No no no! How do you figure that jamming a bunch of families into a smaller area is going to improve water consumption? We do already have a lot of housing complexes anyway and there area always a lot more going up, but suggesting that should be accelerated even more doesn't sound good for water consumption. At least having single family homes spread out spreads the water needs outward and gives people a chance to add some green trees, whether they take it or not. Plus, there are other utilities that benefit from being more spread out, like the fact that Phoenix has a lot more houses with solar panels than most other big cities. We wouldn't have the real estate on those taller buildings to have as many solar panels. Then there is just livability! Living on top of other people is not what most of us want in Phoenix and all that concrete is also going to heat things up more. Phoenix is already a hot mess traffic-wise at just about any time of the day downtown and you want to jam even MORE of those buildings in here? How's that traffic going to work? Same with parking downtown. It already doesn't happen, so more buildings in that tight space are going to need either more parking garages or more walkability. The biggest changes we need to make is more TREES here and also moving cattle out of the metro area and into areas of AZ with more water availability . That will cool things down and help with water retention.! I am on the very North end of Phoenix and in the just 7 years I have owned my house, thanks to the chip plant, we have started to feel jammed together and urban where it used to feel like it wasn't part of the fifth largest city in the country. Now it does, especially during rush hour. I don't think adding a bunch of taller buildings is going to positively affect the feel of this area or the rest of Phoenix. Downtown maybe, but I really hope we don't get a bunch of tall buildings in this part of Phoenix. I'd rather continue to have hot air balloons float by every morning.

Queen Creek has built a ridiculous amount of Apartments in the last 2-3 year. The price of homes are outrageous.

In Europe Are Transit better than in America

Compare it with Hamburg I Think it’s better

In my opinion, not even cars should have

Just found the channel. Love the content, but you stopped posting a year ago. I'm curious what happened. Do you plan to keep it going?

the purple line goes clockwise around the loop, actually.

I'm guessing the warning at the beginning has to do with your strong emphasis on "s" sounds, but honestly I think you might just need a pop filter.

That’s not true… and I’m in Barcelona now jajajjaja

So basically cold cities

Are yall fleeing the country?

Look at berlin, we have 200+ Tram, Train, "S-Bahn", Bus, N-Bus Lines

It’s nice until you’re actually from Barcelona, have a normal job and can’t afford rent so you have to live in the smallest shoebox and still struggle but at least you can bike everywhere. Clowns

Brasil tem 10 cidades no ranking de pior commute pqp

We left AZ 4 yrs ago for the Midwest. What a welcome change from the poor air quality, heat and traffic ✌🏻

yeah maybe but take a walk in barcelona and they'll steal everything, not even stopping at your undies

I can't stand these urban planning nerds talking about "walkable cities". Nobody wants to ride the bus or the light rail in Phoenix and sit on a pile of human s*** and piss from some meth head.

When you artificially create cities instead of letting them grow naturally over centuries you tend to get the car centric, pedestrian hostile hell-holes you see all across the country. I swear, gasoline to the average obese American is like crack to a toothless prostitute.

I used to live in Wilmette, a suburb near Evanston where the terminus of the purple line is. I often would go into the city, and my parents own a condominium in Logan Square.

Barcelona is a tourist trap, go to wien instead way better

Wow, I wanted to learn about the issues not be inundated with Marxist propaganda

Wtf Shanghai !

Comparing Barcelona to two southern American cities is nasty work 😂

apperantly you havent been in barcelona 😂😂 shitty content mate all wrong

Big headed Muricans still like to look down on Spaniards,, little do they know..

As a European, Barcelona ranks pretty meh

The next 4 years will be further expansion of the car centric philosophy.

Look at helsinki

Damn. Some people took this video game personally. If you're that angry over a video game that you haven't purchased...maybe see a therapist. Get some exercise.

Google maps isn't very great at showing transit connections. Very often, you don't see tram and light rail lines, sometimes you don't even see S-Bahn lines. The capital of my home state for example, Stuttgart, has a very expansive S-Bahn and light rail system, but all you see is 1 line and that one line isn't even correct.

Live there, and yeah it is great

All you have to do to prove you have 100 years of water in Buckeye for your master planned city is give good old Tom down at AZDWR and the mayor a big fat pile of money and you'll get your certificate.. Just don't do it when a water report is being compiled that says "nope nope nope". Is that egg on your face

More parks/green space would have been good but it’s still great.

you cannot compare apples with pears, you go back and extract your oil hahah

I'm glad you mentioned Venice Beach. In 2015-16, everyone blamed "tech bros" for the increase in housing costs when Google and Snapchat opened offices there, but not the locals who organized to make sure affordable housing never saw the light of day.

Should have used Phoenix instead of Houston

I live in Barcelona. Moved here from India. Wow!! Living the dream. 20 Euro for unlimited bus, subway in the city center for the month! Lived here for a year and a half. Don’t even have a car. That’s what great living looks like!

I'm watching this after the fires and it feels so sad, but I still has hope that this will be an opportunity to make changes and execute those plans

Search about. La Plata in Argentina!

Madrid isn't much behind Barcelona when speaking of great public transport and walkability 👍 loved it there

You make good points. What is needed and what people fear about high density housing is dealing with homelessness and crime. In my area, we have more and more gated communities and people are moving farther away from downtown. We've had great urban renewal projects, and people enjoy coming downtown for dining, food, plays, music, but when we discuss whether they'd move downtown, the response is always "it's not safe" or "the school system sucks". I agree we need walkable neighborhoods with great public transportation. How we get there and change the mindset of the average person needs to be addressed.

my city on number 2 in the longest commute to work 😅

Conde Nast Travel every year has a poll of it's readers to rate their favorite big and smaller cities in America to visit. Chicago has been rated as the No 1 city in US 7 years in a row . So Chicago is not as underrated as some people think. As as local I struck up conversations with people from other parts of the country and the world Almost all of them have a positive impression of this great city

Urbanism has its problems and living in a single family home with acres of land is something urbanist dont want to even talk about and makes no sense.

As a Houstonian, I am almost compelled to become an urban planner to help the effort to fix the awful infrastructure

LA walkable?

"Acre-feet" is my new favorite unit of measurement.

I just came back from AZ didn’t realize Glendale was so bad

The reason I left Chicago was the taxes, the property taxes for what you get are insane.

Dude, just saw one european city and is flattered 😂... go visit many of the instead. Go from madrid to Paris by train, visit Germany and then go through Switzerland all the way to Bari Italy... every other continent is riding horses yet compared to EU standards .