increase their view count, some of them even struggle to get to 30k including the first 90's episode (Episode 91) and even the last Asturis video is currently stuck at 19,000 views. (Which, I'll add, is still more than this video.) Do with this information what you will.
@@dragonbornexpress5650 Holy moly Mr. video performance analyst, can I please hire you as a manager to tell me how to turn this channel around? You seem to be in the know. It's almost as if there is a sequel to CS1 that people now watch on UA-cam. But since this is not by far my main source of income, I don't really need to be a robot doing the trendy things, but rather things I like, which right now happens to be exploring history of architecture, urbanism and the like. I'm not going to apologize for that nor for uploading every other week since I don't sit at my PC 24/7 anymore, same with not switching to CS2. Sure, I could have switched the episodes to include a building one after the flood, but hey, I didn't. You make it sound like I committed some war crime with that though.
woohooo another lecture by professor akruas
This is no let's play, this is the master course "A century of change - principles of city planning in Central Europe from 1920 until today" , underlined with some game footage, and I love it.
Je super vidět tenhle koncept přepracovanej do Cities Skylines, minulý semestr jsme na architektuře navrhovali bydlení co se konceptem zahradního města řídilo, takže o to zajímavější je pro mě tohle video. Super práce jako vždycky! Absolutně nejoriginálnější a nejzajímavější C:S projekt na UA-cam.
This channel is so valuable. Please just continue doing what feels most interesting to you. These nerdy videos that just analyse history make this channel special.
I love the attention to detail here, the part about Podkowa Leśna, Brwinów and Milanówek is very true, and close to my life, I actually live right next to them, and going over the fact that my area was actually mentioned in your video. These cities feel distinctly more green and very separate from the other cities like Piaseczno or Michałowice for example, the housing is of much lower density and there are a lot of forests and fields intertwined between those. (The part about "Forest Horseshoe", always found that translation weird, in Polish it just makes more sense somehow) The railways running to those cities are mainly the WKD (Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa; or Warsaw Commuter Railway, built specifically to allow easy access to the center of Warsaw from suburbia and further towns, up to Grodzisk Mazowiecki. Anyway, thank you for always providing quality information and entertainment!
bud, I lived in Brwinów most of my life, recently moved to Grodzisk very much near Milanówek's border. The greenery is the way of living for me :) Glad to see near-neighbour here
@@Elmias Oh yeah, this area is trully one of the best places around Warsaw, that's for sure
I unfortunately don’t have time to watch every episode but I absolutely love this series. Not only is the gameplay beautiful but as someone who grew up in the us after the Soviet Union collapsed, your videos teach me a ton about the contemporary history of Europe that would never have been taught in school
I dont know in the latest videos i miss the building part... 90% of the video now is history which is also good,but i miss building footage of the game...
Kinda same, but I can see that Akruas not always has a time or a will to do something bigger in the building topic. After all that, creative work is repetitive. Building episodes clearly will come, but it seems that today Akruas feel more likely to do a videoessays. Don't know a lot about his personal life, but looking at this he was looking for a flat to live in, he probably is kinda busy - doing content without building probably saves big amounts of time, especially when he already knows something like 50% of things he is saying on a video
I saw some push back on the no new building, but I really love the story telling & context you give. From Australia, we have had a completely different history to Central Europe and I love learning about the history of Central Europe. Altengrad is my favourite series because of the story, I’m not here because of the building, like from WW2 and on was the better half of this series, because of the history.
You are the only one scratching my « donoteat” itch!
Altengrad and the day got better :)
I had an excellent full semester formation on garden cities in university. And I must say : this video is awesome.
Idk why people complain about no building. I like these sorts of lessons, and it's what the series has been about for a while if you ask me.
Different people have different opinions and post it. It's not hard to understand when you realise opinions aren't always shared by everyone
Zahradní Město.... I finally understand the meaning of the name of that Prague district. Thanks man.
Obdivujem tvoju prácu, ja na to nemám nervy :)
I lovee how informative these videos are, but I still want to see him build things... :((
my daily history lesson
I love this series!!!
So cool but no more construction and gameplay in videos?
Fun fact: the building at 8:40 is very well known due to the soap opera "Barátok közt" (aired from 1998 to 2021 on weekdays, watched by over a million people at its peak) took place there!
another day another akuras video drop, and another banger
I love the informative videos along with the city growth videos
Over the course of my semesters studying urban planning I've come to view garden cities as the first idea in a very long row of ideas of "fixing" cities by taking everything city-like away.
Ebenezer Howard's Idea makes it impossible for true urban life characterised by diversity, a degree of anonymity and "density, density, density" to ever set in. There's simply not enough density allowed in his original plan. While he is just reacting to the issues of his time, he uses that "opportunity" to neatly package away people in small communities with low density low-rise buildings. In that he is quite similar to many later modernists, only that their plans abandon the low-rise buildings. Ultimately both wanted to, in their own way, end the concentration of people that makes the urban realm so rich and dense in expiriences.
It's quite remarkable we put a group of people who hated urban characteristics in charge of planning our cities in the early 20th century.
Thanks for another episode, I hugely enjoy seeing this series tackle these more abstract subjects and connect them to real world examples, it's a very different and interesting way to make a CSL series!
This is a surpassingly shallow take for someone with "semesters" studying urban planning. For one, it sounds suspiciously identical to Jane Jacobs' critique. A valid, but not very original take, and one that one learns to not take seriously after a while. While Garden Cities have their flaws, your wholesale dismissal of their positive contributions to urbanism, and your weird insinuation that there can only be one way to build cities, sounds kind of prejudicial. Has it ever occurred to you that Garden Cities were never meant to replace cities? It is self-evident that these kinds of ideas were intended to deal with the rise of suburbanization and sprawl: the problem that some people don't actually want to live in urban environments, yet they are forced to by economic trends. The garden city, in it's self sufficiency, and it's planned integration with the whole, explicitly stood against the emerging appendage-like growth of suburbs and their consumption of the countryside. In the process, at least on paper, saving the city from it's own sprawl. If you cannot see that, if not as an ideal urban model, at least as an idea worth considering, I don't know what to tell you.
Planners always seem so determined to either destroy the urban characteristics you speak of, as you say, or are so wholeheartedly committed to them that they refuse to consider alternatives (to the point of repeating ad nauseum simplistic debates like "density good and density bad", even when it is obvious the issues of land use, conservation, public space, transportation planning, commerce and industry, access to nature, etc. are more important to the character and quality of a city). The result is too often the worst of both worlds. So, I'd ask you to open your mind a little and and not fall for the same trap of stubbornness that you see in the planners you're critiquing.
@@SBKWaffles What I typed out there as a UA-cam comment is of course not my entire opinion on garden cities. That'd require more pages. I'll try to shorten it now though.
I recognise them as a product of their time and circumstances with both good and bad characteristics and a complicated legacy. You mentioned self sufficiency and what I'd call "orderly development" instead of random sprawl, and with that I agree. I also think such developments did genuinely improve living conditions for many of their residents.
I however take issue with garden cities as, as I said, the first in a long idea of lines to suburbanise urban spaces with the aim of improving them. I think suburbanisation and spatial sprawl, because that is what suburbanisation and also modernist developments did, has been a net negative for nature, traffic and has drawn us further apart. Because these places are only self sustaining on a very basic level, for everything else they induce traffic. And garden cities have the added problem of being low density.
I recognise that not every place needs to be urban, but I whole-heartedly think we need to embrace more density for structural reasons if we ever want to cope with the climate crisis. Its not sustainable to build acres worth of detached 1,5 story houses where even a bus line isn't really worth installing, for much more than transit reasons. Density is good, its resilient, shortens trip lengths and makes access to society and amenities easier, especially for people with reduced mobility, women and the elderly (I'll throw in that density alone doesn't do the job). It's the job of planners to solve some drawbacks, no European planner I personally know finds Hong-Kong style urbanism desirable. Or why do you think do we have green space strategies all over the place? Urban planning in Europe is a very very different bag depending on the country, so its very very hard to make general statements.
Now, to the "not everyone wants to live in urban spaces". Firstly, what is urban? Are suburbs countryside or attachments to urban centres, are they then themselves urban or neither? I think we have a genuine problem with the opposite of what you describe: people want to live in cities, but at least in germany, ours are full. We watch a lot of demand drip over into the surrounding countryside, which is problematic. For one because building yet more detached houses destroys space for animals amidst the extinction event we call the climate crisis. And secondly, because these people aren't interested in living where they live. The contribute nothing to the community.
I'd rather have people who are enthused about living in the countryside live there. But the countryside is shrinking in germany. We have a lot of people who want to have their cake and eat it too: the privacy of single family homes but the amenities and transit of urban living. That is not sustainable and costs lots of tax euros in subsidies to sustain. And when people grow old, they'll be immobile in the suburbs. I think we've built enough single family homes now, for those that want that living im happy if they use them. The problem is that people don't move out of them when they grow old, thus you have 2 or one person's living on the space of four or five. That's where a lot of our current renting crisis comes from. So the way I see it, you have to provide these people with compelling offers to move into better-elderly-equipped appartments or town houses with maybe small (communal) gardens, and you have to make compelling offers to the people who'd otherwise move into single family homes in more efficient forms of living, I.e. townhouses or good apartments. For environmental and economic reasons, the dream of "single detached houses for everyone" needs to be reconsidered.
And I do think our cities have, for decades, been planned by anti-urbanists, the same people that wrote our planning laws that in germany are bent to absurdity to make them work for our use cases today. I mean the modernists dreamed that cities would one day dissappear and be replaced by evenly spaced tower in the green islands, in a way much like garden cities. Idk where either thought the wildlife should go, because we'd effectively destroy our entire ecosystems like that.
I hope i could demonstrate to you that we do indeed as a profession consider the things you mentioned a lot. I just chose to not type out man essay when I wanted to just write my take on garden cities. And the view I present is one of policy perspective and as such doesn't always align with how a private person would think. Thanks for your comment, its always fun to engage in these discussions :)
@@purplebrick131Brilliant response!
Thank you for yet another Altengrad episode. This series is really amazing and i love it ❤
urbanplanadvisor AI fixes this. Garden Cities influenced urban planning.
Really interesting compendium of garden cities through the last two centuries in Middle Europe - I knew some of them, but many I was not familiar to - makes my bucket list of places to visit there even longer.
Perfect education video, like always!
I though that u would build somethig
I grew up in Brwinów, still live very much nearby, so much I loved the wall of greenery I had right by the window. Glad to hear those names near Warsaw here :)
Thanks for the vid!
It really lets me appreciate my rented 100-year-old flat in Frankfurt am Main a bit more, its an old district built in the 30s during its socialist "Neues Frankfurt" programm. Fascinating to see how well it still compares to newer flats, esp. other cheap (social) housing. And its the original of modern kitchens as well!
00:04 Garden cities were a influential urban planning principle in the 20th century.
02:24 Garden City urban planning focused on minimizing commute, preventing garden dormitory, and promoting self-sufficiency.
04:42 Garden cities had varying interpretations and implementations in different locations.
06:57 Garden Cities inspired unique low-density urban planning.
09:14 Evolution of urban planning from Garden City to modernist ideas
11:33 Garden cities evolved into uniform layout apartment blocks in Central Europe.
13:54 The Garden City concept faced challenges and transformations over time.
16:09 Suburbanization trends have not changed much since 1920s.
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*NEXT MONTH:* The 2000s (Coming soon however)
The plan at 2:18 looks like, if it was actually built, a demon would be summoned in the middle. Looks a whole lot like the sort of “magic circle” you see in occult writings (and fantasy RPGs).
I love the videos and the information. But I would really enjoy seeing more building in game
I love being tricked into these history lessons.
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I grew up very close to Letchworth. One of the reasons it hasn't grown much over 30k population is that it, like most towns in the area, is surrounded by "green belt" land. This is land that is supposed to remain rural, so towns don't just all merge together (and London doesn't consume all of South East England, as it did to the county of Middlesex).
Indeed, green belts are derived directly from the Garden City movement. Glad that idea survived!
@@SBKWaffles The problem with them is that the required development simply jumps past the belt and establishes the suburb even further away. Cities in the past were size restricted because you had to use your feet to get to work, with the spread of railways and trams suburbs were inevitable no matter what restrictions you try to put around them.
Pécs in Hungary also has a district that is called "Garden City" and it's a quite nice place actually, in spite of it being built in the mid 1960s, if I remember correctly. Mostly 4 floor commie blocks, a lot of green space, a nursery-to-high school complex in the middle, and a several commercial buildings around.
You mean Kertváros? I don't see commie blocks there, looks like it was already well established by 1959, but not complete with small houses www.fentrol.hu/en/
@@Akruas I guess it's a bit of local vocabulary... the city officially has about two dozen named subdivisions, the people living here tend to use maybe five of those to refer to larger parts of the city. To me, Kertváros is the southern part in general, what I meant specifically is called "Megyer" and it's the area south of the official Kertváros, between the two big roads.
Montreal also got a really good example of a garden city, its nearly the perfect example, idk about the history of it though and when it was build, but it looks old and even older than many in Europe
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Zahradní Město was never expected to get a railway stop until the recent days, but there was a plan to extend the A metpo line there, from the very beginning of the project (of the metpo). So much that the current route after Strašnická was meant to be a side branch, you can notice, departing from that station in direction of Hostivař, that the train doesn't actually continue in the straight direction (which was instead taken as reversing tracks and this plan was axed) but there is a noticeable jolt as you go into a diverging branch.
Noooo way. I live in Wekerletelep, BP. I watchin u from here. Media cant show u how nice this place is. My fav street here is Bercsényi street.
How is the commute? I assume it's buses to the nearest metro?
Fun fact: In hungarian "garden city" is also directly translated to "kertváros".
Since it was the earliest term for such areas, it is also - at least colloquially- used for every kind of low-density residential area that is not a village, even for those that do have separate terms in even hungarian; like "külváros" (lit. outer city) for suburbs/edge cities, "előváros" (lit. pre-city) for exurbs/commuter towns.
I wonder if it is also the same in czech, slovak and polish?
Not really in Polish. I don't think any term for "garden city" is used much at all. Usually all suburbs are just called "przedmieście" (also lit. pre-city)
that was great!
Funny to hear you talking about Mialnówek while passing through it on a train
Nowa Huta mentioned!!!!!
Your videos are always great! Where can I find pre war photos of Prague? Greetings from Poland :)
app.iprpraha.cz/apl/app/ortofoto-archiv/
This is pure urbanism 🚬🚬🚬🚬
Greetings from Brwinów
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bro, thx for the lesson, BUT we subscribed to see you built stuff in the game.
Please don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this series and everything you do, but the education part - even though I still think that's one of the biggest strenghts of this series and I praise you for it - is getting a bit long. Sure, I'm Eastern European, so I know these things, and I still enjoy them to some extent, but I basically started to watch this as this was a C:S project, and this episode had like two minutes of C:S in it. I prefered when it was more balanced. Otherwise, I loved it as usual, keep up the good stuff and thank you!
Thank you. This was an exception of course, I built some suburbs, recorded them, started writing a script and then realised I had 3 pages of important pre-90s context so decided to split it into this. But on the other hand, relax, it's almost a 100 episode series and only a couple had no building in them yet people act as if it's the end of the world.
@@Akruasits probably because its the second Episode in a row without much or any gameplay... i like the history stuff to, and thats the Part which makes your Videos unique, but i also miss some gameplay, after all its a game Series, probalby just Bad Timing for these Episode go go back to back, but Well there will be next Episode and we will be here waiting for it 😊
@@Akruas Cool, I'm not worried at all, I didn't intend it to be criticism, more like feedback.
What software do you use to create the clips like the one at 11:56?
Cities: Skylines
@@Akruas Thanks
Very informative but id rather a little bit of vuilding. I understand you might be burnt out but a mini project with most of a video being historical info.
That being said, great work and i have a re-watch of Aurelia to watch your builds 👍🏻
I think that you should ad allotment gardens those are very common in central European cities
I found the garden city of Sadyba in Warsaw worthmentioning as an old fortess was included in the project, and it shows clearly how the urbanisation concept was changed drastically as it's not fitting very well to the nereby prefab district.
Really interesting, I never thought garden cities existed on the continent before today. TIL I guess lol.
I know a lot of comments are complaining about the lack of building. I understand sure, personally I really like the history, i like the historical examples. I love when you try and marry the concepts with the game, but in this series the time lines moved too far forward. It would be strange to jump back.
Maybe once Altengrad is over [Modern Day, Near future], you could make a sort of spin-off series picking up these older theories of urban planning.
Like I said in the video, it's a context for modern suburbs which we'll take a look at next
How about adding some sprawl neighbourhoods in Altengrad, and explain the term next? Not sure if it fits your narrative, but it's a suggestion 😊
I guess it important somewhat to mention that Japan as country with cities made mostly from homes, the only real difference between "garden city" like Denenchofu and just surrounding areas in so to say road focus on train station and just tiny bit more trees around houses, tho they are still very close together.
pls make a episode increasing the amount of single family houses
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It's great that even with no additional construction in the city Akruas is still able to make an interesting and informative video =D
Nice
My last exam was about garden cities:)
Just waiting on a CS2 series
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Any monorail? Or some post soviet unbuild architecture postmodern?
Omg Arkuas, I am from Wekerletelep it is so cool how you include it!! Pin me, please, because this is accurate !
where did you get 1945 satellite imagery?
app.iprpraha.cz/apl/app/ortofoto-archiv/
Great episode as always!
The Gartenstadt Piesteritz in East Germany (Wittenberg) is also a really interesting example of a garden city/working estate, but it draws much more on the principles of historic towns as its development gives the streets more of a square character like in a medieval village.
Here is a documentary about it (great one): ua-cam.com/video/OnV5db-3QN4/v-deo.html
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piesteritz
Will altengrad be 1999 in the next episode?
Wow this map looks way to real
it looks realy like a european landscape
Would still be cool if you implemented atleast some belt of single family houses around the city.
It's interesting how influencial an idea from late XIX century became in the future
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Soooo, what youre saying is you missed the timeslot to build a Garden city in Altengrad?
I was not doing any historical background back then but I felt its important now before modern suburbs
@@Akruas Are you planning to build a 90s/2000s "garden city" in Altengrad? After all, history can be an inspiration, not a strict guide to action.
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Why not build them then
Under 6 mins