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Former Chief Urban Designer of The City of New York Alexandros Washburn joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about city planning. How does the New York City Subway compare to others worldwide? What are the pros and cons of rent control initiatives? Which city can lay claim to being “smartest” in the world?…

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Former Chief Urban Designer of The City of New York Alexandros Washburn joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about city planning. How does the New York City Subway compare to others worldwide? What are the pros and cons of rent control initiatives? Which city can lay claim to being “smartest” in the world? Or has the best airport? What challenges will the urban designers of tomorrow need to meet? Alexandros Washburn answers these questions and many more on City Planning Support.

0:00 Urban Planning Support
0:15 Safer bike lanes
0:37 How does the NYC Subway compare to others worldwide?
1:26 The pros and cons of rent control policy
2:33 Sorry, Boston drivers
2:56 Green Singapore
3:43 …featuring the best airport in the world
4:29 P A R I S
5:09 Smart cities
5:39 Car go vroom
6:24 Converting empty offices into housing
7:30 The challenges facing urban planners of tomorrow
8:17 Library Late Nites
8:50 Why pay tolls?
9:49 How to survive summer Dubai heat
10:49 “Fixing” Los Angeles traffic?

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172 Comments

  1. @sunshineyellow

    August 27, 2024 at 7:19 pm

    Traffic in LA is bad but people who are visiting encounter more of it than people who live there.

  2. @FunnyJunk4U

    August 27, 2024 at 7:23 pm

    I admire this guy so much it’s unreal

  3. @penetrator66

    August 27, 2024 at 7:23 pm

    You can’t open a window in office buildings ,because they don’t want you to be able to commit suicide there….

  4. @yo_adrian_

    August 27, 2024 at 7:28 pm

    Boston’s infrastructure is really just awful and I really don’t see a fix any time soon.

  5. @stuvius

    August 27, 2024 at 7:30 pm

    Why was this only two minutes long? 🤨

  6. @MyceliumMan17

    August 27, 2024 at 7:31 pm

    Wow, those were all very intelligent answers, no matter how short or simple the question might have been.

  7. @yaksha2

    August 27, 2024 at 7:33 pm

    Bring him back immediately. We love hot smart people talking about something vitally important to public life.

  8. @Faqiens

    August 27, 2024 at 7:38 pm

    Next Architect PLEASE!!!

  9. @oh...hi.

    August 27, 2024 at 7:40 pm

    Bring him back for a longer episode

  10. @azielbaez2764

    August 27, 2024 at 7:44 pm

    Easily my fav one so far, all his answers gave me so much comfort

  11. @spexon7311

    August 27, 2024 at 7:57 pm

    Adding this comment for the algorithm- Loved this content, but definitely need more.

  12. @tjt5055

    August 27, 2024 at 7:58 pm

    One item not mentioned in his answer regarding rent control is that in many places that have it, most notably Stockholm, Sweden, most rent control apartment never leave the hands of the family that lives in them, and usually the people who have them are smart, opportunistic people, and higher earners.

    So you end up mostly subsidizing housing for the well off, while constricting supply elsewhere and driving prices up for everyone else.

  13. @mouthpiece806

    August 27, 2024 at 8:08 pm

    rent controls working in certain societies is not because those certain societies are “homogeneous”! yikes!

  14. @Rhapsolin

    August 27, 2024 at 8:20 pm

    this dude gives me hope. only some tho

  15. @jdbates1197

    August 27, 2024 at 8:28 pm

    My dad was right ”its not the heat its the humidity”.

  16. @teambraining-un8wp

    August 27, 2024 at 8:32 pm

    B-b-but we have pandemic to maintain NYC subway🥹🥹🥹

  17. @grimreaper5711

    August 27, 2024 at 8:32 pm

    More of this guy please

  18. @buckets6629

    August 27, 2024 at 8:37 pm

    we need a part two!

  19. @teambraining-un8wp

    August 27, 2024 at 8:39 pm

    Wall-E, Optimus, Cyborg are the solution for population decline

  20. @mattmarlo5853

    August 27, 2024 at 8:47 pm

    “Rent control works in homogenous societies” Ah yes the classic right wing talking point that the USA can’t do European social democracy because there’s too many black people here

  21. @its_vkj

    August 27, 2024 at 8:55 pm

    One of the best ” this is _____ support ” videos! Fascinating topic and Mr. Washburn is a gentleman & a scholar. Definitely deserves his own series on one of the streaming platforms!

  22. @hattymuang5825

    August 27, 2024 at 9:05 pm

    This man needs an Anthony Bourdain style urban planning show.

  23. @tsunami235

    August 27, 2024 at 9:08 pm

    This is the best tech support video by far – bring him back!

  24. @andresdominguez6925

    August 27, 2024 at 9:20 pm

    Been waiting on this one for so long

  25. @alchemilk

    August 27, 2024 at 9:25 pm

    this guy is so smart

  26. @Aesoir

    August 30, 2024 at 8:27 am

    I’d be curious about whether or not the countries with effective rent control, are housing projects that are built by those respective governments (or the loans are backed by them) I speculate that rent control is only scary to profiteering investors.

  27. @CleoS-vx5pd

    August 30, 2024 at 9:01 am

    Paris (& many cities) are perfect UNLESS you’re disabled or have mobility issues. Then it’s a complete nightmare and unusable. But as usual people would rather not consider this chunk of the population because it’s easier for them if disabled people just never leave their house or contribute to society. Step free access is all that is needed. That’s it. But it’s always pushed to the back due to costs.

  28. @mother_tucker

    August 30, 2024 at 9:04 am

    Bike riders get clobbered at intersections. No parked cars there.

  29. @milamontu6683

    August 30, 2024 at 9:26 am

    My favorite video so far!!

  30. @assIiquor

    August 30, 2024 at 9:34 am

    what a great guy and episode! good job, wired!

  31. @DuceQuestionMark

    August 30, 2024 at 10:21 am

    Eh, for NYC — The buses and garbage trucks will block the bike lines. So, they are not completely safe.

  32. @bretb2011

    August 30, 2024 at 10:37 am

    Paris got rid of bikesharing because too many people got hurt and/or unalived. Not a good example to use.

  33. @pampoovey6722

    August 30, 2024 at 10:41 am

    You can park in Manhattan? 😂

  34. @joeeilert4162

    August 30, 2024 at 11:27 am

    Great video. Commenting to support this type of video.

  35. @MyVanir

    August 30, 2024 at 11:44 am

    Wait, why is the “bike lanes between pedestrian walkways and roads” thing considered new? Every sane place already does that for ages.

  36. @thedudefromrobloxx

    August 30, 2024 at 11:55 am

    How much money has he accepted through bribes/ lobbying

  37. @monkeyrun

    August 30, 2024 at 1:26 pm

    The US in general is in desperate need for more city planners. the “drive everywhere” suburbia needs to stop.

  38. @TheCleardevil

    August 30, 2024 at 1:42 pm

    I’m failing to see why do we want people to want to go to airports?

  39. @andreirachko

    August 30, 2024 at 2:02 pm

    Please invite him again!

  40. @Jm649

    August 30, 2024 at 2:11 pm

    He has a great way of talking and educating 👏

  41. @papayafun7226

    August 30, 2024 at 3:36 pm

    Just like many here, love this episode! Very informative. Changi is also my fav airport, I used to live in Singapore and flying is a delight there. One thing that might not have made the edit is that the have the TSA security check at every gate, making the funnel where you show your boarding pass and passport not problematic. You need more man power, but it is so worth it. Less stress that you might miss your flight.

  42. @ttt0904

    August 30, 2024 at 4:04 pm

    8:50 Did this man just make me pro highway tolls?

  43. @djordjefilipovic4820

    August 30, 2024 at 4:13 pm

    Get this man another episode

  44. @bengagnon2894

    August 30, 2024 at 6:32 pm

    So, what he basically said is that rent control is bad in the US because people are too… different? As in financially disparate? Ever wondered why people are less financially disparate in other countries? Maybe, just maybe, controlling the rent is one of the key to the solution and not the other way around. Just maybe. But I guess it’s socialism, so it’s… spooky?

    Also, implementing bike lanes beside parking spots is a terrible, terrible design if you don’t also put physical barriers between the spots and the lane. Which the scene at 0:26 doesn’t show. This bike lane seems pretty scary to bike on, especially if the said bike lane is interrupted every 50 meters by a driveway (the car sight being totally blinded by the parked cars…). I hope he said it and the format just cut it out. Then again, why cut this important piece of information? And why show this bike lane specifically?

    And the guy saying that Boston is terrible to drive in… So what? He should’ve answered that it could also mean that it could be awesome to walk in for the same reason. Not saying that it is right now, but it could.

    Also, Paris doesn’t do everything right, at all. Just ask someone who cycle there. Amsterdam is the first city to have had the idea of bike sharing. He could’ve named many other cities. Amsterdam, Oulu, Utrecht, Stockholm, or even Portland OR in the US, considering where it started… But Paris? Really? Paris inherited the Haussman point of view. Which is to destroy the fabric of the city itself. And it still stands by it to this day (just look at how it dealt with the Olympics). Paris is like an open-air museum. Beautiful to look at. Not so much to live in. Is it better than most (if not all) cities in the US – urban planning wise? Yes. But for Europe, it’s pretty average.

  45. @vengefulhero

    August 30, 2024 at 6:47 pm

    “City of cities”. I like that.

  46. @airtale8725

    August 30, 2024 at 7:06 pm

    I mean Singapore’s main selling point is that it’s a mid-way airport to a lot of long-haul flights, so it’s unique, for most palces it’s not worth investing as much into airport dev

  47. @jacktrendell3753

    August 30, 2024 at 7:16 pm

    7:54 Peter Zeihan would be nodding his head

  48. @Sacto1654

    August 30, 2024 at 8:13 pm

    They should just completely ditch rent control in New York City. The prices may temporarily shoot up but given that it is now market forces that drive the cost of rent and not hampered by a rent control scheme, watch the rental price take a fast nosedive in the longer term to a more sustainable and reasonable level.

  49. @Lauranim

    August 30, 2024 at 8:27 pm

    Bring him back, give him a 1 hour video, give him a Netflix show, give him everything I need to hear this guy talk forever

  50. @michelefehr6496

    August 30, 2024 at 9:18 pm

    I had a feeling this was going to be interesting but it was even better than I anticipated. 👏👏

  51. @seanwebb605

    September 1, 2024 at 10:56 am

    Didn’t Luke Skywalker’s aunt and uncle figure out how to do 50 degrees thing?

  52. @karthikmurthy3501

    September 1, 2024 at 11:28 am

    8:52 This 100%!!!

  53. @MichaelSheaAudio

    September 1, 2024 at 11:38 am

    Instead of asking why Singapore is so green, ask why North America is so grey. Trees create shade, and shade cools down the area it’s shading. Ever sat in a parking lot in the peak of summer? It’s deadly. The lack of trees heats up the pavement and our homes and makes our towns and cities even hotter. More greenery and tree coverage is only a benefit to our communities. And as someone who currently does food delivery, shaded areas near restaurants are very limited, if available at all. Sometimes we need a place to sit between deliveries.

  54. @slnoll21

    September 1, 2024 at 11:52 am

    Bro basically introduced himself as “I designed New York City”. What a legend

  55. @ProjectElf

    September 1, 2024 at 12:17 pm

    I’m Singaporean!! Kinda proud to hear my country being complimented ❤

  56. @myrajhall7690

    September 1, 2024 at 12:29 pm

    In cities around the world the bikes are raised above the streets they can safely transport huge numbers of bike riders.

  57. @WrathOfTheHydra

    September 1, 2024 at 1:30 pm

    I recently visited LA/California for the first time mentally prepped to take on the horrible roads I had heard so much about… and honestly driving there was really refreshing. As Washburn says, it definitely has it’s issues, but the pocket-city development is absolutely happening. The grid-structure in much of the area is extremely easy to navigate even if you need to 3-right-turn it after meeting a one way you weren’t expecting. I’m also incredibly impressed how all the drivers there adhere to the same ridged rules of driving, and while the honking is annoying it definitely beats the wishy-washy Minnesotan driving I’ve been used to. Any city that knows how to zipper merge is a winner. 🤣

  58. @Lisztianpiano

    September 1, 2024 at 1:59 pm

    The Boston subway is WAY worse than nyc and it stops running at 1:30/2:00.

  59. @burhanbudak6041

    September 1, 2024 at 2:08 pm

    Insert Louis Rossmann asking about the bad build code and the buy and sell system.

  60. @ericabruskin4078

    September 1, 2024 at 2:19 pm

    Paris? No, it’s definitely Amsterdam!

  61. @deevlogs66

    September 1, 2024 at 2:44 pm

    Super cool video that every Indian should watch ! 😅

  62. @addbackwards

    September 1, 2024 at 3:03 pm

    I need him 🫦

    😂

  63. @sck7503

    September 1, 2024 at 3:22 pm

    He forgot MTA mismanagement as part of the reason why the trains aren’t as good as they can and should be

  64. @bibinoojen

    September 1, 2024 at 3:37 pm

    Need more of this topic and this speaker please!!

  65. @dominikfrohlich6253

    September 1, 2024 at 4:25 pm

    I could listen to this guy all day. So many great ideas. What a nice place we could have!!

  66. @sfowler1017

    September 1, 2024 at 4:25 pm

    I really enjoyed this one!!

  67. @amyhull754

    September 1, 2024 at 4:28 pm

    Very, very cool! I love these!

  68. @morrisbratt5662

    September 1, 2024 at 5:01 pm

    Cycling in Paris is a nightmare lol

  69. @DavidSantillo-hs1qz

    September 1, 2024 at 5:32 pm

    Aldous Leonard Huxley brought me here

  70. @Wladislav

    September 1, 2024 at 5:53 pm

    Seems like the core issue here is the car industry.

  71. @haneytr3s

    September 1, 2024 at 5:56 pm

    Rent control is a dumb economic idea. Supply and demand sets the price. If the price is too high have policies to expand the supply.

  72. @GBSpiral

    September 1, 2024 at 6:09 pm

    This guy was seriously cookin

  73. @calculon000

    September 1, 2024 at 7:48 pm

    8:31 Unfortunately, in my city, any public space that is avaiable to everyone would be crawling with junkies, which is why it doesn’t happen more, I think.

  74. @lordaim

    September 1, 2024 at 9:08 pm

    Please make this a show.

  75. @shaigeballe9440

    September 1, 2024 at 9:13 pm

    The toll answer is spot on!!!!

  76. @tunahanada6116

    September 2, 2024 at 10:24 am

    Singapore a city?

  77. @spankroy

    September 2, 2024 at 11:17 am

    The amount of other upgrades for an office building to be converted to housing is also very expensive. Think Plumbing and electrical.

  78. @Slovakianstallion

    September 2, 2024 at 11:33 am

    In all comes down to one thing – good cities are located in countries where things are regulated well and where public resources are spent on infrastructure and improvement of public life. The US is the definition of the total opposite of that and therefore it will continue getting worse.

    The answer is simple – spend trillions on trains, buildings, parks, and the people who live in cities and regulate the housing market so it benefits people instead of generating profit.

  79. @jouaienttoi

    September 2, 2024 at 11:41 am

    I would disagree on Paris having “perfect” urban planning, primarily due to their absurdly small building height limit and unwillingness to building up in the older parts of their city.

  80. @NeverlandSystemZor

    September 2, 2024 at 11:54 am

    I think malls and office buildings NEED to be more open to mixed use, housing, businesses, etc.

  81. @brunoavelar4003

    September 2, 2024 at 11:54 am

    This video has made me interested in urban design

  82. @ThreeSixFour

    September 2, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Rent controlled units is one of the biggest mistakes in NYC, people will sell the rent controlled unit to the highest bidder. Rent control should stop the second someone moves out

  83. @robertlloyd122

    September 2, 2024 at 12:25 pm

    Notice how many of the solutions regarding US cities would require us to become a very different society than the one we now find ourselves in!

  84. @brothatmacc3677

    September 2, 2024 at 12:32 pm

    In Montreal Canada the fix the metro up at any time even if the have to close a station and metro closes at 1 am back open at 5am

  85. @jameslippincott7440

    September 2, 2024 at 12:52 pm

    F for rent control

  86. @R.F.9847

    September 2, 2024 at 1:00 pm

    6:20 “Saoirse” is an Irish name and is pronounced “SEAR-shuh”.

  87. @kenmcnutt2

    September 2, 2024 at 1:34 pm

    Actually good answers. I’m surprised.

  88. @ShadowDrakken

    September 2, 2024 at 2:21 pm

    You absolutely CAN change car dependency, by changing your policies for new construction and for how maintenance is performed. The Nordic countries have been proving that for years.

  89. @lowlander04

    September 2, 2024 at 2:45 pm

    I really hope WIRED listens to the general consensus in the comments and brings Mr Washburn back for significantly longer videos. This is an extremely interesting and wide-ranging topic and I’d really like to hear a lot more about it.

  90. @zomertje6

    September 2, 2024 at 2:47 pm

    Give us more of this!!

  91. @KyleMaxwell

    September 2, 2024 at 3:05 pm

    My son just started university majoring in Sustainable Urban Design. This is a great set of discussions to give me a better sense of what he’s studying.

  92. @Gui_3432

    September 2, 2024 at 3:56 pm

    Maybe next time you guys can invite an actual urban planner, and not an urban designer that has a bachelor in arts and science with an master’s degree in architecture. His answers we’re overly simplistics for many questions and concepts approached and could’ve been answered adequatly by a real professionnal urban planner. He missed some key points that could’ve been discussed about, like car-dependency, smart cities, bike lanes, etc.

  93. @MateusChristopher

    September 2, 2024 at 4:11 pm

    Wired summoned all the urban planning heads

  94. @musikSkool

    September 2, 2024 at 5:34 pm

    Cities cost a lot to maintain. Wouldn’t it be cheaper in the long run to build newer smaller cities than expand already large cities?

  95. @DonnaGonzalez-p4m

    September 2, 2024 at 5:41 pm

    Sawayn Green

  96. @jacquelynfay9430

    September 2, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Bring him on again!!!

  97. @thezammer54

    September 2, 2024 at 8:19 pm

    This was fantastic.

  98. @paulabrown4050

    September 2, 2024 at 8:27 pm

    More!

  99. @pouetpouetdaddy5

    September 2, 2024 at 8:41 pm

    I click, mildly interested…and finally, it was amazingly interesting, answering some of my questioning about my city

  100. @NathanieiMalory-o2o

    September 2, 2024 at 8:58 pm

    Shields Trace

  101. @eng.miroslavmanahilov1944

    September 3, 2024 at 9:32 am

    Bulgaria 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥💯💯🔝🔝

  102. @joshmills5642

    September 3, 2024 at 9:48 am

    Gotta love how the answer to half of his “why doesn’t this cool stuff exist in America” questions is just “Capitalism”

  103. @badmontad

    September 3, 2024 at 9:48 am

    Paris? There are a few more cities I would say are doing it better

  104. @belovedhabeeb549

    September 3, 2024 at 9:53 am

    America will never be as good as the other global places because the rich whites will never truly invest into the people and infrastructure

  105. @belovedhabeeb549

    September 3, 2024 at 9:59 am

    If you up late and don’t want to go to the bar …. go to the gym

  106. @lucagattoni-celli1377

    September 3, 2024 at 10:04 am

    Rent control has been a disaster in New York…. The deeper you dig into the story the uglier it gets

  107. @smack80

    September 3, 2024 at 10:12 am

    Parisians love the bikeshares so much they threw them all in the rivers.

  108. @flufwix

    September 3, 2024 at 11:38 am

    Rent control works if we don’t base our housing market on greed
    If you want to see prime example of awful urban planning – Melbourne, Australia. The Docklands, City center, public transport… ugh
    Totally agree about LA.

  109. @txjsh

    September 3, 2024 at 11:50 am

    The way the camera kept cutting in and out between a close-up and a shot that included his laptop was too frequent and distracting

  110. @ajs11201

    September 3, 2024 at 12:20 pm

    At 8:30, I think people are excluding themselves these days, so it’s not a problem of libraries being closed or being denied other venues. I agree that any place and space can be a point for social gathering, and yet the number of people riding subways and buses, walking the streets, sitting in parks, and so on, have tuned out the rest of society by wearing earbuds, or worse, giant headphones. Yes, it’s a personal decision that individuals can make for themselves, but my point is that many have already made this decision and I’d wager that only a very small percentage of society actually wants social interaction.

  111. @echocanidae

    September 3, 2024 at 12:21 pm

    Boston wasn’t built on cow paths, it was built around shipyards and their rope-walks

  112. @michaelimbesi2314

    September 3, 2024 at 12:39 pm

    Definitely a mixed bag video. Parts of it were good, but parts of it were just complete nonsense.

    • @cly_

      September 3, 2024 at 2:41 pm

      Such as?

  113. @OliverHinz

    September 3, 2024 at 1:46 pm

    Olympia 2028 will fix it 🙂

  114. @Deedz1924

    September 3, 2024 at 1:57 pm

    LA would be 10 times bettrer if it beefed up it’s public transportation system.

  115. @kenbrown2808

    September 3, 2024 at 2:03 pm

    I’ve seen commercial spaces converted to apartments. it’s sometimes easier than others, but always a design challenge.

  116. @ReneRivers

    September 3, 2024 at 2:15 pm

    I love the last answer. I live in San Francisco and many neighborhoods are essentially their own cities. Meaning that everyday activities and needs are all within walking distance of where you live. I live in one of those neighborhoods and can’t imagine living in a place where you have to own a car to live.

  117. @Isabella-fx5xp

    September 3, 2024 at 2:26 pm

    This was wonderful! Thank you, Alexandros.

  118. @Liface

    September 3, 2024 at 3:18 pm

    Rent control is not GOOD. It just IS.

    Tradeoffs.

  119. @janelle7801

    September 3, 2024 at 4:04 pm

    Do more of these please! This was fantastic

  120. @julz_swag

    September 3, 2024 at 4:39 pm

    I wanna see more of this guy ASAP.

  121. @jmanuelt7689

    September 3, 2024 at 4:59 pm

    The fact that he doesn’t even acknowledge climate change as an urban planning challenge shows how fckd up we’re

  122. @lees.903

    September 3, 2024 at 5:55 pm

    MORE

  123. @WillHuizenga

    September 3, 2024 at 6:39 pm

    Man says Paris is the best as if we all didn’t just watch the Paris Olympics.

  124. @cavemann_

    September 3, 2024 at 7:14 pm

    First question and already the most american answer ever 😂

  125. @Pl4ntit4

    September 3, 2024 at 8:35 pm

    We nees more of this!!

  126. @ToxiCisty

    September 4, 2024 at 12:11 am

    Everything must look modern. Humans need to know they’re nothing but worker ants! Secular society is good. France is thriving!

  127. @AllenHanPR

    September 4, 2024 at 1:06 am

    I been to a lot of countries in my life and Singapore is by far my favorite.

  128. @Boodlums

    September 4, 2024 at 3:27 am

    Man, that percussion background was brutal. I had to keep hitting the mute button.

  129. @tyrrhus5248

    September 4, 2024 at 4:01 am

    Paris is an interesting case because their decisions are controversial within the region. In a vaacuum what they do is excellent but no one lives within Paris, only around it, so there is no perceived improvement in the city planning.

  130. @jamesnaughton5657

    September 4, 2024 at 4:29 am

    His answer on rent controls kills his credibility. Germany is a terrible example to choose of them working well.

  131. @SamuelCastillo-o4f

    September 4, 2024 at 5:32 am

    Lebsack Meadow

  132. @lunarmodule6419

    September 4, 2024 at 5:34 am

    Interesting thx

  133. @DevonRousse

    September 4, 2024 at 7:58 am

    this is one of the best videos I’ve ever watched. especially with the General Motors slander!!!

  134. @RibusPQR

    September 4, 2024 at 10:19 am

    If Paris did everything right in terms of city planning, why did the triathletes get sick?

  135. @nosouponhead

    September 4, 2024 at 10:45 am

    Communist central planning is a long debunked concept.

  136. @TheDEMMX

    September 4, 2024 at 10:47 am

    98% economists agree price controls lead to suboptimal outcomes
    Don’t spread bs about rent control

  137. @Huebz

    September 4, 2024 at 11:00 am

    Was looking forward to this video until he started spouting crap.
    Boston streets just being paved over cow paths: myth.
    The “US” requires apartments to have windows that open: Just a flat out lie. Some local ordanances may require it but there is no federal requirement.

  138. @SenaBryer

    September 4, 2024 at 12:12 pm

    Thank you for the answer on Los Angeles! So many people think you have to have a car to survive here, but I’ve gone 7 years without one just fine.

  139. @sblack53

    September 4, 2024 at 1:03 pm

    6:29 two words: Imperial Plaza (St Clair West, Toronto).

    The former Imperial Oil (Esso Canada) office building in midtown Toronto is now a condo building, complete with a lobby level grocery and LCBO.

  140. @shimmerysummersun

    September 4, 2024 at 1:37 pm

    Fascinating!

  141. @mj81000

    September 4, 2024 at 2:29 pm

    9:30 there’s some toll roads in texas that are privately owned, which is… Frustrating 😅

  142. @visno

    September 4, 2024 at 3:17 pm

    LA’s traffic problem is more frustrating when you remember that elon musk’s boring company is boring tunnels under LA so that teslas can drive underground. instead of doing something more practical like boring a series of tunnels to make a mass transit system for the LA area.

  143. @milenaradeva2733

    September 4, 2024 at 3:28 pm

    Bulgarian here – you are so right about Bulgaria. I have no idea how you know it, and howcome it just popped in your answer, but we have way too many apartments per capita in general (I mean each family has a few apartments and a villa). And every company is building new ones, for god knows who.
    And I can answer how is this happening – the administration in the municipalities allows this, because land is returned to people and the want to sell it, so companies are buying and building and overbuilding everything. Why do they do that? Because of money.

  144. @Milestonemonger

    September 4, 2024 at 3:57 pm

    About rent control.
    Our rent in Amman, Jordan 🇯🇴 back in 1975 was a mere 9 Dinars a month ($30) My parents lived in that house for 30 years. It came with a huge yard. It was wonderful for us due to rent control laws in that country, but our poor landlord suffered greatly because of it. Only after my parents died was the landlord able to reclaim his property, tear it down and build townhouses in it’s place.
    If you ask me, rent control is bad.

  145. @Milestonemonger

    September 4, 2024 at 4:05 pm

    Declining population is a bigger catastrophe than climate change.

  146. @Milestonemonger

    September 4, 2024 at 4:06 pm

    Libraries with dragqueens doesn’t appeal to me. 😖

  147. @anunbelievablyspicylambchop668

    September 4, 2024 at 5:46 pm

    as someone who got their master’s degree in urban planning, these are exactly the kinds of conversations being had amongst city planners every single day. it is just as fascinating as it sounds – the one crucial thing he mentioned though: as americans, we have always stood in our own way. we built car-centric, unsustainable cities at the turn of the industrial revolution, and it has destroyed our future almost indefinitely. being a city planner is just being .001% of that solution. hope this helps

  148. @valtonen77

    September 4, 2024 at 6:20 pm

    If only Singapore had human rights also

  149. @Paulkjoss

    September 4, 2024 at 6:44 pm

    Just give this guy the keys to the city and let him do his thing 👍🏼

  150. @EyFmS

    September 4, 2024 at 7:42 pm

    Population decline….Russia were young men are thrown into the meatgrinder like lemmings.

  151. @prsanfrancisco1688

    September 5, 2024 at 12:15 am

    Great information presented in a soothing, articulate manner.

    Very videogenic.

  152. @MoultonLeila-q7x

    September 5, 2024 at 1:49 am

    Margret Mews

  153. @Davao420

    September 5, 2024 at 3:18 am

    Singapore is amazing, it’s like an asian Wakanda

  154. @joaquinandreu8530

    September 5, 2024 at 3:31 am

    TL;DW: Cars are for the rich folks, you peasant have to walk.

  155. @pibob7880

    September 5, 2024 at 4:39 am

    Ok, Paris… you win this round…😡

  156. @HaiLeQuang

    September 5, 2024 at 5:31 am

    We need him for Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh cities. Would love to steal 2 hours seminar with him.

  157. @sofyagalimova4467

    September 5, 2024 at 6:49 am

    Looooved this guy! Please bring him back!

  158. @lompeluiten

    September 5, 2024 at 6:52 am

    Go watch notjustbikes. Dutch are the best city planners.

  159. @jolie-brianawilliams1428

    September 5, 2024 at 6:55 am

    He is handsome

  160. @socalstr

    September 5, 2024 at 9:49 am

    I can’t believe people are agreeing with this drivel.

  161. @jatescc

    September 5, 2024 at 10:30 am

    WE WANT MORE TELL US MORE

  162. @HartJasper-p3f

    September 5, 2024 at 10:49 am

    Rath Wall

  163. @DavidCorder-l2k

    September 5, 2024 at 11:30 am

    Gideon Heights

  164. @Garthaxius

    September 5, 2024 at 1:20 pm

    Boston’s roads weren’t designed by cows, Daniel Steiner did a whole video on how a lot of the roads are old wharfs

  165. @pacificbanana6179

    September 5, 2024 at 1:51 pm

    This man seems like such a good smart guy lol

  166. @kristopherkammerdiener5057

    September 5, 2024 at 2:57 pm

    #1 make bike lanes safer by forcing the riders to stay in the bike lane.. #2 use the correct lane not the oncoming lane.. #3 make bike riders respect stop signs and red/green lights and not just ride like there are no cars.

  167. @BoswellSampson-f2k

    September 5, 2024 at 4:25 pm

    Harber Rue

  168. @Inconvenientx

    September 5, 2024 at 4:27 pm

    Germany is comparatively less bad, but rent is still shooting up in cities like Berlin and is a major political issue now. You could argue that rent control is now a problem there.

  169. @kiseitai2

    September 5, 2024 at 4:43 pm

    Think outside the car$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$?

  170. @yorkaturr

    September 5, 2024 at 6:10 pm

    Pure gold! This man is speaking about the same issues we are struggling with in Helsinki, Finland. Our city planners tried to imitate the US after the 50s and here we are with growth pains because car owners don’t want to share space.

  171. @brianvogelsong754

    September 5, 2024 at 9:24 pm

    I would definitely consider moving somewhere with the good public transit system or easy way to get around without a car

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