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I'm not an urban planner, so you might ask, why do I run a KZbin channel about urban planning and walkable cities? It all comes down to a life of travel, and a terrible walk in the suburbs of Houston.
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References and Related Reading
Federal Highway Association National Household Travel Survey
nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips
What's wrong with comparing Seattle to Houston?
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...
Out of Control - Houston’s roads, drivers are country’s most deadly
Houston Chronical
www.houstonchronicle.com/news...
Eerste van der Helststraat
Stadsarchief Amsterdam
archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/d...
Historical Photos of London, Ontario
images.ourontario.ca/london/7...
images.ourontario.ca/london/7...
images.ourontario.ca/london/2...
images.ourontario.ca/london/2...
images.ourontario.ca/london/2...
Historic Photos of Houston
digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu...
digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu...
Giant Brontosaurus Rib: 5 Must-Try BBQ Dishes at Mighty Quinn's
Tasty (KZbin)
• Giant Brontosaurus Rib...
High Frequency: Why Houston is Back on the Bus
Streetfilms (KZbin)
• High Frequency: Why Ho...
A Year After Bus Redesign, METRO Houston Ridership is Up
kinder.rice.edu/2016/08/16/a-...
Houston just dramatically improved its mass transit system without spending a dime
www.vox.com/2015/2/18/8056039...
Houston Rolling Back Parking Requirements
usa.streetsblog.org/2019/07/1...
How does Houston plan without zoning?
City Beautiful (KZbin)
• How does Houston plan ...
The Energy Corridor District unveils west Houston's first protected intersection
www.houstonchronicle.com/neig...
More performative pedestrian infrastructure
cityobservatory.org/more_myth...
No, Houston isn’t a walkable city, but you have to start somewhere
kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/202...
Katy Freeway by Aliciak3yz - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Katy Freeway by Socrate76 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Reducing congestion: Katy didn’t
City Commentary
cityobservatory.org/reducing-...
What Dallas, Houston, Louisville & Rochester can teach us about widening freeways: Don’t!
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...
Houston commute times quickly increasing
www.click2houston.com/news/20...
Houston’s $7 billion solution to gridlock is more highways
Curbed.com
archive.curbed.com/2019/8/5/2...
North Houston Highway Improvement Project
www.ih45northandmore.com/pub_h...
The big picture for a big plan
kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/201...
“The truth about a city's aspirations isn't found in its vision. It's found in its budget.” - Brent Toderian
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:05 A Brief History
1:19 Living car-free when unemployed
2:23 Insane amounts of travel
3:42 A fateful trip to Houston
4:25 The walk in Houston (Willowbrook)
7:26 Urban planning and history
9:00 Forgetting those who don't drive
11:13 Houston: sprawl and average BBQ
11:51 What Houston is doing right
13:12 There's still a long ways to go
15:19 Conclusion
16:29 Patreon shout-out
16:40 Outro