well... Now truth about Tallinn: apparently RailBaltic was a economically unviable project created by the Baltic states to get funds out of the EU. The project is now dead. Now free public transport situation got some quirks as well: After getting independence the population in Estonia shrinked badly. Many people from smaller towns have moved to Tallinn in search for work and way out of poverty. However, according to local tax law all income taxes paid by the employer are going to the community where employee are registered to (back to his home town) even if the actual work has been done in the capital city, Tallinn. So the Tallinn local government introduced a free public transport to the people living in Tallinn as long as they register themselves in Tallinn. You see this is actually a legal scheme to transfer tax flow into capital city instead smaller local communities, and now Estonians are in the situation where there is no life other than in capital city.
@@Brendissimo1 Yes, but it has nowhere to go. Staten island us just made up of brick apartments and houses which I guess the island is bigger but well I never thought an island like that would have so many.
just as Malta (which is literally a city): the virus attacked obviously the real estate bubble, too."For sale" and "for rent" signs started popping up like mushrooms within the last month... at least something good about the whole thing, as housing and rental prices had become pure speculation
@@Forlfir every history rotate & revolute in the same rotation & revolution, all human race will find new opportunity (harsh word : colony), as the same as the european people conquered, and produce money from oriental and african society back then.
I was so thrilled to see my city (Tallinn) on this channel! The only note is that Rail Baltica will not be completed by 2026: even before Covid-19 situation, the project saw multiple issues with governance, administration, budget allocation and lack of private investments. I doubt it will be ever completed according to the original proposal. But regardless, amazing video, thank you!
You live in a really pretty city. I visited Tallinn in last year's summer and was really impressed by the old town and some of the more modern parts of the city. Definitely not what you expect from an former soviet city.
Original construction of most sustainable mass transit never came from private investment. In fact, in the US private investment on mass transit all ended in bankruptcy. Mass transit requires to large economy of scale to rely on private money. Needs to be public money. Or you don't get anything what's needed, and it whatever is built won't last near as long as the former mass transit system. Similar to affordable and good quality housing all around the world, was a share of private and public money. Public money built the roads, utilities, and hookups to those utilities and required those expenses not to be added to the contract expense of the buildings that were mixed privately publicly constructed and owned. Too much reliance on private investment gives similar bad results as too much reliance on public investment. There's a mix that's required; public investment provides the economy of scale to get what's needed, private finance allows flexibility in the details of construction and variation in what is constructed to meet what people want along with public what people need. Some people want something, but can't afford it, so they may go without just the simple needs. That's the challenge to bridge.
As an expert in city Planning i would recomend. Making the roads out of water so potholes would heal themself. And People always had something to drink!.
Malé is one of the cities I've been most interested in. A tiny city island that is fully built up. Hope B1M can cover topics about that city more and suggest some improvements. Btw I'm not even from Malé or Maldives and never been there but yeah ✌️
I’m from Maldives and I live in Male’. It’s kinda challenging to live in Male’ because the city was not planned and there is no space. I really like Hulhumale’ and thinking of moving there soon because that city is cleaner and the city was planned.
as someone who lives in malé I can tell you it isnt that great. its congested and native maléans who owns the majority of the land and buildings charge extortionate amount of rent
I'm from Male' and can tell you that the biggest problems facing the city come from natural progression, several "old" cities around the world were never planned and were just built upon old buildings, and density rising to a tipping point until a planned city was built. Older districts of the large cities are now the slums of the grand city, but the planned ones flourish. The thing in Male' is, it was relatively overpopulated since the 1700s and land reclamation and expansion project went underway during the second half of the 21st century, but the city's population sky-rocketed during the 90s and early 2000s, not giving time for the city to cope, and now, I don't care which sides you support in the political game, but people with little or no education is in power, people with personal agendas, the corrupt, and people who haven't suffered so they have no love for the nation, constantly tearing down anything that the previous government left, good or bad, changing rules, even with city plans in Hulumale' to anyone who'd give them money, and there is no question that this will continue for generations to come, this is a problem faced by all third world countries. This political trend of tearing down or deliberately mismanaging what was left by the previous government is happening everywhere as if leaving them is a reminder of something that they did right. An excellent example of this is Obamacare in the United States. The Trump Administration tore down an extremely helpful and only universal healthcare system in the U.S. and now, anyone who isn't rich can't pay for major treatments, important treatment, life-threatening treatments.
You know, it makes me kind of sad that the Maldives isn't even on most world maps. I really do appreciate that you acknowledged the scary problems we're facing these days.
It’s Interesting how the Island of Malé has evolved. There has been some very unique looking buildings and inspirations from around the world. Also an interesting fact that every building/house has its own name rather then a numbering system based on the street.
I live in Frisco and I never expected my city to be mentioned on this channel. A quick note about the “aesthetic integrity” of Frisco. The Texas state legislature recently passed a law stating that municipal building codes cannot be stricter than the state building code. Needless to say Jeff Cheney (the mayor of Frisco) was displeased with the new law.
Cork (population: 210,000) is Irelands second largest city and its city centre was built on a marsh. It is said that it will be the worst hit Irish city by sea-levels rising. A tidal barrier is proposed though with strong opposition.
@@juliusnigelmarturillas3629 Ireland has a population of 5 m 200,000 people is a lot to Ireland. And Remember, Ireland is a small Island anyway so Evey bit of space is needed.
@@juliusnigelmarturillas3629 but the WHOLE of Ireland is small. You dont want it going like the uk, with hardly any wildlife left. Space is better than no space.
I think this is my favourite youtube channel even though my life has nothing to do with construction, always such an interesting content! And what a nice surprise to see my hometown Tallinn featured as well! I really hope the rail baltic project will be completed despite the many set backs it has had considering funding and public approval, but I think it would revolutionize the way of travel between the Baltic states and really connect the Baltics to the rest of Europe. Thank you for this and all the other videos!
Please do a video on urban sprawl growth that’s occurring in Melbourne, as the city sprawls outwards, what are the side effects of such growth and positives
@@KanyeTheGayFish69 That's a false assumption. In many cities in the US for instance, the sprawl is so extreme that you have to travel far to get out of the city and to actual nature. Trees on your lawn is not nature. Compare this to a city like Hong Kong - incredibly dense, but with huge amounts of nature left completely untouched and easily accessible for everyone.
Tallinn's tram system has very much been upgraded in the last 5-10 years, with modern trams and new infrastrucure. Also it's very convenient nowadays to get from downtown to airport with a tram.
Fred Mills and crew have developed a treasure of a channel... Congratulations to them. About this video and others that talk about growing cities and towns-----i always wonder how water is going to dealt with. Many of the places are using ground water. The aquifers are being sucked dry in many places badly depleting river flows etc. And places that use lakes, etc, are going to eventually have to face up to the fact that there is a limit to the amount of water that can be withdrawn from their sources. I think of the huge rivers worth of water being sucked up by, say New York and Boston. They have incredibly good water because of their prescient planning back in the 19th century, but the day of limitations come sooner or later.
It is especially striking that these projects, so far at least, seem successful despite the challenges they face. Not every city is as lucky, with some undertaking projects that turn out to be way above their heads.
I grew up in a city of 150,000 inhabitants; Like in most cities available space is quite an issue, but apart from some few apartment towers in poorer areas, there are no high-rise buildings at all. A recent trend to gain space is the use of former industrial areas. Thus e.g. the rail yard, which was close to the Central Station in the greater downtown area until some years ago, has now become a mixed housing and business district, while the rail yard was moved to the outskirts of the city, close to one of the highways. Still, especially cheap living space is hard to find, especially for the ten-thousands of students at the universities
Personally, I'm not a fan of how overused brick is, and how modern the designs are. The brick seems to be struggling to give these buildings a cozy look, but that's hard to accomplish with all these harsh long lines and looming forms.
Would be great to hear about significant problems capital cities in three Balkan nations (Bosnia-H. N.Macedonia, Albania) are facing (Sarajevo, Skopje, Tirana: population cca 400.000 to +500.000): pollution in winter months worse than in most Chinese cities (Sarajevo, Skopje), traffic jams similar to much larger cities (specially in Tirana, but Sarajevo and Skopje are also bad), crumbling public infrastrure (trams in Sarajevo are 50 years old) and new development projects with poor urban planning due to corruption and bad management. Progress is evident in all three cities, but problems these cities face are not something you would expect in European countries. And yes, ethnic division within urban areas of Sarajevo and Skopje and creation of neighburhoods for lower and upper classes in Tirana which sounds like something you find in Latin America and not in Europe.
I live only a few miles from Frisco, and I can personally confirm that the city has seen a massive transformation in the last decade. The entire area has. its gone from rolling farmland to beautiful homes for the rich and upper middle class in less than 10 years.
I'm a huge fan of this channel and a civil engineering student from Tallinn. Although everything you said in this video is correct, I'd like to point out that our city government still has their ideals from the era the tram network was constructed. Firstly all of our transport agency's focus is on improving car infrastructure, with Tallinn city government being the ONLY town in the entire country not to construct a pedestrian central street/square for Estonia's 100th birthday. Currently our main streets all are 6-lane traffic filled avenues and a lot of heavy traffic still flowing through the city centre and the main street like in the soviet times. Free public transport is great but not much use as the bus/trolley/train lines (+trams as mentioned) are from the soviet era and largely outdated. I've seen here locally at least studies that show that sometimes car journies have even increased since the introduction of public transport. Also regarding the "low" CO2 emissions, as a local I know this can't be true. I've been around a lot of European capitals and Tallinn is in no way better, especially when most of the paths people move on are on the large, wide avenues. The CO2 emissions counters are usually placed somewhere that is not near any high traffic (in the middle of the park or on a quiet residental street). Since Tallinn is not a dense city, the overall emissions don't add up.
I’m curious what’s the population difference between small city and big town? What is the definition difference between town and city? Didn’t study this stuff in college so please don’t be mad at me for not knowing that stuff
I'm not an expert either, but I did a bit of digging and I found that a big town is approximately 10,000 to 100,000 people, while a small city has a population of 100,000 to about 300,000. 🙂
in the UK a city isn't defined by it's population necessarily. A area that has a cathedral as well huge cultural influence will frequently be defined as a city, which is why Oxford is one, despite its low population.
Really nice video! Great to see some cities that don't get much coverage. I really like to see how some companies work to overcome these problems with different software - I hadn't considered using vectorworks. Keep it up!
Notification= lockdown to my screen, when it is from the B1M. Thank you for another awesome video. If you enjoyed this video and would like to get more from the definitive video channel for construction, subscribe to the B1M!
Actually in Tallinn the tramnetwork is mostly been upgraded already. We have new fancy trams and new tramrails and we got a new tramline that goes straight to the airport and the city wants to open many more new tramlines. Id say the info is aged in this video. Our new tram network is really nice and modern. Intresting video though. Nice to see my country being mention somewhere.
Two things about Tallinn.... 1) The free public transit is seen pretty much as a failure by everyone except the politicians. and 2) The tram network/line structure itself is old but the infrastructure has been renovated/upgraded in the past few years. But the network really needs to grow, like they have managed to build around a mile of new track over the past 50 or so year. :)
It sort of is, (No offense lol) since it’s part of the metro. It’s becoming one of DFW’s sub-cities like Las Colinas and Addison, which I think is cool.
I'm just imagining this guy turns up to an interview to talk about his exciting recent/ongoing project and the interviewer's like 'so today we'll be talking about Vectorworks and how you used it'
Well done, as usual! I am curious if any of these smaller cities that get to the point where it makes sense to consider a rail system will consider alternative options, specifically personal rapid transit systems. There's been discussion about these for decades but very few have actually been created, and usually, they have been for areas like airports and college campuses, not actual cities.
About Tallinn: It's not exactly "ageing" tram system. Pretty much all tracks have been replaced in the last 5 or so years and is generally in excellent condition. There are still some older trams, but they usually in good condition and modernised. So I can say pretty proud of our system.
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Thank you so much!!
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well... Now truth about Tallinn: apparently RailBaltic was a economically unviable project created by the Baltic states to get funds out of the EU. The project is now dead.
Now free public transport situation got some quirks as well: After getting independence the population in Estonia shrinked badly. Many people from smaller towns have moved to Tallinn in search for work and way out of poverty. However, according to local tax law all income taxes paid by the employer are going to the community where employee are registered to (back to his home town) even if the actual work has been done in the capital city, Tallinn. So the Tallinn local government introduced a free public transport to the people living in Tallinn as long as they register themselves in Tallinn. You see this is actually a legal scheme to transfer tax flow into capital city instead smaller local communities, and now Estonians are in the situation where there is no life other than in capital city.
Male looks surreal, I wouldn't have thought it was even possible to have that many people living on an island that size.
It's like a cities skylines city lol
@@Forlfir Thats exactly what I thought too lmao
Ever saw New York?
@@SquidCena New York has massive sprawl though. It's not just Manhattan in terms of density.
@@Brendissimo1 Yes, but it has nowhere to go. Staten island us just made up of brick apartments and houses which I guess the island is bigger but well I never thought an island like that would have so many.
lol his voice calms me for some reason just “These cities are undergoing some serious challenges “
just as Malta (which is literally a city): the virus attacked obviously the real estate bubble, too."For sale" and "for rent" signs started popping up like mushrooms within the last month... at least something good about the whole thing, as housing and rental prices had become pure speculation
@@maltastorytime2551 until the Chinese/Russian/Arabs come and buy everything ;)
EPIC
I have manlove for that voice
@@Forlfir every history rotate & revolute in the same rotation & revolution, all human race will find new opportunity (harsh word : colony), as the same as the european people conquered, and produce money from oriental and african society back then.
I was so thrilled to see my city (Tallinn) on this channel! The only note is that Rail Baltica will not be completed by 2026: even before Covid-19 situation, the project saw multiple issues with governance, administration, budget allocation and lack of private investments. I doubt it will be ever completed according to the original proposal. But regardless, amazing video, thank you!
Kirill Boldyrev Estonia. I will visit one day my friend
You live in a really pretty city. I visited Tallinn in last year's summer and was really impressed by the old town and some of the more modern parts of the city. Definitely not what you expect from an former soviet city.
Original construction of most sustainable mass transit never came from private investment. In fact, in the US private investment on mass transit all ended in bankruptcy. Mass transit requires to large economy of scale to rely on private money. Needs to be public money. Or you don't get anything what's needed, and it whatever is built won't last near as long as the former mass transit system.
Similar to affordable and good quality housing all around the world, was a share of private and public money. Public money built the roads, utilities, and hookups to those utilities and required those expenses not to be added to the contract expense of the buildings that were mixed privately publicly constructed and owned.
Too much reliance on private investment gives similar bad results as too much reliance on public investment. There's a mix that's required; public investment provides the economy of scale to get what's needed, private finance allows flexibility in the details of construction and variation in what is constructed to meet what people want along with public what people need.
Some people want something, but can't afford it, so they may go without just the simple needs.
That's the challenge to bridge.
You're lucky to live in such a beautiful mediaeval yet modern city. It's my dream to visit Tallin some day.
Ayy estonian bro!!
If I didn't know English, I would still watch all the B1M videos just for the amazing visuals
And the body
@@adamshaheedh ya, that too
Those are mostly videos and images you can easily find in Google just by typing city name.
I understand English but I don't really listen. I like watching the images 🌚
@UCTXV1OEFde8rUtzWdmt8-tQ He didn't say he doesn't understand English, he said "if" he didn't understand...
2 seconds into the video and we are off to the comments section to see what the experts are thinking...
As an expert in city Planning i would recomend. Making the roads out of water so potholes would heal themself. And People always had something to drink!.
@@sillygoose18282 Wow that's ingenious!
@@sillygoose18282 so venice?
Ha Ha Ha! 🤣
@@dixhnsixj8254 yes
“ to encourage social interaction”
Edward Bagshaw That aged well 😂
I was like "oh hell no"
Lol that something that I don’t want to hear right now
Trump: what?😡
Corona has entered the chat
Malé: 1 meter above sea level
Hulhumalé with 2 meters of elevation: "Bow, peasant"
Yeah sounded very impressive, the local playground has a man-made hill with a slide which is higher.
Tallinn, one of my favourite cities that I've visited.
Snap! Truly great place and everyone is so friendly.
And its the silicon valley of eastern europe and the baltics.
Great city. One of the best preserved medieval old town centres in Europe.
Go to Vienna
@@vitalii9125 I've been there too. Lovely city
Malé is one of the cities I've been most interested in. A tiny city island that is fully built up. Hope B1M can cover topics about that city more and suggest some improvements. Btw I'm not even from Malé or Maldives and never been there but yeah ✌️
I’m from Maldives and I live in Male’. It’s kinda challenging to live in Male’ because the city was not planned and there is no space. I really like Hulhumale’ and thinking of moving there soon because that city is cleaner and the city was planned.
Oh Asis got help from many countries like Japan. About 3 islands were flooded and they were transferred to another island
Oh Asis we don’t really get those
as someone who lives in malé I can tell you it isnt that great. its congested and native maléans who owns the majority of the land and buildings charge extortionate amount of rent
I'm from Male' and can tell you that the biggest problems facing the city come from natural progression, several "old" cities around the world were never planned and were just built upon old buildings, and density rising to a tipping point until a planned city was built. Older districts of the large cities are now the slums of the grand city, but the planned ones flourish. The thing in Male' is, it was relatively overpopulated since the 1700s and land reclamation and expansion project went underway during the second half of the 21st century, but the city's population sky-rocketed during the 90s and early 2000s, not giving time for the city to cope, and now, I don't care which sides you support in the political game, but people with little or no education is in power, people with personal agendas, the corrupt, and people who haven't suffered so they have no love for the nation, constantly tearing down anything that the previous government left, good or bad, changing rules, even with city plans in Hulumale' to anyone who'd give them money, and there is no question that this will continue for generations to come, this is a problem faced by all third world countries. This political trend of tearing down or deliberately mismanaging what was left by the previous government is happening everywhere as if leaving them is a reminder of something that they did right. An excellent example of this is Obamacare in the United States. The Trump Administration tore down an extremely helpful and only universal healthcare system in the U.S. and now, anyone who isn't rich can't pay for major treatments, important treatment, life-threatening treatments.
I had no idea the Maldives were that heavily developed.
Thank you for the new video.
Bravo, B1M!!
The Maldives is beautiful.
I travel to a lot of place during this crisis time with B1M. 🥰
B1M needs to upgrade to VR
You know, it makes me kind of sad that the Maldives isn't even on most world maps. I really do appreciate that you acknowledged the scary problems we're facing these days.
Don't you miss nature of you live in the capital?
@@kanaler5924 I still visit my hometown/island every year if I can. It's pretty refreshing to say the least
@@faimashuni9567 I can feel that!Floating city blocks could expand male in the future and house some large parks hopefully
The B1M is the my favourite you tube channel
It’s Interesting how the Island of Malé has evolved. There has been some very unique looking buildings and inspirations from around the world. Also an interesting fact that every building/house has its own name rather then a numbering system based on the street.
In these trouble times, B1M still brings hope and architecture💯😭😊
I live in Frisco and I never expected my city to be mentioned on this channel. A quick note about the “aesthetic integrity” of Frisco. The Texas state legislature recently passed a law stating that municipal building codes cannot be stricter than the state building code. Needless to say Jeff Cheney (the mayor of Frisco) was displeased with the new law.
So close to 1 million subscribers. 👏
Cork (population: 210,000) is Irelands second largest city and its city centre was built on a marsh. It is said that it will be the worst hit Irish city by sea-levels rising. A tidal barrier is proposed though with strong opposition.
Why the opposition?
@@RenegadeShepard69 it would cost millions to run and wouldn't prevent fluvial flooding. The other solution are ugly walls on the city quays.
@@juliusnigelmarturillas3629 Ireland has a population of 5 m 200,000 people is a lot to Ireland. And Remember, Ireland is a small Island anyway so Evey bit of space is needed.
J Nigel Don’t be stupid, you can’t forcibly move 200,000 people from there homes and disregard a historically important and beautiful city
@@juliusnigelmarturillas3629 but the WHOLE of Ireland is small. You dont want it going like the uk, with hardly any wildlife left. Space is better than no space.
Awesome ad integration in the video! Hadn't seen that before
I think this is my favourite youtube channel even though my life has nothing to do with construction, always such an interesting content! And what a nice surprise to see my hometown Tallinn featured as well! I really hope the rail baltic project will be completed despite the many set backs it has had considering funding and public approval, but I think it would revolutionize the way of travel between the Baltic states and really connect the Baltics to the rest of Europe. Thank you for this and all the other videos!
Please do a video on urban sprawl growth that’s occurring in Melbourne, as the city sprawls outwards,
what are the side effects of such growth and positives
Sorry chief, there ain't much positive to say about sprawl.
We'll definitely look into it. We did touch on the good / bad of sprawl in this video - ua-cam.com/video/bqlxnyYmfmI/v-deo.html
That being said, a video on urban sprawl would be interesting for sure.
Ostpuff people have more space and better access to nature. There’s plenty of positives to sprawl
@@KanyeTheGayFish69 That's a false assumption. In many cities in the US for instance, the sprawl is so extreme that you have to travel far to get out of the city and to actual nature. Trees on your lawn is not nature.
Compare this to a city like Hong Kong - incredibly dense, but with huge amounts of nature left completely untouched and easily accessible for everyone.
Tallinn's tram system has very much been upgraded in the last 5-10 years, with modern trams and new infrastrucure. Also it's very convenient nowadays to get from downtown to airport with a tram.
Fred Mills and crew have developed a treasure of a channel... Congratulations to them. About this video and others that talk about growing cities and towns-----i always wonder how water is going to dealt with. Many of the places are using ground water. The aquifers are being sucked dry in many places badly depleting river flows etc. And places that use lakes, etc, are going to eventually have to face up to the fact that there is a limit to the amount of water that can be withdrawn from their sources. I think of the huge rivers worth of water being sucked up by, say New York and Boston. They have incredibly good water because of their prescient planning back in the 19th century, but the day of limitations come sooner or later.
"With it's 2 meter elevation, Hulhumalé is prepared to battle rising sea levels"
I don't know why i laughed at that.
Well compared to most talk elsewhere that didn't seem to be on the same level. But as long as they won't get storms they should be fine.
It is especially striking that these projects, so far at least, seem successful despite the challenges they face. Not every city is as lucky, with some undertaking projects that turn out to be way above their heads.
I’m a simple man. I see The B1M - I like it, then I watch it
1 million subscribers! We did it! Congrats B1M! 👍
Make more videos in this period please
We're doing our best
💜💜💜💜💜
I grew up in a city of 150,000 inhabitants; Like in most cities available space is quite an issue, but apart from some few apartment towers in poorer areas, there are no high-rise buildings at all. A recent trend to gain space is the use of former industrial areas. Thus e.g. the rail yard, which was close to the Central Station in the greater downtown area until some years ago, has now become a mixed housing and business district, while the rail yard was moved to the outskirts of the city, close to one of the highways. Still, especially cheap living space is hard to find, especially for the ten-thousands of students at the universities
AHHHH!!! Porto city is in this video 🇵🇹
Personally, I'm not a fan of how overused brick is, and how modern the designs are. The brick seems to be struggling to give these buildings a cozy look, but that's hard to accomplish with all these harsh long lines and looming forms.
It’s videos like this that give me faith in humanity, and remind me WHY I love B1M
The B1M is the best of you tube
Thank you!! ✊
@@TheB1M than you bro and love you bro
@@bibekdas5595 No homo?
Tallinn is such a nice City, I visited January
Lovely video once again. I can't wait to see B1M hitting 1M subscribers soon.
Would be great to hear about significant problems capital cities in three Balkan nations (Bosnia-H. N.Macedonia, Albania) are facing (Sarajevo, Skopje, Tirana: population cca 400.000 to +500.000): pollution in winter months worse than in most Chinese cities (Sarajevo, Skopje), traffic jams similar to much larger cities (specially in Tirana, but Sarajevo and Skopje are also bad), crumbling public infrastrure (trams in Sarajevo are 50 years old) and new development projects with poor urban planning due to corruption and bad management. Progress is evident in all three cities, but problems these cities face are not something you would expect in European countries. And yes, ethnic division within urban areas of Sarajevo and Skopje and creation of neighburhoods for lower and upper classes in Tirana which sounds like something you find in Latin America and not in Europe.
I hear its a blast to strole off the beaten path and into a mine field
@@Jdalio5 What?! Sarajevo is not a mine field anymore.
Cool video these cities are always underrepresented
Can you do another small cities video?
Happy to see my home town of Frisco in this list! Best place to live in America!
Wow, so cool to see my own country in your video! Greetings from Estonia❤🇪🇪
Now THAT is how you incorporate a sponsored promotion. Seamlessly.
B1M's videos give me hope for the future.
I live only a few miles from Frisco, and I can personally confirm that the city has seen a massive transformation in the last decade. The entire area has. its gone from rolling farmland to beautiful homes for the rich and upper middle class in less than 10 years.
Why do I always feel inspired after the B1M videos?
I'm a huge fan of this channel and a civil engineering student from Tallinn. Although everything you said in this video is correct, I'd like to point out that our city government still has their ideals from the era the tram network was constructed. Firstly all of our transport agency's focus is on improving car infrastructure, with Tallinn city government being the ONLY town in the entire country not to construct a pedestrian central street/square for Estonia's 100th birthday. Currently our main streets all are 6-lane traffic filled avenues and a lot of heavy traffic still flowing through the city centre and the main street like in the soviet times. Free public transport is great but not much use as the bus/trolley/train lines (+trams as mentioned) are from the soviet era and largely outdated. I've seen here locally at least studies that show that sometimes car journies have even increased since the introduction of public transport.
Also regarding the "low" CO2 emissions, as a local I know this can't be true. I've been around a lot of European capitals and Tallinn is in no way better, especially when most of the paths people move on are on the large, wide avenues. The CO2 emissions counters are usually placed somewhere that is not near any high traffic (in the middle of the park or on a quiet residental street). Since Tallinn is not a dense city, the overall emissions don't add up.
Thank you B1M for this beautiful content.! This really helps to console myself during this quarantine days by watching your videos.
Aw I was really hoping Portsmouth could be featured in the video, the uni of Portsmouth is regenerating the city centre and it’s going well so far
I’m curious what’s the population difference between small city and big town?
What is the definition difference between town and city?
Didn’t study this stuff in college so please don’t be mad at me for not knowing that stuff
I'm not an expert either, but I did a bit of digging and I found that a big town is approximately 10,000 to 100,000 people, while a small city has a population of 100,000 to about 300,000. 🙂
in the UK a city isn't defined by it's population necessarily. A area that has a cathedral as well huge cultural influence will frequently be defined as a city, which is why Oxford is one, despite its low population.
I like all your videos because it has amazing voice, high quality and clear information thank you 1 billion times
I like the look they went for in Frisco, a lot better than just a bunch of hypermodern blocks that nobody want to look at in 20 years
Nice video good seeing an international youtuber talking about my small home country Estonia's capital Tallinn
International?
Really nice video! Great to see some cities that don't get much coverage. I really like to see how some companies work to overcome these problems with different software - I hadn't considered using vectorworks.
Keep it up!
Notification= lockdown to my screen, when it is from the B1M. Thank you for another awesome video.
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Would love a video on the proposed Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel, and how that might connect to the ongoing Rail Baltica project :)
I love watching these videos while eating... Btw Congrats for almost reaching a million
Crazy how much you guys have grown !! Still remembering seeing the channel at 51k subs to now nearly 1mil incredible and well deserved guys 💯💯🔥
Best news of the week when there is another B1M episode, i love this channel!!!
It's nice to wake up to a new the B1M video
Hobart, Australia is a good example of a small city with big issues, especially traffic
Just watched the full video and scroll through comments like an engineer
Can't wait to see this chanal subs hit to 1 million
I live in Nottingham the last city in your video it an amazing place and the collage you showed I normally past everyday on the tram
Actually in Tallinn the tramnetwork is mostly been upgraded already. We have new fancy trams and new tramrails and we got a new tramline that goes straight to the airport and the city wants to open many more new tramlines. Id say the info is aged in this video. Our new tram network is really nice and modern. Intresting video though. Nice to see my country being mention somewhere.
Love Tallinn from Helsinki 🇪🇪🙋♂️
Tallinn is one of my favourite cities that I've visited. I remember using the airport tram when I visited around 2 years ago. 🇮🇪🇪🇪
Two things about Tallinn.... 1) The free public transit is seen pretty much as a failure by everyone except the politicians. and 2) The tram network/line structure itself is old but the infrastructure has been renovated/upgraded in the past few years. But the network really needs to grow, like they have managed to build around a mile of new track over the past 50 or so year. :)
Frisco is where I work! I’ve always thought it was a posh suburb.
It sort of is, (No offense lol) since it’s part of the metro. It’s becoming one of DFW’s sub-cities like Las Colinas and Addison, which I think is cool.
Great inclusion of sources in the video. Makes for a great viewing experience as well as adding perspective!
When you are ready for a B1M United States Co-host give me a ring.
Love your work!
Love your channel your voice along with visuals is perfect
b1m is so close to 1 million subs
Well this is the most informative video ever to me
The B1M.....👌🏼
I haven’t words.
Do one on the mercury city centre and the MIBC
Congrats on 1 Mill!!!
Every new video notification is like Christmas ! Really awesome content as always!
Top quallity content, Loved it !!!
congratulations on 1 million subscribers
With two being in England, it goes to show just how densely populated it is.
I'm just imagining this guy turns up to an interview to talk about his exciting recent/ongoing project and the interviewer's like 'so today we'll be talking about Vectorworks and how you used it'
Well done, as usual!
I am curious if any of these smaller cities that get to the point where it makes sense to consider a rail system will consider alternative options, specifically personal rapid transit systems. There's been discussion about these for decades but very few have actually been created, and usually, they have been for areas like airports and college campuses, not actual cities.
Yess Tallinn! My home town.
Congratulations on 1M subscribers mate!!!! 👍🍻
i would love to see a dedicated video to each "Small Cities"
Congratulations to 1 million subscribers. Well deserved
Would have really loved to see you feature more cities outside Europe
Another well narrated informative video!
WOW its like the small town i live there's evry year 4 new buildings cumming up and its cool to see the change for town to little city
Amazing video. Enjoyed every bit of it. Thank you!
Nice video mate 👍
Another amazing video! So awesome to see nottingham in one of your videos! Great work 👌
You should do more of these it is much more interesting to see more cities
amazing video dude
You guys are doing a great job and congratulations on hitting 1M subscribers now please upgrade the content quality to 4k 60.
This video made me feel like I live in tiny city... (Only around 30 000 inhabitants)
You should have referred to monaco too.it is building on the sea because they don't have much land.
Yes! We do have a separate video on that
I wish that my hometown could attract this kind of business and meet the same challenges.
Greetings from Maldives 🇲🇻
Nice video bro
About Tallinn: It's not exactly "ageing" tram system. Pretty much all tracks have been replaced in the last 5 or so years and is generally in excellent condition. There are still some older trams, but they usually in good condition and modernised. So I can say pretty proud of our system.