PickVidsBest Transit, cities & urban planning Videos
The 174 Transit, cities & urban planning videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 5 introductory, 1 intermediate, 168 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Not Just Bikes, BicycleDutch, Wendover Productions.
Cities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 1: Parking
The first episode of a Cities: Skylines series on urban politics and planning, focused on parking.
Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]
Not Just Bikes explains, using Urban3's property-tax analysis, why car-dependent suburbs generate less tax revenue than they cost to maintain, so dense urban cores effectively subsidize them.
The Insane Battle To Sabotage a New Apartment Building Explains San Francisco's Housing Crisis
ReasonTV tells the story of Bob Tillman, who spent nearly five years and $1.4 million trying to convert his San Francisco laundromat into apartments.
The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak oil
A 52-minute short version of the documentary The End of Suburbia, about peak oil and the end of cheap energy.
The Grille Trend that Kills 509 People per Year
FortNine looks at the data on why newer pickup trucks with tall, blunt grilles kill so many pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
The Lively & Liveable Neighbourhoods that are Illegal in Most of North America
Not Just Bikes explains how small pockets of shops and restaurants inside residential Dutch neighbourhoods create liveliness and help reduce traffic.
What People Get Wrong About Induced Demand
Explains induced demand beyond roads, showing that it applies to transit, walking and cycling infrastructure too but with different consequences.
Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.
Patrick Boyle's deadpan account of Saudi Arabia's Neom and The Line megaproject, a planned 170 km linear city that has been scaled back to a fraction of its size.
The Houses that Can't be Built in America - The Missing Middle
Not Just Bikes explains missing middle housing, such as duplexes, townhouses and small apartment buildings.
How to Make an Attractive City
The School of Life sets out principles for making attractive cities, arguing that the art has been lost in the modern world.
The Gym of Life
Not Just Bikes argues that people in walkable, bikeable Dutch cities stay healthy because exercise is built into daily life, which he calls the gym of life.
Do Your Buses Get Stuck in Traffic? (The Downs-Thomson Paradox)
Not Just Bikes explains the Downs-Thomson paradox using Amsterdam and Toronto: road widening doesn't fix congestion, and buses stuck in traffic make transit slow.
Who else benefits from the Dutch cycling infrastructure
A short BicycleDutch episode showing how people with disabilities use Dutch cycle tracks on hand-cycles, tricycles and mobility scooters.
Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All
A Bloomberg mini-documentary on how Vienna keeps housing affordable through large-scale public and social housing.
36C3 - BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier - english translation
David Kriesel's 36C3 talk, in an English translation, analyzes a year of scraped Deutsche Bahn data covering every stop of every long-distance train in Germany.
Geoffrey West on COMPLEXITY
Physicist Geoffrey West speaks at an FQXi conference on time about complexity and scaling laws.
★ Cab ride 🇨🇭St. Moritz - 🇮🇹Tirano (Bernina pass), Switzerland to Italy [10.2019]
A two-hour driver's-eye cab ride along the Bernina railway from St.
Andres Duany Lecture. Suburban Sprawl.
A recording of Andres Duany's 1991 'San Antonio By Design' seminar on suburban sprawl.
The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities
Not Just Bikes takes on the common excuse that a country is simply too big or spread out for good transit and walkable cities.
Why Cars Rarely Crash into Buildings in the Netherlands
Not Just Bikes explains why cars rarely crash into buildings in the Netherlands, attributing it to street design that forgives mistakes and to systematic crash investigation.
[4k, 60 fps] San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906
A neural-network upscaled 4K, 60 fps version of the 1906 film of a trip down Market Street in San Francisco, shot four days before the earthquake.
Traffic Calming is Everywhere in the Netherlands
Not Just Bikes shows how traffic calming is built into streets across the Netherlands, from city centres to villages.
The Suburban Traffic Contradiction
Oh The Urbanity!
Why Trains are so Expensive
A Wendover Productions explainer on why train tickets, especially Amtrak in the US, cost so much compared with flying.