I appreciate your honesty (or the appearance of honesty) about potential ideological blind spots you may have, and even though you say you’re right wing it does make me more inclined to at least consider what you have to say. I appreciate that you don’t appear to be a pipeline to extremist views or have or make use of obscene or vulgar populist rhetoric. So thanks, and here’s a thumbs up.

I live in this neighbourhood since its beginning. I still remember the day that the canals were finally filled with water, it was amazing!

Maaan. That was quality

Man, what a bullshit. This is some child-made analysis.

To dismiss London as "just another patch of urban conglomerates" without *one* monopathic "shared identity" as per a boulevard linked city with that lets you get places efficiently, and then to go on to criticize Barcelona for "being too monotonous" and buildings for not "promoting diversity" and then to round it off with saying the multipurpose buildings shout have the same pattern of frontage makes me think you don't have a consistent idea on what you want for a city, and by extension that you don't know what you're talking about. I think "perfect" should have the caveat of "in my opinion" or else you're being disingenuous. Maybe even do better research. London _does_ impose height limits in the centre, for example.

Great. Informative. But, the change in audio is highly distracting, given your otherwise professional content: 18:35 vs 18:45

Great video, some excellent points. There are so many modernist structures that are now coming to their end of their functional life - when the time comes to replace them, let’s not do so with a building that lasts another 50 years, but ten times that.

Istanbul is the saddest and worst example of this, the city has (genuinely) no planning and the zoning is as bad is it can, roads are extremely tight even in newly planned areas, the buildings don't fit any aesthetic, they just look cheap and bad, and worst of all,zero greenery and parks. none. also it's all grids.

I found the German City "InnenStadt" an amazing concept. With all the important buildings situated inside a ring road. I remember arriving in Leipzig shortly after Oct 89. I bought a postcard which was an ariel photo of the centre showing the Iconic Open Book Tower the Hauptbanhof, Rathaus town square and Museum etc. In a short afternoon I felt I knew my way around this amazing City even though it had a population of more than 600,000.

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"Modern arhitecture lacks one crucial thing" - common sense, psychotherapy?

This is the smartest video on Urbanism I have ever seen. All the things that bugged me about the City Beautiful and Not Just Bikes put forth in one video. Excellent work.

i do not agree that repeting buildings ar unharmonius i think in the case of repeting buildings it comes down to personal preferance wether you like that particulare buolding or not other than that good video

oslo regretably. and I'm saying this as a norwegian is firmly in the pocket of the cult of ikea. were functionalety and unikeness ar the only important considerations and its sad because oslo has so many historical beutiful buildings

19:00 You hit the nail on the head, you're a genius, you've shown how to create cities that are not only functional and beautiful but also ethical and equal.

It really shouldn't be that hard, how to make city layouts not suck has been known since Ancient Rome & Greece. Look at any city built before 1890, and copy that. The idea that progress is constant, upwards, and linear drives me nuts, city planning is a clear example where technology has regressed majorly and become far worse than what we had since literally Before Christ.

I can appreciate cities and their layouts and sight lines and everything else that goes into designing them but I would never live in one. I’m a rural/ suburb guy through and through. Too many people in the cities and with a low trust society that’s just asking for trouble( yes I live in America)

You're wrong in one point. I think you are a genius.

weirdly euro-centric and dependent on a pre-existing old town

14:16 ANTONOV PLANT AND FAINA TOWN YIPPEEEEE

You praise the uniformity of Paris without realising that at the time the style that Hausmann chose was the "modern" and "trendy" style of architecture at the time, there could be a guy, 150 years ago, sitting in Paris, printing a newspaper and writing "This new style is absurd, it completely ignores French regional culture and mutilitates nice neighbourhoods that we all love, this is abandoning tradition and structures we all love, yatta, yatta, yatta...." You got to learn some more history, also, the nice old building that You can see are what remains of an era, buildings of the rich, if you actually went back and saw where most people lived in 1800s, you would quickly change your mind, modern architectures target is to make people live in clean places with running water and heating. Use brain pls, other then that, good viedeo

I am sorry, but to add to the beginning of your video, many old parts of a city and the complicated street tram are the results of interventions made after the 15th century and much beyond that. A lot and I men a lot of cities were built on a Cartesian pattern, which is the rectangular pattern in question. There many reasons for that, economical, military and others. Long straight roads were very popular throughout the renaissance and baroque and modernism, post modernism etc. Weird wobbly trams are fun yea, but they are objectively superior as a disposition of a city. Thank you

please make a video about Toronto :D

Great argument. The solution to unaffordable housing is to create a new city that people would want to live in.

Why bother? Phoenix already exists!

Except for the height limit I agree

personally I don't think boulevards are well explained in this video. Many 'aesthetic city' KZbinrs have this problem, wherein they describe architectural features they like , say it should be replicated elsewhere but don't justify why sufficiently. This is only a failure in communication, not politics. I really mean this. I agree with the vibes of this video (its really impressive), whilst holding this critique only in the substance and style of a video essay and yet... appeals to tradition, history, order, homogeneity without reason, or logic at the behest of appeals to aesthetic value are tenants of fascism. this is a gripe I have with a big part of aesthetic KZbin not just this video. If a video essay exists to convince people to change their minds or create an alternative view, many people left of the conservative right are hesitant to adopt these views without well reasoned arguments with evidence attached. my critique is not, city planning according to tradition is fascism, but appeals to tradition without reason sounds sufficiently like the aesthetic of fascism to make an essay less trustworthy for many. The better essay always provides and examples and evaluates them in the positive and negative, but if the video essay serves to convince the audience the least it can do is give reasons why, that aren't the appeal to tradition fallacy. also I recommend to everyone to educate yourself on the architecture of fascist Italy and Germany and the aestheticization of politics. the history of architecture is interesting and the conflict and hypocrisy within populism echoed simultaneous neoclassical and brutalism styles. though I fully agree with the notion we should create transport infrastructure that displaces vehicles from walkable and functional city centres, My brain just fills with counterexamples for boulevards. principally it distills to ring roads like in London are terrible (that necessitates a web of traffic) , Paris's wheel and spokes make for terrible traffic (essentially all the problems of rings with added issues of bottlenecks and constant tailbacks then shift into high speed lanes) and grids systems like Barcelona produce the problem of the net inside London (over connectivity creates disordered traffic, its spralls and slows) but also the long lanes don't better transport, Barcelona is notoriously difficult to cross. in a way the best form of boulevard may not yet exist, but the solutions to transport are many, and often the solutions are the problem. but I will say they all have their place, ring roads move traffic away from city centres and are great for towns and villages, long boulevards make Paris navigable and are beautiful and grids (like manhattan) can create superdense interesting walkable spaces (and there antithesis) within blocks and along grids and streets. cities like London, Paris, Barcelona and New York have loads of issues surrounding roads and the ordering of streets, and trying to distill their best features is really interesting. Personally I've found that looking at planned cities like the video touches on in Brasilia is the next step in explaining this topic well. and even better looking at the designs of planned cities that never existed like Frank Lloyd Wright's city for cars, Hitlers Welthauptstadt Germania or the garden city movement. also just personally, I really like the philosophy of the boulevard applied to green spaces as green corridors, or as sponge cities, though I think we are waiting on the science. often we rush to rectify problems without knowing if the solution is a solution. the problem: asphalt roads heat cities, and don't allow normal passage of rain causing either droughts or floods, answer: plant trees is a great example of something that is easy to agree when appealing to common taste, and tradition but might require time to prove.

Begynner å bli lei av at alt bilrelatert skal fjernes fra Oslo. Jeg begynner også å bli lei av disse anti modernistisk arkitektur kanalene, begynner å bli nok av dem nå.

Utility tunnels, round abouts, and lots of cathedrals... That makes a good city, a great city

Pretty perfect. Another one would be the expansion of Venice throughout the lagoon through replication

The simple fact that you started with some background on the beliefs you're coming in with and simply stated that it should help the viewer get an understanding of potential blind spots without any defense gives me hope for the world. Thank you.

Hey personal opinion. What you said in the beginning about the attractivity of the historical part of the town. Many things you said are true, we are not counter arguing that. However, historical towns are now predominantly interesting because we are now hitting a moment of appreciating walking again and simply because we are back in the cycle of appreciating what is usual to be scarce. In the time of modernism, scarce was modernity and since everyone was living in the historical part, people didn’t really deeply appreciate it. In addition to this the most financial means are being poured in the downtown of the city which unavoidably makes it most attractive since there is concertation of activity, transport. So I wouldn’t jump immediately to the aesthetics of the “traditional builder and sporadically element “as key driver for attractivity. The final points are great.

Thanks for sharing. This is valuable... someday, I'll build a small town, im still studying all the correct possibilities 😊

watched all your videos, its time to make moreee

Ty!

A good city design put impact on mental health of citizens.

15:50 That’s true and important for the even development of the city. However it is more of a policy issue than urban planning one. They have the planning in place just need to address the particular issue with policy like mixed plan purpose development and so on and so forth. However, they have the feature just need a software update.. .

Didn't catch it because of the stupid music over the distorted voice, but was it said that a pedestrian bridge was denied...in the 19th century...due to aesthetic concerns?

Meanwhile, in the Arab kingdoms...

Happy to see so many polish cities in your video :)

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This is a great video, I'll do this when I'm president of the world

I don’t mean to be rude when I say this, but is this voiced over by AI? because there are just a couple inconsistencies with pronunciation like Boulevard gets pronounced like four different ways throughout the video

Thank u

unwatchable garbage

Why should we substantiate what we say when we can simply state our opinion as fact? All the famous architects live in houses that they’ve designed themselves and they look exactly like the type of architecture that they create for others.

using your insight for my fantasy universe :D amazing video and well structured

Pretty much any city that grew to a decent size before the invention of the automobile is usually going to be pretty decent by default.

where do they put their garbage cans?

Maybe I'm weird, but I actually quite like the design of most of the buildings you pointed out as ugly or hideous. I like IKEAs, that building in Oslo and I can't quite believe you called the Pompidou Centre "hideous". It's a design classic. I don't believe beauty is completely in the eye of the beholder, but there clearly is a certain amount of that. I kind of agree about your point near the end that there should be a generally harmonious "background" architecture, punctured by the occasional standout building. I think maybe we just differ on what is beautiful or ugly.