Humans Fought Distance and Won
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2024
- The car broke down distance and made suburbian life possible. But it has become the most unsustainable way of living. Could we make it recilient for the future?
This is a story of how humans fought distance and with modern invensions won. Now we must win a different battle and bring humans closer together again.
Small Circles Forward by Daniel Karlsson Lönnö 2023.
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00:00 Intro
02:16 Suburbs grew from cities
03:37 The democratization of the car
05:11 Segregation
06:48 Commercial interests
07:20 The cities left behind
08:20 Environmental impacts
08:50 The rest of the world
10:25 The future
12:18 Outro
Sources:
Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere (1993)
Carmona, Matthew. Public Places, Urban Spaces 3rd Edition (2021)
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
Rybczynski, Witold. Makeshift Metropolis (2010)
Glaeser, Edward. Triumph of the City (2011)
Newbold, K Bruce. Population Geography (2014)
Music from Epidemic Sounds:
"Aurora Polaris" by Cospe downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Blue Lantern" by Yi Nantiro downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Cheryl and Jim" by Binkley downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Gloomy Thoughts" by Matt Large downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Car Door Close 18" by SFX Producers downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
All videos and images are either in the Public Domain or from Storyblocks; www.videoblocks.com/.
You can have suburbia not be car dependent if you scatter small bits of commercial activity in them. Like how the Japanese put small convenience stores in their suburbs, or how dollar general has appeared in some rural American communities giving them a place to walk to their daily needs.
The biggest problems with auto oriented, American style suburbs is that they are unchanging and that they are so reliant on cars that small businesses realistically cannot thrive. Parking is expensive and requiring as much parking as we do in so much of the country kills so many small businesses before they can even start. It's too expensive and is the reason chains proliferate in suburbs.
We need more Main Streets and less strip malls if we want to continue building suburbs like we do. It's not financially sustainable otherwise
Thanks for your continued great work.
Suburbs are just a stage in life. You spend your childhood there, then move out to the city, when you start a family you move back, when you become an empty nester, you leave again.
I really hope this channel gets more views
Levels, levels.
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One thing you might want to consider is the massive increase in biodiversity associated with converting farm land to suburbs. It would be interesting to plot the insect counts as a function of distance from town. I’m pretty sure it would peak in the leafy suburbs.
Also density inhibits human reproduction as you can see in all the modern Asian economies they are all suffering catastrophic demographic collapse.. To some degree US suburbs have prevented this drop in fertility. It appears to me that fundamentally modern cities consume more young people than they produce an are demographically unsustainable with out immigration. Also you have the infrastructure maintenance tsunami that will hit them as their major infrastructure systems reach end of life just as their supply of young people dries up to maintain them. I’d be more worried about the viability of cities than the suburbs.
as for biodiversity - it depends what kind of land you replace with suburbs. We still need to feed all the people, so we still need some amount of farms, so by converting farm land to suburbs, we also convert some forest or prairie to farm land
As for density - due to laws, US lacks of any reasonable stage between single-house suburbs and urban blocks. Smaller row houses, duplexes, 2- or 4-apartment buildings - they are a great compromise. It's much lower density than city, but high enough to keep small business in walkable distance
Good video. I'm not sure how cars suck. The US is so vast, you need a car to travel and who wants to be dependent on someone else? Public transportation is a joke because it's absolutely disgusting. If you take the BART in San Francisco, you'll know what I mean. It's a luxury to not have to interact with others and do things your own way. Just my thoughts. Thanks for the upload, I look forward to them.
Cars take up massive amounts of space which leads to massive traffic when cars are the only option, mandates parking that kills small businesses, and kills thousands of people every year
It’s a far greater luxury to live somewhere where using public transport and interacting with other people isn’t a bad experience and can be enjoyed very easily rather than needing to protect yourself from the outside world by using a car all the time
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986Being on someone else's schedule sucks.
I used to be forced to drive by car to work every day and I was very dependent on others - gas stations, car mechanics, parking providers. Since then I only work in locations, which give me more freedom - I can get to work by tram, by bicycle, by electric scooter or even walk if I want to. Of course car is also an option, but since even uber is cheap on those distances, car is the worse options of all. That was the moment I stopped being dependent on anyone.
Of course, europe is denser than US, so it's easier to have smaller distances, but that's mostly for huge distances between cities. Most of people live and work in the same metropolitan area, so either it's built to allow people to live near work or stores (and travel in any desired way) or it forces people to depend on car and road as the only way of transportation
@@sonicleaves what's the problem with the schedule if the tram/bus/sub comes every 5-10 minutes? I walk to tram stop 7 minutes and never care to check the schedule, but if I can see too big delay, I rent a scooter or bicycle