Can I suggest for you to study stars, the life of stars (mini nova's, micro nova's and novas) and their effects on the weather systems of the plants that orbit them. Also the harmonics of galaxy's and the affects on the stars that move inside it. Then revisit climate change is caused by humans. I'm all for cleaning up our act, but are we really to blame.

Ray Oldenburg I know what you are

Listening to his quotes, guy does seem to give off serious "closeted gay" vibes. 🤔

i had a problem where i wanted to hang out with my freinds out in the world instead of over the internet or in one of our houses......but when i sat down to think about where to go...i coudn't think of any place. Everyplace near me is just a place to spend money go do what you need to do there is no place to go and just chill...except maybe the park..but even that has limited options

Well done. Easiest sub of my life.

Just like during Covid many of our political leaders were found partying when everybody else had to be locked up in their homes. Some of the biggest preachers on climate change are some of the biggest polluters. They don’t take it seriously so why should I. Because of their actions I can only come to the conclusion that it’s all about control. If they really believed what they preached they would be the first ones to cut back.

Fifteen min. C. With certain unsettled migration problems,,please include solutions.

Your world now,,watch how it turns out and good luck.

Wow, fixing the root cause instead of the symptoms. This is the first comprehensive video essay that actually enforced my belief on finding out the “why” is more important. Now to find a solution…. Way more difficult

Cool video. I mentioned 3rd spaces as a potential alternative for us at the end of my most recent video, but have since added a footnote based on this video.

Overpopulation. If we ain’t talking about that we ain’t seriously talking.

5:59 "the library probably shouldn't be burdened to host so many library functions." This is huge. It reminds me a lot of how cops have to take on so many additional functions as well.

Nice video mate, I am starting a dissertation on community gardening/Urban food mapping in Edinburgh, Scotland. We have 50+ year long waiting list for an allotment, but a UK wide movement is growing legs, advocating for a 'right to grow' policy. ('Incredible Edible' if you are interested)... Intruiging to hear a viewpoint on this subject across the pond. All the best.

Thank you for this video, it was really informative.

In reality the Southern California coastal area could place 200 15 minute cities of 30,000 housing units each all interconnected with transit

Towns. 15 minute cities are called towns.. lol

After months of theory of "third places" being shoved down my throat, I now discover that those were just the fantasies of a closeted misogynist. This video was amazing tho, I watched it twice, took notes and am about to burn my little suburb neighborhood to the ground. Will keep you updated

3:58 someone get their dementia'd grandma she ran away from the hospital

I've been super into urbanism and planning for a long time, just from noticing the differences in cities and towns i'd visited around the US and the rest of the world. Years later, I found Not Just Bikes, urban planning youtube, and r/fuckcars. Something that always bothered me was the word NIMBY. I'd never heard it in leftist circles in the 2000s. First time I ever heard someone say it was a corrupt politician. Anyway, even in ostensibly leftist spaces, neoliberal urban planning + pro development landlord propaganda kept surfacing. I'm so appreciative of your channel. This is what I've been looking for for a long time and I'm so glad I found your videos! Keep it up, it seems like a LOT of work goes into these. Thanks for your hard work!

Damn, can't believe it took me till this video to fully internalize the role of the profit motive in creating bad urban planning given the amount I think about each issue individually. I knew it before now but it never fully clicked, thank you. Some criticism of the video that could be off base but were my thoughts: The discussion of Ray Oldenburg in depth over most of the video doesn't seem especially relevant. I feel like it would make more sense to engage more with contemporary discussion of it, or at least not spend so much time just reading his writings. I think a better format would be to call out the most important flaws in leftist discussion in third spaces, and then have the explanation of the right to the city as a far more productive and relevant theory be the main point of the video.

Centrist here. It was informative and useful but you lost me with the personal vendetta.

wth are you talking about... ... you are overthinking/overcomplicate this.

There is not climate collapse!!!

'The uncomplicated joys of all-male company', am I right

May Ray Oldenburg have been perhaps maybe possibly homosexual?

I think I like Andrewisms talk of third places where it hs to be community oriented and for everyone. Not just a coffee shop or a library. Like a parking lot can be a third place if it wasn't for loitering laws and bs like that. Which I like the spirit of it. Highly recommend checking him out. Like the community garden is a third space that ive seen people grow some of their food but not everywhere has that or as a free one. Also its been noted that in some places they'll tear out the garden itself.

Great video. Love it! In regards to looking within a context that advocates for a Right to a City and what it means, like you also said, I don't know what a truly realized version of that means, but there are somethings that could be explored in future KZbin videos. As an American, business interests of the property owners have always dominated urban planning decisions with maybe a few small exceptions with particular cities or particular political administrations. But what does it look like for public interests to be effectively advocated for by a community over narrow economic factors? While a coalition that might make up a particular community or communities is going to be unique to the particulars of that area and people, what are fundamental similarities that are necessary to effectively advocate for a Right to the City? Finally, what are the most effective methods that promote Right to the City of increasing agency while remaining ethical to its goal? What does it mean for different organizations to show the effects and benefits of a Right to the City advocacy?

Decentralization of everything is good, including government. “The best government is that closest to the people”- Thomas Jefferson

Lefebvre fans stay winning

I love the way this totalising god's eye view is not being specifically identified as a pretty colonial rhetoric, seeking to define and know all possible speaking places. There is no god's eye view guys. Your colonialism is showing. Third place is a very Anglosaxon and western concept and tries to colonise all space as if it were American space. Thankfully it's not actually that way.

not every good idea is leftist and no idea should be judged based on the personality of her author. You western lefties are relogious purists

i don't think oldenburg's politics, nor theory, are all that useful, but to discredit the theory, because it's "centrist" or "right-wing" is reductionist, yk death of the author etc.

Yeah, Malls didn't really turn out. Look around. Once they are not profitable enough or there is a way to make a bigger profit, the public will be sacrificed. The privatized commons also fails for another big and related reason, the private owners cannot actualize indirect profit or refuse to realize indirect profits because of ideology. Free public transport and good public schools for example pay for themselves many times over by providing businesses with accessible high quality literate labor, yet they will work to defund these via politics, and ruin the very thing that will profit them indirectly the most in the long run and even make their business viable. We just cannot depend upon the myopic vision of business leaders. They can serve a purpose especially with small biz but if they get too wily and clever or too rich and powerful, too many perverse incentives destroy the fabric of society they largly parasitize. Socialism saves capitalism...from itself.

Cities are slave prisons. City development in modern times is the degrading of humans.

I'm anti 3rd place simply to hurt people who want them. If a 4th place popped up and it was desired id hate it.

This is what all urbanists need to hear. Thank you for this video! A lot of my urbanist friends/comrades are often advocating for policies that only seek to empower developers, and I’m glad for this perspective for my own analysis and so I can hopefully help others see why the aims of urbanist advocacy are woefully limited (capitalist)

Pretty interested in the idea that the rebellions that queer people participated in during the 70's were partially thanks to us being trapped in specific neighborhoods together. Where can I read more about this?

The government was caught dead to rights deliberately designing the covid 19 virus. I and many others were injured by the vaccine which was pushed by the government at first by considering a mandatory paid vaccination then by having the public pay via the government since the pay demand would spark nation wide riots against racketeering. Whether the right is insane or not is irrelevant to this issue because attaching objection to the right was designed to stigmatize desent against the government's narrative and actions concerning the virus. Somehow it is left now to conform to what the genocidal maniacs in Washington want. The fact that you think it is paranoid to view the government as predatory means you are deliberately more comfortable not paying attention

unbearable. i don’t think 3rd places need talking at all

What about not thinking that your ideas are the best for everybody? Some people like to live far apart from everything and drive a car and others not. All lifestyles are good

I doubt the 15 minute city could ever happen all at once, and, at least in the USA, never happen by force. However, as I get closer to retirement, I have been looking for a walkable neighborhood to live in when I retire. I think more and more people are already finding that idea attractive and more neighborhoods will evolve into walkable communities, so over time I think the 15 minute city will happen on its own. Right now, though, I have an idea that I wish a some wealthy person would try. Shopping malls are closing all over the country. What if those were converted into small communities? One of the large stores could be a grocery store instead of a department store. Two large sections could be converted to housing, condominiums and apartments. They usually have huge parking lots and a lot of that space could be turned into green space. The residents would probably still have to drive to work, but couldn't they have everything else they need or want under the roof of a former shopping mall?

Interesting information. The recommendations at the end are overly vague. Do you have a different video that gives more specific recommendations?

15 minute cities are natural when you remove restrictive government regulations. Large lot single use zoning, minimum parking requirements, minimum lot sizes, height restrictions, set backs, expensive lengthy and non transparent permitting process, car dominant transportation policy.