The real solution to the Nimby problem is one nobody seems to bring up, because it seems too radical in our current society. Just build a new city from the ground up to meet all these high density requirements. Instead of making Nimbys live in the country, make the high density city in the country instead. I don't know why the idea of making new cities, (and sometimes abandoning old ones) is so radical nowadays, people used to do that a lot before.

Nimbyism is fundamentally based on entitlement. "I want access to everything, I want amenities, I want quality of life, but I also want a lot of space and do not want to share it with anyone else"

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As a guy who lives in a city and went from apartments to a house, it's VERY hard to consider ever going back to an apartment. From the extra storage provided by the garage, basement and attic, to the advantages of having your vehicle right in your house, making it easier to repair and maintain with things like having all my tools in the garage or simply a pressure washer and a electric air compressor to top up the tyres. The lack of upstairs/downstairs neighbors that allow me to, say DJ at 2am if I feel like it. It would be a hard sell. It's even worse if you're looking at Europen Style low rise mixed used neighborhoods where the apartments above the shop lacks any type of private parking. I daily drive a motorcycle. Having a garage basically saves me hundreds in insurance preniums and a few years extra in my life expectancy by not being constantly stressed out thinking it's gonna get stolen from the street

Lifeless apartment blocks defended by lifeless AI, maybe puppeted by a human somewhere if we're lucky.

In England they have 15 minute cities that they enforce with bollards blocking the streets and a camera system to ticket cars who don’t comply. People are taking these cameras down one by one and removing the bollards.

loved the comparison. What you define as suburbia in Amsterdam, I believe should be the common way of living.

"This is not how geometry works!" ?!!! that only means engineers are not engineering. short buildings is not just about people chatting from the window. There is a psychological impact of living in spaces that are separated from the surrounded environment, aka, isolated! Human well-being is the number one goal for urbanists not saving money on transit infrastructure. Plus, people don't have to travel much if planners put places of work, play, study, etc, within walking distance from their homes. and guess what...it is geometrically very much possible!

i read: if you hate DESTINY, maye dont live in a city. lol. but yeah, i don't think the premise can work in many cities where there is so much development just outside cities/munis and so much 20th century infra and its consequencies is between the two. there is an inextricability between cities and suburbs that cant be avoided imo. of course this is less true of many areas of europe outside of netherlands and belgium where NA style sprawl hasnt occurred.

Theres a big difference between high-rise and medium rise though. You can make a city with density that still has character (like most European cities) something that huge high-rise condominiums fail to achieve. Being against these ugly excuses of architecture does not amount to NIMBYism. The people that move in to high rise condominiums are not the ones displaces by it. There are many creative ways to deal with this issue, lots of interesting housing projects to look at. Telling people to just move somewhere else is poor way of dealing with this. The state should provide for all people, and create areas with various densities that serve all wants and needs equally.

Why is dense vertical growth worshipped instead of DISPERSED buildout of MORE cities instead of overcrowding extant ones? Dense population growth ruins quality of life because humans are a nasty brutish lot. Personal space matters. Canada has near infinite room for growth so why aren't you expanding laterally?

YES! My alarm clock is a rooster. I and millions of others worked hard to PAY FOR what we own and we do not want it beshat by slums packed with thugs. There is no reason the US cannot grow LATERALLY given vast areas of empty land.

Subsidised housing robs from us all.. we have limitless land... let the government liquidate it to those willing to work it and make something of it... its how this nation was built, not by handouts on the backs of taxpayers.

I wanna stay because I don't like the idea of adapting entirely to another culture I like my chicagoland, but the usa NEEDS to regulate the HELL of of these "light trucks"

It's funny when you see the comments that apartments are only for the poor and if you had the money no one would choose to live in them.. right beside the comments saying, all apartments being built today are luxury apartments normal people can't afford. So do people want them? Rich people like them? or what?

Bike share can be a good way for a smaller city to encourage people to start cycling. But for major cities like Montreal and Toronto, redistribution of bikes becomes very difficult and costly, and only a small subset of the population benefits from it.

There's no fucking point in using them. Nearly all of them are either full of broken glass, debris or selfish cunts parked in cars.

1:21 I had a feeling Salt Lake would be just SLIGHTLY behind Edmonton and Calgary. No wonder it blows every single other US city on the list out of the water on transit.

One reason people have a reaction to the buildings like the ones shown in the video is because they look so out of place where they are being built because most neighborhoods have not been allowed to develop incrementally over a longer period of time. So when the housing crisis reaches a tipping point, as it has now, units are going to be built wherever they can built and that is most likely going to be in or next to places that are mostly single family residential. And even taller buildings are going to be concentrated downtown because that is where there is most likely the most land to develop as a result of previously being surface parking or industrial zones. Also, a lot of these buildings are built by large developers rather than small ones, and return on investment is their main priority, thus architecture will mostly be ignored as that will usually make it more expensive.

The main issue I see is normal people vs entitled assholes. Entitled drivers don't follow traffic laws and drive recklessly. Entitled cyclists don't follow traffic laws and bike recklessly. Both don't yield for pedestrians and almost run me over when I'm walking with right-of-way. Both are risking their lives and/or other people's lives when traveling. Both think what they want is *above* what other people want. And they don't use a single braincell to actually be considerate of other people.

I live in Edmonton and have been to Calgary multiple times, I feel Downtown Calgary is more welcoming than ours. Edmontons just has wide roads in downtown meanwhile a pedestrian street in Calgary.

Never understood why america just not throw a cheap bikeline next to car roads where possible , once you seperate the 2 modes of transport, then you don't have cyclists cycling near or between cars at much different speeds annoying the beep out of the car drivers or scaring the shit out of cyclists. Except perhaps for a crossing and slow roads you don't have to deal with each other.

6:04 whats with the 2.8 and 7.6 people

The premise that owning a home is destructive is ridiculous. The home is the primary method of saving for retirement. Without it, retirees will be a huge burden to the government. It is this need to protect their investment that encourages owners to protect the character of the neighborhood which in turn makes it desirable to live in. Renters really don't care about maintaining the neighborhood. If the neighborhood goes downhill by the wrong kind of development, either government or privately built, they just move because they don't have skin in the game.

Only an idiot would trust the government. It's all about control. Sure they make it sound good but it seems to me it's what the antichrist would love to see. Everyone restricted in their movement.

there are thousands of different types of cyclists.

14:36 ...Oslo, Barcelona, Oulu, Freiburg...

Its disappointing that the plan for the Jean Talon REV isn't direct like a REV route should be

Interesting video I got a pedego Boomerang class 2 because I have a balance issue when I start riding I also have c.o.p.d. this makes my Boomerang moor of a mobility device then you'd think

Dutch didn't decalre war on cars, cars just killed over 3000 children each year, and parents where fed up. Driving your car in Netherlands is best, roads are well maintained, traffic flows are smooth, public transportation is good, we just want cities for people, not for cars, cars are guests, a necessity, but not a default mode of transportation

13:04 you took flatness of NEtherlands, but looking at this video so far, you hardly went outside "Randstad" region where Amsterdam, Rotterdam, en Haag are... if you went to Limburg, there you would have met cities and villages like San Fransisco and are part of the bicycle structure aswell..Drenthe would have you biking onder the cover of big oaktrees often, Groningen, Friesland provinces would have you in wind, lots of it, and people still bike, rain or shine. Children bike to school driving 10 miles to, and 10 miles back.. Everyday, rain or shine, snow or rain. Buiilds their resistance against flue, cold, hardens them in endurance, making them independent youngsters

Big North Amerikan cities would be saved as highways would divert cars out of city centre, making it beter to bike or walk. And it would clear the air significantly. New York. Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal..it is shamefull and embarrassing to see an ambulance stuck in traffic down town... that does not happen in Dutch cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Groningen, Leeuwarden or any other

10:23 and city planning is centerred around cars.. highways go in to cities, instead of going around them. Trafficlights in North Amerika are made to move cars in less time as possible. Cities are made to accomodate cars. European cities specially Dutch cities threw that overboard in the 1970's and made cities people friendly instead of car friendly. Shop owners protested... our customers come by car!!! They did say.. but..cars don't do the shopping, people do and where on car parks.. 15 bycicles can.. 15 times more people in your store per parked car.. do the math.. During lockdowns Groningen went crazy, they wanted the bikes out of the streets..again the shop owners protested, but byciles don't do the shopping, people do, and now more people walk and still cycle through and to groningen, m making it the most walkable, and quietest city, "noise"you hear is people talking, birds chirping, yet 200.000+ people work and live there, big warehouses are there, people always point to Amsterdam, but ti isn't representative at all for NEtherlands

9:17 it just boils down to not wanting.. Munich Germny is mountaineus, and people cycle there, villages in the French mountainranges have cyclists, so also that isn't an "excuse" just autismically scared of changes it seems, hahaha!!! And backwards? Yes! Dutch cities where in the 1970's where north amerikan cities are 2024, you CAN make a change..if you WANT..

You can use rubber tires for the Metro. That will help with the sound problem since trains with tires are quieter

Content is not bad but this guy has a voice made for print. Almost unlistenable. Female needs to do all the talking.

US and Canada "to big". BS argument debunked by NJB kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHbRmmuFnpaEgA And in 1776 S had NO cars!.

Yes and all the cities with decent urbanism here are terribly expensive. It's the difficulty of changing things that is why people want to leave. The problem is the system.

Biggest plus. No helmets, no lycra, normal bikes, every age group uses bikes

I think people his age have a very different idea of progress than we do. They're really only a generation removed from the filth and grime of the Victorian city, his parents were probably born in the 1890s or 1900s (and if his grandparents were still around they probably had a few tales to tell). The squalid slums of Whitechapel, or the dark mills of Manchester were very much in living memory at the time, and only few years before the streets had been ankle deep in horse excrement. From his perspective it was a marvellous thing that cars allowed people to move out of the city to places with fresh air, and the old buildings we cherish now were only 50 years old or so (think of a 1960s building you cherish!), not monuments but blight. From the perspective of the time, only a particularly stubborn person would want to keep living in the squalor of the city! So as much as I loathe all the car infrastructure put up in the 1930s - 60s, I can see where they were coming from. The only reason European cities didn't go the same way is that they were broke after WW2 and had to rely on their old infrastructure, and by the time the economy had recovered tastes had changed. This is why the UK is far more suburban, with worse public transit than say Germany or France. 30-60 year olds are kind of the tail end of that zeitgeist, younger people sort of in the middle. I think the next generation is where the change is going to come from, the kids who are 8ish now. When they hit 21 there'll be a few cities with decent transit and cycle infrastructure, and they'll likely be better places to live, and I think they'll lead the push to transition.

This is sort of what I was thinking on Wednesday when at a meeting for a new apartment complex. The room was full of old people who didnt want to see 3 story buildings 100 feet from their properties and were scared of all the traffic it might generate. Nevermind we have a housing deficit that has to be built somewhere

It’s also important to know that if you hit a cyclist driving a car it’s the driver that is responsible. So as a driver you are more likely to be extra careful around cyclists.

So, the Netherlands is a case of "Actually existing cycling"... Interesting. ... Comrades will know.

I found the local school complaining about the bike lane amusing. I'm from Barcelona, and the city hall has built a lot of bike infrastructure in the past 12 years the general consensus seems to be that bikers are dangerous for the pederatias but for some reason nobody complains about cars like that local school.

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The most expensive suburbs in the whole effing country. Great.

This is one of the biggest bummers of urbanism in the US for me. Unless you make enough to live in an obscenely priced old university town, there isn't much option for good walkability and human scaled design unless you live in a big city. I'd like to live in a smaller city that's still got good density and is easy to walk/bike/transit everywhere, and not have sprawl so nature would be easy to access, but it's basically one or the other around here.

Yeah let’s confine and assign everyone to 25min cities to live, learn shop and socialize. Seriously stop eating the sugar people it’s making us all stupid! There is absolutely a reason dementia is being called type 3 diabetes. ☠️🙈lets just agree to revisit this 15min city idea after our water gets cleaned up from the PFAS & unbelievable excess of fluoride we’ve blindly been drinking/bathing in. Hopefully after that we will be able to think clearly. Also if this is a climate control tactic I’m confused as to why we wouldn’t start with enforcing rules for cleaner production of products. Or promote having local and public gardens to naturally purify the air?don’t get me wrong m, the idea is nice but I’d probably like it more if my trust hadn’t already been broken, stop feeding us the poison Big Bro 😭 💔we’re good people!

Come to Memphis and you'll understand. Unfortunately KZbin will not let me post what I really want to say. It isn't about the cars we drive. It is the culture, education and the people. There was something in common in the top 5 unsafest cities you mentioned.

I have lived and worked in Calgary for 22 years now and this video is bang on.