Calling Native Americans a prehistoric mound building culture is crazy

This actually makes the city very walkable.

You’ve made an order of magnitude error about Los Angeles. 200 persons per square kilometer is the density of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. That Area includes thousands of square miles of uninhabited desert in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. The metro area wide density is completely unrepresentative of the densities at which people in the Los Angeles area live. The appropriate object of comparison is the Los Angeles Urbanized Area, also defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Urbanized Area includes the actually developed area in and around Los Angeles. Its density is 2,821 people per square mile. Less than Madrid to be sure, but it places the U.S.-Europe comparison in a completely different light.

I think, sprawling is actually good! It's comfortable to live in a suburban one family house and work in the downtown. There would be also less jams with lower population density.

Nice thumbnail!

Buffalo would do much better removing the 33 (Kensington) expressway and leaving the skyway. The skyway actually serves a purpose. The 33 is a wasteland of dickhead drivers and there is a bad accident on that road at least once a day. Also, if you ask me, the land that was stolen from all those people to build the highway should be returned to those people and their families.

4:10 This _keeps getting repeated_ as an explanation, but I wonder how relevant the *age of European cities* _really_ is. I mean sure, Rome has exited for about 2000 years longer than Atlanta, GA. But Rome has grown from the mentioned 1 million in antquity to 4.3 million (metro area) today - a growth by 3.3 million since the time of the industrial revolution (probably even more, since the only mention I found of Rome's city size was 1 million in the inter-war years). Atlanta has grown to between 5.1 million (urban area) and 6.3 million (metro area), depending how you count - from only 37k (city area) in 1880. So, Rome had still quite a non-negligible amount of growth, even though Rome's original size in antiquity was probably already on the larger side. If Rome had added these 3.3k with the same average density as how the 5-6 million were added to Atlanta (i.e. 770/km² average density in the Atlanta urban area), then Rome *would today only be about half as dense as it is.* How comparable are these cities? Rome is rank 8 in Europe in terms of "city proper" population, while Atlanta is 9th on the US list of urban area population and 6th on the list of metro area population. (My random pick of Atlanta as "surprisingly large, but not outstanding in terms of importance" was apparently spot on.) In case anyone is interested in comparing largely meaningless "within city limits" populations: Incorporated city of Atlanta is 0.5 million inside 350km² (1400/km²) while the commune of Rome is 2.8 million inside 1300km² (2200/km²).

You lost me at the social justice course 😂

Wow if only the government were to revisit the idea of affordable middle-income housing to make living more affordable due to an economic depression now that would would be crazy wouldn’t it

So rather interestingly enough i DID drive down that street in rochester. Went to the technology museum down the street too, cool place!

Europe is not a continent

Chain stores corporations are for highways. Malls are for the favorites!! It’s the only way!

It is good smaller towns has much cheaper properties and you can commute by train or car easily

It's like people like living in single family homes.

Highway system preventing walking and cycling downtown? I live in a 3,250 population town that's 2mi² and the Walmart is on the other side of the highway at the edge of town. Only 2 people ride their bike there. Can't say how many walk but there's a dirt rut next to the highway instead of a sidewalk because someone does (the employees?)

To be honest, this Video feels a little...like a very superficial view on Europe. Fun Fact to start with: Paris has in fact zero expansion since 1860. The actual city is limited by the Boulevard Périphérique. Everything "outside" is technically NOT Paris. That's why 1:42 feels a little wrong. Something somewhat similar goes for Berlin. Germany has 16 federal states, and one of them is Berlin as a City State, just like Hamburg and Bremen. This means, they can't grow larger than their political borders. Otherwise, they get in conflict with another federal government. In the end, those City States really have to manage the land they have as efficiently as possible. Oh and yes, Europe is VERY car-dependent. Even the cities, which is absolutely insane considering the lack of space vs. the quite ok public transportation. Don't get fooled by those nice pictures of Amsterdam, Copenhagen & Co with all those bicycles. After WWII, a lot was rebuilt with a car-centric agenda. And now, in 2024, many cities struggle to reinvent their infrastructure...

I have plans and still working on a city build that would provide the best routes including highway traffic. Part of the city includes hexagonal shapes. The biggest cost would probably be designing an efficient route for the transportation of goods in and out of the city.

Austin is a total turd now that can't be fixed.

Americans never fail to mention ethnicity when making an argument.

Are you comparing Europe or the EU ? Would Madrid be the 2nd largest urban area in Europe and not the EU ? What about the places not in the EU suchas Moscow, St Petersburg or Istanbul ?

As a Spaniard I don't think Spain is a fair comparison, Spain is by far the European country with more people living in apartments, 2/3 of Spaniards live in apartments and 1/3 of them live in houses, but even houses in Spain have smaller yards, narrower streets and sidewalks and a much bigger rate of attached houses. This is not planned, it is just the consequences of going from a rural society to an urban one faster than any other country in Europe.

People what to live in there own house. Nothing strange about that

Manhattan less dense than Barcelona center? That's nuts to even consider it, your numbers are wrong.

this is more like fight that came too late to stop what changed cities forever and is just famous because it’s New York. Most other cities were just destroyed

The city where I live (Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia) is located between the Danube River and the southwestern slopes of the Small Carpathians. I watch with concern as new development projects cut off Carpathian forests and former vineyards with advertising slogans such as "modern living close to nature". Forests are one of Slovakia's most beautiful treasures.

Europe known for it's charming villages, castles ... and everything else that you ever heard about in your life.

My girlfriend literally works in a gastronomy shop on the ground floor of our 1920s apartment building in Rotterdam. No commuting required with a combination of density and multi-purpose zoning.

What is sprawl?

You’re a professor?!? Where did you habilitate??

In France there is now a law called zéro artificialisation nette. Not a perfect law and there are many exceptions (mostly for infrastructure and some kinds of industrial projects) but at least it seems housing sprawl is getting attention.

2:38, the population density of Europe (or the EU) is nowhere close to 486/km2. Unless all of Europe is just the Netherlands, Flanders, and England

i think sprawl is better for humas

I don't know what it is about the urbanist youtube channels, but CityNerd and this channel have the smoothest ad segues I've ever heard, anywhere.

And we’ve managed to make it worse by dropping lanes for the creation of bike lanes. It’s a disaster.

The British and French sectors on the Berlin map are incorrectly marked. The French sector was in the north and the British sector in the middle of West Berlin. In other words, exactly the opposite of what is shown in the video.I know this because I was born and raised in West Berlin in 1982 and have lived here ever since.

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Driving in the Netherlands is more common than I thought, given that their public transport (trains, trams, buses) and cycling is one of the best out there. Maybe their roads are also the best, in fact, far better than its neighbour, Belgium (about the same as UK). I expected 30% drive, 35% cycle, 20% walk and 15% public transport/other.

Would have been nice to show some examples!

Is this a repost? It feels very familiar. #MandelaEffect?

I sure hope not.

hmmm why would European Cities be doing the same thing today that American cities did in the 50s and 60s? eheheeheem

Would love to see more research and time being spent on rural planning issues. I guess that highlights the rural to urban migration mindset. However, there are a lot of crossover areas like zoning as a tool for urban growth boundaries and adding residential density to mixed uses in downtowns as a way for limiting development into Ag/Open Space.

You're comparing Madrid-proper's density to Greater Los Angeles', which is not a fair comparison. Madrid porper is 3,2 M, not 6,6. The metropolitan area is, but then the density is around 5 times lower than in Madrid proper. Still around 5 times higher than greater Los Angeles, but not nearly as bad as you made it look like.

Ireland is insanely sprawling

7:04 When I bought an office space in center of Prague and converted it to living I would never have thought that it would make green dots on some map :)))

Its sad to see the Netherlands increasing its sprawl.

Unfortunately, HOAs are often not optional; they are a requirement with the home purchase. They are dictatorships.

Calling "nobody lives there" but still 20% of Venice population living there is a LIE. The title is a lie, clickbait and misleading. Thumb down.

That feeling when the guys that think Europe is a continent are trying to teach you "important" things.

Hello, I would just like to say that your explanation of Prague situation is not correct. The fundamental thing in Prague and any other Czech cities is that they are not very dense and still have a lot of potential of growth within the city. Those brownfields are just being built on right now by developers one of the reason is end of the industry in the country and relocation of factories outside of city which has happened later due to our communist economic system. Prague was one of the most industrialised cities in Austro-Hungary and unlike rest of Europe has kept its factories, because the destruction of WWII has bypassed most of the region which is now Czech Republic and it has been that way until recent enter of the country to globalized economy. The largest developments in Prague are at locations of old freight-stations, factories and other typologies like this. Sorry for my english Cheers.