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City Beautiful is a YouTube channel dedicated to educating everyone about cities and city planning. Cities are amazing! I cover topics such as transportation, land use planning, and urban design. I post new videos regularly.Links:Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/citybeautifulNebula: https://nebula.tv/citybeautifulInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/citybeautifulyt/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/citybeautiful.nebula.tv
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- Today20 min
The Highway Fight that Changed Cities Forever
Subscribe to Nebula and get $20 off at: https://go.nebula.tv/citybeautifulWatch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/citybeautiful-the-highway-fight-that-changed-cities-foreverJane Jacobs and Robert Moses were influential in the destiny of New York City, and battled it out directly over the Lower Manhattan Expressway. This battle would come to define the fault lines of U.S. city planning.Resources on this topic:This is an excellent read for more information: Dory, J. (2018). Clash of urban philosophies: Moses versus Jacobs. Journal of Planning History, 17(1), 20-41.Also:Scheper, G. L. (2008). A divergence of modernities: Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses, and the re-visioning of New York City. Community college humanities review, 28, 92-106.Chicago Flint, A. (2009). Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs took on New York's master builder and transformed the American city. Random House.Chicago Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.Written by Dave AmosSelect images and video from Getty Images.Black Lives Matter.Trans rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Today14 min
Why Are Boston Streets So Confusing?
Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 30% off your subscription by going to https://ground.news/citybeautifulBoston is notorious for its confusing street network. Why did it end up with one, when cities like New York and Philadelphia didn't?Resources on this topic:https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/injuryprev/23/3/179.full.pdfProduced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.Written by Dave AmosSelect images and video from Getty Images.Black Lives Matter.Trans rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Today11 min
The Reason Our Streets Switched to Cul-De-Sacs
Get a 2 month FREE trial of Skillshare here: http://skl.sh/citybeautiful10I'm on Patreon! Consider supporting this channel: https://www.patreon.com/citybeautifulResources: A. This video is based on the book Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities by Southworth and Ben-Joseph. https://www.amazon.com/Streets-Shaping-Cities-Michael-Southworth/dp/1559639164/ref=nodl_Not an affiliate link, just recommend it highly!Produced by Dave Amos in sunny Sacramento, California. Edited by Eric Schneider in cloudy Cleveland, Ohio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Today15 min
Why Don't Cities Use Hexagon Blocks?
Subscribe to Nebula and get $20 off at: https://go.nebula.tv/citybeautifulWatch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/citybeautiful-why-dont-cities-use-hexagon-blocksMost cities have streets with gridded, organic, or cul-de-sac patterns. Why don't they use hexagons? They can be tiled indefinitely and create safer intersections.This video relied on this great article:Ben-Joseph, E., & Gordon, D. (2000). Hexagonal planning in theory and practice. Journal of Urban Design, 5(3), 237-265.Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.Written by Dave AmosSelect images and video from Getty Images.Black Lives Matter.Trans rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Today14 min
What is New Urbanism?
Watch over 2,400 documentaries with Curiosity Stream for free for a month by signing up at http://CuriosityStream.com/citybeautiful and using the code, "citybeautiful" at checkout.I'm on Patreon! Consider supporting this channel: https://www.patreon.com/citybeautifulResources:A. The Celebration Controversies, Andres Duany, 2004. http://www.webenet.com/celebration-duany.htmB. The Ahwahnee Principles https://www.lgc.org/who-we-are/ahwahnee/principles/C. Walt Disney explaining EPCOT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCHg9mUBag&t=7sD. Living with a Marsupial Mouse. Jeremey Shearmur. https://www.cis.org.au/app/uploads/2015/04/images/stories/policy-magazine/2002-winter/2002-18-2-jeremy-shearmur.pdfE. Michael Southworth (1997) Walkable Suburbs?: An Evaluation of Neotraditional Communities at the Urban Edge, Journal of the American Planning Association, 63:1, 28-44.F. Rebecca R. Sohmer & Robert E. Lang (2000) From seaside to Southside: New urbanism's quest to save the inner city, Housing Policy Debate, 11:4, 751-760.G. Hugh Bartling (2004) The magic kingdom syndrome: trials and tribulations of life in Disney’s celebration, Contemporary Justice Review, 7:4, 375-393.Produced by Dave Amos in sunny Sacramento, California.Edited by Eric Schneider in cloudy Cleveland, Ohio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Today13 min
Can We Fix Zoning By Tweaking a Few Numbers?
Receive 10% off anything on bellroy.com: https://bit.ly/3LYgYNhZoning codes are often obscure and complicated. But if you change a few key parameters, you change things like residential density in the suburbs. This video demonstrates how those numbers shape our cities.Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.Written by Dave AmosSelect images and video from Getty Images.Black Lives Matter.Trans rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Today14 min
EPCOT: Walt Disney's City of the Future
Get a 2 month FREE trial of Skillshare here: http://skl.sh/citybeautiful9I'm on Patreon! Consider supporting this channel: https://www.patreon.com/citybeautifulIn this video, I explore Disney’s plan for the city of EPCOT and try and figure out where he got his inspiration. So let’s dive in to the futuristic world of the 1960s.Check out the full video about EPCOT here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCHg9mUBag&t=2sProduced by Dave Amos in sunny Sacramento, California.Edited by Eric Schneider in cloudy Cleveland, Ohio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 days ago19 min
Are the Suburbs Getting Worse?*
Subscribe to Nebula and get $20 off at: https://go.nebula.tv/citybeautifulWatch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/citybeautiful-are-the-suburbs-getting-worseCul-de-sacs, loops, and separated subdivisions make it difficult for people to walk and bike in the suburbs. We've known this for decades. Have we improved our suburban street patterns in recent decades? I conducted a study to find out! I published the study in the Journal of Urban Morphology: https://journal.urbanform.org/index.php/jum/article/view/7826Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.Written by Dave Amos.Select images and video from Getty Images.Black Lives Matter.Trans rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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