But European buildings are Not traditional. Traditional European architecture would be huts also.

7:39 In Bangkok, public transport is privatised. Each type of transport as its own "card" that you use. The huge problem with all the public transport in Bangkok is that they're all privatised, so these greedy companies have profit before convenience. The buses are run by different companies and operators. The largest operator is called Thai Smile Bus, which have a fleet of only electric buses, these are great, and you can use HOP cards on their buses, but not on any other buses or public transport. The BTS is run by BTSC, a private company, that the government has virtually no control over, as they signed a contract that will expire in 25 years. You can only use their dedicated RABBIT Card on the BTS and BRT (which is a public bus with bus lanes). The MRT is run by the MRTA, which is state-owned, where you can only use their dedicated "Mangmoom" card. The SRT lines are run by the State Railway of Thailand, which is also state-owned, but you can't use any card on it, only pay in cash for a ticket. Now for Bangkok's public transport, there are 3 BTS lines (Silom, Sukkhumvit, Gold) , 4 MRT lines (Purple, Pink, Yellow, Blue), 1 Airport Rail Link that only connects to one of Bangkok's two airports, 2 SRT lines (Light red, dark red), several Boat services, and electric boat services. The MRT Orange line is a new line, connecting the suburbs of Minburi, and the Bangkok old town (which currently has no urban rail at all). This is 100% complete in terms of constructions, but they haven't ordered a rolling stock/trains, tracks, or signalling systems for them. Most likely it will be open by earliest date of August 2025.

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Great video! I think the most successful parks have some retail component. I think park flooring materials makes a huge difference too

Very good video love it! I'd say as a Bangkok resident, the city has some good arterial train route and theee are multiple plans to expand them. But as you mentioned, the "feeder" system to get to the destination (especially in the suburbs) is very lacking. I've seen plans for them, but never saw them in action. But anyway, It's very rare seeing a town planning video on Bangkok, people are slowly realising the problem here. Thanks for the video!

I love my rolling hills here in southern ohio😅

Good content....robot voice could be changed with a pleasant narrator.

Well done, great video of a great place

The problem with the BTS was the short sightedness of the BTS authority. When the BTS first opened, Thai's thought that it was too expensive and so not many people used it. For many years, you could catch the BTS at any station on the Sukhumvit line and typically get a seat. Now every train carriage is jam packed and sometimes you cannot even get on. This is due to the fact that, although they built very long platforms, they did not have many carriages per train. Fujitsu could not supply any new ones as they had so many orders to fill, plus many trains were out of service for repair. Unless it is very early in the day, or heading into evening, I try and avoid the BTS as much as I can. BTW the MRT is not much better.

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I love pavers. They really should be used more in medium to high density residential areas or on local/access streets to encourage slower speeds, plus all the environmental benefits. The upfront cost will be worth it. 🙂

El Retiro park in Madrid is my world's favorite. Large, safe and so many areas to walk around, mix of uses and interests. Marina Bay Gardens in Singapore and all the green surrounding area and ponds are great too. Oklahoma City's Scissortail Park is brand new and well designed for multiple uses, safe and beautiful, it connects to the waterfront. The Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City is small but Beautiful. Huacheng Square park in Guangzhou, China is really cool with green areas, multiple paths, safe, long and multiple uses. Nan Lian Garden in Hong Kong is great and neatly beautiful. KLCC park in Kuala Lumpur is not that good after sunset, very dark. Central Park in New York is obviously great but some areas after hours feel dangerous. La Mexicana Park in Santa Fe, Mexico City, is great. Same for Chapultepec Park in Reforma Street in Mexico City. Both are beautiful. Monceau park, Tullerie Gardens and Luxemburg Gardens in Paris are alright but Montsouris is nicer. There are so many, with so many styles I just wouldnt finnish. Buenos Aires has a really nice one too.

Fun fact: tons of Philly streets still have their bricks beneath a couple inches of asphalt. You can sometimes see them during repaving operations.

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Is there a best* size for a park? I've been wondering if it is better to have bigger more spread out parks, or smaller more prevalent parks. Those santa barbra ones are like 150m^2 and maybe seem big enough to feel like you could get lost in them (in a good way)

came here from the video on permeable pavement

I prefer jogging my three mile trail partially enclosed by trees. It's quiet, has a nice variety of trees, not highly trafficed. I feel more comfortable zoning out there than at a public park. I can also do without all the eyes on me as I jog.

Great video, congrats!

I'm from Canada, particularly Quebec where there are a great many small towns or older neighbourhoods that deck their main streets with postcard-perfect holiday cheer worthy of the best Christmas movies, complete with real snow, not fake. But I spent this last Christmas in Florida, oh my. However, we did visit Tarpon Springs, and what a relief to finally see sidewalks and ordinary houses and even shop-lined streets after so much sprawl. Alas, what keeps that town alive is tourism, so there are few shops that the locals use -- instead, they drive to the strip malls just a bit to the east. The same is true for some of the particularly charming towns here, and Old Québec is like a resort town, hardly used by locals. Old Montréal fares better, but it still has few services for its residents. However, they are both beautiful, summer or winter, so there's that.

I'm loving your videos! Another example of extremes from Canada: where I live, they re-did one of the main squares in Old Montreal, Place Jacques-Cartier, but the granite stones they used were only 6cm thick and started cracking after the first winter. They had to re-do it with 10cm thick blocks after. And I noticed in Portugal that their blocks are actually tapered spikes and quite a lot deeper than their smallish square size on the surface.

Very informative and a well made video. Interesting note about the power lines

Great video, this makes so much sense! Also, thanks for the great subtitles.

still waiting for 90% of the population here to know that voting actually does something and they can’t just vote to whoever give them the most money (also tbh some of the politicians don’t really have much knowledge on urban planning)

You said depreciate Funny, how boomers single family housing is not built in high enough amounts for housing needs causing an appreciating asset and they fight new housing projects, especially anything thats a duplex or higher, and causing bidding wars. Man, I miss the good old days of America whete you could wLk everywhere and businesses where put on postitage stamps rather than the stroads and asphalt parking lots of strip malls

Knowing how walkable cities are so in demand but are basically unaffordable, I'm surprised there aren't people building their own like back in the days of the old west and advertising their amenities.. like affordable housing. Please walkable city KZbinrs, band together and make this a reality

These are really great videos. Please keep it up, looking forward to the next one!

Great vid! Jeff Shelton from America's west coast has been doing interesting work recently that draws heavily from vernacular southwestern architecture.

The BTS, MRT, and SRT are too expensive if we take into account of the average people's daily wages and costs of living. The overall public transportation isn't THAT far-reaching, mostly sticking to/around main roads or some CBDs. This is especially the case for rail-based transportation. The "city plannings" are essentially non-existent for more than half a century at the very least. In the past before people actually cared about plannings, they let private landowners roam free. There are a lot of "soi"(small streets) that doesn't connect to anywhere, resulting in so many dead ends. Motorcycles are also EVERYWHERE, even on sidewalks. On the number of cars, all previous governments' automobile industry subsidization noticeably contributed to the rising car ownership over the past decades. In addition, a LOT of the cars are from provinces all over the country, or at least the owner isn't from Bangkok. They came to work in the capital and went home to their respective regions during holidays and festivals. During holidays, a lot of BKK's roads and streets are much less crowed. Due to massive vehicle emissions, the air pollution(PM 2.5) can be so awful on some days(when the wind isn't blowing) that the sky is yellowish, you can't see past a few hundred meters, and must wear protective masks outside, otherwise you'll hurt your throat. That being said, too much centralization is also an issue to tackle. It forced millions of people to move to places in and around BKK to work or seek jobs due to lack of oppurtunities elsewhere. Bangkok is known to be one of the most disproportionate primate city in the world, both population and economic wise.

Apologies, NYC block size should say 200' x 900' at 2:04

i like this voice, so watching again

My block size in Edmonton, Canada is 166m (545ft) long and 47m (155ft wide). I find walking in my area easy to do.

Very good points. I wish this realisation was arriving 20 -30 years ago. Now St Pauls Cathedral in London is dwarfed by crowds of what appears to be an example of what you describe. They would have been OK further down the river at Docklands, but they all look like flashy nightclub dressers jostling for attention , while the ancient cathedral sits quietly there behind !

One of the things I noticed in your videos is that it feels like your voice is too quiet compared to the music, but also compared to most other videos. Check to see if your average dB is too low or lower than average. Love the videos! great writing and amazing topic selection. There arent enough women in the urbanism space. See if you can get feedback from other people about how to improve the videos. I can see this channel taking off! Keep up the good work!

Cobblestone are terrible for wheelchair uses, so they should never use cobblestone on new streets

Floating cities seem fine for places that flood from rivers or monsoon season, but maybe not so much in places that experience hurricanes and violent storm surge

Merry Christmas, to you,too!.........you have a beautiful voice.great video,original.

The pollution in Bangkok is nuts. Combined with a severe tropical heat island effect, the city can be absolutely unbearable at times. This is unfortunate, as it is well and truly one of the great cities of Asia, and deserves much better.

What a nice video on your part! Although simple (it's impossible to do otherwise given the length), I don't think it takes from the content, quite the contrary! Many much longer formats on bilbao tend to be oversimplified, which I don't think this video is, just concise. There tend to be an extreme overestimation of the effect the Guggenheim had on the transformation. It was definitely important, especially as a mood setter I'd say (kinda like banner holders in ancient warfare), so worth mentioning, but I feel you did a great work puting the focus on the pushing of transportation, quality of life (environmental works, cleaning, parks, etc), and overall education - industrial focus. So congrats, really!

there is only traffic if you make it in a car, I never had any problem as a person

I grew up near an older style downtown, and it's definitely interesting seeing it from it's decline to the last couple of decades where there have been some more deliberate attention to preserving it or incorporating buildings more in line with the rest of down town(to mixed results)

I think a lot of people cant visulize how one could live in a non car dependant town even if they have been to Disney world or Europe. As a kid i certainly didn't see it as feesable.

I grew up in Socorro N.M. (go ahead, look it up on google maps and take a stroll on street view). Believe me, many americans DO live in towns like this.

Sugar Hill apartments in Midtown Detroit is an example of a brand new mixed use development that has a modest parking garage tucked away in the back. It creates a new pedestrian ally with existing nearby buildings.

Encouraging motorcycle and Moped use is a great way to optimize parking usage. You can park 10 motorcycles on the street in the space of one full size suv. Plenty of single passenger trips in warmer parts of the US should be done on a 2 wheeler but are done in massive SUVs

I would go to markets if they were nice, because here in Mexico al markets are very nasty

I ride a Onewheel from time to time. Cobblestone is so much fun!

Bilbao is the most underrated city in Spain in my opinion. I loved every second that I was there and you could really feel the culture of the people. (Also for anyone planning a Spain trip you need to do a day trip to Toledo - my favorite Spanish city and it's right near madrid)