1:52 so, zoning. Didn't we experimented with it before and got traffic?

That guy giving the tour of the architects office looks like Jack Antonoff :o

Being a Chicagoan and not putting the absolute Art Deco masterpiece Bloom High School in Chicago Heights, IL. First high school in the state to reach landmark status - that occurred before the incredible limestone Joliet Central HS getting the same recognition

Chiming in with some special interest knowledge for ya: a "3-dimensional matrix" is called a "tensor". We want to turn the hustle and bustle from a matrix (2 dimensions) to a tensor (3 dimensions)

Like Moses handing down the tired design tablets. High opinion of his own ideas. Don't you just love it? If only you'd follow the principals. Yikes.

any time this has been attempted they end up with ghost towns

What a joke

These designs are for the wealthy business owners to keep their workers nearby. It's unhealthy living that close to so many ppl. My family was forced out the Black Bottom so they could expand the interstate. It didn't work out well for most. Drugs and crime got out of hand after that. Thankfully my great uncle could afford to buy one of the big houses near Belle Isle, where I grew up. Now I avoid Detroit 🤷🏾‍♂️

city planners created some of the worst land distribution projects ever. Look and China and USSR. these plans are a crime against humanity. But the planners have a god-complex so they don’t really care.

This is the philosophy that gave America "stroads" and huge "suburbs" miles and miles from anything. No, I like where *I* live, where the shops are on the other side of a 20-foot road, next to the bus station, just past the library and railway station. And... who the hell gave you the right to experiment on me? Who died and made you God?

A lapse of accountability is not a surprise to me, people may not realize is this is normal.

These 'future demand' excuses have to be grinded to a lawfull halt. Yesteryear.

Interesting secret, I have often wondered about this problem. How about some covered walks? And maybe some nets.

Nature might force it in its own special fashion. lnertial patience does the trick.

Ah yes... "Commie Blocks", did such a wonderful job in Detroit. 😢😢😢

Lafayette Park kinda reminds me of the Barbican in London UK, they were both built relatively cheaply, at the centre or radical new ideas while unlike many other projects, they are both loved by residents and as examples of good architecture. Shame there just isn't the will anymore to build good places like them anymore :(

I like that you use an aerial shot of my hometown (Heusden) in the Netherlands in a video about Chicago 😊

“Messy cities clog up social interaction.” Tell me you don’t understand how cities work without telling me you don’t understand how cities work.

Hello Mr.Hicks, I'm one of the old viewer of your channel(to be clear I wasn't a subscriber till recently but always watched yo videos as son as you released them), the thing that I love about your videos is that I always learn something from you and your video, your soft speaking voice and calmness makes it feel good to watch and etc. How ever I really hope you don't take the way that other great KZbinr took and ruin their careers by putting quantities over quality and choosing to upload more frequently to gain more money. I really appreciate it to have 1 video every 2 week or even 1 month but with better information and overall quality rather than getting 5-6 videos of month and no significant information and value in them

What the heck is going on with this map 3:33

I do swear architects seem just to hate the people that they are nominally trying to help.

Sidewalk sheds stay up for long periods because it is cheaper than fixing the buildings. They are changing the laws to remody the problem, higher fines!

I would love to see a collaboration video between you and Andrew Millison (@amillison) on the sustainable designs of cities, landscapes, and watersheds. Great stuff! 👍

Absolutely disgusting. Germany was right to ban Bauhaus. Shoulda deported those architects to Antarctica though...

Idk, but this looks like communist central planning to me...

Windowless building is not made for spy the people. It's made for the people do not spy the building. 😉

Let me guess, those German architects were all communists. Everything centrally planned, influencing human nature, etc., strict rationality.

The old dormitories built in the 1960s at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, namely Harper-Schramm-Smith and Abel-Sandoz, look a lot like these designs.

"Cities are living growing things" Uhh no, they are most certainly not a form of life.

4:51 Holy crap! I said _“Bauhaus”_ and then you said _“Bauhaus”_ and then I said quietly, confidently _”Yeah, that Art History minor paid off today!”_ 😂

As far as I remember from my studies, the Dutch have some of the best city plans based on the combination of uses. I hope you make a video about it one day. I love urban planning. My favorite in this regard is the Cerda Plan from Barcelona. Unfortunately, the building density of the original plan has been multiplied by those responsible out of greed, which is why the built reality is not as harmonious as the planning.

In the 1950s and 1960s there was a lot more hope for the future. Why dream big when our systems have repeatedly proven incapable of accomplishing even small ventures.

It would be so great if you could do a deep dive on the non-euclidean zoning and design of japanese cities. I feel like the successes there are often overlooked by city planners and architects in the US but it seems like we could learn a lot from how they do things which elicits really organic growth in their cities.

At 5:29, have you got residences and industry swapped?

Lafayette Park is my number 3 on "secretly affordable and awesome" places to move to behind Minneapolis or a well maintained Chicago Two (or three) flat. Someday.

It’s like somebody took everything that’s wrong with LA, the aesthetic trappings of commie blocks, and Albert Speer’s plans for Germania, threw all of them into a blender, and decided to declare the inhuman sludge that came out as the future of city design.

A centralised national plan, how could that possibly go wrong? And the people in charge of the plan end up in the best houses in the best location. The rest of us end up in units that would be very much like a cell.

Ludwig Hilberseimer... sounds appropriately like a Bond villain.

We humans are really just apes whose discovery of language has imbibed us with the illusion that the smattering of reason most of us have is the polestar to guide us out of our misery. Combine the illusions of reason with the titanic self regard central to the makeup of many of our would be social saviors, and it is easy to end up with these nightmarish visions.

Can you make a video about the plans for Lincoln Yards and the Chicago 78?

If anybody the corporate bosses cared about was at risk money would be no problem.

Does anyone else have a problem with these building's being used to spy on all of us and without cause? Even after the Snowden revelations the U.S. government continues to spy on us unbothered.

Guess what country has the most miles of railway in the world? No, not China...the US!! Let's put them back to work, for the love of god!!

Nice, carcentric inefficient low density hellholes! Not even to start about the socio-economic segregation planned into these hellscapes. Hilberseimers plans look like some of the hellscapes mentioned in CityNerds recent video on: where driving consumes the most of your life. Those plans truly make my skin crawl and should absolutely be forbidden to even be mentioned in a semi positive manner. I truly believe citycenters like the Jordaan in Amsterdam is nearly perfect, compact, pretty, good mix of greenery and infrastructure. And most of all, pretty buildings that make people want to come visit and most important: maintain. Making those historic places some of the most enviroment friendly places in the world since they dont get dilapitated and replaced by new buildings with a short life span. Theres 400 year old buildings that still have original wooden structures, now thats using your resources efficiently. Also being able to go everywhere, fast and easy by bike or public transport is to me a clear winner in layout. My ultimate city is a spokewheel city where all cars and public transport are below ground with manufacturing spaces and shoppingmalls underground. Ontop of all of that parks, houses, small shops and canals (For leasure, being able to see water is good for mental health) Canals could also serve as cooling water for industry such as datacenters etc. Houses need to be pretty enough that people will want to renovate them in the future when needed. Preferably so pretty it attracts tourists.

It's the Sears Tower and I refuse to recognize any other name. It earned it's iconic status as the Sears Tower when it stood as the world's tallest building over my beloved city for 25 years. Had it been topped off in 1972 as Willis Tower then Willis would've earned its name but it didn't so it is undeserving. Don't even get me started on the John Hancock building. Us Chicagoans take a lot of pride in our iconic skyscrapers and our food too.

Settlement cells sound a lot like the base units of 5 minute cities ?

What we need is technocratic overlords, digital IDs, and vaccine passports, am I right?

I'd be curious to explore the relationship between soviet style city planning to Hilberseimer’s development philosophies

Brazilia, the government capital of Brazil, proves how "the zones" just do not work.

I actually just based my final architectural project in school on Lafayette Park! Visiting there, specifically the townhomes, are really interesting. It's very peaceful and definitely should be experienced by anyone who is interested in modular/uniform design