Former Chief Urban Designer of The City of New York Alex Washburn returns to WIRED to answer another round of the internet’s burning questions about city planning. How should cities accommodate electric bikes? Can urban planning mitigate over-gentrification? How can urban planning prevent crimes? What does the future of public transportation in urban centers look like? Can a city ever reach population capacity? How’s it possible for a city to run out of water? Alex Washburn answers these questions and many more on City Planning Support, Vol. 2.
0:00 City Planning Support Rd. 2
0:15 How to accommodate electric bikes in cities
1:05 Gentrification
2:29 Living in the sprawl
3:43 Can urban planning reduce crime?
4:08 Booooring
4:58 Trees
5:51 If you build it will they come?
6:42 The future of public transportation
7:25 The Big Dig was a Big Dub
8:24 Sustainable cities
8:59 Why do taxpayers subsidize stadiums?
9:59 Hyperloop/Maglev
11:02 Concrete was a poor choice
12:23 Windmills on every building
13:08 Superblocks/Tartan Grid
14:40 Looks familiar!
15:31 Can a city reach capacity?
16:14 Favelas
17:12 please bro, just one more parking lot
18:22 NYC housing costs
19:25 Congestion pricing
19:58 Hall of Fame: Brasilia
20:55 Running out of water
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Constantine Economides
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Alex Washburn
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: Christopher Eustache
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Kalia Simms
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
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November 12, 2024 at 12:04 pm
Did you miss Part 1?:
@FreeTimeFeats
November 12, 2024 at 6:56 pm
So glad he is back for round two! Thank you wired for listening to the commenters!
@Zynnix
November 12, 2024 at 7:07 pm
Can a city ever reach capacity? * Laughs in Canada *
@cvue009
November 12, 2024 at 7:14 pm
Ah yes the mystic question of what shall we do with ebikes…hmmm if only there were some sort pavement things where vehicles travel on the world may never know
@BZAKether
November 12, 2024 at 7:14 pm
Speaking as an ignoramus, I have the feeling the “American school” of urbanisation was quite popular around the world, and screwed us all, Americans and non-Americans, for decades. Maybe rich cities can build a highway underground, but poor cities, the fastest growing right now, can’t even provide enough water to its citizens.
@microproductions6
November 12, 2024 at 7:25 pm
Counterpoint: No, the Big Dig was not worth it. Removing the elevated highway was certainly worth it, but moving it underground simply serves to continue to make it easy for people to drive directly in to the center of the city, all while being more expensive to maintain than an elevated highway. Even if there were no problems with the project and it was finished on time and within budget, it still would not be worth it because of the aforementioned issues. I can maybe see a case for it if there were no on/off ramps within the city center, but as it is now there are, and they take up a lot of space and dump cars directly into the city. The only tunnel that should have been built was for the North-South Rail Link, which originally was supposed to be built along with this project.
@enjoystraveling
November 12, 2024 at 8:05 pm
I agree that the tunnel should not have on off ramps within the city center
@MrWbrennan
November 12, 2024 at 7:27 pm
Keep this guy coming! Love his insights and commentary
@oyecomova7740
November 12, 2024 at 7:31 pm
7:56 how they call me back in high school
@lowbudgetmic
November 12, 2024 at 7:33 pm
That infrastructure 😮🍑💛
@Ironwill_Games
November 12, 2024 at 7:34 pm
Super interesting as always. Thanks for the video!
@rararaspberry691
November 12, 2024 at 7:35 pm
Is Joseph Buscemi related to Steve Buscemi?
@alicecoriolano440
November 12, 2024 at 7:39 pm
Brasilia was built before people move to there.
@rararaspberry691
November 12, 2024 at 7:39 pm
5:57 I imagine when we move to mars or any other planet if we ever do, we will have pre-built cities but even then cities will shape themselves as they grow.
@rararaspberry691
November 12, 2024 at 7:40 pm
Bring an architect in the future as well!
@enzofrade3137
November 12, 2024 at 7:41 pm
Yes!!! City planning daddy is back!
@baldbadger7644
November 12, 2024 at 7:42 pm
This kind of video makes me sad knowing that I live in a junkyard build by Ford
@who3182
November 12, 2024 at 7:47 pm
Wired heard us out!!
@Nein1no
November 12, 2024 at 7:50 pm
7:20 “Let the car deal with it”…..? Uhh, the car just doesn’t suddenly ””’vanish”””.
It’ll be on the street – being traffic and wasting energy. 🙃🙃
@enjoystraveling
November 12, 2024 at 7:51 pm
Concrete ditches instead of rivers are some of the ugliest things that are in some of our cities and many countries.
There’s many people who would love to walk along paths by the river in a park, but almost no one would like to walk along a ditch. It becomes even uglier because if it’s a ditch, a lot of people who don’t throw their trash in a trashcan just throw it in the ditch.
@ProjectElf
November 12, 2024 at 7:55 pm
As a Singaporean, having my country being mentioned in both videos makes me proud 🇸🇬
@scootergirl3662
November 12, 2024 at 7:56 pm
Boring probably is a legit company, its just ran by an egotistical idiot. Get someone else in there and there may be potential.
Come at me Muskrat fans, idgaf.
@joshbobst1629
November 12, 2024 at 8:02 pm
I have to question the critical thinking skills of an urban planner who thinks self-driving cars can solve traffic problems. It’s a single occupancy vehicle that takes up as much space as a train car.
@tkj222
November 12, 2024 at 8:05 pm
Bring him
Back for the all day last question!
@lucaslorenz8812
November 12, 2024 at 8:12 pm
More people move into NYC than leave? Not anymore…
@metawurst13
November 12, 2024 at 8:26 pm
Did he just justify Gentrification?