Tactical Urbanists transform streets overnight
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- From guerilla gardening to pop-up parks, tactical urbanism is catching the world by storm. The growing movement is characterized by the temporary altering of city infrastructure through citizen-led initiatives.
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When tactical urbanists see something wrong in their cities, they start dreaming up ways to fix it themselves. Their creative, inexpensive solutions allow for the faster completion of projects that bring immediate benefits to their community, such as safer roads.
In Jersey City, this meant quickly setting up temporary bike lanes to reduce pedestrian fatalities. The result of this experiment in tactical urbanism was so successful that permanent designs were adopted by city officials within a year.
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What would you like to change in your town or city?
I'd like to find a way to clean up the streets so that I don't pop a bike tire every time I travel a block.
That and maybe put in something to destroy any car making an illegal turn onto or merging into the bike lane.
What is name of this bgm?
The parents. Cause then thier stupid kids will hopefully be better people when they decide to act mature in life. The children in my town talk exactly like an adult who hates another adult they invited to a BBQ but are block neighbors so they HAAAAD to invite them 😂😂😂
@@Ikiratuki noone is stopping you. I just cleaned up 9 tires and have to clear out a ton of rotten wood some asshole dumped behind my apartment. Ill make a video. Check me out 😁
@@EskenRock Unless I find a way to remove all the plants that produce the dried thorns that pop tires and also stop everyone from dropping glass, I don't think it's happening.
So yeah, no one is stopping me. It's the environment itself and on top of that, those are just two examples. I wish it was only pollution I could pick up and dispose of or just swerve around.
This reminds me of the guy who changed the signs over the freeway in L.A. to be less confusing and make more sense. After he did it there were fewer accidents at those exits.
A legendary video.
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They actually gave him a job after that!
That sounds great and silly at the same time.
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I’m noticing an alarming increase in these groups and programs of people feeding the homeless fixing cities, and even educating kids…
Is the government just not getting the hint… orrr….?
@@Andrew-my1cp No the government doesn't suck at doing such things is that no offense but either with your ideology or take big corporations money will either refused to give institutions that deal with things like roads and education money or worse make it so that these areas are defunded
@@Andrew-my1cp Ah yes. When you take money out of the system it gets better.
Big brain moves.
@@Andrew-my1cp That was sarcasm. I suppose this is where Poe's law comes in, though I thought calling it a "big brain move" solved that issue.
Tell me, how has privatization of public utilities worked so far? Those trains working out? You enjoying the recent electrical instability from companies not wanting to weather-proof? How about your for-profit healthcare bills? Ooh, do you suggest we make private police a thing, since you've mentioned how the government (spurred on by private prisons wanting more occupancy for slave labor) royally fucked up the war on drugs?
When the motive is profit the consumer is only relevant as a way to get at their wallet. That means any method necessary to exploit you will be used in order to extract more money from you. That's what businesses do.
@@Andrew-my1cp I'd argue that the issue is more a lack of transparency on the part of the government and a lack of education on the publics part. Which wouldn't nessciraly be solved by privatization.
@@Andrew-my1cp i wholeheartedly agree with you on all points.... In the USA. Other governments, like my own in the Netherlands, actually function really well. It's not that it cannot work, it's just that it's not working in America, like a lot of stuff.
the fact that this was sponsored by ford, notorious for having destroyed urban centres through buying and dismantling streetcars, lobbied against good public transit, bike infrastructure... makes me think this video has some ulterior motive...
and reading the comments I'm realizing what that motive is. "We don't need city planners, we can do that ourselves through independent, loosely monitored activists like the ones here, trust us, we're the good guys, the government sucks, let's lower taxes" yep, i'm pretty sure that's it.
@@strausan Lobby out the government and then turn people against it instead of yourself? Classic!
Great point!!
Or maybe there are a few people at Ford who want to change cities for the better. Not everything is a conspiracy, dude. All the urban changes you claim Ford is responsible for happened decades ago. Do you live in a time warp?
@@ems7623 Ford does not want cities to limit car access or reduce car infrastructure cause that’s bad for their bottom line. They have consistently lobbied against such changes, still do, don’t be naive.
While I love the spirit of the movement, and I strongly believe that something like that strengthens the community, it's also weird that volunteers have to fix / force change in their enviroment via semi-legal action, depending on the exact case. But I know that beaurocracy is slowing stuff down to the extreme, and reconnecting politicians and city planers with the community could lead to some impressive changes down the line. In the end, someone needs to care, signal wishes / demands and provide reason for change.
Some cities are corrupt to the point of making decisions and policies that work against growth and development of their cities. It is mind numbing stupid and the citizens are the ones that are most hurt.
This is also done to counter the vocal opposition FROM a subsect of the community itself that opposes change. Sometimes city leaders are very willing but the outcry and threats from opposition can be loud. If shown to work at cheap and temporary without many negative effects, the naysayers won't have a leg to stand on.
Civil disobedience and direct action
Now, too bad this movement cannot curb the root of problem, that is car-centric urban planning. For that, require the city and/or state to actually do something.
Installing bike lane is a step in the right direction, as is slowing down cars using a crosswalk. Seems like people feel what's a good street. That is a pedestrian and cyclist one.
@@hackarma2072 that is true, it is a small step to right direction. Lets just hope the city council, representatives wasn't all too greased by corporate money and actually make change to the better.
What are you suggesting? Tearing down NYC and rebuilding it? 😂
@@TheLukasDirector literally no one suggested something even remotely close to what you just said, please take your meds
@@fakename287 Of course my statement was hyperbolic, but my point is that urban planning cannot fix the extremely spread out layout of most American cities (without "starting from scratch").
Didn't know this kind of thing had a name
I'm always thinking of ways to better my city and how to get people to take part 🤔
Awesome - go for it!
Seeing that guy with the motorized scooter made me think: cities really need to embrace PEVs, and put up signs that ask riders to be courteous, rather than tell them "No motorized vehicles!" Electric skateboards and EUCs have braking systems, and hence are safer in many ways (both to rider and bystander) than conventional push-to-go boards. It's only when people are reckless show-offs (as with anything) that such conveyances get dangerous. America should take a leaf out of Japan's book and ASK people to behave in a certain way, rather than ORDER them to.
Like when we’ve been asking people to mask up, socially distance, and get vaccinated? That may work in places where people are raised with a strong sense of community, but that doesn’t include *huge* swaths of the US, as has been demonstrated for the last year and a half.
@@Vessekx well you need to order people to do some things. Yo have to order people to have a seatbelt and order people not to hit stuff with their car...
Japanese people actually do it when asked. Americans don't. It has to do with culture and upbringing.
This makes sense if you live in a community that agrees and is amenable to it. It's certainly preferable to waiting for electeds and bureaucrats to do it and to do it efficiently, beautifully and at a decent cost, which govts are never good at. So how can we get out tax dollars back to pay for this instead? Oh yeah, that.
I agree...
2020 Tax Revenue
Out of the $3.42 trillion in revenue, income taxes, at $1.61 trillion, contributed almost half (47%). Income tax receipts were $203 billion lower than the $1.81 trillion budget estimates.
Payroll taxes, including Social Security and Medicare, contributed $1.31 trillion or 38%. Corporate taxes added $212 billion, contributing just 6%.
The remaining $289 billion in revenue comes from excise taxes ($87 billion), customs duties ($69 billion), estate taxes ($18 billion), and other miscellaneous sources ($117 billion).
SPENDING
The federal government spent $6.55 trillion in FY 2020. That's $1.76 trillion more than the $4.79 trillion budgeted. The CARES Act and three other stimulus measures were responsible for most of this increase.
Medicare ($924 billion)
Medicaid ($458 billion)
Education ($204 billion)
Agriculture ($184 billion)
Social security ($1,154 billion)
Treasury ($1,152 billion up from original budget of $701 billion)
Defense ($690 billion)
Housing and Urban development ($33 billion)
Intrest on debt ($526 billion)
LABOR ($478 billion up from $36 billion)
There are many more categories
I hope this is informative ✌
@@felixfungle-bung4688 There are only about 6 depts up there that I'd agree to keep, abolish the rest. No more dollars for research grants or college grants or the like.
Maybe all the infrastructure Joe biden is promising will fix these roads................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... I'm not gonna hold me breath on it.
@@uppityglivestockian That's just a sign of ignorance of how much our economy depends on gov't spending on things the market won't but that still keeps the country globally competitive. Research grants make us competitive in lucrative sectors. Same goes for education grants. We corner the market on talent because we invest in it. Inventions are patented and companies are founded here first b/c of our research and our talent pool. On top of that we don't actually spend much on these items. R&D amounts to about $120B and college grants total ~$30B. That's only 3% of 2019's federal budget. The problem isn't that we're spending too much, it's that we're taxing too little and letting people and corporations get away with tax evasion.
Ironically, it's the attitude that gov't isn't good at anything that leads to defunding and subsequently lousier gov't services. In countries that actually adequately fund their services and infrastructure, the gov't works just fine. This lack of faith in gov't is a downward spiral of corporatist propaganda plaguing English-speaking countries that bets on an ignorance of examples elsewhere in the world.
I support this. I agree with everything in video had to tell me about tactical urbanization. This is really good, great, something we need.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
In our "poor" countries, our government fixes the roads themselves.
Not india, mate
@@legitdoc9587 lmao too true
Okay thats just not true lol
Never seen such a strange combination of contradictions in such a small sentence.
They do here too. These people ruined their states by voting for people who suck..
This morning, this video was the first recommended by UA-cam. And I needed this. I feel included and not excluded. It's a mindset. It's a purpose. It's a change in thinking about things. These join us together as one humanity. I'm a simple stay-at-home stray cat mom. I'm from South Africa. But I am part of your community by the way we think and address things to serve others. I may not be anything great or glorious but serving is in my heart. Thank you for this video, because I felt so alone this morning. Have a wonderful day!
This sounds like more catchy social crap to try and avoid firing people not doing there job.
This is what happens when government becomes too far removed from the people being governed. I'm all for this and sending stronger messages to bloated and inefficient bureaucracies
There should be a tax rebate given to these fine citizens. If their tax dollars aren't working for them, they should get to keep some of it.
The down side is that if this becomes the norm, cities saying 'if you don't like it then you fix it' means that cities where people have less means will be at even more of a disadvantage than they already are.
Too bad my country is like 30 years away from even knowing what tactical urbanism is
You can always be the first :)
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Government is rarely the answer
The problem is too many people in government not living in at least close to the same community as its people. No integration.
I wondered where the bike lanes in Jersey City came from
it’s all fun until they get sued for inadequate construction
I hope they will, I dont want some "urbanist hippies" maket heir own DIY infrastructure that doesnt followe the code and standardization....on top of that they dont care about other people, only about themselves and their bike lines....
1 million percent YES! this needs to be the next thing that speeds globally. Love yourself, your neighbors, and make this world a more people friendly place, these problems aren't as difficult as bureaucrats force them to ne, just let people live god damnit!
Take a drink every time they say “ urban” 😂
Meanwhile the state:
"Are you kidding me? These guys are doing our job for free instead of forcing us to put their tax dollars to good use... Of course we're not going to stop them 😏"
Sad and embarrasing how the government cannot do all this correct! Amazing how civilians can! Thumps up for these people making the world a bettef and safer place for all!
This is badass. Please do more of this.
I wrote my senior thesis on bridging the gap between between formal bureaucratic structures and tactical urbanism (TU) actors, something popular online TU toolkits do not address. Through my findings i created a multi-pronged strategy for community members and TU actors to use to navigate through bureaucracy and successfully implement their projects. I am in the process of refining my research paper and hopefully can publish it online soon. Mike Lydon, the creator of a TY toolkit also acknowledged this gap when he liked a tweet of mine where I raised the issue. TU is such an exciting and galvanizing concept, giving agency back to those that matter, the community.
As someone who lives in ojai Ca I can confirm the bike lanes they added are a flop. They are not used and they block/congest traffic specifically during peak school hours. The part that makes no sense is that they took 2 lanes of a 4 lane road as the bike path when there was already a bike path next to the road and the new paths dont actually go anywhere. The construct is in the least busy part of the town.
Brought to us by Ford?
Yeah I was like where is the connection with a car manufacturer? How is this mutually beneficial
@@PostWarKids exactly.
@@PostWarKids Because it make Ford look hip and could tercukture by supporting #thepeople
This whole thing is a corporate scam. Notice how it started with a nice story about people living on a street buying spray paint and fixing the road by their house to prevent people getting killed.
And ended with paid consultant groups going to whatever area the city asks them to and! Wait for it drumroll! Painting rainbows and making bike lanes.
Of course Ford wants to put their finger in the process of improving HUMAN infrastructure.
Community with personal freedom and responsibility, instead of dependence on authority.
i have been watching this channel for a whilenow , and i am getting more optimistic about the future.
This is the BEST news I've heard of since I can remember. This is exactly what we need. Not to need permission to make our world better.
It's kind of amazing the power a dayglow safety vest and some confidence will give
We have to be involved with the changes we want to see! I volunteered in the past with projects were we wanted an improved areas for kids to play, trail maintenance, and other public spaces. The government will normally be involved and sometimes help with part of the cost, but we would also use private donations. Don’t wait for things to magically appear. Get out of the couch and seek for these groups around your area, we really need help.
This is a great argument for smaller government and lower taxes. Of the people, by the people, for the people. Love this.
I wish I would have had that support when I wanted to begin Urban Farming to reduce leafy greens cost.
The problem is simply that some people might think they improve certain streets, others might disagree and see it as a deterioration. For example if everything is too colorful, you don't understand the signs anymore. Or if you take too much space for something like cafe seeting, there might be less parking space and the residents are upset.
It needs to be done by intelligent people ..certainly not everyone.
sadly its mainly done by the loud "hardcore hippy urbanists extremists" who's only motto is "purge all cars from existence, i dont care if you have to drive to work, I bought only the house but i will also claim the street for myself like some ter***st"
Lol. "i dont want to pay more taxes, but i want better streets"
American brains at their finest
Americans are already having their wallets sucked dry by their own government, so I don't blame them. It's at a point where charging them anymore taxes would have an overall negative impact on the entire house of cards that is the American economy.
I wonder if there will ever be a day where my government will actually be for the people by the people, not just cowards that wait till the last possible second to step in
In 2021 urban vigilantes are painting crosswalks and bike lanes because the government is moving too slow. What a time to be alive
“Blind pedestrian” in the uk thats standard at EVERY crossing.
0:22 oh hell naw not the ravioli
The original idea behind Anarchy is that what ever system comes out of it will better suit the needs of the people than the current system of government. I think that's what you're seeing here. People taking charge and just doing what needs to be done, rather than waiting around.
I got goosebumps watching this! Awesome people and awesome idea!
Here in Germany, if something does not work, you are screwed. Only the city is allowed to do it, and you would get a fine and it would be removed.
I hope American government one day adopts more agile practices to move quicker for changing needs and optimizations. *sigh...
Never gonna happen as it always bureaucrats that want to have a day or even fellow voters that want to slow the process down.
"JC is the most densely populated large city behind NYC and San Fran" yeah okay buddy why don't you take a step back with your claims. Guttenberg is the densest but it's 3 blocks long so I agree let's maybe not count that. But even then your neighbors in Union City, West New York, and Hoboken are at the top of the list. In fact, JC is #28. Yeah, there's a ton of people, but you are making it seem way denser than it actually is.
City governments don't do enough so people take action
Anyone if this is happening in the UK?
Expand this to building our society as a whole. Profit motive is not really needed. We just need to have the conviction to work together towards something positive. This is the threat corporate America doesn't want. They don't want us to he independent like this.
@UCMc0vi_GNOAr-F3mqwvU17g I'm a commie and my ideological studies led me to this. Thomas Sankara did something like this in Burkina Faso. Go read about him, he's an amazing dude. Was assassinated for French interests. The left needs to go further left, towards cooperative behavior.
More and more proof of the failures of capitalism 😂
I like the we came up with the plan on a weekend and the state made it official in under a year
You mean to say that taking ownership over your town/city and making improvements yourself instead of relying on a overreaching government actually makes life better for everyone? Imagine that.
? The definition of government
We need this for bike pump tracks!!
This is cool but there's problems unforseen. There's a reason we have approved standards. What happens when a driver kills a pedestrian and blames it on sudden changes in traffic design. End of autonomous cars? Unless the AI was so good it could interpret the meaning of all markings.
Totally. Libertarianism would be so bad if it was somehow guaranteed that every citizen have a degree in engineering and studiously follow safety codes, which are there for a fucking reason.
Our current approved standards are getting people killed at a much higher rate than other countries like The Netherlands. Something needs to change.
Oh man, I can totally see Karen's and Boomers using this as a way of having a false sense of power. They destroy everything they touch. "A local woman smashes a BMW with a sledge hammer after she says she claimed the street infront of her property exclusively as hers due to "something urban tactics"
meanwile in Berlin: if you want to prevent tree pits to be plastered by dog poop which owners don't feel like picking up and dispose of properly and therefore improve tree pits by planting flowers etc the urban green space planning office will tear everything down if you haven't registered as a 'care taker' for this specific tree pit before hand...
On board with this until i saw the sponsorship from ford. They are the reason we are in this shitty car-centric dystopia in the first place. Grassroots movements must not be co-opted by the corporations who aim to stifle them, and control the conversation. This is like having Exxon mobile sponsoring recycling drives...
Did I recognize that first library box from Austin, TX?
In the 1/3 world they do the same . Visited a friend in Northern Africa and guys who found that the cars were passing too fast ...just get few bags of mortar and some iron bars and made his own speed bump . Problem solved ...except at night as they are not indicated . 😂
There was a man in Toronto who built a public staircase up a hill himself for around $550, and instead of making it up to code by adding a second railing they took it down and quoted $65,000 to install it themselves.
If love to help esep on rt9 in Bayville where I got hit by a car
We should do stuff like this in Malaysia
Great.. let's encourage every uppity Karen's to just go out and "change" things on their own. Most likely it will be for the worse.. but, Hey, If you want to bolt or put something heavy in the road.. go for it!
People need freedom and personal responsibility not more "planning".. especially activist "planning".
Truth.
Shove off
So for those asking where their taxes go, it’s to military industrial contractor corporations. The US military budget is bigger Than the next 7 nations COMBINED. And virtually none goes to veterans.
Local and state taxes (if there are any) go to the shortfall the federal government isn’t giving any more (see paragraph 1).
Tactical urbanism is unfortunate but it’s also absolutely practical. And doing it can challenge the status quo.
This is great and all but that clip of your man talking to a webpage on the phone busted me
The council acts as a guardian for spaces which no-one else has time for; initiatives such as this should absolutely be legal
Sounds a lot like move fast and break things. Who is going to be responsible when the tactical urbanists mess something up?
All of these urban areas have something in common........
Yesss I love to see this!!
The cross walk definitely need to be visible, that awful green is hard to see. Do something right or don't do it at all
The real issue is we pay taxes to do this and they don't get done because bloated bureaucracy means that thing get done inefficiently wasting time and money on meetings what don't make a decision. Also bike lanes absolutely suck when they take over lanes of an existing road. Traffic near my house is horrid ever since the city converted the 4 lane road in to a 2 lane road with bike lanes on both sides.
2:20 guy is actually not calling anyone
1:10 whats that song? I like it.
People taking the initiative is awesome, but the inability of a government, crippled by corporate capture, to solve problems is just dystopian.
Disgusting that we pay taxes to have this done and then we still have to make the infrastructure ourselves. Our taxes should go back into the community, not into fucking incentivizing corporations to move in.
Yet that guy who fixed the parking in front of his pizza restaurant had it removed by the city. Politicians are the worst.
2:20 why is on the phone with an article
I almost lost my mind when I saw Ojai in this vid
Roads are for cars not getting Infront of them is the pedestrians responsibility
car brain
I like the colorful paint used. The way it usually is sucks. More city signs need to be day glow green bc most drivers are rude and clueless!
Shocker the government does work. Take care of your community.
Just look at the streets and roads in the Netherlands/Europe forexample! We already have these safer streets/roads!
Those little libraries are stupid. People do know libraries are free, and have a much bigger selection.
This is cool
Our taxes go to other countries to improve them and make big companies bigger. Our roads are a mess because the road works hire out to do the jobs. Granite owns the roads they do all the work. The DOTS just pickup trash they need to get their repair jobs back.
Great idea 👍🏾😎
If It can save lives and doesn’t hurt people sounds good
Isn’t it annoying when you pay for someone to do a job, and you still end up doing yourself.. the only worry is the average muppet with a badly thought out possibly dangerous idea will implement it without really thinking about the outcome, it’s good to see the people in this video are intelligent people effectively doing the planning and implementation of a idea safely. The city seems to be taking a little credit for this process, but worry that if it went wrong, the city would just step back and place the blame squarely on them.
2:20
man be pretending to be on a phone. hahahahaha
Dear Ford: You know the whole point of this movement is to make cars unnecessary right?
If only we could do this with roads in PA
Freethink more like free advertisement
Freethink your content used to be great but now it's only propaganda by car lobbying, that's more than sad.
What a nice BGM. I like it..
Extremely ironic that a video about improving cities and tactical urbanism is sponsored by Ford. The path to improving cities is cycling, public transportation, walking and removing cars from our cities.
Way forward 👍
Omg I found one of those library nooks while I was out exploring the other day! It made me cry
Ok I'm all for adding crosswalks and making things safer but forcing bike lanes onto the road is i think very inconsiderate, well i don't know the statistics but I'm sure that I'm most places there's more people driving than riding a bike. My city government has turned a four lane street into a two lane because they wanted to add a bike route which no one ever uses, now it's much more of a headache to go through there and to make it worse when you turn to look to the side you see this long empty bike lane. So this is mostly good.
Retake public spaces from car traffic? I love it!