The USA Will Never Build Walkable Cities
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
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This was the most ambitious project I've ever embarked on and I hope you like it. My biggest take away from this was that we need to rethink housing and this doesn't just start in legislation. Did you know the Supreme Court made segregation illegal in 1917? Heck it's still around today. While people can definitely argue this ultimately boils down to a class issue I'd say it'd be short sighted not to consider other facts such as race, gender, etc.
Check out my sources here (too long for the description box): docs.google.com/document/d/1O...
Books I'd definitely recommend
Color of law - Richard Rothstein: details the extent of American segregation
WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time - Jeff Speck: City planner explains walkability and details a practical way on how we actually get there. (don't agree with everything in the book, but still a great place to start when thinking about how to get to realistically peak walkability.)
Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital - Matthew T. Huber: A great educational read that discusses how America's thirst for oil has rooted itself into America's identity and so much more.
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood - PE Moskowitz: This has a lot of love put into it. Moskowitz travels to cities like New Orleans, San Francisco, Detroit and New York and contextualizes the displacement taking place as a result of gentrification. They interview those feeling the pressure of displacement and those, (some ignorantly), benefiting from the displacement of others. A really great book.
Also things to do other than read is to start engaging in community. Go volunteer somewhere local, go to city council meeting, actually vote for local officials who support affordable housing.
Chapters:
0:00 -We back
2:37 - Let the show begin
6:46 The American Way of Life
11:13 Energy dependency
16:30 -Homeownership as a political tool
19:17 -If New Deal Then Everything
25:59 -Roads, cars, displacement
36:54 New York, New York
39:18 Walkability
44:36 Gentrification
1:10:02 Brooklyn after covid
1:21:40 Cultual appropriation
1:25:20 Infrastructural violence
1:27:27 -Reagan cutting funding
1:28:21-conclusion
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As a paraplegic, in a wheelchair, with a car and a drivers license, I'd so much rather use public transit (if it existed) than my own car. It'd be so much better to just roll a
I've got severe scoliosis, can't afford a car by any stretch of the imagination, and I too would love to have public transit that's more accessible and comes more regularly than _once an hour._
Freedom isn't scheduling my entire life around a bus system that only _technically_ works.
I noticed this in New York- lots of public transportation but it was so inaccessible. Thank you for sharing this because it is so important we all realize just how ableist our city designs really are. I am planning on learning and producing more content around accessible public transportation because it is so important that it’s accessible to everybody.
Such a struggle that so many people don't realize.
Don't take this the wrong way ... but I feel sorry for you. Especially since you live in a place which does very little for the disabled. Let me guess: It is maybe a city which is ruled and reigned by hypocrite Democrats? You know, the ones who preach to us about all the glories of making cities more acceptable for wheelchair bound people ... but in reality do nothing whatsoever to accomplish their supposed political goals in that regard? Is that a YES or a NO?
@UCMjYa3CUqnD7ngvkLDDyMOg - The older generation much appreciates a conservative over a Democrat. I'm hardly an old fogy, but I have a hunch that I'm quite a bit older than many responders here on these panels. As for "propaganda" - it truly exists only on the Left. Propaganda is how the Left has become brain washed in total nonsense. There's not a single justifiable sensible thing currently on the Leftist agenda. The goal of the Left is basically just to destroy the status quo, and to destroy our evidence of history (to be replaced by new versions of re-written history), and to destroy capitalism in favor of Socialism, Marxism, and even Communism. Hard to believe there's actually a Communist party in the USA.
Any chance you might want a mass transit system such as is being planned and designed in California? They want to construct a super speed rail system from Los Angeles to San Francisco which would cost Billion$ - but would serve only a tiny portion of the population. THIS is how Democrats spend money ... and is why idiot Biden has MORE spending planned than even Obama ...
And Obama spent more federal money than all previous presidents COMBINED!
Democrats always spend countless billions of dollars, and they get next to nothing for the money spent.
Democrats think it's more important to spend money saving endangered species than it is to repair the nation's infrastructure.
Their priorities are constantly fucked up and back assward in the extreme. Try to convince me I'm wrong.
Being in the suburbs without access to a car is fucking hell, I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I’ve never felt more isolated in my entire life.
So get a car. who the f doesnt have a car seriously. it's 2023
@@timburr4453i dunno, children and poor people?
You must be miserable. Can I refer you to a therapist?
@@jinolin9062 Good neither should be driving.
@@timburr4453 fuck trolls these days are acyually getting too good.
Monopoly is based on the "The Landlord's Game" developed by Elizabeth Magie. The game had 2 sets of rules to show the evils of landlords grabbing all the wealth. Unfortunately for her, the game was stolen and rebranded as Monopoly perverting the original intent of the game
And this is why we need to know our histories. And they won't be taught to us - we need to actively seek them out
I thought it was still a critique and had forgotten that 😭 simply because : it still shows capitalism falling apart.
I thought it was made to point out the dangers of letting large corporations get a monopoly on areas of the market.
I mean it still conveys the point that capitalism consolidates wealth into fewer people by allowing them to fuck over everyone else. People mainly just have no class consciousness and are completely ignorant, otherwise the current iteration of monopoly would still be enough.
@@siginotmylastname3969 Someone playing the game well and still going bankrupt because you got unlucky and/or outplayed surely isn't a glowing review of capitalism
People in LA: Our traffic is horrible here
Also people in LA: Let's build more roads!
Yep. More trains too.
For every train route built, there's 3 new lanes on the road, none for BRT. Seattle and Oakland are doing a better job than LA@@labased2539
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Lol actually
Don't make me choose between my Franks
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Here's a personal anecdote about how suburban Americans view walking anywhere, and how demented it is. Honestly down right disturbing. And it's coming from someone who follows a few disciplines of motorsports.
I used to work in a NY suburb that butted up against a manufacturing/industrial area, where I was working in a factory. There was a gas station that had decent sandwiches about a 1/2 mile from where I worked (NY/NJ have decent convenience stores for gas stations. Wawa is infamous for this). I middle distance run, so I didn't find it to be a big deal to walk to this gas station to grab a sandwich and coffee, and then walk back while eating it.
People started thinking I was homeless, solely bc I was walking. Now, keep in mind, I had a goddamn smartphone and wireless earbuds and paid for everything with a card (I would have even paid with the phone, but that tech is *still* slow to be adopted). The suburb folks simply couldn't grasp the concept of walking anywhere. I made as much sense as a shoggoth to them.
Mf'ers even offered to pay for what I was getting. At some point, I said screw it, and just let 'em do it. Screw 'em. Randos would pull over and offer to ride me, which was creepy as hell, bc they were all dudes, and I didn't know what they could do to me if they wanted. Like, they could just drive away with me, or expect something from me. None of them knew I was actually on the clock; they figured I had no job. They didn't even see the company logo on my button up workshirt. It was worse when it got cold; I'd still walk if the snow wasn't crazy, and then they for sure figured I was homeless. Despite wearing a flame proof Carhartt jacket, and $150 boots. I realized why one day: the only time these people saw homeless folks was on Salvation Army TV ads that aired around xmas. That's why they equated winter clothing with being homeless.
It creeped me out, so I stopped walking on my lunch breaks.
Fucking terrifying, both for the actual serious problem of people not being able to compute that people who have a place to live can walk, but also cause I imagined the tech to pay stuff with your phone would be more common in a developed country
America is surreal and absurd
My suburban family is horrified that I walk a mile to work three times a week for my part time job while I’m getting my degree, so I feel this totally. I have to go into the suburbs a little to get to my job, and I always feel self conscious someone is going to try to stop me or ask if I need help
@@tracelynnsangster be wary of cops as well. They might start grilling you on where you're going, bc you're the odd one out. They've never stopped me walking, but they've done it to other people. Hell, if I eat a sandwich in my parked car they've come over and started asking what I was doing there. It's honestly ridiculous how out of place walking is.
My state DOT tweeted about an employee who is an "avid walker". That about sums up the state of things. D:
As a land use/urban planner, I’m so happy to see more people talking about these topics! SPREAD THE WORD!
Have you heard of the channel Not just Bikes? He breaks into somewhat more science-y side of city planning (lack of).
I love this video so much Not Just Bikes is good for short YT videos tho where he doesnt really break off into much depth. Different stroke for different folk is how I see a 10min vs 60min+ video.
@@annonone93 *Not Just Bikes* is great, as well as *City Beautiful*
Both sides are wrong. Suburban (car cities) and 15 minutes cities (small towns again) are a nightmare
Over the last few months Iv become really passionate about urban design but I’m not sure what a career in this field looks like. What degree did u get in uni? Where would u recommend looking for jobs post school? Do u enjoy being in urban planning is it a good career? Any advice would be awesome! Thank you!
@@kruzedarling9347 5 months late, but I just came across this. There are several ways but im getting an public affairs masters degree and concentrating in community and economic development. With it im gonna be able to go into urban planning consulting and they sometimes like public affairs people more bc we have a policy background rather than strictly design. U also can maybe get certified in arcgis or autocad those are both the most important software programs for this. Planning jobs are in the public and private sector, so you can go to city websites or look at civil engineering consulting firms. You can also advocate for planning reforms with different orgs bc a lot of times in both these jobs u’ll be fairly restricted in how much you can publicly participate which is annoying. Hope that helps!
I living in Singapore, and basically they did everything opposite of suburbia. They force races together, force upper middle, middle and lower class people together. They took public housing out of the open market and only allow first time buyers, couples and older singles to have the first dibs at very competitive prices to these public housing. They forbid companies and people who already own properties to buy public housing, and they only allow new public housing to sell on open market after they have been built and bought by home owners for at least 5 years. No redlining allowed, and neighborhoods are built to be self contained, with numerous local businesses to cater to everyday needs within walking distance. Oh, and they have robust public transportation so you never even need to own a car if you really don't need one.
Yup, everything opposite of what America did to housing, and they did far better than America.
While I agree I'd still say Singapore ends up suffering greatly from capitalism.
Actually, there are still lots of places in Singapore that are considered as suburbs. Areas with landed properties are still experiencing traffic congestion precisely because inhabitants staying there all drive. Bukit Timah and the suburbs next to the CBD are prime examples.
If there is one country that cannot simply let cars overwhelm the society, it’s Singapore. Roads take up too much space and land is too precious here.
@@daniaaal You're right. I'm just glad that it is only limited to those places. But even those places are well-served by public transport. It's just those people drive too much.
Singapore has one of the highest standards of living in the world. @@PauLtus_B
as a singaporean, i still feel that there are too many cars here and that can more done to encourage other forms of commuting
I'm a city planner and this video has my full endorsement (not that you need it). Everything is spot on and you explain it so well. I'm so glad you mentioned The Color of Law and Happy City because those are the BIBLES of understanding why our cities are the way that they are and how they can be better. Another excellent book is the Sprawl Repair Manual by Galina Tachieva which shows how these car-laden hellscapes can be fixed. Awesome video!!
you read Geography of Nowhere (1993)??
we need to fix this fast!!! any organizations to support? movement's? more books to check out???
Thank you so much 🙏🏾 this means sm to me.
Florida is as far south as the Sahara. It's impossible to walk outside in Texas or Arizona. Most of USSA is not Yourope and never will be, because nobody can walk when it's so hot.
@@danielwoods8768 as someone from Texas I can say: yes we can. You are delusional.
An excellent video. One thing I will point out about your early fact about the decline of streetcar use before they ripped them out. The companies that bought them out purposely began running them poorly and with worse schedules to drive down streetcar use specifically to justify removing them. So, the conspiracy is still very alive in my heart.
Shout out to UA-cam recs for randomly tossing this video my way
Kinda like how Musk's promise of Hyperloop is used by opponents of HSR to argue against building modern day rail infrastructure: "Why would we waste money on trains when a better system of levitating pods is just around the corner?"
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is sneakily all about this.
@@haighter5115 judging by every promise musk has ever made, we shouldn't get our hopes up
Honestly don't think the word "conspiracy" should have the connotations that it does. Conspiracies happen all the time, like, who seriously believes that billionaires don't talk with each other? And given the long list of historical precedent, it's silly to assume they're _not_ colluding 24/7 tbh
This reminds me of how we literally can have every channel on Antenna TV yet all the good shows were shifted to cable, and now every cable channel is dedicated to one show and DVR is not useful cause all of the cool shows are on Netflix, and Blu Rays are increasingly out of print while video rental was often much more cost effective than streaming.
While I was staying at my friend's house in the suburbs during the summer, their neighbour called the cops on me simply because I was walking. I guess it was my fault (not a familiar face in the neigbourhood) but it was also my first time in the US so I had no idea my presence was "threatening" enough to get the cops called on me.
I'm sorry to hear that. America is full of nosy, scared, racist, and passive aggressive neighbors who would rather contact the authorities than talk. It's truly messed up. And it's NOT at all your fault.
Reminds me of Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian"
It's definitely not your fault. America is sick.
Damn you look like a normal beautiful woman too. And they were still scared?
@@nerium.neriumThe U.S is filled with nosy, paranoid, conspiracy theorists, narcissistic sociopaths, and delusional lunatics who support the Deep State and Qanon Cult.
I am so sorry you had to go through this and deal with paranoid neighbors. This stranger danger phenomenon has exponentially increased since the 1990s.
The lack of footpaths in America is just insane.
Because capitalists want Americans driving and only driving.
Its pretty stupid how some of the cities are designed, even just building simple bridges over highways for people to walk across to stores and funding more public transportation would make it more accessible to people
a street near me not only shortened the street’s width, which is always filled with busy cars, into a width that is more suffocating and dangerous (we’ve already had a couple car accidents since), but the very little space pedestrians had to walk (which was barely any) is gone. all for the sake of building houses that no one in the place can afford.
@@hikawagetsbitches
Street diets are actually beneficial for traffic; widening roads and adding additional lanes cause induced demand, generally raises speeds and eventually leads to poor pedestrian conditions.
Of course removing the sidewalks is not good, but shortening the width of roads is generally a good thing.
@@jerrell1169 Only if you have alternate transportation modes available,.
Street diets work because cars are the LEAST space efficient way to get around. Just about every other common transportation option is superior.
And a 3.5m walking path has a surprising [amount] of throughput: beating bus lanes and cycle tracks. You are limited to how far you can walk in about... 30 minutes though. But it explains why cities shut down streets during major events.
Another thing worth noting is how jobs in these gentrified areas cater towards an older, wealthier section of the workforce to help make the area unlivable for those who can't commute. Requiring degrees and multiple years of experience in an industry for an entry level position ensures that recent graduates and family's without the means to support recent graduates are unable to afford the continued rising costs
Or to live in apartments they can’t afford in the suburbia
Those job listings are nepotism. It's simply a "legal" way to say "this job is not available because we already know exactly the person we want".
Credentialism creates barriers to inflate expenses in multiple directions, and also limits the bounds of free expression of viewpoints that those worthy of employment may hold.
@@doltBmB Sometimes. Usually it's just hopeless optimism. I've gotten a job that required years of experience with zero experience. Didn't know anyone involved. Shotgun your CV at them, doesn't hurt you.
@@Demmrir Yeah the sheer lack of working class power in this country means that it's very common for companies to demand absurd (and sometimes impossible) qualifications for job listings. Because why hire someone that you need to train when, for the same price, you can instead hire someone who can do everything you want and more?
I wish I could force my American-capitalist-loving family to watch this. They don't understand the deep sadness running through my heart towards the present and future of this country I was unwillingly thrust into. My family truly believes that "public education" brainwashed me into being some "stupid leftist" when it was my experiences growing into young adulthood that molded me this way. When I want to explain myself, I get insulted into a quiet, angry submission. If I could just make them watch this, maybe they'd understand just a bit of where I was coming from. I don't often leave comments, but I wanted to thank you for this video.
Hang in there dude. We can't win over everyone, but remember that capitalism is an unstable system that can only provide material well-being to a minority of the population. In moments of crisis, consciousness can change rapidly. (or at least that's what I hope is true)
You are not your parents, and while their approval is nice, its not a necessity. As an adult with my own career who lives independently from my parents, I’m so much happier and can distance myself from them and support causes that I’m passionate about. Hang in there!
why don't you tell your parents they're the idiots for thinking that a capitalist education system would push someone left, but then again conservative brain rot is a curse that plagues a lot of America. here's to hoping that the inevitable crash of our economy will wake them up to fact that the shit stain of a country that they love so much is on it's death bed
"I wish I could force my American-capitalist-loving family to watch this." drug the thanksgiving dinner, tie them all up on the living room furniture and make your dreams come true. edit: oh wait he was banned from thanks giving, well fuck
My exact problem with my family. It’s so frustrating and I’m tired of my opinion being stepped on just because they view me as a “crazy leftist that believes everything they read on the internet”
dude the suburbs were the reason why i was robbed of culture and being around community, it left me feeling isolated and just wtf
you were lucky you weren't culturally enriched.
After travelling and living for a long time in Europe and Japan, I was so depressed when I moved to Miami and needed a car to go anywhere. That's why I love living now in New York where I haven't owned a car for 10yrs; I can walk and take the subway anywhere in Manhattan and the outer boroughs.
I vividly remember fishing in a rich ass suburb. Every jogger who passed me gave me the stink eye and I thought to myself; if I weren't pasty as hell these folks would call the cops on me I KNOW they would
Yes you're part of the struggle now my pasty brother✊
I'm not sure how you were dressed at the time, but I bet they would have if you looked homeless too. They really wanna live in their own bubble and pretend everything is just perfect in the world.
@@TheOneTrueNeravarOfOoo oh yeah, I definitely was bordering on homeless chic which just made me even more hyperaware of myself and feel even more unwelcome there. Needless to say, I did not stay for long, even though it did seem like a good spot fishing wise.
Rich people -- especially old white folks like boomers -- are evil people and truly are the scum of the Earth . They are useless parasites .
My dads a mailman and delivered mail to a high-end country club once. Some dude called him a peasant
I just came back from Europe and nothing makes my blood boil more than the ease of non single occupant vehicle need. It’s like they actually think about the collective and not just the individual or something.
Oh America thought about the collective alright, but it's who was allowed to be considered part of the collection and why.
In essence, America created the urban ghetto to economically and socially seperate European immigrants from black communities in urban centers that had popped up during the Great Migration and the push for factory work during WWII. The easiest way to do that, considering the lack of public or private investment in urban slums and their surrounding supporting infrastructures that had predominated history, was to simply offer a life to white people outside urban centers in the form of suburbs, or to newer suburbs in the case of inner ring city suburbs (like Compton and the rest of South Central LA).
Mix in government mandated racist housing covenants, redlining, blockbusting, and a sprinkle of crack epidemic (fueled in part by the CIA protecting international drug traffickers due to their role in opposing communist forces in Central and South America) and wa la.
As an European I find this misleading at best. Large cities might look like that but most families here still own a car for when it’s logical to use it instead of public transport. And tens of thousands of people still drive to work from their single family houses.
@@easternpromises7991 not saying that, your infrastructure doesn’t penalize pedestrians or transit at the expense of personal commuting. In most American cities, including NYC, seem to not just have basic maintenance infrastructure to maintain the existing transit network and the new attempts are weakly enforced
If only a lot of "walkable" cities still weren't inaccessible for wheelchair users...
@@consentclub614
Congratulations, many promoters for safely walkable cities also promote for more handicap accessible streets. Because it turns out a lot of features that makes cities safer for pedestrians with handicaps makes the city safer and more convenient for others. Features like crosswalks that use motion detection to automatically tell the system there's a pedestrian ready to cross, to sidewalk level crosswalks in areas with lots of pedestrians. The latter as a physical impediment is way more effective at slowing down cars than a stop sign is.
dude im not kidding this may very well be the greatest youtube video i have ever watched. The amount of effort you put in is just unimaginable.
I'm a NYC native and a student at FIT in my senior year of interior design. Growing up in the South Bronx I've always questioned why the quality of life in my community and in communities of people that look like me where so low. For my Interior Design Senior Thesis I thought of taking an abandoned mall in a highly accessible area and transforming it not only into affordable housing but also into a facility that acts as a library of resources for professions that fall under the STEAM (Science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) umbrella. My idea was that if more people had access to the resources they need to flex their creative muscles AS WELL as a clean stable and affordable place to live, we as a greater society would gain a lot more members of the "Creative Class" as Richard Florida puts it. It would function not by replacing the low income residents in existing areas, but transforming them along side the physical environment they live in. It's super ambitious and out of the box, I'm still in the research stages.
I stumbled upon this video completely by chance, I wasn't even looking for anything related to my Thesis, I just found the title and run time to be intriguing. Lord have mercy you did NOT disappoint Frank Laundry. Incredible video. Incredible sources. You should feel extremely proud of yourself because you made a fantastic well rounded piece of educational and socially relevant media. Seriously congratulations this is amazing stuff!!!
Good luck on your senior thesis, it’s a timely subject and well thought out, don’t be discouraged. It’s this sense of ‘community’ or ‘village’ that taps into our psyches giving us the sense of place, and wellbeing. Congratulations on your upcoming graduation. It’s good to know the future will be better when we embrace and invest in the creative classes.
I'm in tech, so just about everybody I'm around is pretty snobbish about the field they're in... so I've never heard of 'STEAM' before. But it sure does look and sound better than 'STEM'.
I hope you have success. Even though I am an evil conservative, I believe in equality of opportunity. What I hate in the left is their prominience in victimising, not their desire of more people having a better life.
You should also consider installing some kind of security bunker in the thing. I no longer trust the nuts at Silicon Valley and if they pull a Skynet on us we need some way to launch a countermeasure.
LMAO arts are so desperate to join STEM. STEAM is just a university without sports and humanities.
as a born suburbanite, my entire adult life has been trying to get out my suburb and into somewhere more livable. I've already sent this to my friends (though they dont need convincing either) and If this changes even one suburbanite's mind about the state of suburbia, then i'd say it was a good video
suburbs gotta be the worst place to live man. You have nothing but a house. No community, no freedom.
What state are you in
@@louish4237 nevada, from las vegas. basically only suburbs with one tiny strip of hotels
@@jooot_6850 I'm a born-and-raised suburbanite, and I can attest to this strongly. We have a pool and park in my neighborhood, but barely anyone uses them anymore (half because of COVID-19, and the other half because of general disinterest). So, it's just sitting there collecting dust in a sense. Other than that, everyone just sits inside their homes with the exception of the occasional family barbecue or other get-togethers, or kids playing outside during the summer.
@@jooot_6850 Some people (like me) like the suburbs. If you wanna live in a city, go right ahead. But don't force people who don't want to live in cities to do so by turning the suburbs into cities.
“And they feel safe because cameras….”
Said no one, unless they’re on camera. 📸
a banger
I grew up in a subdivision in rural Georgia. When I was a sophomore in high school, a Black family bought a house a few streets away from where I lived; the literal day after the "Sold" sign was attached to the "For Sale" sign, every house whose property touched the original property was listed for sale.
Jesus
@@oscarosullivan4513 yeah, the south is something else. White people in other parts of the country know they should at least *pretend* to be decent human beings.
If that’s correlated then that’s insanely fucked up.
It’s not just economic. It’s also racist.
@@yunleung2631 the southeastern United States is home to the most overtly racist people in America; they're the same people who fought a literal war to preserve their "right" to own human beings, and nothing has ever been done to try to keep people with that attitude out of power or change their bigotry. It was definitely correlated. The most insane part is that they see themselves as being good, loving Christians while being some of the most hateful people alive.
Christ, white flight is alive and kicking
During my whole life living in a third-world country, I GLORIFIED America. I've longed to live in the bustling cities in New York or own an abode in the quieter parts of the suburbs. That was until I actually arrived here as a high school student. Luckily, I got to live in the more bustling area in Washington but after a year, I had to move to the suburbs in California. It was awful, and I could never quite put a finger on why I hated it so much. The closest reasoning was walkability.
Due to reasons including my intolerance of suburbia, I finally moved back to Washington as a college student in Washington. I've begun to appreciate public transportation more as I don't own a car and wow did I love walking down downtown Bellevue and the Ave (University District) because of how there's so much life there is. However, I still felt like something was missing or wrong even.
As an art student, I spent most of my time mindlessly working on time-consuming projects. Naturally I'd put on a show or podcast on the side. I found myself falling down a rabbit hole of interior design videos in small spaces. For some reason, I slowly transitioned into urban and infrastructure videos. A great channel I watch a lot of is "Not Just Bikes". Oh boy, that answered my question of why I disliked suburbia so much. My passion (and infuriation for the current corrupt state of America and capitalism) grew. I started consuming more lectures and video essays but still felt like I was lacking in information about America's infrastructure and its ideologies surrounding it. When did this happen? Why did this happen? I didn't even know where to start researching on. This video was a great introduction of so many questions I had. You've explained everything so thoroughly and have a very structured way of formatting as well. I could tell you had such passion and put so much effort into creating this work. I'm so grateful to have stumbled upon this video. I'm not even Christian but jesus god bless you, amen or whatever. So many people need to know more about this video.
Your input here is so valuable! So many of us Americans who talk about this issue have never lived anywhere else, and I’ll be honest, whenever we talk about this, I usually see at least a few people from other counties glorifying America as well, saying these problems are trivial. Honestly, even if you DIDN’T think the walkability was an issue, just having that viewpoint of having lived in an American city, an American suburb, and outside of the USA entirely is a type of perspective few people have.
I’m sure the suburbs is Heaven compared to whatever third world place you said you grew up in
Americans always look shocked when I inform them that there are places in Indonesia and Mexico that are better places to live in than any suburb in the USA outside of like *maybe* New York City
@@diamdante then why don’t Mexican people try to flee to there, instead of coming over here?
@@diamdante there is nothing that makes New York better than the suburbs. It’s smelly, crowded, expensive, polluted, loud, more crime etc, small living space. Suburbs are peaceful, lots of space for less money, and you can go visit the city when you want but don’t have to have the headache of living there
Thanks so much for this video. FD Signifier is absolutely correct calling this the video of the year. And for the record, as wheelchair user who doesn't live too far from that highway in Utah you pointed to, I literally can't access the other side on my own without a car. There's no bus route and no crosswalk. And don't get me started on how challenging the transit system is. All too often I'm stuck or put in dangerous situations when I try to get where I need to go. If things were just a little closer..... sigh. I wish our infrastructure and housing was built with the people who need them the most first in mind!
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Ahhhh you’re amazing
@@mr..freeman2852 same tbh
This video went CRAZY. So informative. So entertaining. Everytime I left, I had to come back.
Damn this video edited so well and thought off so well. The movement with the light tracking you is something I never seen a creator do. These little things is what makes this experience ever unique. I never even comment on peoples videos like that. But damn this is storyboarded on a another level.
I appreciate you thank you😭
I recently moved to a town where you have to drive EVERYWHERE with both my school and job being 30 minutes away at where I used to live. Now I’m my old town I still would have to drive everywhere but after the move and driving up to 350 miles a week, I hate it and this is coming from a car guy. I just want to live somewhere where I can walk to get something as simple as a candy bar.
I like driving and I want to keep it that way. That's why I never want driving to be part of my commute or something I need to do - it should be something I choose to do.
You're not alone. I'm a car guy and right now I just want to move to Amsterdam and use a bike and public transit for all my commutes. I'm sick of driving, unless it's track day then that's fun
Man, this was a tour de force. That was a lot of topics to put into one video. Maybe too many? But it was good. I really enjoyed this video.
The only thing I'd say to this is that I'm a bit hesitant to ascribe bad urbanism to capitalism, at least, completely. There's definitely an element there, but the Netherlands is also capitalist - in fact, you could argue that it was the birthplace of capitalism - and they have good urbanism (for the most part: they also went pretty car crazy starting in the 60s).
Commodification of the housing market is a huge problem, however. The only major economy that has avoided that is Japan. They're also capitalist, but there are some very different elements at play there. Somebody should make a video about that. 🤔
Anyway, this video was good to see, and I'm always happy when there are more voices in online urbanism. Keep it up! 👍
That's like three video ideas right there.
Have either of you (Jason or Frank) looked into Land Value Tax (and only LVT aka Georgism)? It has huge implications for land use.
@@drivers99 Strong Towns definitely has, via articles from Urban 3. Would be great to see it illustrated in a UA-cam video though. That alone is such a huge problem that no one is talking about, as far as I’ve seen at least. DEFINITELY needs much more attention.
About blaming capitalism for the bad urbanism, every country does have a different set of capitalists who will benefit from different things, just like there are capitalist countries that are more or less militaristic, have larger or smaller welfare systems, etc, the Netherlands might have particularities that allowed it to adopt these better urbanist practices without taking away from the owner class
I mean, the video gives you the answer. The reason the U.S. is different is because of white supremacy. It had a whole class of people living inside its borders that it was hellbent on keeping down. The infrastructure of this country was built to keep black people from gaining any upwards mobility. It's no surprise that as time has passed, this infrastructure shows itself as also harmful to the people it was intending to "protect." Capitalism and white supremacy don't care if the people it's intending to "protect" are happy. It only cares about the image it has to uphold which is why it is so harmful to us ALL. This ideology does not live in reality.
this video was a BODY, love thinking about suburbia and the sin it has stained on the scalps of our children! Thanks for involving me, ive now watched this twice and pro tip; it got better 😊
Love you dawg, can’t wait to bring you one the channel OFFICIALLY
@@FrankLaundry Maith Fear mo chara. It is interesting one of my vices is my love for microbreweries beer. Here in Ireland we have to opportunity to stop the gentrification that is associated with these breweries. Most of them here in Ireland are in the countryside in economically depressed areas a number of which are in Irish speaking areas. A number of Irish suburbs including Dún Laoghaire and Blackrock are well connected by public transport to Dublin city and are old style suburbs. Some like Tallaght were poorly thought out but are now connected by tram to the city. Though there is a campaign to get Tallaght city status.
in school for environmental studies, and every time I learn about how corrupt and harmful our current residential areas I feel physically ill. As a black woman, I feel like it's my duty to undo the intense segregation and environmental degradation, but I'm so intimidated by the numerous systems in place that stand in my way. It's nice to hear black voices in this sphere, keep being you!!!!
At least you aren't alone in this duty, though it can feel that way sometimes. Only through all of us who want to change the world going at the problem can we get the momentum to fix/dismantle these systems.
yes yes yes yes yes
I would love to see this divided into 10 minute segments and taught as a full semester course. This is COMPREHENSIVE.
Someone award Frank a PhD already.
The highest compliment I can pay this video is that I usually only listen to video essays while doing something else because I have crippling anxiety over not being "productive" enough, but my eyes were glued to this the entire time. Your charisma rolls are off the charts, this is visually a blast to watch while being informative, in a way that makes me nostalgic for old public access TV infotainment (I mean that as a sincere positive). Really raised the bar with this one and I'm stoked to binge your other videos now.
Sounds like you’re lazy
As an Indigenous person (Anishinaabe), that word "displacement" is extremely familiar, but I'm sure it'll work out -- just have the federal government build a few houses for the unemployed poors out in a dead field somewhere -- it'll work perfectly, nothing bad will happen apart from generational poverty and high suicide rates! :)
In all seriousness, I wanted to add the Indigenous urban experience here -- sh*t is ROUGH, neechee. When you manage to have a life in a city that decades ago didn't even want you there, then you get priced out of it, that's colonialism still at a large. I encourage you to take a deep dive into the LandBack movement, because without some of that knowledge, you're always gonna leave out Indigenous people with whatever civil action you take and be supporting your colonizer. Going to a city council meeting? State that support and revitalization efforts are needed for all Indigenous people who are living there, especially those who are part of the local tribe(s). Support stewardship, sovereignty, and treaties. Remember that it's just 20% of Natives (in the USA) who live on their own territory, the rest are in colonized land.
Great video, getting into gentrification is very much needed in this space.
Its interesting maybe handing over every hectare isn’t a bad idea. We will take back any of the “disgruntled”.
no such thing as colonized land yall just lost the war
How can I learn more about the land back movement????
@Whiteppl Krazy that's the point you're going to draw issue with.. who came first, not the massive amounts of genocidal action that both Canada *and* the US engaged in? Does it matter which nomadic people was on the continent first? Europeans still came last, have caused, and continue to cause, the greatest harm to the people that WERE here first.
@@krazyspartanodst What a well thought out, highly intellectual response. /S
Interesting fact about early suburbanization, roughly 1910s in LA--large companies promoted the idea of the single family "bungalow" to draw workers from all over the country to cheapen labor. These companies built the houses near the factories & super far away from downtown to isolate the workers from the labor movement. And the workers were so burdened with housing payments that they didnt have time to organize
Loved your video ❤
oh wow thats crazy
The hard thing about gentrifiers is they don’t *know* that they are gentrifying. They see a house / apartment available on the market, see that they can afford it, and decide to move. The issue is the companies making the expensive housing and pushing out people already living in cities. It’s a frustrating and difficult to interrupt cycle
I feel like it's all the product of economic centralization as cities like Decatur, IL or Flint, MI decline. As in America's population has increased but those cities have shrunk drastically over the years.
It’s probably the restrictive single family housing only zoning with large lot minimums limiting home construction that makes homes so expensive. Without those limits developers would develop and sell to try to keep up with demand.
@@karld1791 zoning definitely plays a way part in this! I talked to someone in the field who also told me that it’s hard bc a lot of ppl in apartments can often be non-permanent residents, and ppl with homes are often more permanent residents, and there’s an association bt housing with more people in it and poverty and crime, etc so homeowners will lobby against zoning changes to avoid that.
Yeah I know - it's like wow I found a house I can afford but fuck me right?
Super proud of you dawg, this is a really solid piece. We need more episodes of the Frankie show!
New subscriber earned! I have been complaining about lack of walkability in suburbs before I ever understood why it's bad on so many levels aside from WHY CANT I WALK OUTSIDE. I love seeing people talk about this.
Mew Mew other good channels about this topic are Climate Town, Not Just Bikes, Strong Towns & City Beautiful in case you don’t know of them yet.
It’s hard to see how it could change when you’re there, but I have one key reason for believing it may not be forever:
We’ve made similarly drastic change before. Whole cities were reconstructed, back when we made the switch to cars in the first place. City blocks were widened with the streets, completely restructuring them in a matter of decades. We’ve done it before, and elsewhere they have done it again, converting cities from vehicle infrastructure back to walkable pedestrian environments. It’s not easy or cheap, but it’s possible and it’s been done. With enough social momentum, I believe it will change.
I always felt something was wrong that if you don’t have a car you have limited or no access to essential services/employment your video shed some much needed light into this thank you
I’ll never forget learning about redlining and how incredibly recent it was. My cousin responded when I mentioned it once “that was 40 years ago!” We were literally in his parents house, which they would have been unable to afford as the history of their life would have meant no wealth to build upon. I’m pretty sure he was over 40 when he said it.
I'm indo-caribbean (I still live in Trinidad) and visited my aunt who recently moved to Levittown in August. It's crazy how accurate you are about the weird feeling you get walking through the town. I'm not black but nowhere in the States made me feel "otherized" more than my brief walk around the block in Levittown.
This is absolutely terrific. I love your style. I watch Not Just Bikes, and climate town, and i love how much attention you give to the aggressive racial intention with the construction of our regulations. It’s hard to make districting sexy, but your format is absolutely shareable and absorbable
thank you so much 😭
i am SO GLAD to see someone address this topic and even touch on that gentrification is causing folks pushed out to move into _decaying suburbia in particular_ because so often this isn't worded to specify. it is less stated because the amount of affected people is less overall, but older rural towns (built up around tracks around one mill and swathes of farmland) are also being fucked, especially those with 'unique' main streets and sidewalks already in place (leading to the mill/mainstreet/train rails). often these rural towns (with small populations of a couple thousand, not usually over 5k) have stagnated in poverty rates in the double digits (ie 30%+) and often have a relatively mixed ethnic demographic. so when the population doubles in less than 5 years, it's due to new housing, and that housing is not accessible by foot (and brings with it stroads which often demolish sidewalks, or closes them for months leading to less of them being added back in due to reports of 'lack of demand' on-site.... because it's closed).
very often what happens is a community-based revitalisation project on main, then suddenly the housing market pops off astronomically. the resources for locals becomes overwhelmed (community services like soup kitchens, homeless care and so on) or is so priced out it vanishes--or it 'looks bad' to the new folks.
regardless it also leads to the crunching in process leading to mass evictions of the poorest members and often the population tilts middle or upper middle class white folks, as they are the only ones who can afford the new housing. and rent goes up and the smaller houses previously there get demolished for new single family houses or flipped. houses that would have passed inspection before are suddenly decried condemned (over vine coverage, minor leaks, etc) and people who can't afford or don't have time to fix those issues have to sell, and a couple months later, the house is being torn from the inside out and the original dwellers are gone....
bell hooks is from appalachia. rural towns full of white folks may be affected, i don't know, but i know every rural town i know of with any substantial black demographic is being done like this and it is very likely also going to cause the displaced folks to be shoved into the failed suburbia of yesterday as the wealthier, predominantly white, newcomers try a 'second attempt' at a car nightmare, just with warehouses and such not zoned quite so far away (still need a car tho).
i know this is a little off topic and look i get that the gentrification of large cities takes notice over rural villages for a reason--it affects more people and it's a huge problem. but thank you for specifying where people have left to go because it touches, however indirectly, on that rural villages aren't where people will be shoved to, but in the concrete wastelands of failed suburbia, alongside the rural displaced.
I live in Northern Utah in a fairly small city about 45 mins from SLC. You are 100% right, rent is out of control and when I first moved here i never saw a single homeless person, now there are several homeless people on every corner. That’s happened over the last couple years and it’s so sad to see. It wasn’t like this before and people are being forced out while wages aren’t going up.
I live in a walkable town, but it was older and established in the 1800s, Building some form of walkability isn't hard, just put a convince store in each neighborhood, but with the walmarts and the big box stores gutting retail in most of our human scaled cities, Walkability isn't accessable except in places that were spared from the big box store because they are so far away, or huge metroplexes where the core is protected from the ravages of big box stores because of the suburbs creating a barrier between the downtown and these stores.
I live in Southern California, but on the tail end of a ghostly limb of the now defunct Red Line. I was always so confused as to why my neighborhood, despite being the poor part of town, felt so much better to live in compared to other suburbs I've been stuck in before (my family had to stay with our pastor at his house in a suburb for a year as we were effectively homeless).
Turns out since the Red Line used to pass through here we inherited aspects of the streetcar suburb, in other words transit oriented urban design. It's been pasted over and buried in many ways, but the lingering effect is that despite the lackluster replacements for the Redline being a barely serviced Metrolink station and a middling bus transit system, the actual urbanism in this neighborhood is amazing.
Just a few streets away are neighborhoods that were formed out of what was probably farmland relatively recently, and due to this it has much more in common with your typical white exclusive enclave suburb than it does with the "ghetto" part of the city.
@@fluidthought42 I really don't care about the Enclave stuff, and actually encourage enclaves if they create walkability and community rather than making us all consumers, I was just in my previous post focusing on economics and how many towns around me that were walkable became ghost towns when walmart moved in.
You don't really need transit for good urbanism as cities throughout the centuries were mixed use and walkable without transit, Instead of focusing on transit, good land use is so much more important.
@@linuxman7777
A more robust public transit system encourages more pedestrian traffic which in turn encourages a more walkable city design.
Furthermore the same policies that maintain the sanctity of the suburb are also the ones that make building walkable cities illegal. When it comes to land use, it really is a zero sum game because we cannot create more land.
@@fluidthought42 Not if you have to drive to the train or bus, or you live in a place like much of America, Western Europe or Japan where the population is stagnant or shrinking. Mine as well as Strong towns objection to Transit Oriented Development is that it is a "Build it and they will come" mentality, instead of fixing and improving the great places we already built. Public Transit has its value in increasing mobility, but it really doesn't increase walkability, that is the rule of good land use and not building a big box store between several towns killing every walkable place in a 20mi radius
@@linuxman7777
Obviously I'm not suggesting building extensive and high traffic electric rail systems in the middle of bumfuck nowhere.
But in somewhere like Southern California, which I mentioned I lived in, which has one of the most populated and expansive metropolitan areas in the world? Yeah, that is a good idea.
Furthermore that transit first model had historically encouraged dense development. You mention Japan as a failure of the model while simultaneously ignoring how it is largely considered something close to an global ideal for urbanism in many ways, all made possible due to the presence and maintenance of transit systems.
Not saying that it's necessarily that correlation is causation, but to paraphrase Sir Terry Pratchett it does wiggle its eyebrows suggestively and silently mouth "look over there". So I do suspect that paired together with more walkable city design it might be a good idea.
Lastly, you didn't really address how the housing and zoning policies which created and maintain suburban enclaves are doing their role in preventing the creation of more walkable cities. I'm not suggesting doing a reverse blockbusting, or a reverse Robert Moses, whatever that would look like. Rather that we override local zoning laws, preferably at the state level for political convenience, to allow for more economic freedom for local property owners to respond to an overheated housing market with more dense and walkable development. Maybe even allow the state to develop land or renovate historic buildings for either publicly subsidized housing or even mixed use!
While that may sound like something allowed for your state, it is currently not allowed by California because of a prop bill passed in the 60s that gave local residents veto power over any such projects.
23k subs and this video has better production than 90% of large video essay centered channels
As someone who can't drive, is disabled, and living in an area with mountains, walkability is super important to me. It seems that instead of making changes that condenses down the sprawling cities we have, we just keep building... and building... and building. It's really tough for me to find places to live because it needs to be a good price (good fucking luck finding that alone lol), a safe place, near a grocery store and a pharmacy, and I have to consider where doctors, dentists, etc. are gonna be. The place I'm living in now is 100% suburbia. It's nice, but I hate being an hour's walk away from anything remotely better than 7/11-type outlets.
Not Just Bikes sent me here! Thanks for making this, very informative and thorough!
Bro i remember when this channel was reacting to tiktoks, and now youre making legit movies. Proud of you man!
This means so much fam😭😭 you been here since get go🙏🏾
Being a Puerto Rican born and raised in Brooklyn, this video hit a nerve necessary. The past two years I’ve been thinking of leaving cause of many of the topics you’ve discussed, but your video helped me see that it might not be what I’ve glorified it to be. Keep doing what you are doing
Its crazy how homelessness from the capitalist perspective is a good thing as it provides an underclass, also a plausible reason why this crisis of homelessness has persisted for so long, despite their being tons of vacant homes. Great video, amazing energy, pacing, fresh interesting change of environments/scenes I could really tell you put your love into this
cute that you think homelessness is a housing problem.
I can link a pretty decent quantity of articles on this but there are *not* “tons” of vacant homes around. Homeless people coalesce in cities and suburbs where there are not vacant housing. There is in fact significantly less housing available than the demand.
@@jerrell1169 I'm not sure where you are but in NY this is absolutely not true. We have a homeless population of less than 3000 and tens of thousands of units that sit empty every year, with only luxury housing being built. Also curious what type of problem you think homelessness is @emp0rizzle
@@emp0rizzlehomelessness is a microcosm of problems that capitalists are fully unwilling to solve
@@suppositorylaxative3179 really? So before capitalism, poor people were living in 10 room mansions?
I know this took so much time and attention to detail to make, and the result is incredible. This was so informative and covered important historical grounds. Great work from start to finish
You are unbelievably talented at communicating ideas. I was hooked from the beginning. Good job!
The fact that I watched this video for free feels illegal. I loved everything about the way you made this video. From the change in clothes to voices to even just how in-depth the research was! Absolutely incredible
I felt so seen when Westlake, CA got mentioned! I grew up and live in Daly City so it's just about 5 minutes away from me. Driving through Westlake always felt perplexing and uneasy since the makeup of the homes there is so different from houses and apartments in Daly City.
Thank you so much for this video. It reinforces the importance of housing needing to be a right, not a commodity. I'll come back to this whenever I need to remind myself of that, and to be inspired to form community.
such a great and concise video on the topic! everyone in the suburbs loves visiting walkable communities for vacations but can't live in any walkable areas due to being priced out of nicer areas or being policied out of being able to live there.
At over an hour and half wouldn't use the word concise
@@deanmccourt4800 I found it DENSE.
Every minute of video is expensive to produce. Several times in the video he mentioned topics he had to cut for time. The video is heavily edited down to a manageable length.
@@deanmccourt4800 considering the scope of the topic? It’s pretty concise.
you clearly put a lot of work into this video. it really opened my eyes and provided a different perspective than the one i've been fed my entire life. great work, frank
What i hate most about the nuclear family is no matter how modern they make it it screws over your older relatives. We shove them in nursing homes and we ignore them. Saying"family" goes beyond mommy dad and your sibling it shouldn't stop there and your community should be seen as important all the same. But you don't have that because Grandma and Grandpa not having extra expenses means less money for the medical industry.
1:35:55 That is one of the most disorienting, interesting, artsy transitions I've ever seen
Wait what, UA-cam recommended me something barely anyone has seen, and it was good?
That's neat.
This video is extraordinary in quality and you are a REALLY skilled artist and educator. Thank you for sharing this with us
Completely unrelated because I have nothing to add to the main point of the video due to not living in the US but your outfits are *chef's kiss*, truly an icon and inspiration to all of us mascs.
this video is amazing! Holy shit, i’ve been trying to articulate and find evidence of the exact things you talked about in the video for months because i’ve felt like this whole country is a conspiracy theory for how to create a living purgatory and holy shit you did an amazing job!
This video is so good. I grew up in Seattle, fought against/watched gentrification, as each of my friends were pushed out until I was eventually pushed out myself, ended up in the peninsula and now I'm watching this place get marketed as the next suburb to Seattle. EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A WHOLE ASS BODY OF WATER BETWEEN US AND SEATTLE!!!! It takes an hour to ferry to downtown Seattle from my town alone!! Let alone getting to the ferry or anywhere outside of downtown in Seattle. It makes me nauseous. Or maybe that's the smoke from the wildfires that's made it all the way over here...
Living in Seattle now. It never ceases to amaze me how people hate poor people more than they value their time. They would rather spend an hour on a ferry or in a car stuck in traffic than take a bus.
@@obish4476 sounds like some Amazon gentrifier shit but ok
@@obish4476 Because it feeds into a narrative that public transit is inherently dangerous, poor quality, and bad. This narrative is meant to delegitimize public transit entirely so that it can be eliminated. It's part of a larger plan to make cities like Seattle the domain of the wealthy. Honestly, if you've had bad experiences on public transit you should keep them to yourself because you're only helping those types of people by voicing them.
@@obish4476 I'm not blaming you or anyone but the city and rich people. It's just a fact that the narrative of out of control crime only ever benefits them.
@@obish4476 Yeah, obviously the answer is more investment and helping people. That will never happen until we lуnch some landlords and amazons.
you need a million awards for this. my town in socal made up of brown and black laborers has been gentrified right before my eyes as i’ve grown up the last 10 years. this is everything and more of what i’ve been trying to say. thank you.
Eyy fellow socal here! When I went back to my hometown I was so shocked to see they turned it into a fucking tourist trap. People who have lived in their neighborhoods for years were getting pushed out because all the infrastructure was driving the housing prices up! It’s terrible to read abt it in textbooks but when it happens right before your eyes it’s absolutely horrifying.
Aye fellow SoCal as well, my town was a majority Mexican and indigenous people (a lotta white hippies too) and it’s been gentrified to beyond recognition
This is absolutely brilliant. There’s even more here than in many university lectures about urban planning history. And delivered in a much more engaging and striking manner than many profs. Truly an outstanding contribution to urban planning content. And I hope it’s not true that North America will continue to shun walkable and liveable cities, but it’s looking grim unfortunately. That being exactly why work like this is SO important. Thanks for making this!
This is my first Frank Luandry video, until this video I had never heard of you before. I am 10 minutes in and had to stop to like, subscribe, and comment. I can already that this is seriously top notch content and the effort you took to make this really shows. You’re production quality is also so good for a Chanel with only 30k subscribers, you deserve so many more subs and I truly believe you will make it if you keep it up.
This country's cooked. Thank you for your excellent journalism.
1:24:42 I have thoughts on this!!!! so, I'm Brazilian and I moved to the biggest city in the country called são paulo for basically all the reasons people move to big cities in america. the opportunities, the creative possibilities (i am absolutely the creative class), walkability, etc etc
for a while i felt like a resident in a very shallow manner, i didn't really have a routine yet and i was getting used to the way things work here. i really only started to feel like this was truly home when i started studying, when i made friends and when i had more unpleasant experiences. i think what needs to happen in relation to how people talk about a place is a genuine understanding of all the good and bad of the city, and the acknowledgement of everything when making an assessment to how good the place is.
i.e.: the good side of the coin here is i love the culture, walkability, i love seeing denser housing and the subway, the socialism. the bad side of the coin is the inequality, the homelessness, the shitty social policies, the violence and danger.
my experience of sao paulo is both making out in a bus at 10pm while it rains AND passing out from a chokehold in a bus terminal robbery. i still love it here tho, and that's a much more realistic view that i think can slow down gentrification (at least from annoying people who think any place in the world is perfect)
that being said i did see myself in a lot of the gentrification here even though i am far from rich, which makes me a proper gay gentrifier (ew). definitely something for me to think more about and i hope to help lessen the process as much as i can in the future.
finally this video is fucking amazing and i think you would be an amazing sociologist (and you are v attractive)
. phew anyways
Yes! Isolation from actual community, services, and production is by design, you brought so much depth and breadth to this. Terrific direction and editing on too.
Great that you touched on colonisation and the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. Since I live in so-called Australia I've been doing Land Acknowledgements and think that creators living on stolen and unceded land the world over should do so too.
Rarely do I see a college thesis take the form of a UA-cam video. Well done! You have seamlessly connected several ideas and issues into a cohesive and insightful video.
You sit like a less chaotic cj x who is also a live news reporter in their free time. I like it
They do share some vibes!
Rarely do I feel like I have to leave a tip for a yt video but the effort that went into this is clearly insane. What an incredible introduction to your channel.
the algorithm just handed this to me, and Philosophy Tube just gave it a bump on the Nebula cut of the new vid that drops on here next week. had to stop by. thank you for all of this work.
Sometimes the saddest part of these great videos, is that the people who need to hear this the most, either won’t, don’t care or know what there are doing is killing the 99%(is that still a relevant reference?). Great video, I love the creativity with all the different video setups!
This is genuinely one of the best videos on US infrastructure I’ve ever seen. The incredible amount of research that went into this really frickin’ shows, and you do a wonderful job of breaking it all down. I came here from Not Just Bikes, but dude you’re really in a league of your own here- you bring an interesting, very well organized editing style that still allows for humor, and all in an incredibly easy to digest format. Totally adding Color of Law to my reading list, too, because holy frick I knew the suburbs were built to be segregated but hot damn it goes so much deeper than that. And hearing a genuine breakdown of how FDR and the suburbs basically rebuilt capitalism to the way we know now completely changed how I think about this. They definitely didn’t teach in school back in my day. Hope you make more videos like this, because you certainly have a talent for it (and either way, thank you so much for making this one).
OP you should probably read more about urban planning because:
A stroad is a street/road hybrid. It is the futon of the transportation system. A futon is an uncomfortable couch that converts into an uncomfortable bed, something that performs two functions but does neither well. A stroad tries to be both street and road, providing both mobility and access, yet fails miserably at both.
-Charles L. Marohn Jr, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
That said there are three types of "roads," a street, a road, and a highway. A street you got right, but you combined the road and highway into one category.
Make a video about it. 😂
@@abbeyschaff11 I deleted my old channel so that I can make devlogs on this account, as I knew a sudden reappearance after years of being inactive wouldn’t do me any good. Plus, I’d rather just focus on making the changes in my chosen community as not just bikes makes great videos already.
This is exceptional storytelling, education, editing, delivery. This is a masterpiece, a showcase of talent. You should be very proud
5 minutes into watching you and I'm subscribed. Dude, you're like a cross between the educational content of Not Just Bikes with the spunk of Climate Town, all wrapped up with the chaotic bisexual energy of CJ the X.
I hope your channel blows up! This video is incredibly well made and engaging, you’re on another level
Fortunately I live in the bad neighborhood in a small town so most things are within walking distance, it just so happens our neighborhood looks like any wrong move and it’ll come crumbling down but it’s a 5 minute walk to the bus transfer center, a corner store, 2 restaurants, and 3 hotels
hey man gotta take the good with the bad. I live in one of the most expensive places in California and by god it fucking sucks. There’s a strip mall with a Safeway and a couple other assorted businesses, but it’s a mile’s walk down a pretty steep set of hills. To make things worse said strip mall offers basically nothing in terms of clothes so if I need some new shirts or something I’d need to get someone with a car to get me there as I don’t have my own car yet
You know what's weird: when you think of a kingdom you probably think of a big castle surrounded by a walled city with slums outside. Higher classes in the middle, peasants further out. Cities are like the exact opposite lol, and yet somehow still stupidly expensive.
I grew up in a tiny agricultural town in east Europe and walked or biked everywhere. We had good density of housing and amenities. All the farmland was outside of town so, I guess people had to commute to work using tractors during harvest and such. I moved to NYC and continued to walk mostly everywhere. The real culture shock was the year I spent in an apartment next to a stroad in NJ. Ouch. Never again. Lately, I'm learning more about the unsavory history behind today's car dependence out here. Pretty shocking stuff. Great vid! You made me learn and laugh. That is something I appreciate.
Though I tend to like Buffett, personally hehe. Cheers.
This went hard as hell, thank you for making this.
I hope this video blows up because it is so well done. The way you tie in all of these seemingly separate housing issues to the overarching issue of commodification was really fluid and persuasive. Also you got pretty hair 😳
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this is the one of the most well produced, researched, and entertaining videos ive watched on youtube in a LONG time! i love your content, you're amazing and it's easy to see your passion in your work. keep going bestie ur slaying
Tulsa built a big ugly highway right through Greenwood, aka Black Wall Street, the location of the Tulsa Race Massacre. There are now dozen of empty lots just north of downtown.
Great video! It made me think of all the movies about how unfulfilling suburban life is. How many of those do we need to watch to get the message?
As Lenin wrote, us workers can't be expected to organically come up with real solutions for every problem we encounter, that's why socialists need to do boots on the down preaching and teaching work
Excellent video Frank!
A lot of research went into this and it's astonishing how much effort you must've put in!
Philosophy Tube sent me! Great video
I laughed at the Goodwill donation interaction. I think a bigger aspect of suburbafication is the debt issuance you mentioned than a conspiracy to uphold social divides. Between car loans and mortgages there is no way banks want to see that change. Pretty soon we will see special debt products for paying rent. All the risk of owning a home with none of the wealth building.
We are already seeing the foreshadowing of this in the form of apps that "help" you pay weekly installments rather than 1 monthly payment, and pay day check cashing places which are in every poor or predominantly Black area. With absurdly high interest rates of course.
Suburbafication doesn’t need to be a conspiracy when the ruling class already disperses it’s ideology onto the masses thru hegemony. They create actors to enact their will thru covert means that the actors don’t even realize where they inherited their mindset from.
@@paulpujeter6340 that is conspiracy by definition. Covert actors for some ideology. Yet it's not even secret in the sense it's willfully hidden. The suburbs are a consequence of interest bearing debt which is the primary mechanism of capitalism. It's true culture informs the structure of suburbs but it doesn't cause it. There is a really excellent video on how race is a social construct and how you can observe the concept of Blackness in other cultures with completely different ethnicities(like Indian). Race is itself a product of wealth accumulation. Trying to work race in as a driver of social inequality instead of a modifier is something I think leads people down dead ends. I can't remember the video name....maybe race is a social construct or Black Japanese? They make a lot of references to The Boondocks.
Suburbia is the capitalist dream. Every individual family unit is cut off from all others. Individually consuming Hughes amounts of stuff both essential and frivolous in the least efficient way possible. Low density, with no public transit and no amenities so people must use their cars to go everywhere and do everything. The profit incentives of capitalism ultimately move against community and towards atomisation and the hyperexploitation of all spheres of human life. Case in point, thanks to social media, even our personal relationships are now monetisable and ripe for exploitation. We are not the winners of the social media era, the tech companies are. And so it goes.
Suburbia is a family’s dream. Nobody chooses to raise a family in the hot concrete and glass jungle that is the modern city. People launch their career from overpriced 30m flat in London or Prague and then buy a single family house outside the city, where kids can play on grass right outside the kitchen, not on dirty asphalt street.
Maybe it’s cuz there’s less crime there so families move there so they don’t have to deal with city crime
Good comment! 👍
You do realize American Suburbia has been the product of government interventionism when it comes to zoning law, regulations and red tape.
If you had the neighbors I have had, you'd wish your house was at a good distance from other houses!
This video is great! I appreciative the time and effort you put into making it. Great job. Will definitely have to come back to take some notes on gentrification.
I came here from Not Just Bikes and boy oh boy, you did a masterful job with this video! I'll leave a comment for the algorithm and to thank you for all the insights!
Phenomenal video bro. Please keep putting in the work, we’re paying attention.
I'm incredibly blown away by the quality of this video. On top of the top notch research, you traveled to the places that you were talking about, did scripted gags, and interviewed someone in a gentrifying area. The amount of care and effort you put in is amazing, and I loved every minute of it
urban planning grad student here. amazing video! i really appreciate how you traced urban decline all the way back to the beginning. the system we are living in is already dystopian, but the more i learn about the history of planning, it's clear how the federal government was complicit in this decline. not to mention state and local governments ignoring their urban communities to subsidize suburban sprawl, the way that the rich are buying property just to keep it empty and unused, the very real fossil fuel conspiracy, and the globalization of american industry have all contributed to the mess we're in now.
the only way i see forward, is to go back. we need to re-think the way we see progress, success, community, the environment and our future. we need economic de-growth, we need to de-commodify housing, we need food sovereignty for black communities, we need to tear down freeways, and yes like you said we need cities to be built for everybody.
“Deflation. Make a dollar today and it will be worth 25 cents tomorrow”.
You got that backwards. You’re describing inflation. Deflation makes the dollar you earn today worth more tomorrow not less since the price of goods fall and you can buy more with your dollar in the future.