An urban planner reviews Minecraft cities

[@CityBeautiful]

I hope my lack of Minecraft experience doesn't make you cringe too bad! Should I do a video reviewing the most realistic Cities: Skylines cities?

[@ankurh6100]

Yes, please.

[@citiesskyscrapers4561]

Yes, I think it would be great.

[@tannerturben8754]

If you do more Minecraft, you should definitely check out this project! The level of detail is immense: www.realismsociety.com/

[@awesomelyshorticles]

I'd like to see you build your own!

[@CityBeautiful]

Yes! If I do another Minecraft video I'll include this one.

[@ivymoorechild3290]

“Lots of Pigs” ten seconds later “Oh they make sounds!” The innocent wonder of this man makes me so god damn happy

[@mochamakos159]

i audibly went "awWW!!!" his fascination with basic minecraft stuff is the absolute best wholesome content. when he asked about "people" in these worlds i was so excited in hopes he finds villagers someday. my favorite thing is people discovering things like pigs making noises or being curious about what more the game holds, literally the purest fricking thing ever.

[@royalpillows7716]

“Cities aren’t built in one era” Dubai: *You dare oppose me mortal*

[@nagatouzumaki3589]

Yo I saw you in Dubai 4k video❤️❤️

[@memexpert]

@Luis Muñoz I swear in China what looked like blueprint concepts, 5 years later, I guarantee it has already been built

[@iaaf_nw2367]

@@memexpert china likes to build build build. Other countries are already fine with what they have

[@e-u-r-o-p-l-o-v]

@@iaaf_nw2367 Most other countries don't have 1.5 billion people

[@iaaf_nw2367]

@@e-u-r-o-p-l-o-v yeah, thats pretty much what i said

[@basilb4524]

one thing that really impressed me was how much you did your research beforehand. You didn't just download a bunch of maps and reviewed them, you actually took the time to look up the background and context behind them, so props for that!

[@codykrueger796]

Oh he like does this for his job so he knows all this stuff!

[@strnvii]

@@codykrueger796 exactly

[@RedFireRex]

👏 👏 *CITY REVIEW*

[@Nugcon]

👌

[@user-ok3eq4iy2o]

It's CITY👏REVIEW👏

[@fourthreetwo_8378]

🙌🙌

[@umbra9705]

@@user-ok3eq4iy2o no its two claps then city reveiw

[@CroSpeXtor]

You guys got it wrong it's CITY REVIEW 👏👏 -Im not sorry-

[@gabriellisi7349]

"it transitions very quickly from forest to downtown" **laughs in Toronto**

[@isdbisdb]

Say the same to pretty much all of the cities and towns of the East coast of Australia 10 minutes and your already into farms, remote buildings (kinda), dirt roads and isolated roads.

[@user-eo6ou6rh1v]

_laughs in Hong Kong_

[@Mouseymouse678]

InSane DropBear can confirm!

[@user-eo6ou6rh1v]

@@Mouseymouse678 would you like another sausage on the barbie?

[@sarakhatib3633]

Laughs in Dubai

[@letsdosomething806]

Getting mugged in a parking garage in a Chicago inspired city is surprisingly appropriate.

[@CityBeautiful]

Greenfield didn't give me a strong Chicago vibe. BTW Chicago is awesome.

[@moonshadow1795]

City Beautiful he was commenting on the fact that right before you said that you said some thing gave you a Chicago vibe

[@skogib4846]

​@@CityBeautiful Man we're two sides of the coin. Parts of Chicago and other American cities, if they were their own detached nations, would have literally the highest murder rates in the world, and they're just a few blocks away from some of the safest streets in the world. It's an insane dichotomy, and your opinion of a city like Chicago is entirely dependent on whether or not you're hanging around in the places that are as violent as mankind can really be. It's a nightmare, and these places are human meat grinders nestled up against bustling, modern, lively urban areas that are very comfortable. I can't stand cities because of this. Often not more than a few blocks away from being mugged. I'm never happier than when I'm as far from other people as possible. But I gotta say, the passion in the video was really endearing. It's fun to watch someone talk about things they enjoy and are really into. Someone's gotta do it and you enjoy it a lot, which is always wonderful to see.

[@tappajaav]

That's quite interesting piece of knowledge mister Skogi B.

[@Minsajang]

@@skogib4846 Let me guess you're a burb

[@someoneyouusedtoknow142]

They made city’s from Minecraft a real thing!

[@crumblesilkskin]

commenting in case someone......

[@casualdoggo4224]

Sharp Harpoon same xd

[@akelly9528]

I'm praying someone falls for this

[@shady725]

oMG lIKE HoW DuMB YoU BeEF FarT NoODlE

[@andrewmitchell5807]

What!!!??? Are you kidding me sir? Do you really think that cities were not a real thing before minecraft was invented? WHAT THE HECK MAN!!!

[@kale8133]

Even thought it's been a long time since I've played minecraft, I still think it's one of the greatest games ever made. There's simply no other sandbox game like it. As someone who grew up playing with legos, minecraft was kind of like a huge lego set, but there were no instructions or correct/wrong way to build anything. I have such fond memories of this game and I'm glad people still have an appreciation for it.

[@faz_6067]

I think of it as a drawing board for people who can't draw. I love drawing but I'm complete trash at it, and instead I can bring my creations to life in Minecraft

[@WyhattMP4]

I also like it because I can build without needing a piece remover..

[@baker7280]

PolygonFruits teeth*

[@prometheanrebel3838]

Infinite Legos on steroids.

[@Av8r-Opr8r]

Ok still play it.. Been playing for 6yrs... Imma be 60 and be playing mine raft and my kids are gonna question my existence.

This dude really went a whole ass decade never playing Minecraft or knowing people made cities in it. Lmao

[@uhohhotdog]

Bob Pickleson we’re old.

[@thejcoutlander6019]

@@uhohhotdog boomer

[@doomguy1167]

@@thejcoutlander6019 zoomer

[@thatssofetch3481]

Doomguy doomer.

[@Brad-vy4nc]

I never thought a city planner would review a Minecraft city

[@faith4disney]

I thought they already did that.

[@aprilgaudette7327]

TAKE ME DOWN TO THE KZbin CITY WHERE THE MONETIZATION IS GREEN AND PRETTY, OH WONT YOU PLEASE TAKE ME HOME, YEAH

[@Chris6d]

@@aprilgaudette7327 Ha

[@willporter1716]

@@aprilgaudette7327 LOL

[@nesstafer]

me: hey that looks like vancouver guy: "inspired by vancouver-" yOOOOOOOOOOO

[@KODO123PRODUCTIONS]

pog

[@mrfreezegames1021]

@@KODO123PRODUCTIONS youtube has a new feature and theres a translate button on the bottom of the comment soo uhhh Pog: CH

[@KODO123PRODUCTIONS]

@@mrfreezegames1021it doesnt show up for me lol

[@jag3596]

"There are animals in Minecraft!" I mean, I get you don't know much about Minecraft, but this quote just takes the cake!

[@CityBeautiful]

I knew I would do/say cringe-y stuff!

[@JinHuangHello]

​@@CityBeautiful Actually Minecraft has people, or say, sort of NPCs in its mechanisms. But these people are far from modern human. The game is initially not designed for creating a modern city so I guess that's why they don't have those "citizens" as in the SimCitys.

[@Nugcon]

@@JinHuangHello also it would be too laggy for thousands of villagers to be running around in a wrold.

[@pepearown4968]

City Beautiful *Cringeworthy

[@jauxro]

@@CityBeautiful it wasn't cringy! Just a funny moment

[@jarkiiv]

City beautiful: it’s okay Minecraft veterans: I can barely build a mansion

[@chasesublette3917]

Minecraft has had Villagers for many years now, since you're in Creative Mode you can find their spawn eggs in the item menu. You also mentioned at some point in the video that you encountered some enemies in the buildings during the night, you can change that by going to the settings and changing your difficulty to Peaceful.

[@CityBeautiful]

Thanks! That's really good to know.

[@marthachampagne316]

"i kinda got mugged in a parking garage so this city needs to work on its crime prevention" lol 16:00

[@unitedstates4912]

@@CityBeautiful theres also evil villagers specifically called vindicators dont challenge them to a fight

[@faggoteditor9297]

@@unitedstates4912 isn't there another one? there's the vindicators, which are the guys with the axes and then there's like two more.

[@SupersuMC]

Qwerty Gaming And illusioners, which currently can only be spawned with commands.

[@konsta4648]

Its 4am, i have a exam in 5 hours and i'm watching this...

[@evaluna122]

Gonke oof

[@toehairyum]

How did you do? :P

[@spiderhack4289]

I have exam tommorow but i learnt a lot so its fine

[@oxivixo]

How'd that exam go?

[@dojacatfan8898]

yeah howd ur exam go

[@Holobrine]

There are villagers, but if they had that many, the game would lag quite a bit.

[@zachslaughter8754]

Holobrine came here to say this. Would be dope, but you’d need one large computer

[@fly672]

You know what would be realy good ? MCA Villagers, they can even talk.

[@unfortunateimperial6019]

Don't forget how painfully annoying the villager sounds would be.

[@ohitsmenm5678]

666 likes 🤔

[@unfortunateimperial6019]

@@ohitsmenm5678, 667*

[@pressurewashingcompany]

I'm actually a builder on Greenfield! I've been following your channel for a while now, it's very surreal for you to review a project I've contributed to and pass by some of the things I've built. Keep at it with those great videos, man.

[@patrickjspoon]

I know nothing about Minecraft, but the application of real planning principles/circumstances to it does in turn teach me more about urban spaces and their dynamics. Great stuff!

[@williamsmith6921]

Have you ever heard of block by block. It's a charity using Minecraft to design cities

[@SD-ud5rn]

"I got attacked by creatures?" made me smile. Also your pleasure at hearing the pigs make sounds, I like the pig sounds too. This was a great watch, thanks :)

[@CraftyFoxe]

You should definitely check out Huntington City Project, they are more realistic building than Greenfield.

[@notcarrotnose258]

CraftyFoxe but they’re off scale and they don’t recognize the changes in land value. In that city, everything’s modern. Greenfield has so much variety and realism!

[@DangItshere]

Ayy crafty

[@andrewnixon1855]

Neel Marathe they literally plan the land value which decides if it's going to be rich mansions with higher class shops or poorer areas with large minimalls

[@MineshaftSparky]

Wrong.

[@pressurewashingcompany]

@@notcarrotnose258 Hello, Carrot.

[@explosivemodesonicmauricet1597]

"I basically got mugged in the parking garrage.So this city needs to work on it's crime prevention." He nailed it.

[@Deleted1]

KZbin recommendations has done it again Edit: tip to get likes comment on recommended videos

[@WaterPidez]

lol with the engineer guy?

[@АдрианЙосифов]

HAIL HUNGARY

[@thegamer5367]

KZbin being drunk again rly yt stop the vodka will you

[@SupersuMC]

I'll say. I actually enjoyed this and found a new subscription.

[@atom9885]

same

[@aprilgaudette7327]

*TAKE ME DOWN TO THE KZbin CITY WHERE THE MONETIZATION IS GREEN AND PRETTY, OH WONT YOU PLEASE TAKE ME HOME, YEAH*

[@robertskitch]

Minecraft does have some NPC villagers in the game, but they're not all that intelligent and are more for trading with in survival games than anything else. The next Minecraft update is actually going to concentrate on villages and villagers, so we will apparently be able to see the villagers have a routine over the course of the day and move between their homes and workplaces. Another option is something called 'armour stands' which are basically mannequins which you can pose and stage around the place to set the scene, but that can be a pretty painstaking process, so I don't know that large scale city builds would use it all that often. ... Whenever I play 'Minecraft' my basic goal is always to build some nice little villages, but I'm not sure that I really know all that much about realistic medieval village design, so I end up puttering around more than anything.

[@jambie]

Also, too many armor stands would cause a lot of lag.

[@TGFlashera]

MessyMedieval may be of interest to you.

[@fly672]

There's also MCA mod and Custom NPC's mod

[@Av8r-Opr8r]

I'm working on a it u right now..yea I just started so I only have a bank and a gas station..yet I've been playing the game for 6yrs lol.

[@kloiten]

I've been working on making a small medieval-style country in my Minecraft world for about two years now and boy is it difficult to force myself to build anything! But it's worth it because I love exploring what I've built because I don't really think about how it all fits together, so I have a bunch of weird alleys and awkward buildings that try to take advantage of the limited space.

[@privateryan5671]

There is a 1:1 scale NYC recreation going on. I want to see his reaction to it once it's done.

[@robertonome2448]

22:04 Subtitles: "Hitler's a review" *Nazi urban planner confirmed*

[@skeptic781]

Auf der heide blüht ein kleines blümelein, und das heißt, Erika.

[@rayhib]

@@skeptic781 ich bin gay

[@alexanderfee2910]

Nice pfp, ajfa is great

[@harperburgess9769]

Rahib I take German as my language in school and... 🤣 your comment just got me lmao

[@alexanderl8794]

I love how despite not having a lot of knowledge on the game you try to use the right words for things. It shows a lot of effort on your part

[@jolo7]

When your recommended list doesn't let you down

[@CaptainSNES]

“I don’t play Minecraft” “I think I’m missing a texture pack”

[@uhohhotdog]

Captain SNES he probably watched someone and found it that way

[@blomakranz]

I'm amazed how the actually have recreated the whole of Denmark in Minecraft, that's like over 40 thousand Square kilometres

[@CityBeautiful]

I did not know that. Amazing.

[@blomakranz]

@@CityBeautiful just don't expect Greenland anytime soon tho 😂

[@CityBeautiful]

But it would be so easy... just repetitive.

[@blomakranz]

@@CityBeautiful true, but not all mountains are equally as large. Tho to be fair that'd be easy to do if you programme the game with an existing map... hmmm I must rethink this

[@theebs1]

Denmark? You mean Noth Germany?

[@oPHILOSORAPTORo]

lol, got mugged in a parking garage. Yeah, you gotta watch out for those skeleton gangs downtown.

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

Enderman districs

[@remyclark3616]

I'm currently in school for urban planning, just wanted to say I love your channel and it's great getting videos like this from an actual planner. Keep up the great content, gets me super excited about my future in planning and I'm sure that applies to many others too :)

[@runodyssey9866]

I love how this reviewer jokes about the city having a crime problem, and then goes on to praise the city's similarities to Detroit

[@uss_04]

I honestly got into infrastructure and civil engineering when planning out Minecraft city builds. Go figure. Especially roadway widths when it came to bi directional minecraft carts, or that awkward moment, only in minecraft when you need to move an entire building 1’ block’ over to make the setbacks right.

[@tutsdws8666]

I think you can use commands or mods to move that building without rebuilding it

[@ragellejean]

1:56 Empire Landmark Hotel in the background (Recently demolished). 4:40 The Qube and Trump Tower, Vancouver.

[@robokast]

Great video as always! One of my favorite channels on KZbin for a reason.

[@BlackSephtis]

This is the kind of wholesome content I rarely watch, but greatly enjoy on occasions in which I do.

[@jabsjabsjabsjabsjabs]

Answering your question: Review cities of Cities Skylines is a YES. I really enjoy your videos. You explain a lot of things that I usually ignore even if I am indeed interested in Urban planning myself. Maybe you could further explain the idea of having suburbs (or big wealthy single family housing in the outskirts of the city) as a positive thing for the city. Is it just for it to be more realistic? Or maybe you could explain the social benefits of actually having them in real cities. I understand in the US suburbs was like their bible when cities started to grow due to the car popularization. But in other parts of the world I really think suburbs are more in the innefficient side of living. IDK you tell me. :)

[@tutsdws8666]

The US isn't the only country that has cars lol

[@joehernandez5214]

@@tutsdws8666he means cuz every American has a car pretty much while that isn’t the same for some other countries

[@ahizzy5566]

You'd have to add a mod to put people in the cities, even then having that many entities would lag badly. Then you'd have to accommodate logistics of them living there with beds and stuff. Too complex

[@jayayerson8819]

No mods required, but villagers will add so much lag it will be unplayable

[@insert_username_here]

I guess setting up a server with a city for roleplay could be a good solution.

[@zacharyhebert6423]

7:27 "I was a little high" yea me too bro

[@petersmythe6462]

You can do more intricate signs in modern minecraft or old. First off, giant pixel art signs with 5 meter tall font. Second, you can use maps as signs. It does require you to make rather enormous map art, but you can make billboards with font sizes basically as small as an inch or as big as multiple meters using map art.

[@proudhonintop4952]

You should look at a game like GTA 5. Review a fictional city by game developers with no city planning experience. A few GTAs have even been perfectly replicated in Cities Skylines.

[@Deleted1]

Is this a joke? Its LA I think

[@DingoXBX]

Its litteraly los Angeles though..

[@justmovedin]

Technically the devs still have no city planning experience, they just copy pasted from real life

[@Utonian21]

Los Santos' city structure was based off of Los Angeles. They just had to shrink everything down.

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

@@DingoXBX It's inspired by LA but doesn't really look like it at all if you compare the maps. Rockstar always cleverly captures the "feel" of a city while the actual level design is kept very small, varied, and not that much inspired by real-world streets.

[@phoonboi7572]

I live in Vancouver and the reason the park transitions straight into high rises is because that forested area is Stanley park and in real life the transition is just as sudden.

[@Tadpole1612]

I haven't played Minecraft in a while, but if you go onto creative city build servers the rules are usually at the spawn. Check out the World of Keralis Server as this was the best one I played on. Some of these places are fairly master planned. Roads and rail are built, large areas are reserved, and some are subdivided by different coloured blocks to dictate zones, and how tall these buildings can be. Other players build on it, and the moderators of the server, act as a sort of a planning compliance team making sure buildings are up to code. As a trained but unemployed planner, I'd say this is a fairly decent representation of the planning process within the limitations of Minecraft, and without all the NIMBY's.

[@TheLightningZap]

I think WOK is dead

[@Subbie-the-1st]

@@TheLightningZap Yes

[@miegieeee8914]

"there should be humans in Minecraft" *Herobrine has entered the chat*

[@senyaiv]

0:28 Mattupolis 11:38 Greenfield 22:08 GDMC Comp.

[@willporter1716]

THANK YOU

[@B3RyL]

"You want a mixture of styles. Cities don't grow all in one era." Dubai is feeling the shade for once.

[@ez-8238]

For amyone starting a city heres some advice: a one-way street should be 11 blocks wide, this allows for parked cars with 1 block clearance to traffic. For a two-way street it should be 15 blocks wide, this allows for parked cars with 1 block clearance to traffic on both sides. Hope this help and good building. :) Side note: he right about the streets. I have seen many nice to great citys builds but they all shared the same mistake, narrow streets.

[@sean71300]

If the map inspiration is primarily based on Vancouver then the start wasn't necessary out of town. The forest we see should be the famous 'Stanley Park'. it is located on the North-West side of downtown. In which, the bridge that we see at the start would be the Lions Gate Bridge. Note the similarity in appearance between the bridge in the map and Lions Gate.

[@alexjenkins1079]

I'm not sure if you'd be impressed with a city that I would make in Minecraft, especially when it would be more of a European city that is like this: City planning: -most buildings, except in a few select areas are max. 6 stories/ 150ft high -the newest architectural style allowed, also except in a few areas (mainly ex-warehouse/port/heavy industrial areas) is streamline moderne -most areas, except for the outer regions are mixed-use, or made up of terraced houses or 5-6 story blocks of flats with retail units below the flats or on street corners Getting around -Has a very large metro and S-Bahn system, plus an extremely large suburban mainline rail network) -Has a huge tram and trolleybus network -very little on-street parking (and any that is on street is almost always for residents only, or metred) -Most streets are 1 or 2 lanes wide in each direction, and those that are 3 or more lanes wide have a bus and/or tram lane in the middle or on the side, or trams on grassed track in the middle of the road (the last one especially further away from the city centre) -Trams (and occasionally buses and trolleybuses) stop at some stops in the middle of the road, and other traffic must wait behind them, and at some stops, there are either full traffic lights, or traffic lights with only an amber and red lamp, as well as the road being raised to just below the level of the doors at some on-street stops, the rest have islands -A large number of newer housing estates are directly connected to the tram network, or are accessible to it with a bus ride to an interchange point, such as a shopping centre or suburban high street

[@CityBeautiful]

I think it would be cool to review a more Euro-style city. The only difficulty is that many of those cities aren't built on a grid, and Minecraft really works best with right angles.

[@christianknuchel]

Especially when you go complete Lisbon style, and have trams that are practically *flying* through streets they barely fit through. xD

[@jaycreate7701]

The trick is, some people specialize in creating organic angles. Check out some other town maps.

[@ethangilchrist3534]

I live in the Pacific Northwest and was not expecting to learn so much about the architecture of my own region. Love the video!

[@nannerz1994]

This was fantastic! Thanks!

[@petersmythe6462]

You can use NPC villagers as people. Although getting them to behave nicely isn't always easy. They're happy to run into a highway for example. Having realistic populations in a large city could also get very laggy very fast. As for cars, designing a static construct that looks like a car is doable. Making a boat or minecart you can use like a car is also doable. Making cars that move like cars would require mods.

[@joshsera]

People on the Seattle city council have actually made that remark about preserving the skyline! I thought the same thing, the city isn't about buildings, it's about people, so if we can alleviate housing scarcity, it'll help the people, which is way more important than the skyline!

[@nobrang5146]

And is more important than houses and jobs

[@jv7x]

That line about getting jumped in a parking garage was gold! Thank you for taking the time to do this!

[@TheRealTimnation]

In my experience Austin has this steep density curve at the moment. I would love to see a video critiquing Austins infrastructure, and city planning over the past 30 years.

[@devincory9695]

Some tips: ~ You can turn off those pesky clouds: press escape and hit Options > Video Settings > Clouds (keep hitting the button until it says "Clouds: OFF") ~ You can make it so that it stays the same time of day forever: hit slash on the keyboard and type "gamerule doDaylightCycle false" and then hit enter. ~ You can also make it so it never rains: hit slash on the keyboard and type "gamerule doWeatherCycle false" and then hit enter.

[@NewtsGD]

Now do, a mincraft builder reviews an actual city.

[@TheLucas9d]

The render distance is too high the framerate wouldnt be good tbh

[@MilkIsTheOne]

@@TheLucas9d Isn't Real Life performs better than Minecraft in Rtx?

[@mielole]

Tips for exploring cities in Minecraft: There is a "spectator" mode that one can turn on if cheats are enabled in a map, it is like noclip in other games, you can go through buidings but you cannot interact with anything. The great thing about it is that the scroll wheel of your mouse will allow you to change the speed of your flight. To enable the mode, press T to bring up the chat, type /gamemode spectator into the box and press enter. If you need to interact with anything, like doors or buttons, switch back into creative mode using /gamemode creative You were using creative mode at the beginning since you had the inventory slots on-screen but no health or hunger bar, and you were flying. To fly a bit faster, press control and w then hold w. It gives a little boost compared to the normal fligt speed. Once you release w to stop going forward, the next time you press just w you will go normal speed. In any flight sitution, holding spacebar will raise you above the ground, holding shift will make you descend. In creative mode, pressing spacebar twice in quick succession allows you to get off the ground or "snap out" of flight, basically you fall to the ground. In creative mode, pressing spacebar once while on ground makes you jump. Alternatively, to switch between creative and spectator, if you are in one of these modes, you can press the shortcut F3+N. Happy exploring. P.S. It is cannon that one Minecraft block is supposed to be a cube with side lengt one meter (3.208 feet) P.P.S Another useful cheats: Daytime = /time set day Nighttime = /time set night Sun and moon, move! = /gamerule doDaylightCycle true Sun and moon, stop! = /gamerule doDaylightCycle false P.P.P.S. To show more or less of the city: esc -> settings -> video settings -> render distance The more you choose, the beefier your computer needs to be

[@about19wookiees14]

19:35 that building is beautiful!

[@whiderboss]

I've been building cities in minecraft for a long time i often build Los Angeles styled cities because thats just my favorite style of city with those like southern white/sand colored houses with brick roofs, those dusty highways hovering over the ground with forgotten commercial and industrial areas underneath, those fancy mansions on the hilltops, those gross gang infected areas with tiny houses, those wide roads with commercial buildings on the sides and large parking lots serving the fast food resturants as well as the big intersections. And then the palm trees, the mediteranian climate where it almost turns into desert at some places, the cacti, the plants, the yuccas, the bushes, the street art, the graffiti, the high saturation colored buildings, i love it!

[@TheKnightXavier]

More informative than I would have imagined coming into the video! Thanks dude, really enjoyed this.

[@CityBeautiful]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@TheKnightXavier]

@@CityBeautiful Oh yo, as I have your attention. I'm curious, are there any pointers you could give a student interested in working in urban planning and sustainability? As in what sort of roadmap through education and into the workforce one might follow to end up working in urban planning?

[@CityBeautiful]

Are you in high school or university? The shortest way to get into planning is major in urban studies/geography, do some internships, and get a low-level planning position, either with a municipality or private firm. If you already have a degree (or are too far along in a major to switch), it might make sense to get a Masters degree in planning, then enter the workforce.

[@TheKnightXavier]

@@CityBeautiful Great, thanks for the response. Currently I'm in university majoring in Resource and Environmental Management. Was looking to get a certificate in sustainable planning alongside this. Internship and co-op are things I've wondered about. Seems like experience while studying is key to getting desirable work placement post graduation.

[@CityBeautiful]

Yep, very helpful!

[@michaelipsen3667]

Loved the video, entertaining and informative at the same time! A quick few tips for any future Minecraft map reviews... In settings: 1: turn off clouds. 2: Turn up render distance as high as your PC can handle smoothly. During gameplay: Remember to fly down near the road to give a more immersive look to the city. Fly down by pressing left shift. Great work! Thank you for the video :)

[@EllaGrant]

Do imperial city!

[@jayofthedeadd]

Ayyy, trap supreme! Weird seeing you here lol

[@idontcaresir]

HI ELLA!!!

[@shanghainese7198]

When he said the city needs to work on the crime prevention because mobs “mugged” him hahhahahahaha

[@deekay1306]

When he said they were using Vancouver BC as the inspiration I was caught of so Guard lol.

[@deathbygrapes5]

From my experience of Vancouver, this accurately depicts the city

[@deathbygrapes5]

Especially the style of road and building style, also, Vancouver has parks, the forest was a park

[@h.cschannel]

don't know how much your knowledge of minecraft has grown since this was up loaded but minecraft has cities with villagers naturally spawn through out the world. but because these are fan/man made villagers don't naturally spawn. that last city is based on the vilages that naturally spawn in minecraft, plains biome. they are ment to be small farming towns, not really cities so that's why there are farms everywhere. minecraft has recently updated their villages and villagers so the buildings and villagers take on appearances based on what biome they're in. minecraft has many natural mobs, like villagers and animals, each having their own conditions needed to spawn.

[@ninenezumi]

Yeah and not vehicles like cars and stuff that triggered me so much when he was talking about Minecraft based on the creative/building side of it and not survival

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

Minecraft cities are always fun to build, really is interesting to see how they turn out and I even enjoy the redevelopment of areas where I tear down buildings and rebuild roadways. A lot of people think it’s a hassle but I enjoy it and I take screen shots to have before and after pictures like when I changed the streets from cobblestone and brick to concrete and asphalt

[@tildesofie1533]

"It's very difficult to move those later" *cough* world edit *cough*

[@boylogan1011]

The only thing I thought was off was the colour palette in the second one. The buildings were so impressive it must have taken so long. You explain a lot of things that I never would have even considered, nice video.

[@DukeDukeGo]

Refering to a brick-street as cobblestone, not knowing that cobblestone is a different block in Minecraft

[@howtubeable]

Cobblestone is different from bricks in real life too!

[@DukeDukeGo]

@@howtubeable Yeah but a cobblestone street can look more like minecraft bricks too

[@edstella]

I've played Minecraft since Alpha and I didn't find your exploration of the cities or playing cringy at all! It was a wonderful and informative video and don't be afraid to really get into each city should you repeat this and look in depth. The commentary really gave great insight into how cities are planned and built. If you get into playing Minecraft, you'll find that without mods, there are some difficult limitations to how you can build and what you can do, but it's still a really cool game and it lends to a particular aesthetic. Whether you try your hand at Survival or Creative mode, hopefully you can have fun.

[@ApexBrachydios]

"I basically got mugged in a parking lot" laughed so hard

[@PixelShroom1]

20:08 It's actually way easier than you might think with tools such as World Edit, you can select as big of an area you want (theoretically maybe not, esspecially if a server configures World Edit to have limits to how big of an area you can select etc to prevent lag) and remove everything, cut, copy , paste, rotate etc you can literally select a road, cut it and paste it somewhere else

[@marcrugani326]

The idea of "point towers" could be a real great asset in Washington, DC, whose building height restrictions date back to the 1910 law that seeks to avoid shadows over the urban landscape. This could help to increase the residential density and create more moderately priced units if implemented with affordable-unit mandates for developers.

[@CityBeautiful]

That's true, but there is something about the height restrictions in DC that give it a unique character. And the density is still high enough to make rapid mass transit viable.

[@rewrose2838]

I loved this. The genuine commentary over someone's efforts made my day~

[@presidentcyanats4005]

Yay, a new episode, and my favorite game. Is this heaven?

[@NeighborSenpai]

*Almost heaven

[@nicholasrobert2102]

@@NeighborSenpai West Virginia

[@NeighborSenpai]

@@nicholasrobert2102 Blue ridge mountains

[@arfn1973]

@@nicholasrobert2102 country road

[@creakycracker]

Mountain Mama :)

[@avgaming4093]

I just wanna mention that the scaling seems off to a realistic one because while these “mega structures” might be more real, you hit spot on that it would take so much longer and as a small group of builders to make.

[@warrenlemay8134]

I’ve built up a whole continent with several civilizations and even some ruins in Minecraft, but I cheated a bit with my cities and kept them at the size and scale of those during the Classical, Renaissance, or Medieval period, with roads, farms, outposts, monasteries, wilderness, and villages in between. It’s nowhere near done, and I don’t have a lot of time to work on it. Most of my cities have walls around them, and the tallest buildings tend to be religious structures and palaces, with most of the housing being tightly packed buildings. The scale is meant to be one that works with the mechanics of the game, rather than being 1:1 fully realistic re-creations of actual urban landscapes. I don’t know what to do with my world, it would be nice to share, though not all of the buildings or places were made originally by me, though all of them have been altered by my hand, or with an external editor like WorldPaint or MCEdit.

[@pedroocm]

Sounds like a really cool map! I hope you can complete it and share it with us

[@Nugcon]

Sounds like something really cool to explore. A map download would be nice.

[@4our31]

i wanna see that one day

[@vmckenzie3160]

Warren LeMay That’d be really cool to see! Do you furnish the buildings or leave them empty?

[@stavinaircaeruleum2275]

Map download would be awesome!

[@Taniseth]

Before you said that first city was modeled after Vancouver, my thought was "That's Vancouver!" Which, btw, can actually be entered by the LionsGate Suspension bridge, which takes you directly into the large forested Stanley Park, and then takes you directly into Downtown, via a three lane highway. So your flyby accurately represents what you'd see entering Vancouver from that direction.

[@Megan-hu5is]

In the auto-generated city, the "aquaponics" are simply small farms in the way that minecraft manages them. Blocks with crops on them have to be within a certain range of water, so you'll see stripes of water and crops.

[@Andromeda4482]

I was a builder on Greenfield. I was tasked at suburban, never got to build big buildings sadly. I'm glad you didn't look at my work. As personally I was younger and had little knowledge on building. HOWEVER all my buildings were based on images online. You should of used their texture pack, but I don't even know Minecraft anymore, so props to you for someone who doens't play it period!

[@georgel9409]

2:08 The skyscraper on the top right has one of the two revolving restaurants in Vancouver. So sad that they are demolishing it now.

[@flocoresi5514]

Yes i heard that on the news

[@TheCentralTexasRailfan]

I have been following Greenfield for years and they are still working on it. They have not reached the outer suburbs yet but they will.

[@CAG2]

10:47 Um. That's an airport to the right... you missed an entire airport...

[@lightscameramask]

In the first city, I think the map creator has a pretty good road width of three blocks. Minecarts, the only means of non-animal transportation in the game at the moment, are only one block wide. In this case, the minecart may sit on the inner block of the road, just next to the yellow line. Even with on-street parking on the block next to the sidewalk, (third block from the center) there would still be a one block gap between the parking and the actual driving area. If cars were ever added to Minecraft, mods commonly suggest they would be about a block and a half to two blocks wide, making use of the one block gap. All in all, if the map creator ever adds functionality to the roads, three blocks would be a decent width, even if that doesn't seem to be the case.

[@andersonr.9636]

Can you talk more about the difference style and identity of ethnic/racial parts of buildings such as Chinatown or little Italy?

[@tutsdws8666]

It's more about culture than race

[@howtubeable]

@@tutsdws8666 Seriously? You got triggered over the word "racial"?

[@kewubi8237]

@@howtubeable he’s not ‘Triggered’ he was just using the correct term. You’re the one who seems triggered

[@HungryGuyStories]

Player 1: I like city building games. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 1: Minecraft Player 2: I like train simulation games. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 2: Minecraft Player 3: I like flight simulation games. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 3: Minecraft Player 4: I like huge open world exploration. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 4: Minecraft Player 5: I like adventure role-playing games. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 5: Minecraft Player 6: I like survival horror games. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 6: Minecraft Player 7: I like crafting/building games. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 7: Minecraft Player 8: I like massively multiplayer games. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 8: Minecraft Player 9: I like bullet-hell shooters. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 9: Minecraft Player 10: I like war games. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 10: Minecraft Player 11: I like games with a huge modding community that the publisher encourages. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 11: Minecraft Player 12: I like games that lend themselves to making Lets Play videos that I can upload to You Tube. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 12 Minecraft Player 13: I like games that you can do serious architectural design and simulation and you can even walk around inside your buildings in first person. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 13 Minecraft Player 14: I like games that let ordinary people build custom levels without having to know how to use 3D modeling tools like Blender and Unreal and Unity. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 14: Minecraft Player 15: I like games that let me compose music, actual complex music and covers of real songs -- not just beeps and boops, in game. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 15: Minecraft Player 16: I like games that let me build complex mechanical and electronic contraptions inside the game. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player 16: Minecraft Player17: I like parkour games. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player17: Minecraft Player18: I just love to slaughter hordes of zombies. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player18: Minecraft Player19: I like rogue-like games where the world is created randomly on every server. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player19: Minecraft Player20: I lust like to chill and relax fishing in a game. Interviewer: What game do you play? Player20: Minecraft

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

That “city” looks alot like a minecraft village

[@bigeboye6000]

Ikr it must be a zombie village though because I see no villagers.

[@bearofthewoods123-8]

@@bigeboye6000 There are actually Zombie Villages in Minecraft

[@iliketrains839]

@@bearofthewoods123-8 really? I've never seen them

[@bearofthewoods123-8]

@@iliketrains839 Probably because you play on Java. They have a ridiculously low rate to generate on Java edition

[@pignna]

BearoftheWoods123 - haha lol true, I encountered one like two or three months ago

[@pXnEmerica]

Maybe I wasn't paying attention in August, but that fit downtown Van very well, you for from Ikea to tall buildings on the train pretty quickly.

[@zaired]

I think that AI can replace humans in planning new cities. AI learning could also help. But I still think that humans would still be better at changing existing cities

[@jankansi5679]

If the AI thinks your business is NSFA it removes your on street parking. 3 strikes and your house is bulldozed.

[@Subbie-the-1st]

*Detroit: Become Human*

[@singingsun04]

ZAIRED *two buildings glitching through eachother*

[@happyvalleykid6324]

This video was a fun discovery. I'm amongst the minority that plays Minecraft solely for the design and city-building aspect, so I very much enjoyed this. While the cities you toured put mine to shame, it was still very cool to hear your criticisms and thoughts on them (which I'll apply to mine in the future). You have a new subscriber!

[@r.chamaemorus8025]

I also belongs to the minority.

[@jeh7497]

I want to learn more about "Point Towers" but I can't find anything online about them. Is there another name they go by or do you have any links with more information on them?

[@CityBeautiful]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouverism, www.thestar.com/news/2007/06/16/vancouver_icon_takes_on_toronto.html

[@DingoXBX]

I thought they were like IT clusters

[@matthewlaird4009]

Yeah like no parking in downtown Vancouver thats very accurate, we have a ton of one way streets because the grid is originally designed to support horse carriage and was never properly rezoned for cars.

[@tortoise-chan]

Fight back against buzzfeed! Great content as always 👍👍

[@EchoHeo]

It's not "fighting back" but yeah great content

[@drycleanonly]

Really interesting idea you bought up near the end about algorithims being able to plan and develop real life cities. Loved this video man.

[@alicegonzalez8234]

Muse, The Second Law album cover at 6:44

[@captaincapocollo]

yes!

[@harshbarj]

Narrow street = better. In a true urban area, cars can really be an afterthought as people will walk, take mass transit, or ride a bicycle. Wide streets really do nothing but make being a pedestrian more dangerous and encourage more cars and faster cars.